New year, new projects. After the first novel «Le retour» by young Swiss author Elliot Mazzella, due to be published by Editions de l'Aire later this year, these columns welcome André Durussel's new opus.
A cathedral book, rich in flashes of inspiration, the latest novel by 31-year-old Swiss author Romain Debluë is the pride and joy of publisher Michel Moret, who has published works by Jacques Chessex and Corinna Bille. It follows the arrival in Paris of a young Swiss student.
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.
In a novel that takes the form of a detective story, French writer Lilia Hassaine leads the charge against a society that has made transparency an absolute virtue.
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.
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?
, 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.
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».
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