With his new book Someone who tremble , released Thursday, the writer broke the record for the largest circulation in France. A new victory for the novelist, who also joined the podium of the most read authors in France.
● Thursday release date his new book Someone who tremble , Gilles Legardinier came despite himself in the history of French literature. The novelist 50 years broke the record of largest circulation in France: 160,000 copies. By comparison, the last work of Christine Angot, An impossible love (nominated for the Prix Goncourt Goncourt for students and Femina) benefited from an initial circulation of 25,000 copies.
● Although he began his work as a writer in 1996, Legardinier was still unknown a few years ago. After publishing two thrillers passed almost unnoticed at River Publishing ( The Exile angels in 2009 We were men in 2011), the writer has completely changed Register to get into the “feel-good” story. Tomorrow I stop , Completely burnt! , And suddenly everything changes and It can not miss , funny and sentimental, and have propelled a bestseller. Total races: nearly 3 million copies sold across France according to its editor, and access to the podium of the most read authors of the Hexagon, behind Guillaume Musso and Marc Levy.
● One of Gilles Legardinier trademarks? A cat photo to hedge. Every part of his saga has its own feline: wearing a Peruvian hat in a pan … And it works! The novelist told Ouest France have “fought to impose these blankets.” “I really wanted to they attract attention and make people smile, even those who do not buy the book.”
On the cover of the new episode of the saga, Someone who tremble , no cat on the horizon. Just one paw pads and roses. Fans already share their disappointment:
● When not writing bestsellers, Gilles Legardinier dedicated to another passion: cinema. He discovered the middle of the seventh art during an internship past 15 years. On the plateaus, he started as a polytechnic before specializing in communication movies. Today, parallel to his books, he wrote press kits within the consulting company he founded with his wife.
His four novels Tomorrow I stop (2011), Completely burnt! (2012), And suddenly everything changes (2013) and It can not miss! (2014) are also being adapted to the movies.
● Under his jovial appearances Gilles Legardinier has not always had an easy life. In the last pages of his books, the novelist is used to deliver some snippets of his personal existence. Thus we learn that he was abandoned at birth at the door of a chapel of the sixth arrondissement of Paris, before being adopted by parents “wonderful.” It works in a number of associations that help to adopted children. “It’s become my most virulent fight,” he concedes.
● Three million French fans, a new book printed in 160,000 copies, four film adaptations … and without past the tray. “The good news comes sometimes. In books as in life, “wrote the writer at the end of Someone who tremble. We want to believe.
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