Oscar Lalo, the novel of a woman without history

Oscar Lalo publishes "La race des orphelins", published by Belfond.

Credit: Joaquim Perez

By: Jean-François Cadet Follow

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The race of orphans reveals an atrocious and little-known facet of Nazi barbarism: the Lebensborn, these nurseries of the Third Reich dedicated to the making of an alleged ideal Aryan race.

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Oscar Lalo's new novel is a poignant novel, which looks like a cluster bomb.

An assembly of explosive and punchy chapters, short and dry sentences, of a very great sensitivity, which tell us the story of a woman who has no history.

Or rather, from which his story has been stolen from his birth.

La race des orphelins

, by

, appeared by Belfond, in the Pointillé collection.

On the menu of this gourmet café:

Marjorie Bertin 

read the

comic book for us

on a health scandal linked to chlordecone, a pesticide long used as a miracle product for banana cultivation, especially in the West Indies.

Toxic Tropics 

by Jessica Oublié, Kathrine Avraam, Nicola Gobbi and Vinciane Lebrun is published by Steinkis editions.

Edmond Sadaka

told us about the latest book by

, a photographer turned writer known for having immortalized the Yéyé stars in the 1960s. His latest book is called

.

It is published by Calmann-Lévy editions.

Fanny Bleichner

 presented us with a very fine work from the Citadelles and Mazenod editions dedicated to the painter

, who died a century ago.

Thierry Dufrêne invites us to immerse ourselves in this artistic universe and to shed some of the myth around the artist to rediscover his work, which is not limited to these famous portraits with almond eyes.

We ended in music with 

and

new opus

“Nono Future” released on Label ArtDisto and at L'Autre Distribution.

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