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The Little Girl on the Ice Floe (Hardcover)
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The Little Girl on the Ice Floe (Hardcover)
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List price R530
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"Life itself is in these pages: in this candid, poetic style there
is storytelling of real quality" - LEILA SLIMANI, author of Lullaby
A powerful and personal account of the devastating consequences of
childhood rape: a valuable voice for the #MeToo conversation.
Adelaide Bon grew up in a wealthy neighborhood in Paris, a
privileged child with a loving family, lots of friends and
seemingly limitless opportunity lying ahead of her. But one sunny
afternoon, when she was nine years old, a strange man followed her
home and raped her in the stairwell of her building. She told her
parents, they took her to the police, the fact of the crime was
registered ... and then a veil was quietly drawn over that part of
her childhood, and life was supposed to go on. Except, of course,
it didn't. Throughout her adolescence and young adulthood, Adelaide
struggles with the aftermath of the horror of that afternoon in
1990. The lingering trauma pervades all aspects of her life: family
education, friendships, relationships, even her ability to eat
normally. And then one day, many years later, when she is married
and has a small son, she receives a call from the police saying
that they think they have finally caught the man who raped her, a
man who has hidden in plain sight for decades, with many other
victims ready to testify against him. The subsequent court case
reveals Giovanni Costa, the stuff of nightmares and bogeymen,
finally vanquished by the weight of dozens and dozens of emotional
and horrifying testimonies from all the women whose lives and
childhoods he stole.
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