Lucy and Her Mother

About This Novel

The protagonist Lucie in this book is based on the French writer, scholar, and political activist Evelina Pisier. She was born in Hanoi in 1941, her father was a French colonial official in Vietnam. When she was 4 years old, she and her mother were sent to a concentration camp by the Japanese invaders. After the Japanese surrendered, she moved to the New Caledonia Islands in the southwest Pacific with her promoted father. After her parents divorced, she returned to France with her mother and lived with her grandmother in Nice. In 1964, she joined a French "left" organization and became an activist for the women's rights movement. She went to Cuba with a student delegation, where she met Castro and had an unforgettable experience. He later married French Foreign Minister Kouchner. In 1970, she entered the University of Paris II to study for a doctorate. She was one of the first women in France to receive a doctorate in civil rights and political science. In 1989, she was appointed director of the Book and Reading Department of the French Ministry of Culture. In 1994, she became an honorary professor at the Sorbonne University. In 1998, she was awarded the Knight of the Legion of Honor. She died of illness in 2007. Prior to this, in 1986, her father committed suicide by taking a gun, and two years later, her mother also committed suicide by taking poison.

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