Les coses humanes

The Farels are a powerful couple. Jean is a veteran political journalist, both feared and prestigious. Claire, an essayist committed to the feminist cause. His son Alexander, educated in the best schools in France and at Stanford, is ready to take his own place in the elite. But one night, the bright boy who has the world at his feet becomes a predator, and the next day a rape complaint falls on him. A judicial storm of unsuspected consequences is about to fall on them. Human Things is a powerful novel, capable of confronting our own beliefs and certainties -whatever they may be- and bursts into the most important debate of our days and surely of our century: femininity, masculinity, feminism, masculinity, the weight of social media, public lynching, power, abuse of power, life, death, consent, sex, truth, lie, empire the law.