Towards reality – Selected worksEmmanuel Carrère
The famous Quarto de Gallimard collection brings together in this work novels, stories, articles and reports by the French writer, director and reporter, published over the last 40 years, with photos taken from his personal archives. We can delve into The moustache, A Russian novel or The opponent, which marked a turning point in his career, but also discover texts like “Why I love cinema” and “How I completely missed my interview with Catherine Deneuve”. For all fans of the author of Limonov.
Towards reality – Selected works
Quarto Gallimard
1024 pages
Our flowersAnaïs Barbeau-Lavalette and Mathilde Cinq-Mars
The author of The woman who fled and the illustrator who has already signed the album with her The heroines were inspired this time by the flowers that grow in the fields of the province – willowherb, yarrow, large mullein, forget-me-not or burdock – to create a beautiful, small-format book that makes you dream of summer.
Our flowers
Leaf seller
96 pages
Father’s sonVictor del Arbol
The Catalan author has written a very dark novel, which is immersed in Spanish history through the story of three generations of men pushed towards violence. The plot begins with a university professor who admits to having tortured and killed a man, then we go back in time, with his father and grandfather, to the civil war. A story that explores transmission, the filial relationship and the love of the father.
Father’s son
South Acts
368 pages
Love at KingscroftMylène Gilbert-Dumas
This is the continuation of the novel Christmas at Kingscroft, who reconnects with Rabih and Clarisse. The new couple seems to be enjoying perfect happiness until the unexpected arrival of Rabih’s mother, who upsets the balance of the small Estrie community.
Love at Kingscroft
VLB
176 pages
The assassin is on the looseAnne Fleischman
Fourth novel by the Montreal author (who will be at the Montreal Book Fair next weekend), The assassin is on the loose takes us on the trail of the killer of a popular architect. A friendly retired Montreal gynecologist and a Rhode Island police officer lead the investigation in an enchanting setting, bordered by the Atlantic Ocean.
The assassin is on the loose
Glénat Quebec
280 pages
The ring on the fingerEva Ionesco
The French actress and director was married to the writer Simon Liberati, who wrote a book (Eva, in 2015) inspired by his fascination with the woman who became his wife and who, for years during her childhood, had to pose nude for her mother, a famous photographer. Here she recounts this marriage where seduction and literature ended up forming a dangerous amalgam.
The ring on the finger
Robert Laffont
496 pages