Death by Silence
Publisher
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Gallimard
Parution date
:
2003
EAN
:
9782070316892
Number of pages
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129
Description
A daughter’s memoir of her celebrity father, an antiterrorism judge who took his own life, by the author of Nuit Ouverte.
When Clémence was 10 years old, her father, “Juge” Boulouque, took on a high-profile case related to the bombings that rocked Paris in the mid-1980s, becoming an overnight celebrity. He then became a target and could never go anywhere without bodyguards or without being in a bulletproof car in a motorcade. This cost his family members the freedom to live a normal life; they had to contend with high-security measures and the judge’s notoriety.
Mort d’un silence is a daughter’s memoir of the difficulty of growing up with a famous parent whose life is in constant danger and also a memorial to that father. At the end of 1990, Judge Boulouque received strong criticism both from the press and from his superiors, leading to his undoing: He took his life on December 13, 1990.
Author
Clémence Boulouque : Clémence Boulouque is the celebrated author of Mort d’un silence (Gallimard, 2003; film adaptation in 2006, La Fille du juge by William Karel/My Dad Is Into Terrorism). She is also the author of Sujets Libres (Gallimard, 2004), Chasse à courre (Gallimard, 2005), Au pays des macarons (Mercure de France, 2005), and Nuit Ouverte (Flammarion, 2008). In 2008 Denise Epstein, the daughter of Irène Némirovsky, published a memoir in interview form with Clémence as the interviewer, called Survivre et Vivre (Éditions Denoël).
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