Le pays des étés is a French family-memory novel about a narrator whose grandmother dies, whose clan gathers one more time around its old Breton holiday house, and whose private mythology of August, cousins, beaches, tides, dogs, football, funerals, children, dead relatives, and seaside rituals is slowly dismantled by inheritance, tourism, climate change, rentals, resentment, […]
Septentrionale is a one-night apocalyptic road novel that follows two strangers, Joseph and Maryam, as they drive north through a collapsing, barely disguised war-torn country while the sky opens, the ground shakes, cities empty, the sea glows, and everybody talks about love, exile, violence, family, borders, memory, and the mystical pull of the North Star. […]
Stigmates is not really a novel, and barely even a coherent essay. It is a loose, repetitive, over-intellectualized autofictional meditation on holes, wounds, piercings, mystical crises, skin, sex, religious ecstasy, pain, performance art, and the modern body’s alleged emptiness. It begins with an ear piercing and ends with an old boyfriend announcing his marriage before […]
Faire la peau is less a novel than a long accusatory monologue against the narrator’s mother, and that is already one of its problems. It has no real plot engine, no scene discipline, no dramatic progression beyond repetition, and no interest in letting the reader discover anything. It begins with a provocation, circles it for […]
Code Yesterday is a playful, twist-heavy literary thriller about the Beatles, rock mythology, misogyny, authorship, family secrets, and the strange way a false story can sometimes reveal a deeper truth. It is set mainly in Liverpool in October 2025 and follows Lonely McKenzie, a young Scottish-Liverpudlian singer-songwriter, her dying grandmother Yvonne, and an aging rock […]
Our wife narrator and her husband are 40, have been happily married for 15 years. They are the perfect couple, he works in finance, they have two perfect 7 and 9 year old kids, she works as a translator and English teacher. She comes from a more modest background but she’s learned to hide that […]
Edouard Louis explains in conclusion that he hadn’t initially intended to write this book; he was actually working on a book about his elder brother. However, certain events, and even a request from his mother, prompted him to embark on the writing of this short narrative, which, in his own words, brought him the most […]
Laure Murat, a historian, essayist, and professor of literature in Los Angeles, has crafted a unique hybrid text that combines elements of a literary essay, tribute, and an intimate familial account. She, bearing the aristocratic title of “Princesse,” is the daughter of the Duchess of Luynes, hailing from the illustrious Ancien Régime family, and Prince […]
In this book, the author embarks on a unique narrative journey intertwined with the confidences of a reader named Sarah, who has endured a harrowing experience due to her husband. The narrative takes a metafictional turn, much like the author’s previous bestseller, “L’amour et les forêts,” which was recently adapted into a film. Sarah confides […]
In July 2022, a Cartier jewelry store in Geneva is robbed by two men. The story revolves around the lives of Sophie, a lawyer with a panther tattoo, Arpad, a banker, and the complex web of relationships and secrets that lead to the robbery. Twenty days before the robbery, Sophie and Arpad, along with their […]