IN YOUR LIBRARY
Period of literary re-entry obliges, the booksellers received an avalanche of novels. Among the hundreds of new titles, book professionals have extracted their nuggets. This week, Pauline Carayon of the National Book Center and Anna Schulman, of the bookstore "Writing", in Vaucresson, have unveiled their choices, in " The voice is book ", led by Nicolas Carreau, Sunday from 14h to 15h .
The inner ghetto of Santiago H. Amigorena edited by POL
"This is the story of the author's maternal grandfather, Vicente Rosenberg, who left Poland in 1928 to emigrate to Argentina for various reasons, including anti-Semitism, of course, but also for to get rid of the tradition, of his cumbersome mother who stays in Warsaw, so he emigrates with a friend there, he falls in love with a woman, they have three children together, he holds a wooden furniture store which are made by his father-in-law. "
"The years pass serenely, Vicente has finally found a home in which he feels good.But throughout his exile, the many letters that his mother sent him and have always a little annoyed, are more and more more rare. " And in those he receives, "this mother who had never wanted to leave Poland to stay with her eldest son is now saying that the Germans have built a wall - the Warsaw ghetto - behind which they are confined. Vicente reads these letters, which arrive three weeks apart, he also reads the foreign newspapers, we know vaguely what is going on in Europe, but not too much, the more he reads and the more he withdraws into silence. In his family or at the cafe, he is silent then that at this moment, he is in Buenos Aires, city which revives and finds again its greatness of yesteryear.
He falls into an inner ghetto. "It's a wonderful book about identity, guilt, speech." (Anna Schulman)
Ordesa by Manuel Vilas, with the editions of the basement
"It's a kind of mourning manual but in the ultra literary sauce.At 50 years old, when you lose your parents, you always feel a bit awkward and orphaned, but do not get out of the rope right away, if everything happens. breaks the mouth, one day or another, life takes over! (...) The author chooses to conduct a quest for identity by dialogue between his childhood and his fatherhood.This represents as many digressions rejoicing and bitter about his life choices, his traumas ... It's a kind of ultimate brave and heartbreaking confession about carelessness and childhood that disappears. " (Pauline Carayon)
Literary entry: these titles that start to stand out
She is the figurehead of each literary period: Amélie Nothomb. This year is no exception, as the Belgian novelist has published Soif - already considered a great vintage - in which she puts herself in the shoes of Jesus. "It works pretty well," confirms the bookseller Anna Schulman.
The specialist continues to sift the sales: "With price lists that begin to fall, we see very clearly Karine Tuil who stands out", thanks to his novel Human things . "It's very current," adds the bookseller before highlighting another "beautiful" book, that of Jean-Paul Dubois, All men do not live the world the same way .