The Medusa Child
by Sylvie Germain
246 pages· 1994· ISBN 9781873982310
About
A novel, translated by Liz Nash. Lucie Daubigne is an adventurous eight-year old whose idyllic childhood ends when, given a new room of her own, she is visited by an ogre. It is their secret, and if she tells anyone she will be sorry; so Lucie becomes the ogre's third victim, and is abused each night by her stepbrother Ferdinand. She becomes strange, drawing into herself, waiting in dread for the nightly visit.
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