Anna R. Licht - A co-publication of "La Deviation Publishing House" and GASP ! Publishing House

 

My first novel, Anna R. Licht,  was published today! 

The novel takes place between March 11 and March 18, 1975, one week in the life of the main character, Anna Licht. 

Anna is 18 years old and is the daughter of Auschwitz survivors. She was born and raised in a small town, in the center of France. In October 1974, she starts college at Paris VIII University and studies linguistics. She moves into her aunt's apartment in the 10th arrondissement. During the spring of 1975, when the story takes place, Anna is torn by an identity conflict. She lives in a dissociated world where imagination takes precedence over reality and where parts of her memory collapse and are rebuilt as she encounters male characters. 

Anna carries with her a painful secret, the rape of which she was the victim a year before, near the Tenon hospital in Paris, where her father was hospitalized. She is pursued by a mysterious woman whom she calls "the black hair woman" who leads her against her will into an initiatory quest. Since, entrenched in the role of a disillusioned and cruel seductress, Anna surrounds herself with a male circle of lovers and admirers whom she methodically uses and destroys one after the other. 

Troubled but determined to elucidate the appearances of "the black hair woman", Anna will want to understand their origins and clarify the identity of this person. In doing so, she will be put on the path of the secret of the Licht family, held by the members of the Shoah generation and which will reach into the depths of her identity. Once revealed, this secret will free her and guide her towards true awareness and healing.