Born in 1977 in Warsaw, Kinga Wyrzykowska emigrated to France as a child, during the state of siege in her country. white paw is his first novel.
” The Simart-Duteils marked your childhood. Their so French name, their house flanked by a turret – as in the tales –, their bon chic bon genre allure have imprinted on the glossy paper of your memory the image of a perfect family.
One day, however, you find them on the miscellaneous news page, reclusive in a Norman manor with closed shutters. The memories come back and, by interposed screen, you dive into the genealogy of a camera.
Paul, Clothilde, Samuel were child kings. Their father, a highway tycoon in the Middle East, their mother, a flamboyant Italian, gave them everything. When a hidden brother writes from Syria to claim his share of the inheritance, the façade cracks. Intimate flaws are waking up.
Paul, whose notoriety as a political influencer begins to explode, decides to take the salvation of his clan into his own hands. A struggle for the survival of the family unit begins. And the “foreigner” may show his credentials… he is not welcome.
A fable that takes a look of great finesse on the social climate and the fear of the other. ”(Presentation of editions of the Threshold)