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Our first shots of the heart of the winter term :
- “The Sonata to Bridgetower” (Sonata mulattica) Emmanuel Dongala (Acts South)
The author of “group Photo around the river” (Actes Sud, 2010) sign a novel “historical” exciting on the life of a musician métis, violinist prodigy exibé by his father in the course of the European Enlightenment. A rich novel that discusses both the history of the music, and the prolific on all the plans of this period of history : cultural, scientific, policy, throughout the life of a young musician, whose skin color will also mark the destiny. A novel, exciting, where we meet a gallery of characters who, from Condorcet to Beethoven, from by Alexandre Dumas or Olympus Degouge, have marked the history.
- “Article 353 of the criminal code”, Tanguy Viel (Midnight)
In the office of a judge of instruction, the admissions in the form of a confession of a man who pushed another in the cold sea near the coast of brittany. A novel disturbing, that plunges into the heart of the human soul, its torment and injustice. A great book for this fall winter 2017.
- “Repatriated” Néhémy Stone Dahomey (Threshold)
“Repatriated” is the first novel by a young haitian writer. It is carried away by the history of Warlike Louissaint, a tempêtueuse haitian whose destiny conforms to the shape rugged history of this land of passionate Caribbean.
- “Life of my neighbour” Genneviève Brisac (Stifle)
The novelist and editor, sign a short novel which paints a portrait of the neighbor of the narrator, (Geneviève Brisac itself ?), named “Eugenie, called Jenny, the so-called Nini” was born in 1925 in Paris, became an orphan after the death of her parents, “poles, jews, and atheists” murdered at Auschwitz in August 1942… This short novel is a piece of memory, entering, put into words with strength and elegance by Geneviève Brisac.
- “Third person”, Valérie Mréjen (P. O. L.)
The events and feelings that arise at the arrival of this “Third person”. In it she explores here meticulously and with a sense of humor all of the events that follow the arrival of a baby in a couple’s life is already a wall (they are in their forties). A subject rarely treated in the literature, it is here seized by Valérie Mréjen with this write at once practical and poetic, which makes his novels objects of literary tasty as food cooked by a great chef.
- “Stateless” Shumona Sinha (The Olive tree)
The author of “Calcutta” (The Olivier 2014) paints the portrait of two indian women, one has made the choice of exile, but his dream of freedom and emancipation is fraught with the realities of the daily life of a woman immigrant in Paris. The other, the daughter of peasants, remained in India, where she faces the brutality of a male-oriented society. A novel that slams like a cry of revolt.
- “so that nothing fades away”, Catherine Locandro (Editions Héloïse d’ormesson)
A woman is found dead, decomposed, in a room of good paris … That was Lila Beaulieu ? In this novel chorale in the construction virtuoso, a dozen characters narrate in turn the life and the wounds of this actress, who has marked, by a single role, the memory of moviegoers. A clever and moving. Read the review of Anne Brigaudeau.
The return of Monsieur Malaussène
for Nearly 20 years, the millions of readers of the saga Malaussène were waiting for this moment. Daniel Pennac is going to fulfill their vows from the January 3 with “The case Malaussène 1, They lied to me” (Gallimard), one of the most anticipated of 517 novels of the start of the literary winter.
The side foreign, the readers of the mysterious author of the Italian Elena Ferrante rush (also on the 3rd of January) on “the One who flees and the one that remains” (Gallimard), 3rd pane of the “girlfriend prodigious”, a novel named best book of the year 2016 by the magazine to Read.
The reappearance of Benjamin Malaussène (5 million copies sold since the creation of the character in 1985), or the further adventures of the Neapolitan Lila and Elena summarize the trend of this fall winter : the return of safe values.
According to the census carried out by Livres Hebdo, 517 novels to be published in January and February. Among them, there are 337 French novels, including 66 first novels and 180 novels aliens. Several heavyweights of the French letters are in the catalogues of the publishing houses. Stock ad as well as “The office of gardens and ponds”, a novel situated in Japan around the year Thousand, signed Didier Decoin of the academy Goncourt. JC Lattès publishes on its side “Dancing on the edge of the abyss” by Grégoire Delacourt, the author in particular, in 2012 the best-seller “The list of my desires”.
found in Grasset Patrick Besson with “Cape Kalafatis” but also the more subtle Denis Grozdanovitch, author of the indispensable “Little treaty of flippancy” which comes with “The genius of stupidity.” At the Threshold, we find Michel Braudeau, which tells us in “Place des Vosges” his experience as a young novelist in the late 1960s, but also the Franco-Moroccan Abdellah Taïa, author of the courageous and deeply moving “the One who is worthy to be loved,” on the life of a young Moroccan gay in Paris.
Pingeot, Chevillard, Oster
Mazarine Pingeot published a new novel, “Thea”, at Julliard, and Eric Chevillard deploys its legendary fantasy in “Bramble Rose” (Midnight). It will have to wait for the 5 February to find Christian Oster, prix Médicis in 1999, with “The life automatic” (The Olive tree). Published by Buchet-Chastel, Nan Aurousseau wrote the novel (dark and disturbing) the title of the most enigmatic: “ladybugs in cherry stones”.
When the French began a great election year, Jérôme Leroy speaks of renunciation in “A little late in the season” (The round Table), a novel of political fiction as dark as exciting.
In Alma, Pierre Raufast, who had wowed readers with “The fractal ravioli”, should re-enchanted with “The whale thebaid”, a novel technological hilarious where a fearsome hacker Russian.
beginners
Among the 66 first-time novelists, a dozen journalists, including Jacky Durand of the newspaper Libération, embarking but also the actress Aure Atika, or, more unexpectedly, Ludovic Robin, who works at the maintenance of the banks of the canal from Nantes to Brest, and published his first novel, “Go in peace”, in the Rouergue.
beginners spotted last year, release their second novel. This is the case for Frédéric Viguier, who publishes “Admission of weakness” by Albin Michel or Pierre Adrian with “simple souls” (The Equateurs).
In the novels foreigners, this is an American who died in 2004, Lucia Berlin, which detonates with the publication of “Manual for the use of the women of the households” (Grasset), a collection of new, sharp and poignant, in which the author, alas, almost ignored in his lifetime, one of the greatest.
A collection of texts of Asli Erdogan
Stock publishes an unpublished Erich Maria Remarque, “The promised land” where the author of”in the West nothing new” tells of his exile in the United States. Actes Sud has gathered in “the Same silence is to you,” a thirty texts of Asli Erdogan, writer, Turkish imprisoned and that Gallimard published “Pain”, the new text of the Israeli Zeruya Shalev (prix Femina foreign in 2014).
Author of the cult novel “Shantaram” (5 million copies sold worldwide), the ex-taulard australian Gregory David Roberts offers the following this story of violence and redemption in “the shadow of the mountain”, a pavement of more than 900 pages, published by Flammarion.
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