For this new selection, the jurors have elected three powerful and lucid stories, which question our time without detour.
Too hard? Too dark? Too depressing? We sometimes ask ourselves the question, before submitting our choices every month to the jurors. But they always surprise us, thunder us, thwart our forecasts by their desire not to look away, to read to learn and to forge our eyes. This is how the very great novel by the Irishman Paul Lynch, who examines the switch from a country to totalitarianism, makes a place in the final. This is also how the humanist investigation by Taina Tervonen on those who, as they can, try to help our human brothers who cross the sea, has imposed himself. On the police side, the American Liz Moore recounts a microsociety plagued by her demons, who suffocates her children under the weight of her denials. Three books to face the world as it comes.
Fiction
You have to resume your breathing several times as this text of an incredible writing power cuts the breath. Over the pages, we are witnessing live the emergence of a totalitarian regime in an unrecognizable Ireland, which becomes sad, dirty and threatening. Eilish sees her husband, her eldest son and her younger son disappear, while her father, who gradually sank into dementia, leaned without warning her. We feel her gradually sink into a sticky madness. If we hope that this dystopia is not premonitory, it is clear that not so far from us, …
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