Winner of the Prix Goncourt in 1998, this book is the work of one
of France's most celebrated and interesting novelists writing at
the height of her powers. It is fiction that leads readers through
fascinating chambers of life where autobiography is constantly
reimagined. A darkly comic novel about four women aging
less-than-gracefully, "Trading Secrets" takes us to an academic
conference in Kansas where, in an encounter between Aurore, a
French woman, and her American counterpart, Gloria, the differences
between their two cultures become sharply apparent. The result is a
bitingly funny portrait of painfully complex, psychologically
damaged individuals, all of whom have been, in some sense,
"colonized." The novel also offers an incisive picture of a French
posture toward things American, from race relations to feminism to
academia. As Paule Constant herself has said: "C'est un livre en
miroir." The book is a mirror, both in how its characters reflect
one another and in what it shows us of ourselves and our world.
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