Let's end 2023 with a bang, let's end it with a book! Instead of the traditional confetti and cotillions of New Year's Eve, the editors of Regard Libre have prepared a firework display of five books, with their best reads of the year.
Here it is, a novel unlike any other of the current literary season! «Everything That's Missing» is the tale of a man grappling with life's disillusions, apathy and the mundane. All with a witty phlegm.
Sorting through the belongings of a deceased loved one is often part of the grieving process. Ludivine Ribeiro has taken the exercise a step further. She has published a book. A way for the Geneva-based author to recount a slice of life. Her own and that of her family. A gentle, therapeutic book.
Recounting the reconstruction of a loner in poor health against a backdrop of questions about adoption and identity. All in a hundred or so stylish, spicy pages. That was the challenge of this novel. Who could have doubted that the author would rise to it?
In a fascinating investigative book, journalist Mathilde Farine takes a popular look at the reasons behind the Credit Suisse debacle in the spring.
, Pierric Bailly once again explores the landscapes of his French Jura, with its solitudes, grumbling silences and amorous passions. A very good novel that chisels out the idleness of men in the face of the inescapable.
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.
Dans son premier livre, la journaliste romande adresse une déclaration d'amour poétique et onirique à sa ville de cœur, Moscou, qu’elle a dû quitter au déclenchement de la guerre en Ukraine.
The new literary season is a bit like a packet of popcorn at the movies: everything looks wonderful at first glance, but once you've plunged your hand into the mass, there's nothing but hard kernels. So to avoid this, let's exhume a little gem published in 1987 in the United States.
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