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Cinq filles perdues à tout jamais
Elles ont entre neuf et onze ans et viennent de milieux très divers. Au Camp Forevermore, sur la côte nord-ouest du Pacifique, la petite société aléatoire qu’elles forment se réorganise au gré des bracelets d’amitié échangés. Par groupes de cinq, elles quittent le rivage en kayak pour rejoindre une île en mer, guidées par leur monitrice. Sauf qu’au petit matin, après une nuit sous la tente, Nita, Andee, Isabel, Dina et Siobhan se retrouvent abandonnées à elles-mêmes, leurs kayaks à la dérive.
On suit les cinq filles durant cette aventure cauchemardesque et bien au-delà. Le destin des survivantes se déploie sous nos yeux, de l’enfance à l’âge adulte. Le traumatisme du camp aura-t-il déterminé la suite ? Ou est-ce l’avenir qui, a posteriori, éclaire les gestes posés lors de cette excursion fondatrice ? D’une plume lucide et en empruntant les angles les plus inattendus – l’amour étouffant d’un chien, une introduction à la catéchèse, les coulisses d’une pièce de théâtre scolaire –, Kim Fu livre un roman obsédant sur la formation de l’identité et l’effet du temps qui passe.
On suit les cinq filles durant cette aventure cauchemardesque et bien au-delà. Le destin des survivantes se déploie sous nos yeux, de l’enfance à l’âge adulte. Le traumatisme du camp aura-t-il déterminé la suite ? Ou est-ce l’avenir qui, a posteriori, éclaire les gestes posés lors de cette excursion fondatrice ? D’une plume lucide et en empruntant les angles les plus inattendus – l’amour étouffant d’un chien, une introduction à la catéchèse, les coulisses d’une pièce de théâtre scolaire –, Kim Fu livre un roman obsédant sur la formation de l’identité et l’effet du temps qui passe.
298 pages, Kindle Edition
Published August 22, 2022
About the author
Kim Fu
9 books550 followersKim Fu is the author of two novels, a collection of poetry, and most recently, the story collection LESSER KNOWN MONSTERS OF THE 21ST CENTURY, winner of the Washington State Book Award, the Pacific Northwest Book Award, and the Danuta Gleed Literary Award, as well as a finalist for the Giller Prize, the Ignyte Awards, the Shirley Jackson Awards, and the Saroyan International Prize. Stories in this collection have been selected for Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy and Best of the Net, featured on Levar Burton Reads and Selected Shorts, and optioned for television and film.
Their next novel, THE VALLEY OF VENGEFUL GHOSTS, is forthcoming from Tin House and HarperCollins Canada in March 2026.
Fu’s first novel, FOR TODAY I AM A BOY, won the Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction and the Canadian Authors Association Emerging Writer Award. It was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award, the Kobo Emerging Writer Prize, and a Lambda Literary Award, as well as a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice. Their second novel, THE LOST GIRLS OF CAMP FOREVERMORE, was a finalist for the Washington State Book Award and the Ontario Library Association Evergreen Award. Fu has been longlisted for the 2023 Joyce Carol Oates Prize for mid-career authors. Their writing has appeared in the New York Times, Granta, the Atlantic, BOMB, Hazlitt, and the TLS.
Fu lives in Seattle, Washington.
Their next novel, THE VALLEY OF VENGEFUL GHOSTS, is forthcoming from Tin House and HarperCollins Canada in March 2026.
Fu’s first novel, FOR TODAY I AM A BOY, won the Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction and the Canadian Authors Association Emerging Writer Award. It was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award, the Kobo Emerging Writer Prize, and a Lambda Literary Award, as well as a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice. Their second novel, THE LOST GIRLS OF CAMP FOREVERMORE, was a finalist for the Washington State Book Award and the Ontario Library Association Evergreen Award. Fu has been longlisted for the 2023 Joyce Carol Oates Prize for mid-career authors. Their writing has appeared in the New York Times, Granta, the Atlantic, BOMB, Hazlitt, and the TLS.
Fu lives in Seattle, Washington.
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September 1, 2026
Cinq filles perdues à tout jamais is a haunting and beautifully layered novel about friendship, trauma, and the lasting imprint of childhood experiences.
Kim Fu follows five girls whose terrifying ordeal becomes a defining thread throughout their lives, exploring how memory, identity, and time can reshape the meaning of what happened.
A compelling choice for readers who enjoy thoughtful literary fiction with psychological depth and emotional complexity.
Kim Fu follows five girls whose terrifying ordeal becomes a defining thread throughout their lives, exploring how memory, identity, and time can reshape the meaning of what happened.
A compelling choice for readers who enjoy thoughtful literary fiction with psychological depth and emotional complexity.
February 2, 2025
Excellent roman ! 🫶 On embarque à fond dans l'histoire. Les personnages sont vraiment attachants, différents. J'ai adoré !!!
November 29, 2025
Je pensais pas que ce livre, choisi totalement au hasard à la bibliothèque, allait me tenir en haleine jusqu’à 2h du mat. C’est beau, sensible, pleins de rebondissements… J’ai adoré
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