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».
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.
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?
She caused a sensation when she published her first novel with Gallimard at just 25 years old. An interview with Céline from Valais...
A new novel by American author Joyce Maynard, «Where the Happy People Lived» tells the story of a mother and wife's journey, peppered with failures and renunciations, but also with calm and smiles. A story partly inspired by her own life. And, yes, it shook me.
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