It’s starting well, very well even, for the 56e ELLE Readers’ Grand Prix.
A first group of jurors read the first selection established by us. Seven others will follow, of which eight finalists will emerge in each category, which our one hundred and twenty hand-picked jurors will read, judge and rate. For now, let’s rejoice that “Proper”, a formidable Chilean novel, harsh and uncompromising, has made it to the final. More gentleness in non-fiction: “So it’s good”, the book tribute by the writer and artist Clémentine Mélois to her father, moved, touched, carried away. The enthusiasm is deserved. Finally, on the police side, the Croatian Jurica Pavicic reveals the other side of the seaside and makes the coastal town of Split the scene of a sordid crime and vital cases of conscience. A return to school with a bang.
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Fiction
“It is an impossible novel to put down, which takes us into the thoughts and memories of Estela who spent seven years behind closed doors in the service of a family: “Sir”, “Madame” and “the little one”. The little one is dead, we know it straight away. And alone in an empty room, Estela recounts her daily life as a maid of all trades, fed, housed, treated well, yes, but… The thousands of paths, the solitude, the reality that sometimes wavers, the things that only exist because that we can name them, the indifference between people who live under the same roof… In memories, the…
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