The time has come to enjoy the evenings by the fireplaceif you’re lucky, at least on the couch, blanket over your legs, steaming hot drink by your side, and book in hands. In this first month of autumn, we have selected you five works who promise to take you on a journey, to keep you in suspense, make you laugh and sometimes even cry.
The archivistof Alexandra Koszelyk
During the day, K. takes care of his dying mother, at night, she is an archivist in a library located in a Ukrainian city that the war destroyed. In this place, works and documents preserved as best they could after the evacuation are collected. But everything is turned upside down the day one of the invaders asks him to falsify songs, poems, novels and paintings in exchange for life saves for his little sister held prisoner. How to stay true to your values and not let yourself be dragged down by your tormentors? How to preserve cultural wealth of his country torpedoed by the enemy? Through this poignant novel, Alexandra Koszelyk immerse us in the brutal daily life what is that of Ukraine since February 2022 and allows us to go through history dark and disturbing of this country.
Published by Points
In bookstores October 4
InterludeSally Rooney
After taking us into the tumults of a youthful love In Normal People, Sally Rooney returns with a 4th novel full of sensitivity and humanity. With great accuracy, she plunges us into the daily life of two bruised and lost brothers after the death of their father. On one side Peter, 32, on the verge of depressionwho divides his life between his childhood sweetheart and a slightly sassy 23-year-old student. On the other Yvan, 22-year-old chess genius a bit antisocial, who finds love by chance in the arms of a divorced woman 16 years his senior. With her recognizable and appreciable pen, Sally Rooney once again draws us up the portrait of love in all its forms, and we let ourselves be drawn into this modern story, which, if it starts from death, it reveals a true ode to life.
Published by Gallimard
In bookstores since September 24
The Last One on the Trackby Raphaël Zaoui
Perhaps his name is familiar to you families. Maybe his face even brings back a memory of a party or festival a few years ago. Alongside the singer Adé, Raphaël Zaoui was the second voice of the group Taxi Therapy whose spicy and provocative songs made France vibrate between 2013 and 2021. In this intimate story, Raphaël recounts this aspiration to be an artist, this ascent encountered after difficult months, followed by the biggest scenes. Without taboo, he confides as much about his career as about excesses, loss of bearings, mourning, paternitythe way we rebuild ourselves when the group that propelled us at the height of glory separates.
Published by Harpercollins
In bookstores since August 21
The black bonesby Agnès Jésupret
While she is in a retirement home writing the “ anonymous biographies of people who are just as anonymous », the narrator of the novel becomes passionate about the story of Clara Ignorante, 95 years oldwhose family left Sicilian poverty to moving to Tunisia when she was just a child. Throughout the pages, the old lady unfolds her story, to talk about between the warsthen the presence of the German army. Throughout the pages, she raises timeless questions, such as the origins, the question of land rights, living together, and inheritance. Between everyday anecdotes and major historical events, the novel is constructed by mixing styles and points of view, to deliver to us an incredible historical and family saga.
Published by Liana Levi
In bookstores since August 22
My rideby Gilles Legardinier
Life is a curious thing game of chance. You don’t choose your family, nor the mail that we receive elsewhere. So when she receives a letter revealing that she has received an inheritance from his biological father and therefore understands that his father is not his real father, his whole life will be called into question. With the full feather d’humour and a hint of fantasy that we know about him, Gilles Legardinier takes us into a deeply human story that makes you smile and brings all the sweetness we need in this beginning of autumn.
Published by J’ai Lu
In bookstores October 4
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