The editorial journalists have selected for you some of the best books of the moment. They invite you to discover their new favorites:
Women
In the womb of Tiphaine Dumontier’s daughters. His talent for making a distressing medical epic funny and grotesque is rare! The author, a French teacher, has written an excellent first novel which evokes both the creation of children and stories. Guilt and lack of empathy are dissected in the maze of a Parisian hospital.
It’s true that the great women writers did not have children: Virginia Wolf, Simone de Beauvoir… A novel for those who love literature as much as women. (Grasset, 302 pages, €22, released January 29)
-Stephanie Mena
Infanticide
Always Loving Him by Matthieu Gounelle. When a day becomes a novel… This day when a young woman places her son on the sand, sound asleep and warmly wrapped up. Then she resumes the course of her life. Well, almost. The short story, written with a scalpel, alternates between her reminiscences, her painful emotions, a merciless clairvoyance and the interrogation which confronts the infanticidal mother with a police officer.
