Five years after the translation of his previous novel, Peter Stamm returned to the literary scene this spring. This was the occasion for an interview in Morges, in the orientalist setting of the authors' space at the festival Le Livre sur les quais.
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.
L'auteur lausannois Mathias Howald revient avec «Cousu pour toi», où il raconte son expérience des années 90, alors touchées par l’épidémie de sida, et les traces qu’elles ont laissées. Ce récit auto-fictif en deux temps donne voix à une époque parfois oubliée.
Dans son premier livre, la journaliste romande adresse une déclaration d'amour poétique et onirique à sa ville de cœur, Moscou, qu’elle a dû quitter au déclenchement de la guerre en Ukraine.
L'une des rares figures de droite de la sphère intellectuelle romande consacre un livre de photographies et de réflexions à sa marche sur la Via Francigena du Sud, de Rome à l’extrémité de la botte italienne, après un premier tome consacré à la Via du Nord.
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