Here is the fifth and last selection of works
in competition for our literary prize, which will be awarded
In June, in Paris.
Madame Figaro
French novel: Immortalby Camille Kouchner
The author. Camille Kouchner published, in 2021, The big familystory of an incest destroying a family that wanted to be a model. Immortal is his first novel.
History. Lying on the cloth of her hospital bed, K, the narrator, thinks of her friend Ben, almost brother, almost twin. Ben is dead, and she, doubly amputated, is alive. He has their memories left.
We love. The acid style, feverish, to tell this friendship between two children who are asked to behave like big ones, their looks on adults who forget to age and watch over them. C. S.
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Organic/story: Our uprooted hearts, de Marie Drucker
The author. Journalist, producer, director of documentaries, actress, coscenarist of Stéphane Brizé’s film, Off-seasonand author in 2023 ofIn good shape!
History. Through the history of her own family from Eastern Europe, Marie Drucker also evokes the history of exile, persecution and possible integration to repair injuries from the past.
We love. The tone of this beautiful story of transmission, quest for identity at the same time, sensitive and modest, and this “imperative need to explore the unexplored.” B. B.
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BD/Graphic novel: Rebetissaby David Prudhomme
The author. Talented screenwriter and designer, we owe him works with various styles such as The crossing of the Louvre or Noise in the sky.
History. Fifteen years later The Rould Rhattohere is Rebetissawhose heroine is Bèba, a young singer of Rébétiko. She has to face the Metaxás dictator who declared this musical genre outlaw, too popular and too oriental for her taste.
We love. The very beautiful drawing with sleek neorealism which gives a face to music and melancholy, while asking the questions of art shouted by
Censorship and passion in the face of prohibition. M. T. H.
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Foreign novel: The creation lakeDe Rachel Kushner
The author. Born in the United States, in 1968, the writer received the foreign Medici Prize for her novel Le Mars Club.
History. Sadie, an ex of the FBI who became a mercenary, is on a mission in France in a region where young bourgeois have created a community of rural resistance. Sadie infiltrates this world far from big cities and tries to seduce the mentor of these eco-activists …
We love. The pleasure of reading a black novel, a virtuoso fiction which also poses big questions about our time and our society. C. S.
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