Anónimo

La vérité n'est jamais celle que l'on imagine et il est parfois bénéfique de remettre en question notre intime conviction. Pascale Robert-Diard raconte l'histoire d'une jeune fille qui ment. Quand les institutions sont décriées pour leur indifférence, l'autrice montre des adultes remplis de bonnes intentions. A l'heure où la littérature abonde en pénalistes retors ou flamboyants, La Petite Menteuse raconte la manière dont une avocate exerce avec finesse son métier. Les engrenages de l'imposture. Lisa a quinze ans.

Forty years ago in China, marriage was universal, compulsory, and a woman's only means to a livelihood. Enter the one-child policy, which despite its horrors, resulted in China's first generations of urban only-daughters - girls who were raised without brothers and pushed to study, achieve, and succeed as if they were sons. Fast forward to the present, where in an urbanized economic powerhouse, enough of these women have decided to postpone marriage - or not marry at all - to spawn a label: "leftovers". Unprecedentedly well-educated and goal-oriented, they struggle to find partners.