Tragedy strikes a quiet French commune, and a whole system collapses. Unfortunately, Emmanuel Venet turns this hot topic into a lukewarm novel.
What can literature do for the living? In an unclassifiable text, somewhere between a narrative and a literary essay, Tanguy Viel attempts to capture fleeting thoughts in order to stretch them out on the pages of his new work,
Whether or not to lock up an accused person is sometimes a Cornelian choice. A reflection on freedom and security, based on two contemporary novels.
Recently translated from the German, Bernese author Christian Kracht's 2021 novel returns to the seemingly clean Swiss soil of his childhood. An exploration of filial ties and the meaning of ancestry, set against a backdrop of money and Nazism.
Rachida Dati became Garde des Sceaux, while Sara became a murderer at the age of 19. Yet they both grew up in the same milieu, in the same small French town. Investigation into a provincial girl who exploded in mid-air.
François Forestier unearths the blacklists of the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War. At the heart of his novel are politics and justice thugs, all in a style that doesn't take. But the idea was promising.
Lausanne-based author Mathias Howald returns with *Cousu pour toi*, in which he recounts his experiences during the 1990s—a time marked by the AIDS epidemic—and the lasting impact those years had on him. This two-part semi-autobiographical narrative gives voice to an era that is sometimes forgotten.
The first French translation of the work of Aliyeh Ataei, Iranian writer and journalist, «La frontière des oubliés», her fifth publication, paints a picture of bitter-tasting exile in nine short stories. Chilling.
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