![]() –My friend opened one by one new chapters, the events for which I had learnt the details in my history books, the occupation, Vichy, the fate of the Jews, the demarcation line were no longer reduced to bold titles in a school manual, they were suddenly alive, black and white photos that had found their colour. Philippe, however, was brought up in a family with a secret of which only he was unaware: His parents were both good looking and athletic and Philippe liked to imagine their youth and how they met. Philippe tells us how he grew up in the Paris area with his mother and father, he had health problems and was a weak child so he invented an older brother to give himself courage. This family drama was turned into a successful film in France and the book translated into many languages. An older brother, glorious, invisible.***įifteen years after his parents suicide, Philippe Grimbert brings us this story of his and his families life told mostly by his young self from the fifties. They had to take me at my word when I told this tale to my relations on holiday, to my passing friends. –Only child, I’d had a brother for a long time. ![]()
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