Contemporary literature

Marie-Hélène Lafon’s "The Son's Story" [Histoire du fils], published in 2020, is far more than a family saga. It is a quiet and luminous exploration of inheritance, belonging, and the invisible threads that bind human lives across generations. The title gestures toward a son, certainly, but its true resonance lies elsewhere: in the notion of lineage itself, in the countless strands of connection that shape who we are long before we understand our place in the world. The novel unfolds like a t...