Do You Remember Me?
Pierre Delerive
Do you remember me? is the story of Louis, a man who years ago faced a tragic moral dilemma. Now the consequences have come back to haunt him. This gripping novel will have readers thinking about love, friendship and whether there is ever any justification for betrayal. When Louis receives a phone call from Bertrand, his childhood best friend and companion of arms in the French Resistance, announcing his visit for the evening, a long day of anxiety begins. The two men haven’t spoken since their return from hell in Buchenwald 65 years ago. Louis had betrayed Bertrand to the …
Do you remember me? is the story of Louis, a man who years ago faced a tragic moral dilemma. Now the consequences have come back to haunt him. This gripping novel will have readers thinking about love, friendship and whether there is ever any justification for betrayal. When Louis receives a phone call from Bertrand, his childhood best friend and companion of arms in the French Resistance, announcing his visit for the evening, a long day of anxiety begins. The two men haven’t spoken since their return from hell in Buchenwald 65 years ago. Louis had betrayed Bertrand to the Germans in order to save his Jewish girlfriend. For years, Louis has tried to live a normal life and worked at forgetting his crime and betrayal. What will happen when Bertrand shows up at his door? From a setting of German-occupied Paris in the 1940’s to the Buchenwald concentration camp to the present time in Chartres, France, Do you remember me? is told from the traitor’s point-of-view. His lifelong struggles with guilt, haunting memories and the quest for redemption make for a powerful, poignant novel. • •• Reviews from the French press • •• "Unforgettable!" —Marie-Claire "Deeply unsettling." —Elle
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