J'apprends l'allemand : roman

Denis Lachaud

Ernst, raised in France, seeks his family history, veiled by a generation of silence, and finds his identity as a German and as a homosexual, through his relationship with a friend he meets on school exchange to Germany. This is a book about the third generation - the grandchildren of the Nazis - and the ways that collective guilt, whether spoken of or not, shapes their experience of the world and understandings of themselves.