What to read this week? Here are the suggestions from our journalists.
Hexa : Sowers of hope
” In Hexa, the novelist explores new territories. But what she has to tell us has not changed: to save the planet – and ourselves – we can no longer ignore that humans are part of something bigger than themselves, that they are part of this ecosystem, that he could be its benevolent guardian,” writes our journalist Iris Gagnon-Paradis.
Around the wood stove – Selected pieces of the real story told by Matante Poêle: For the love of play
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Around the wood stove – Selected pieces of the real story told by Matante Poêleof Catherine St-Laurent
“You will come away from this reading more cultured with at least a few tasty anecdotes. But, above all, you will come away feeling happy. From the (two) kings whose lives were snatched away by door frames to the incredible epic of the Holy Crown of Hungary, the author tells, in an oral language that is both hilarious and delightful, 25 fables drawn from different eras », writes our journalist Audrey-Anne Blais.
The rival : On an air of sourness
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The rivalby Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt
“The famous rivalry (questioned by historians) between Mozart and Salieri is known; but what about the one, also highlighted, between the singers Maria Callas and Renata Tebladi? », writes our journalist Sylvain Sarrazin.
Bar Italia 90 : Turin friendships and nostalgia
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Bar Italia 90of Mattia Scarpulla
“This novel by a young author of Italian origin, based in Quebec, sails between past and present, between La Belle Province and Turin, where a group of young thirty-somethings reinvent the world in their friend’s bar,” writes our journalist Laila Maalouf.
Freshly arrived at the bookseller
Among all the books that have recently arrived in bookstores, here are a few that caught our attention.