The Client

The Client


While researching the life of a writer, a biographer stumbles upon thousands of denunciation letters. Written during the Occupation, they are, in principle, exempt from prosecution. One of them concerned one of his own friends, a shopkeeper whose family had been deported. Who did this, and what was their instinct? The name of the informer appears in the files. Either not, but not his motives. The culprit is someone close, very close... To reveal his identity would be to rub salt in the wound when so many others would like to extinguish the ashes. It would also mean revealing a badly buried secret, at the risk of awakening old demons. We can say anything, but can we hear anything? A meditation on the banality of evil, this is the story of an obsessive whose desire to understand almost sends him over the edge.


  • Cover: paperback
  • Original language: French
  • Translation: Dubravka Celebrini