Paris (AFP)
The best-selling writer Marc Levy, considered the most-read French author in the world, publishes his first children's novel on Thursday inspired by his bestseller, "The Thief of Shadows", published in 2010.
Entitled "The little thief of shadows", the novel for children from 8 years, will be in several episodes.
The first two volumes, available Thursday while waiting for a third album in 2020, each have a circulation of 25,000 copies, said publisher Robert Laffont to AFP. The two books (80 pages, 8.90 euros) are illustrated by Fred Bernard, one of the most beautiful feathers of the books for the youth, author of the series of adventures of Jeanne Picquigny ("The drunkenness of the octopus", "The tenderness of crocodiles", "The laziness of the panda" ...).
"The little thief of shadows" staged a little boy who has just entered the 6th. Not only is he the smallest of the class but he has just entered a new school in a small town where he does not know anyone.
The year promises to be difficult but soon his life will become extraordinary. A strange phenomenon occurs when he walks on the shadow of people ...
It is certainly books for children but adults can read them without displeasure. We find in the first two volumes of the "Little Thief Shadows" themes that familiar readers Marc Levy know well. As in "Ghost in love", his 20th novel published last May, there is a mark almost always underlying in the work of the writer to the 45 million books sold in the world: the shadow of the father absent .
The 58-year-old writer deals with the theme of separation with delicacy but without pretense.
Marc Levy is not the only writer for "adults" to engage in children's literature.
Member of the very exclusive club of French writers selling more than a million books a year, famous for his thrillers, Michel Bussi, published last year "The tales of alarm clock" (Delcourt), illustrated book by Eric Puybaret, telling over eleven stories, the adventures of a little boy named Corentin.
Famous authors such as Alain Mabanckou, Delphine de Vigan and Daniel Picouly have also written children's books.
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