Title: In your image - Louise L. Lambrichs - book
Summary
"Not a single man, I believe, would hesitate to sacrifice his soul to experience this miracle which I was given the opportunity to witness, which I was even given the opportunity to experience, a few minutes before he condemned me to death. Not a single man because all my actions, down to the last one, which should earn me the death penalty, I have accomplished out of love. A love which has inspired in me every curiosity and, it is true, every recklessness."
Jean, a young doctor with a promising career, has married an older woman, Françoise. She wants a child and falls into a depressive state when she learns she is sterile. To avoid losing her, Jean is prepared to do anything.
Starting from the theme of human cloning, Louise L. Lambrichs develops a plot that transcends the initial theme to highlight what underlies it: this blind force that since the dawn of time has made us seek, at any price, immortality – for ourselves and also, perhaps, for those we love.
We find in In your image The purity of style and psychological subtlety that characterize Louise L. Lambrichs' novels. But the atmosphere of suspense maintained by the author until the last page undoubtedly makes this book her darkest novel.
