Discover the three books that are added to the selection of the Grand Prix des Lectrices 2025.
These are three serious and poignant books that win this month. Three texts which summon mourning, renunciation, but also light, which sometimes appears where we least expect it. In the Fiction category, the Italian Gabriella Zalapì (who writes in French) irradiated the literary season with her 8-year-old heroine, both lucid and lost, become hostage to adult stories which disturb and exceed her. In a moving story, Anne-Dauphine Julliand recounts the unthinkable: the loss of three children, and the life that continues, despite everything. The thriller of the month, finally, is breathtaking, tender and delicate, and takes us into the intimacy of a couple and a man whose life is turned upside down when his beloved companion disappears in the night. Three books which express, in their own way, the hope of a future.
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Little Ilaria, 8 years old, is waiting for her big sister after school, but it is her father, in the middle of a divorce, who picks her up. What was supposed to be a short journey then turns into an endless escape, two years of wandering on the roads between laughter and fears. Italy, the 1980s, the car radio blasting, the bland rooms above the bars… It looks like a family road trip, but it’s more of an upsetting and bitter ride. “Ilaria” is not just the story of a divorce gone wrong…
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