With your literary critics
- Olivia de Lamberterie (Elle)
- Nelly Kapriélian (Les Inrockuptibles)
- Frederic Beigbeder (Le Figaro-Magazine)
- Arnaud Viviant (Defector)
“The Passenger” by Cormac McCarthy
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Bobby Western, who was a mathematician and physicist, gave up everything after the death of his sister Alicia, who mysteriously disappeared in the forests of Wisconsin. Bobby, who has become a professional diver, is responsible for inspecting the wreckage of a plane that crashed at sea…
“Between the Margins” by Elena Ferrante
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In this “literary autobiography”, the Italian novelist talks about Dante, Italo Svevo, Virginia Woolf, recounts her beginnings in literature and promises, once again, never to leave her anonymity.
Offenses by Constance Debré
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The former lawyer reconnects with her past by recounting the trial of a 19-year-old boy accused of having killed his neighbor, an 80-year-old old lady with ten stab wounds, whose credit card he had used to pay a debt of hash.
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“The Office for the Clarification of Destinies” by Gaëlle Nohant
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A Frenchwoman, who works at the Center for Documentation and Research on Nazi Persecutions, is entrusted with the mission of returning the objects of the deportees to the heirs: scraps of fabric, medallions, handkerchiefs. She also investigates the past of her own service, which employed former SS and Gestapo veterans.
“La Petite-fille” by Bernhard Schlink
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Kaspar, a bookseller in Berlin, whose wife Birgit has just died, discovers that before leaving the GDR to move to the West in 1965, she had abandoned a baby at birth. Kaspar will go in search of this unknown daughter-in-law.