Turned into a spectacle, Lolita B. has been put on display, scrutinized, commented on, and judged. Behind the image, however, lies a child who has never left the room where it all began. For war does not always unfold where one expects it to. Often it takes place within bodies, within families, within homes, within the impossible memories we do not share.
With De guerre ou d’ailleurs, Séverine Chevalier has written a powerful novel about shame, the exploitation of bodies, and the fragile possibility of breaking the cycle of violence.
