Secret
by Philippe Grimbert, Translated by Polly McLean
The Jewish Quarterly Wingate Readers’ Prize (Winner) 2008, Goncourt des Lycéens (Winner) 2005, Prix des Lectrices d’Elle (Winner) 2005, Prix Wizo (Winner) 2005
‘Secret is a spare, haunting, brilliantly poised evocation of the way experiences of war, pain, and shame, even when unspoken, percolate through the family to shape and distort new generations.’
Lisa Appignanesi
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“The day after I turned fifteen, I finally discovered what I’d always known…”
Growing up in post-war Paris the sickly only child of glamorous, athletic parents, the narrator invents for himself a make-believe brother – older, stronger, and more brilliant than he can ever be.
It is only when the boy begins talking to an old family friend that he comes to realise that his imaginary sibling had a real predecessor: a half-brother whose death in the concentration camps is part of a buried family secret that he was intended never to unearth.
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