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On her death, she writes a letter to her daughter in which she tells the truth about her life: her daily life during the war, her first love and a terrible secret.<br\/>Born in Japan in 1954, Aki Shimazaki has lived in Montreal since 1991. In French, she is the author of several novel cycles featuring Japanese society. <em>Le Poids des secrets<\/em> is her first pentalogy, with others to follow, including a brand-new cycle published a few months ago with the novel <em>Ajisai<\/em>.  <\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Bring your own picnic and enjoy it at the end of the reading.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":41048,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"_oasis_task_priority":"","footnotes":""},"manifestation_type":[1259],"coauthors":[1232],"class_list":["post-41289","manifestation","type-manifestation","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","manifestation_type-events"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Aki Shimazaki, &quot;Tsubaki - BCUL<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bcu-lausanne.ch\/en\/manifestation\/aki-shimazaki-tsubaki\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Aki Shimazaki, &quot;Tsubaki - BCUL\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"How about a literary eclipse in the course of your day? 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