Overview
""My name is Marie-Claire. I have had nightmares every night from the time I was 11, when I was kidnapped."" From the clutches of a French family who tortured her into the grips of an Algerian family who kidnapped and confined her, Marie-Claire went through hell before making a spectacular escape and reaching France. There are lives whose reality is hard to imagine. Marie-Claire's life is one of those. An unwanted child, born in France, beaten, involved in drug trafficking, she was abandoned, temporarily placed in the care of Social Services, before being returned to her parents-and then she was kidnapped by her stepfather and then by her father's family that included a radicalized Islamic ""tutor."" She went through hell for ten years before escaping and starting on a path to recovery in which suffering and hardships kept getting worse, but which eventually led her to the hallowed halls of a French university, from where she continues to fight for the hundreds of children kidnapped by a parent-children who, every year, are victims of their parents' crimes and of institutional abandonment. She also uses her personal experience to look at mixed marriages, parental authority, parental responsibility. She points out with intelligence and accuracy the blind spots in the law, the cowardice of institutions, and the indifference of public opinion in the face of crimes whose victims are, first and foremost, thousands of children. The life of Marie-Claire is not a novel.
Full Product Details
Author: Marie-Claire Vidja ,
Olivier Goujon
Publisher: Max Milo Editions
Imprint: Max Milo Editions
Edition: Max Milo Editions ed.
Dimensions:
Width: 14.50cm
, Height: 1.20cm
, Length: 20.50cm
Weight: 0.259kg
ISBN: 9782315011896
ISBN 10: 2315011892
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 02 March 2023
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Available To Order
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Reviews
- The moving harrowing, never before published account of an unimaginable brutality. - An inspiring story of a painful but successful personal recovery. - Parental kidnapping told from the point of view of a child, then a teenager and a woman who was the victim. - Coming out soon as a film.
Author Information
Marie-Claire Vidja is a teacher-researcher and a doctor in human and social sciences. She has written, Hirak, l'art évolution du sourire, published by Nombre7. Olivier Goujon is a photojournalist, scriptwriter and author of several books, including Femen, histoire d'une trahison, Ces cons de journalistes and Pitcairn, les derniers réfugiés du Bounty vont disparaître, published by Max Milo.
