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ARBRE DE L'OUBLI
TREE OF FORGETFULNESS
ARBRE DE L'OUBLI/TREE OF FORGETFULNESS draws the portrait of a wealthy, privileged, well-educated American family, slowly broadening the intimate picture to reveal the unexpected threads that connect these people's lives to some of the darkest pages of modern History.
Joel Rabenstein, born in the Bronx in 1940 to Jewish parents who had fled the Nazi takeover of Czechoslovakia, grows up to become a brilliant anthropologist and a professor at Columbia University.
Lili Rose Darrington, born in Nashua, New Hampshire in 1955, educated at Smith College and in Paris, grows up to become an admired feminist scholar and professor at CCNY.
Their daughter Shayna Darrington-Rabenstein, born in 1992, grows up to go berserk. The book is punctuated by capitalized passages from her notebook, from which we gather that she is utterly enraged at and alienated from her parents.
Starting with the end - Shayna's arrival in Burkina Faso with her Haitian lover in January 2016 - and using Shayna's rage as its focal point, the story gradually reveals to us the missing piece of the puzzle: Selma Parker, an African-American woman from Baltimore, whom the couple paid to receive Joel's sperm, carry and give birth to their child.
Born in Calgary, Canada, Nancy Huston settled in Paris in 1973. She is the author of various essays, plays and novels among which Fault Lines (Prix Fémina 2006, shortlisted for the Orange Broadband Prize), Dolce Agonia, Prodigy, The Mark of the Angel, Instruments of Darkness.
Lili Rose Darrington, born in Nashua, New Hampshire in 1955, educated at Smith College and in Paris, grows up to become an admired feminist scholar and professor at CCNY.
Their daughter Shayna Darrington-Rabenstein, born in 1992, grows up to go berserk. The book is punctuated by capitalized passages from her notebook, from which we gather that she is utterly enraged at and alienated from her parents.
Starting with the end - Shayna's arrival in Burkina Faso with her Haitian lover in January 2016 - and using Shayna's rage as its focal point, the story gradually reveals to us the missing piece of the puzzle: Selma Parker, an African-American woman from Baltimore, whom the couple paid to receive Joel's sperm, carry and give birth to their child.
Born in Calgary, Canada, Nancy Huston settled in Paris in 1973. She is the author of various essays, plays and novels among which Fault Lines (Prix Fémina 2006, shortlisted for the Orange Broadband Prize), Dolce Agonia, Prodigy, The Mark of the Angel, Instruments of Darkness.
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Published 2021-03-03 by Actes Sud |