With «Harlem Shuffle», American novelist Colson Whitehead delivers the tale of a black Harlem shopkeeper prey to the demons of his neighborhood. A breathtaking story.
Launched in the late 2000s, the «Dictionnaire amoureux» collection covers a wide range of subjects. One of the latest is devoted to the Belle Epoque and the Années Folles, written by Benoît Duteurtre. Guaranteed to amaze.
L'auteur genevois Michaël Perruchoud a choisi la guerre en Tchétchénie comme toile de fond de son nouveau roman. Dans ce récit, il s’interroge sur les compromis que chacun est prêt à faire pour survivre.
«Our fathers, our brothers, our friends: inside the heads of violent men». The title makes it clear that the authors are also nice guys and loved ones. An added bonus: Mathieu Palain encourages us to ask ourselves which link in the chain of violence we occupy.
Mertvecgorod, fictional city-state, turn of the millennium. Five teenagers on the bangs of society take to drugs and punk soundtracks on a daily basis to forget the doldrums in which they live. The murder of Valentina, a transvestite neighbor, will reshuffle the cards of their daily lives.
With her poetic, impulsive and prevertiginous writing, Dunia Miralles signs «Le baiser d'Anubia» (Anubia's Kiss), an intimate book about personality disorders, transforming her individual story into a universal one.
Après trois romans, Clarisse Gorokhoff a changé de genre en même temps qu’une nouvelle fois d’éditeur. Malgré la mention «roman» sur ce dernier opus, «Défaire l’amour» s’apparente plus à cette forme en vogue: une narrative non-fiction. Pour quelle réussite?
Considered the greatest filmmaker of his generation, Pasolini was also a poet and left-wing activist. According to specialists, his posthumous book, Pétrole, is one of the best novels of the 20th century. So, is this novel a niche book or a masterpiece?
This book should have been called «The Poetess», not «Miss Iceland». But that's the heart of the matter. In this Iceland of the sixties, the heroine wants to become a writer. And yet, her being is systematically reduced to her body. A gently combative novel.
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