by Benoîte Groult · tapa dura · ISBN 9789069740331
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«Een eigen gezicht» is the novel by Benoîte Groult, published by Arena in hardback (504 pages, in Dutch).
The novel follows Louise, daughter of an unusual family made up of her father and two mothers, the portraitist Hermine and the dressmaker Lou, through her successive marriages, loves and women's names. It frankly addresses sexuality, motherhood, abortion and female liberation across three generations.
The French original, «Les Trois Quarts du temps», appeared in 1983; the Dutch translation is by Nini Wielink.
For readers of autobiographical fiction interested in family relationships and the lives of twentieth-century women.
Benoîte Groult was a French journalist, writer, and feminist activist.
