500 Books Nominated for Fall Awards
Literary season in France: great optimism in the publishing sector
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History and its wounds dominate the novels of the new literary season in France, which witnesses the release of about 500 books nominated for the Autumn Awards.
There is great optimism among the publishing sector regarding the next stage, which was surprised by the very good sales figures since last December, after it feared the worst during the quarantine periods and the closure of libraries in 2020.
One bookstore owner noted on Twitter that July, for example, was "very good for the bookstore sector" in France, and "did not see a decline in footfall compared to the same month in 2020".
As for the second half of August, it will witness, as usual, the release of the latest books of the most important writers, whose new ones are eagerly awaited by readers.
Amelie Notomb publishes “Brumée Sainte” by Alban Michel, one of her best novels, and deals with the fictional memories of her father, a Belgian diplomat who died last year, through which the reader discovers an eccentric family, and recalls a tragic episode in the history of what was previously known Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo).
Nottomb expected that she would not receive the Goncourt prize, and she told the French newspaper "Le Parisien" on Tuesday: "They consider me a writer who has achieved success and do not need the award, and this argument may be convincing."
The tragedies of the twentieth century
Sorge Chalandon also evokes through "Annevin de Salou", "Grasset", Marc Duggan through "La Volunte", "Gallimard", and François Nodelman in "Lisannevin de Cadillac", the stories of their ancestors in the midst of the tragedies and wars of the twentieth century.
Other authors are haunted by the Holocaust during the Second World War, as Anne Bereste deepens her Jewish roots after receiving the "Postcard", "La Carte Postal", the House of Gracie, while Gisele Berkman tells the story of a survivor in "Madame", Arlia House.
Christophe Donner in "La France Guy", House of "Grasset", deals with the subject of anti-Semitism before the First World War, while Jean-Christophe Granger relives the assassinations within high society in Berlin at the end of the thirties of the last century in "Les Promes", the house of "Alban Michel" ».
As for the torments of Africa and the issue of slavery, they form the focus of “Mamba Pointe Blues,” Press de la Cite, by Christophe Negon, which takes the reader to New York, France and Liberia, as well as the book “La Porte de Voyage Saint-Rotor,” Soy, by David. Diop, who recently won the International Booker Prize, is a fictionalized version of the adventures of a French naturalist in Senegal during the eighteenth century.
Blues melodies are also present in "Delta Blues", House of "Grace", by Julien Delmer, who tells the birth of this music in the Delta of the Mississippi.
More recently, the events of "Au-Printin de Munster", "Millae-Barot", by Philippe Guenada on the case of Lucien Leger, who committed a crime that shook France in the sixties of the last century.
Michael Brazan tells the story of a former member of the Japanese Red Army in the Souvenir du Rivage du More, the House of Rivage, while Julie Rocco, in "Fory", the House of Act Sud, explores the Kurdish regions in Syria and the conflict they have been experiencing for the past 10 years. Years.
Musso and sales
There are other very personal stories, such as those told by Christine Angou about her exposure to incest in Le Voyage d'Austlée, the House of Flammarion, and Emmanuel Lambert's memories of the beautiful moments with his father, who died of cancer, "Le Garçon de Mont-Pierre" by Stoke ».
Critics have also shown interest in "La Devignon de Bonheur", the house of "Gallimard", by Catherine Coust, about the story of two different women, as well as in "En Certain-Reison de Vivre", the house of Robert Lavon, by actor Philip Turton, about the traumas experienced by a former French soldier. During the First World War, and "La Vie Conabelle", "Minoy", by Tangy Viel, and "Plasma", "Rivage", by Celine Menard.
However, it is expected that Guillaume Musso again achieve record sales through his new book "Lancono de la Seine", by "Calmans Lévi", which will be released on September 21, after all the aforementioned books.
Among the foreign books, the books of "Shaghi Pine", the "Globe" house, by the British Douglas Stewart, about the working class in the Thatcherite era, and "Madame Hayat", the House "Act Sud", by the Turkish Ahmet Altan, which was written in prison and was not published in His country, and God Loves Haiti, Caribe Editions, by Demette Elias Leger, are testaments to the power of literature in the face of politics.
• August usually witnesses the release of the latest books of the most important writers, whose new ones are eagerly awaited by readers.
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