What to read this week? Here are the suggestions from our journalists.
Eden : Icelandic lessons
“Icelandians are surely among the best placed in the world to see the effects of climate change on the environment. In her new novel, writer Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir continues to teach us more about this small island nation where nothing is like anywhere else, while expressing, through her character, her own concerns about the future of the planet as well than on the survival of her language, which she fears will disappear,” writes our journalist Laila Maalouf.
A simple dinner : Dinner in three acts
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A simple dinnerfirst novel by Cécile Tlili
“As this nightmarish evening unfolds, a play is seen playing out before our eyes. Like a fiasco in three acts where the costumes and masks will end up falling one by one,” writes our journalist Laila Maalouf.
The light wind : Depict a drama in pastel
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The light windof Jean-François Beauchemin
“This 26e novel crowns 25 years of career for Jean-François Beauchemin who, with a pen as skillful as ever and even in the face of the darkest subjects, manages to breathe luminosity, light as the wind which blows lazily on the pages of this story family,” writes our journalist Sylvain Sarrazin.
Controlled distress : The pitfalls of a life
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Controlled distressof Marilyse Hamelin
“Arriving at the middle of her life, the author and columnist Marilyse Hamelin plunges back into the memories of her eventful childhood, her rebellious adolescence and the history of her family to meet the different women within her,” writes our journalist Valérie Simard.
Freshly arrived at the bookseller
Among all the books that have recently arrived in bookstores, here are a few that caught our attention.