My uncle from Australia, by François Garde: a distant secret. Romantic investigation into an uncle whose memory had been erased by the author's family.
A pact of silence had engulfed Marcel Garde, forced by his parents to leave his native Provence in 1900, at the age of 20, to go into exile in Australia. What fault or crime had merited such banishment with no prospect of remission or return? How do you drive a son out of your home?… This article is reserved for subscribers. You have 71% left to discover.