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Set against the backdrop of the early 1950s, the story unfolds the poignant love affair between Rachel and Pierre, exploring themes of class, nationalism, and beauty. While Pierre's views dominate the narrative, Rachel emerges as a complex character, marked by her determination and patience. The tale intricately weaves their relationship's evolution towards a painful conclusion that deeply affects both Christine, the narrator, and her mother. Angot masterfully reveals the enduring yet fractured bond between mother and daughter amid the unfolding turmoil.

A daring novel that made Christine Angot one of the most controversial figures in contemporary France recounts the narrator's incestuous relationship with her father. Tess Lewis's forceful translation brings into English this audacious novel of taboo. The narrator is falling out from a torrential relationship with another woman. Delirious with love and yearning, her thoughts grow increasingly cyclical and wild, until exposing the trauma lying behind her pain. With the intimacy offered by a confession, the narrator embarks on a psychoanalysis of herself, giving the reader entry into her tangled experiences with homosexuality, paranoia, and, at the core of it all, incest. In a masterful translation from the French by Tess Lewis, Christine Angot's Incest audaciously confronts its readers with one of our greatest taboos.