Consputed in his native country, praised in the French-speaking world, Bret Easton Ellis returns at the start of this year with a new novel, his seventh. No surprises here: it's still about disillusioned youth, violence, drugs and bourgeois boredom. A revival, really?
In «Faire paysan», Blaise Hofmann from the Vaud region sets out to understand the ever-widening gap between the urban population and farmers.
With radically different constructions and horizons, two novels released this fall seize on memory to turn it into a hallucinatory expedition or a waking reverie. Departure for distended time.
Between humor and tenderness, Peter Stamm has produced a singular, intensely human novel, polished by the memory of love and the anxiety of living in a world that is changing too fast.
Hope Jahren makes a veritable declaration of love to science and trees in this autobiographical account, which has the «precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist», according to the New York Times.
Social fracture and disillusionment: the silent majority and the Parisian elite no longer understand each other. At the center of the fray, a providential politician makes promises, heats up and charms the crowds. A powerful critique of populism, even of democracy.
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.
Geneva-based author Michaël Perruchoud has chosen the war in Chechnya as the backdrop for his new novel. In this story, he explores the compromises people are willing to make in order to survive.
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