Viaje al este

With this heartbreaking autobiographical novel, Christine Angot returns to a central theme in her life and in her literature: incest, the abuse she suffered from her father, who abandoned her mother before she was born and reappeared in her life when she was thirteen years old. A successful and powerful man -he was the director of the translation service of the Council of Europe- who started abusing her as soon as he met her. The abuse continued into adolescence and even into adult life, when she was already married.