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Autobiographical novel

Published on October 8, 2024
by New Vessel Press
208 pages

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In a grand Paris apartment, a young girl attends gatherings regularly organized by her mother. The women talk about beauty secrets and gossip, but the mood grows dark when the past, notably World War II, comes under coded discussion in hushed tones.
Years later, the silent witness to these sessions has become a prominent historian, and with this chilling autobiographical novel she sets out to unmask enigmatic figures in and around her family.
Why, she seeks to understand, did the narrator’s relatives zealously collaborate with the Nazi occupiers of France, even remaining for decades afterward obsessive devotees of that evil lost cause?

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

 

Cécile Desprairies
is a specialist in Germanic civilization
and a historian of the Nazi occupation of France.

 

The author
of several historical works about the occupation
and the Vichy regime,
she was born in Paris in 1957.

 

The Propagandist is her first novel.

 

 

 

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