"I did it so they'd stop me," Emma said, when she was caught stealing biscuits from a supermarket.
But Emma is hiding behind her tough words and her waif-like body...
Emma is sixteen and anorexic. Why does she do it? Is it her parents' indifference, the long family silences, the lies they tell each other? Emma wants to know. She wants to understand.
When she discovers an old notebook in her grandparents' house, disturbing secrets emerge that demand an answer.
"Once you start one of Molla's books, you can't put it down. By the
time you've finished, you'll have been moved to tears."
Le Monde
About the author
Jean was born in Oujda, Morocco in 1958 and studied literature and tourism
in France where he now teaches literature in a college in Poitiers. He began
writing in 2000, before the birth of his third son and has published several
novels for children and young people including: The Wizards’ Duel
and The Knight of Three Faces (Rageot), Djamila (Grasset), The World Trap
(Gallimard Jeunesse)
Sobibor has been awarded numerous prizes including:
Prix Escapages nominated by 4000 children in the French department of Indre;
Prix 12-17 (Brive) 2004; Prix Ado-lisant, 2005; Prix des collégiens
de la ville de Vannes, 2005; Prix des Dévoreurs de livres d'Evreux,
2005; Prix Farniente, 2006; Prix Gayant Lecture, 2005; Prix J'ai lu, j'élis,
2005; Prix littéraire des lycéens et apprentis PACA, 2005;
Prix littéraire jeunesse de Sevran, 2005; Prix Ruralivres en Pas
de Calais, 2005; Prix Saint-Martin-de-Crau, 2005; Prix SNCF du livre de
Jeunesse, 2004; Prix Sorcières, 2004.
