Qui touche à mon corps je le tue

Synopsis of Qui touche à mon corps je le tue

«Qui touche à mon corps je le tue» is the psychological novel by Valentine Goby, published by Gallimard in paperback (144 pages, in French).

Marie G., nicknamed "angel maker", is in a cell, condemned to the guillotine; Lucie L. hides in the gloom of her room after an abortion; Henri D., the executioner, waits for sunrise. The action takes place from one dawn to the next, with the three characters seeking light at the boundary between life and death.

Published in 2008 in Gallimard's Blanche collection.

For readers of literary fiction interested in a short French novel, intimate in tone, with the death penalty as backdrop.