Scham

Marie's life is perfect. She is young and successful, her husband is a lawyer, and now they want to have a child. Then the unimaginable happens. Marie is brutally raped by her boss on her way home. He pressures her so much that she tells no one, not even her husband. The young French author Inès Bayard leaves no doubt in her impressive debut novel: about what has happened and that Marie is not to blame. And yet we must watch as the moment when Marie could still seek help slips away from her, as she transforms from victim to perpetrator. "Shame" is an emotionally gripping novel, a reading experience that one cannot escape.