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Sandrine Perroud releases her first novel

written by Jonas Follonier

Twenty-one-year-old Mélanie and her parents have decided to commit assisted suicide together, following Mr.'s cancer and Mrs.'s inability to continue living without him. With Radio Nostalgie playing in the Lausanne tee-room where she works as a waitress, Mélanie tries to mourn. She's trying - which is no mean feat. Everything now refers to her as dead or undead. The city is populated by spirits, the same ones that the young girl she used to be used to ward off in her nights. She begins a relationship with a young man, David, who in a way serves as her mirror and healer.

Literature

Off to Vesoul!

By Ivan Garcia · August 27, 2019

This novel makes great use of parody and the grotesque, magnifying the stereotypes and clichés that abound in our collective imagination.

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Partez «A la recherche d’Alice Love»

By Lauriane Pipoz · August 20, 2019

After a fall, thirty-nine-year-old Alice Love is left with amnesia: she has forgotten the last ten years of her life. Mother of three and in the process of divorce, she wakes up convinced that she's a pregnant bride. Her life, so different, doesn't suit her: her diary overflows on all sides, and she finds no pleasure in the activities that have become her daily routine.

«Carnaval noir» or the eternal return of evil

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«Black Carnival» or the Eternal Return of Evil

By Jonas Follonier · August 13, 2019

Metin Arditi's latest novel, Carnaval noir, was released in August 2018 by Editions Grasset. Telling a suspenseful tale of the eternal return of human folly, it can be read at any time as a warning. And it could well be that our era is not immune to some infernal carnival.