Urushi
The Montreal author born in Japan continues with this new title her fourth cycle of novels, in the line of Suzuran And Nire. Like all her other novels, it can be read separately and drawn into the story of a Japanese teenager who suffers from an absence and who takes in a wounded sparrow, a symbol of her own fragility. An airy text, tinged with gentleness and poetry.
Urushi
South Acts
141 pages
The rules of Mikado
The Italian writer takes us here to the mountains, near the border between Italy and Slovenia, where an old watchmaker who is camping alone offers an improvised refuge to a young gypsy woman. She fled her family and the forced marriage that was imposed on her. Their meeting will be an opportunity for exchanges between two visions of the world and two beings who are completely opposed.
Mikado rules
Gallimard
153 pages
A book about Mélanie Cabay
This is a paperback reissue of one of the most poignant books by the author who died in 2022, which combines personal narrative, biography, investigation and testimony to tell a tragedy and the pain it caused. Beyond the unsolved disappearance of a young woman in Montreal in 1994, the text also addresses the issue of violence against women as well as the inability of law enforcement to solve this type of crime.
A book on Mélanie Cabay
The very moment
168 pages
Of plaster and platinum
This novel by a Canadian author was a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Awards. It tells the story of Nina, who must learn to assert herself after keeping quiet throughout her adolescence, even when her parents tried to introduce her to all the young Indian boys in the neighbourhood or when a traumatic incident occurs at school. A reflection on the construction of identity that received positive feedback when it was published in English.
Of plaster and platinum
The line spacing
246 pages
My name in the dark
American writer Colson Whitehead called this award-winning debut novel “electrifying.” The author drew inspiration from the Charlottesville riots and the storming of the Capitol to imagine the new life of a group who take refuge on a historic Southern plantation to escape white supremacists. But the peace they find will be precarious, as violence eventually catches up with them.
My name in the dark
Albin Michel
213 pages
Tropicália
This is another first novel which has been praised by the American press. This tragic comedy takes us on a tumultuous journey to Brazil, a country where the author partly grew up, following in the footsteps of a family whose history of each member seems to be marked by drama.
Tropicália
Calmann-Levy
363 pages
The conductor’s dogs
Two new fun investigations (of the genre cozy mystery) by Detective Sergeant Maurice Leblanc have just been published simultaneously. In The Conductor’s Dogsthe investigator looks into the assault of a policeman musician violently attacked by dogs during the rehearsal of a concert, while in Murder at 17e holehe is transported into a story of mind-blowing fraud when a golfer is killed by a rifle bullet during a tournament.
The conductor’s dogs
Schooner
200 pages