Constance Debré

Príbeh ženy, ktorá dala samu seba a svoje potreby na prvé miesto. Hrdinka knihy opustí manžela, buržoázny život v piatom parížskom obvode, sľubnú kariéru advokátky. Žije na deviatich štvorcových metroch, občas nemá ani čo jesť, občas kradne a vyberá kontajnery, píše knihu, len na tom jej skutočne záleží. No keď začne nadväzovať vzťahy so ženami, situácia sa skomplikuje a manžel je ochotný urobiť všetko pre to, aby jej zabránil vídať syna - vrátane očiernenia matky na súde. Constance Debré sa pýta seba, ale aj čitateľov, prečo by láska medzi matkou a synom nemohla byť rovnaká ako ostatné druhy lásky - prečo by sa jednoducho nemohli prestať milovať.

''Debré''s voice is Camusian, comic, stark, relentless and totally hypnotic'' Rachel KushnerIs a criminal born or made? What turns them towards violenc? young man stabs an elderly woman ten times for the sake of a ?450 debt. But why would he commit such a brutal murder over a petty sum, when he has a girlfriend and a child at home? How much could he lose when there is already so little to start with? Centring on a perpetrator and a victim who remain nameless - who are nobodies but could be anybody - Offenses unfolds as a contemporary parable exploring the biases and barriers built into the legal system. Blending expertise in criminal law with her signature knife-edge prose, Constance Debré probes the intricacies of crime, punishment and accountability in this propulsive tale.

Set partly in the narrator's childhood, it explores ideas about origins and reshapes relationships to our various inheritances: name, family, class, habits. As the novel unravels, freedom is revealed as a redefining of these relationships on one's own terms. Brilliant and unflinching, Name affirms and extends Debré's radical project.