Séance de dédicace : Olivia Elkaim

November 1941, Gare de Lyon. Cécile lets her five-year-old son leave on a Red Cross convoy. Why does she decide to send him to the unoccupied zone so soon, so quickly? Who can guarantee that she will see her child again after the war? This little boy's name is Georges Perec. His mother, a Polish Jew and widow of a soldier killed in action, decides not to keep him with her in Belleville, to save him. But by depriving him of her loving presence, she unknowingly condemns him to emptiness and a lack of memories.

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