Cecile Desprairies's novel, The Propagandist, offers an insider's view of France's collaboration with Nazi Germany during World War II, a topic shrouded in national secrecy.
Desprairies reflects on the liberation she felt after her mother's death, saying, "It may not be very politically correct to say so, but that was how it felt - at last I had the right to speak up."
Her debut novel came after years of historical research and is narrated through the eyes of a girl in 1960s Paris, unraveling family secrets about WWII.
Drawing from her mother’s past as a propagandist, Desprairies' work unveils the complexity of familial discussions surrounding a painful and often romanticized period of history.
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