Among all the books that have recently arrived in bookstores, here are a few that caught our attention.
SomnambulistDan Chaon
We talk about it as “a gritty and apocalyptic road movie”, between a noir novel and a dystopia. The main character travels across the United States in his caravan, with only his faithful pitbull for company, carrying out all kinds of nebulous missions as a traveling mercenary. But his routine, enhanced with microdoses of LSD, will be deeply disturbed when a woman finds him to tell him that she is his biological daughter. Conspiracy or second chance? An intriguing title that won over critics when it was originally published in our neighbors to the South.
Somnambulist
Albin Michel
368 pages
The three-body problemLiu Cixin
This hardcover collectible is the reissue of the first volume of the cult trilogy adapted for the small screen and broadcast on Netflix since last March, written by a Chinese science fiction author translated around the world. It is notably about a research program for extraterrestrial civilizations and paranormal phenomena in China in the 1960s, in the midst of the Cultural Revolution. To (re)discover before or with the series.
The three-body problem
South Acts
423 pages
Bigger than the worldMeredith Hall
Recommended by none other than Joyce Maynard, this family tragedy unfolds over two decades, in the heart of the 20the century, on a dairy farm in Maine. A promising first novel, which takes a luminous look at filial, parental and brotherly love.
Bigger than the world
Philip Rey
364 pages
Charivari in BucharestSylvain Audet-Găinar
This fifth novel by a Franco-Romanian author and translator takes us into a series of improbable situations, between conspiracies and accusations of trafficking in fake paintings, drugs and counterfeit banknotes, and makes us discover – with humor – a hidden part of the history of communist Romania in the 1950s.
Charivari in Bucharest
Robert Laffont Quebec
368 pages
Kill the OgreJordan Dupuis
Host, columnist and speaker, Jordan Dupuis talks here about his childhood marked by a severe eating disorder and his long-hidden homosexuality. An intimate and poignant story, prefaced by Rose-Aimée Automne T. Morin and Gabrielle Boulianne-Tremblay.
Kill the Ogre
Free expression
208 pages
The happiest days of our livesLucy Diamond
This is the kind of novel feel-good par excellence, from the British author who signed The house of new beginnings And Meet at the Café du Bonheur. Between laughter and tears, it tells the story of a grieving family where everyone seeks to rebuild themselves in their own way.
The happiest days of our lives
Saint Jean
408 pages