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.
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.
La Jurassienne est devenue un phénomène d'édition depuis qu'elle a décroché un prestigieux prix littéraire américain il y a près de deux ans. Sollicitée aux quatre coins du monde, elle fait étape en Suisse pour y présenter son nouveau roman «Le Vieil Incendie».
From the quiet suburbs of Neuchâtel to popular uprisings in Paris, Colin Thibert takes us to the heart of the late 18th century, through the tribulations of an antihero as pushy as he is ingenuous. A thrilling read.
The Franco-Belgian writer and playwright publishes «Le Défi de Jérusalem», a thought-provoking book in which he retraces his journey to the Holy Land. The book is more inspirational than inspiring, and even includes an afterword by Pope Francis.
In his only novel, published posthumously in 1976, Fritz Zorn stabs at the Swiss bourgeois society that killed him. A work about two converging cancers: his own and conformism. This important book received a new French translation this year.
After the first volume, «The City in Flames», Don Winslow returns this year with «The City of Dreams», a long journey inspired this time by Virgil's «Aeneid». Between wanderings and realizations, what is the value of this continuation of Danny Ryan's adventures?
Elle avait fait sensation en publiant son premier roman chez Gallimard à seulement 25 ans. Rencontre avec la Valaisanne Céline...
As I immersed myself in Stéphanie Lugon's book, the sensations of my first encounter with Charles Gleyre's painting «Le coucher de Sappho» came to the surface. Sensations and a certain attraction. The story of a thunderbolt in the museum.
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