The book
Nabisouberne. An odd name, for an odd life. Page after page, the one who nicknames "Kiss" leads us on the track of the unspeakable. Of a childhood under silence.
Since the disappearing of her father, she retreated into a silence of death. The fear of separation and Ddass sapped family’s strength. «We’ll be betrayed».
It is all mess, shouts and howls around her, in the “Cour des Miracles”, popular city-heart of Paris. There she is living with her brothers between her ruined grand mother’s melancholy and her happy-go-lucky whimsical mother. For those wearing the invisible star of exclusion, the daily life, between laughing and tears, reserves its threats and its hopes.
To escape her loneliness, Nabisouberne disseminates words on the road ; line after line, she casts an anchor to link up to the others. One day, for all those who can’t be heard, she will write
The author
Novels and essays writer, Catherine Enjolet combines literature and commitment. On the topic of silence, she could talk for ever.
Academic, Arts teacher, she writes against the unspeakable and its devastation. «One dies from silence ».
All that she undertakes converges : her humanitarian commitment, its interference that she innovates here and there in the world. Through her action and her books, she develops her “bonds making sense” concept.
She was crowned and greeted by the critics for her first novel. Her writing is sober and intense are her tales.
« Catherine Enjolet confirms her writer's talent. She enticed by the form, confuses by the content. » Le Monde
Argumentation
Bitter sweetheart chronicle of a childhood under silence, with this lucid and delicate tale, the writer commits herself for children without voice.
A sensitive and poetic writing to make silences speak.
"To Write? means to say to the others what cannot be said to oneself." C. Enjolet
