Gisèle Pelicot tells her story for the very first time, not as victim, but as witness. Beginning in 2020, when she received the first phone call from a local police station, Gisèle recounts the fateful investigation that turned her life inside out.
Extraordinary ... An astonishing book—unflinchingly honest, open to self-interrogation, evocative, determined ... Pelicot’s honesty is breathtaking, and it helps make A Hymn to Life all the more revelatory as a sociological document.
