Camille Kouchner was born in 1975 in Paris. She is the daughter of the late French writer and political scientist Évelyne Pisier and Bernard Kouchner, a cofounder of Doctors Without Borders. She is a lawyer and senior lecturer at the University of Paris with a specialization in labor, contract, and health law.
The Familia Grande is her English debut.
THE LITERARY SENSATION THAT STORMED THE WORLD
THE PHENOMENAL FRENCH BESTSELLER HAS SOLD 350,000 COPIES
THE BOOK THAT SPARKED THE VIRAL #METOOINCEST MOVEMENT
A family's secret weighs on everyone...
THE FAMILIA GRANDE is a tender, groundbreaking and lacerating memoir written by a sister who could no longer remain silent...
Set in amongst the French intellectual elite in Paris and their lavender scented estates in Provence, it tells a story of a corrosive secret that sits in a family for decades and ultimately razes it and the political, literary elite that enabled its silence, to the ground.
Already an international bestseller, it has touched a nerve across the globe and has brought about a powerful reckoning of incest, and its far-reaching trauma.
The Familia Grande is a book of a generation.
'The courage of a sister who could no longer keep quiet.' - EMMANUEL MACRON
'Powerful.' - THE TIMES
'Camille's battle to liberate herself from a painful family secret has touched a nerve across France' - THE NEW YORK TIMES
The shocking story of how incest and sexual abuse is ever-present at the highest levels of French society, even among the most glamorous, powerful, bohemian, left wing intellectual Parisian élite.
