Samira Sedira

Un jour, j’ai menti

One day, I lied

March 9, 2023
Novel
304 pages
120 × 200 mm
18,90 €
9782358879569
978-2-3588-7956-9
																Samira Sedira, Un jour, j’ai menti
																Samira Sedira, Un jour, j’ai menti

The legendary Nikki Delage, nicknamed “Mother Nikki” in the press, was a brilliant lawyer, and an ultra-charismatic representative of the outcast, poor, and downtrodden. Yet despite fighting relentlessly against evictions and poor housing, despite the praise she won for her career and formidable rise from working class roots, a descendant of a hero of Algerian Independence, today she is a fallen woman. Why? Because she lied.

In fact, she is the only child of a rich industrialist from Bordeaux, and the product of the French elite. With the publication of a single article, the whole edifice collapses: Nikki Delage is condemned and banished. However, two women decide to go and find the former heroine in the house where she lives as a recluse, surrounded by mystery. They want to interview her and her relatives in order to prepare a film that goes beyond appearances.

In language of dazzling clarity, Samira Sedira navigates the secrets and truths of each of her heroines, and questions our relationship to identity in a world of staging and representation.

The author

Born in 1964, Samira Sedira is an actress and author. She lives in the Paris region. Un jour, j’ai menti is her fifth novel. Winner of several literary prizes, she is published in the United States, the United Kingdom and Germany.

Infos

Her previous books have been sold in many countries, including USA, UK and Germany.

March 9, 2023
Novel
304 pages
120 × 200 mm
18,90 €
9782358879569
978-2-3588-7956-9