by Kim Edwards · tapa dura · ISBN 9782298011180
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«L'enfant de tous les silences» is the novel by Kim Edwards, published by France Loisirs in hardback (576 pages, in French).
In 1964, a blizzard forces Dr. David Henry to attend the birth of his twins. Seeing that his daughter has Down syndrome, the doctor asks the nurse to take her to an institution; instead, she raises her in secret. The novel follows both families for twenty-five years, marked by that decision and its silences.
French translation of 'The Memory Keeper's Daughter' (2005). The novel was adapted into a television film aired by Lifetime in 2008.
For book clubs and readers of contemporary novels with family plots.
Kim Edwards is an American author and educator. She is the author of a story collection, The Secrets of a Fire King, and her first novel, The Memory Keeper's Daughter, won several awards and became a bestseller.
