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Saturday, October 28 • 11:00am - 12:15pm
The Safe House

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Journalist and author Christophe Boltanski will discuss his latest novel, The Safe House,which draws heavily on Boltanski’s family history and the legacy of the Paris mansion where they sheltered during the Nazi occupation. Newly translated into English, The Safe House (La Cache) won the Prix Femina in 2015. Boltanski will be interviewed by Côme de la Bouillerie of the Department of Romance Languages & Literatures at Harvard University.

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Christophe Boltanski

Christophe Boltanski is a French journalist and author steeped in French artistic history. His memoir La Cache—or rather, true novel, as the book has been described—is about the history of his family under the German occupation of France and beyond. Boltanski is descended from... Read More →

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Saturday October 28, 2017 11:00am - 12:15pm EDT
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