Das Lächeln meiner Mutter

Droemer eBook

»Du bist nicht so wie andere Mütter« – Von klein auf weiß Delphine, dass ihre Mutter talentierter, schöner, unkonventioneller ist als andere. Wie wenig diese jedoch dem Leben gewachsen ist, erkennt die Tochter erst als Erwachsene. Warum hat Lucile sich für den Freitod entschieden? Diese Frage treibt Delphine seit dem Tag um, an dem sie ihre Mutter tot aufgefunden hat. Sie trägt Erinnerungsstücke zusammen, spricht mit den Geschwistern ihrer Mutter, mit alten Freunden und Bekannten der Familie. Es entsteht das Porträt einer widersprüchlichen und geheimnisvollen Frau, die ihr ganzes Leben auf der Suche war – nach Liebe, Glück und nicht zuletzt nach sich selbst. Gleichzeitig zeichnet Delphine das lebendige Bild einer französischen Großfamilie im Paris der 50er und 60er Jahre. Erinnerung um Erinnerung lernt sie ihre Mutter und schließlich auch sich selbst zu verstehen.
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The international sensation that sold half a million copies in France and the subject of a new film by Roman Polanski: a chilling story about a friendship gone terrifyingly toxic.

Winner of Le Prix Renaudot 2015
Winner of Le Prix Goncourt des Lycéens 2015

Overwhelmed by the huge success of her latest novel, exhausted and suffering from a crippling inability to write, Delphine meets L., who embodies everything Delphine has always secretly admired; she is a glittering image of feminine sophistication and spontaneity and she has an uncanny knack of always saying the right thing. Unusually intuitive, L. senses Delphine's vulnerability and slowly but deliberately carves herself a niche in the writer's life. However, as L. makes herself indispensable to Delphine, the intensity of this unexpected friendship manifests itself in increasingly sinister ways. As their lives become more and more entwined, L. threatens Delphine's identity, both as a writer and as an individual.

This sophisticated psychological thriller skillfully blurs the line between fact and fiction, reality and artifice. Delphine de Vigan has crafted a terrifying, insidious, metafictional thriller; a haunting vision of seduction and betrayal; a book which in its hungering for truth implicates the reader, too-even as it holds us in its thrall.

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Droemer eBook
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Published on
Mar 1, 2013
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Pages
384
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ISBN
9783426417560
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Language
German
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Genres
Fiction / General
Fiction / Sagas
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