My Parents

Why does Great-Aunt Louise wreck the apartment of her sister Suzanne?

What are the documents she is looking for, and do they really concern a thirty-year-old scandal involving the narrator's mother? And why does his father flee Nice, abandoning a job and a fiancee and turn up in Paris wearing no socks?

It seems that every family contains its share of mystery and violence as well as love.

In My Parents, Guibert blends autobiography and fiction in the captivating mix that is the hallmark of his writing: the book confirms his position as one of great French writers of the fin de siecle.