Carine Hazan: «Vies et survies d’Elisabeth Halpern»

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Both an author and screenwriter, Carine Hazan draws inspiration from a letter by her grandmother, recounting her encounter with a German man with a heart condition in the Australian Alps in 2003, to devise a gripping thriller: Vies et survies d’Elisabeth Halpern (Phébus editions, 2025). This offbeat crime novel blends the fictional murder of a former Nazi officer with the life story of her grandmother, who was born Jewish in Ukraine and settled in Australia. The author also explores the difference between the roles of avenger and vigilante, as well as matrilineality through the transmission of wounds to subsequent generations.