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.
L'auteur lausannois Mathias Howald revient avec «Cousu pour toi», où il raconte son expérience des années 90, alors touchées par l’épidémie de sida, et les traces qu’elles ont laissées. Ce récit auto-fictif en deux temps donne voix à une époque parfois oubliée.
Première traduction française de l’œuvre d'Aliyeh Ataei, écrivaine et journaliste iranienne, «La frontière des oubliés», sa cinquième publication, dresse le tableau d’exils au goût amer, en neuf nouvelles. Glaçant.
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