The literary season has just started.
Over the next few weeks, more than 500 new products competing for the autumn prices (Goncourt, Femina, Médicis, etc.) will take place in bookstores.
Since this Wednesday, readers can immerse themselves in
Premier sang
by Amélie Nothomb, published by Albin Michel.
The Belgian author signs the fictitious memoirs of her father who died last year.
Where we discover an eccentric family, and rediscover a tragic episode in the history of the former Zaire by this Belgian diplomat.
In the Spring of the Monsters
, dissection by Philippe Jaenada of a news item from the 1960s, the Lucien Léger affair, also came out this Wednesday, published by Mialet-Barrault.
These two pitches set the tone for this literary re-entry, many of whose novels deal with the weight of history and the wounds it engenders.
Wars and the Holocaust
Sorj Chalandon with
Enfant de salaud
(Grasset), Marc Dugain with
La Volonté
(Gallimard), François Noudelmann with
Les Enfants de Cadillac
(Gallimard) all have in common to evoke their ancestry in the midst of the dramas and wars of the twentieth century.
The Holocaust haunts other authors: Anne Berest digs into her Jewish roots after receiving
La Carte Postale
(Grasset) while Gisèle Berkman describes a survivor in
Madame
(Arléa). Pre-World War I anti-Semitism is the subject of Christophe Donner's fresco,
La France goy
(Grasset), while Jean-Christophe Grangé evokes assassinations in Berlin high society at the end of the 1930s in
The Promises.
(Albin Michel, released on September 9).
The torments of Africa and slavery point in
Mamba Point blues
(Presses de la Cité) by Christophe Naigeon, which travels between New York, France and Liberia, or in
The Door of the return trip
(Seuil) by David Diop, novelist recently awarded the International Booker Prize, who signs a fictionalized version of the adventures of a French naturalist in Senegal in the 18th century. Blues is also mentioned in
Delta Blues
(Grasset) by Julien Delmaire, which tells the birth of this music in the Mississippi Delta.
Closer to us in time, Michaël Prazan draws the portrait of a former Japanese Red Army with
Souvenirs du rivage des morte
(Rivages), and Julie Ruocco explores Syrian Kurdistan and its surroundings, ravaged by the conflict of these last ten years, in
Furies
(Actes Sud).
Books
Madhuri Vijay's "time of indulgence" is also that of the discovery of India
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How Harlan Coben's playoff adaptations vary by country
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