Joseph is up bright and early, preparing to see his grandparents again. As he makes his way through the village, he meets a few villagers who were once so hostile to him. They all show him respect and sympathy, and remember Marguerite and Aimé. His grandmother welcomes him as he would have liked to have been welcomed by the village, at first. They talk about words and books.
In «Faire paysan», Blaise Hofmann from the Vaud region sets out to understand the ever-widening gap between the urban population and farmers.
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?
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.
Joseph is well and truly back with his family. Everything is going well for him. He works, loves and is loved. At the end of a harvest day, and after an evening of drinking, Joseph returns to Agathe's house where a surprise awaits him. It's Leila. She invites him to leave the village with her...
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.
Fresh out of the «Institut» mold, young Romain d'Astéries is about to start his first school year, his mind full of pioneering pedagogical concepts that he's just waiting to apply. When a bug turns everything upside down.
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.
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