Emmanuelle Bayamack-Tam
French novelist and playwright, author of several novels including Arcadie; recipient of the Prix Médicis (2020).
Books
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1. Si Tout N'a Pas Péri Avec Mon Innocence
A fierce, fragmentary coming-of-age account in which a narrator retraces the collapse of family life and the loss of innocence, confronting sexual awakening, violence, shame and a blackly comic will to survive; spare, urgent prose stitches together grotesque domestic detail and lyrical introspection as she interrogates memory, desire and identity while trying to salvage something from the wreckage of her past.