The Familia Grande The story of a family's darkest secrets
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Biographical note
Camille Kouchner was born in 1975 in Paris. She is the daughter of the late French writer and political scientist Évelyne Pisier and Bernard Kouchner, a cofounder of Doctors Without Borders. She is a lawyer and senior lecturer at the University of Paris with a specialization in labor, contract, and health law. The Familia Grande is her English debut.THE LITERARY SENSATION THAT STORMED THE WORLD
THE PHENOMENAL FRENCH BESTSELLER HAS SOLD 350,000 COPIES
THE BOOK THAT SPARKED THE VIRAL #METOOINCEST MOVEMENT
A terrible family secret. A sister who can no longer remain silent.
Set in amongst the French intellectual elite in Paris and their lavender scented estates in Provence, LA FAMILIA GRANDE tells a story of a corrosive secret that sits in a family for decades and ultimately razes it and the political, literary elite that enabled its silence, to the ground.
Already an international bestseller, this tender, groundbreaking and lacerating memoir has touched a nerve across the globe and has brought about a powerful reckoning of incest, and its far-reaching trauma.
The Familia Grande is a book of a generation.
'The courage of a sister who could no longer keep quiet.' - EMMANUEL MACRON
'Powerful.' - THE TIMES
'Camille's battle to liberate herself from a painful family secret has touched a nerve across France' - THE NEW YORK TIMES