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Author:
Nohant, Gaëlle, 1973- author.
Title:
Le bureau d'éclaircissement des destins : roman / Gaëlle Nohant.
Publisher:
Bernard Grasset,
Copyright Date:
2023
Description:
410 pages ; 21 cm
Subject:
International Tracing Service--Fiction.
Holocaust victims--Archival resources--Fiction.
Holocaust victims
Archival resources
Fiction
Novels
Fiction.
Novels.
Summary:
Au cœur de l'Allemagne, l'International Tracing Service s'attache depuis l'après-guerre à déterminer le sort des victimes du régime nazi, à la demande de leurs proches. Irène y est arrivée par hasard en 1990. Depuis, ce travail d'investigation est devenu une vocation. Méticuleuse et obsessionnelle, elle raccommode les fils tranchés par la guerre et se laisse absorber par ses dossiers, au grand dam du fils qu'elle élève seule.A l'automne 2016, elle se voit confier une nouvelle mission : restituer les milliers d'objets dont le centre d'archives international a hérité à la libération des camps de concentration. Pour chacun d'eux, il faut retrouver l'identité de son propriétaire déporté et remonter sa trace, afin de remettre à ses descendants le souvenir de leur parent disparu. Un Pierrot de tissu terni, un médaillon, un mouchoir brodé... Si modeste soit-il, chaque objet renferme ses secrets. Au fil de ses enquêtes, Irène reconstitue des trajectoires à partir de traces, éclairant le pire comme le meilleur de l'humanité. Elle se heurte aux mystères du centre lui-même, et à ses propres blessures. Cherchant les disparus, elle rencontre des vivants qui la bouleversent et la guident, de Lublin à Varsovie, Paris ou Berlin. Au bout du chemin, il y a les descendants. Comment recevront-ils ces objets hantés qui font effraction dans leur vie ?L'éclaircissement des destins, c'est le fil qui unit ces trajectoires individuelles à la mémoire collective de l'Europe. Gaëlle Nohant explore des pans d'histoire méconnus et donne toute la puissance de son talent dans cette fresque romanesque brillamment composée, documentée, d'une grande intensité émotionnelle. --Publisher's website.
In the heart of Germany, the International Tracing Service has been working since the post-war period to determine the fate of victims of the Nazi regime, at the request of their relatives. Irène arrived there by chance in 1990. Since then, this investigative work has become a vocation. Meticulous and obsessive, she mends the threads severed by the war and lets herself be absorbed by her files, to the great displeasure of the son she is raising alone. In the fall of 2016, she was given a new mission: to restore the thousands of objects which the international archive center inherited at the liberation of the concentration camps. For each of them, it is necessary to find the identity of its deported owner and trace his trace, in order to give his descendants the memory of their missing relative. A tarnished fabric Pierrot, a medallion, an embroidered handkerchief... However modest it may be, each object hides its secrets. Throughout her investigations, Irène reconstructs trajectories from traces, shedding light on the worst and the best of humanity. She comes up against the mysteries of the center itself, and her own wounds. Looking for the missing, she meets the living who upset her and guide her, from Lublin to Warsaw, Paris or Berlin. At the end of the road, there are the descendants. How will they receive these haunted objects that are breaking into their lives? The clarification of destinies is the thread that unites these individual trajectories to the collective memory of Europe. Gaëlle Nohant explores little-known parts of history and gives all the power of her talent in this brilliantly composed, documented, romantic fresco of great emotional intensity. --Publisher's website.
ISBN:
2246828864
9782246828860
OCLC:
(OCoLC)1359063658
LCCN:
2022492301
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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