How much lying does a happy life require? A touching text about pain, healing, and family. Colombe spent every summer of her childhood in the Swiss mountains. Along with other young people from all over the world, she was placed in the care of a married couple who looked after the group of children lovingly yet strictly: all from good families, all from broken homes, just like Colombe, whose Jewish mother had to hide in a convent when she was little, and whose father, having just barely escaped persecution, remained a fugitive for the rest of his life. It takes Colombe thirty years to correct this image of her idyllic childhood. She travels to Switzerland, meets the people from back then again, and above all, the two children of the couple who so devotedly cared for all the other children while criminally neglecting their own. This book is a journey and a research project; it tells the story of how memory bubbles burst and yet retain a golden glow. Because lies play a greater role in happiness than is commonly assumed. New product