A friendship de Silvia Avallone translated from Italian by Françoise Brun, Liana Levi, 528 p., € 23 This story of an all-consuming friendship between two teenage girls inevitably recalls The Prodigious Friend, by Elena Ferrante. As brilliant a storyteller as her Italian colleague, Silvia Avallone slips into the meanders of the same river that carries … Read more
At the dawn of this end of the five-year term, the diagnosis sheds a harsh light on the balance sheet of “Macron l’Oriental”. In their latest book, The French Decommissioning (Éditions Michel Lafon, 2022) (1), Christian Chesnot and Georges Malbrunot deliver the fruit of two years of investigation into the French diplomat. From Algeria to … Read more
Amalia d’Aude Picault Dargaud, 148 pages, €19.99 One day it will be necessary to write a thesis on Aude Picault’s drawing, its real lightness, its false naivety, the flexibility of its line, the accuracy of the expressions… The designer puts her art of graphic design at the service of daily chronicles feminine. Of Me I … Read more
under the veil by Hélène Lenoir Grasset, 220 p., 19 € What can be, at the end of a life, the story of what it was? What words to restore the extent of an experience, the long time of the years, the fine succession of emotions, the secrets? As a preliminary, one thinks of trust, … Read more
The next days by Caroline Sers Calmann-Lévy, 224 pages, €18.50 This novel is not a thriller but its dynamics, its atmosphere and its intrigue make fear on each page a disastrous evolution for its protagonists. It must be said that the novelist Caroline Sers relies on a familiar and dreaded situation: the collective catastrophe that … Read more
Prayer for travelers de Ruchika Tomar Translated from English (United States) by Christine Barbaste The Crossroads, 420 p. 22 € Towards the middle of Prayer for travelers, Cale, the young narrator, sitting by her grandfather Lamb’s bedside in the hospital, fails to ask the doctors the only question that matters, and searches in her bag … Read more
Without further ado fromSylvie Durastanti Tristram, 208 p., 19 € Without further ado alternates the voices of two women: ” the mistress», whose sad interior monologues are addressed to her absent husband, who left almost twenty years ago for a distant war, and whose return she no longer knows if she should still hope; her … Read more
In search of unity. Dialogue of friendship between a Catholic and an Orthodox by Patrice Mahieu and Alexandre Galaka Salvator, 216 p., € 20 Two friends are having coffee in a Roman convent, after morning services. They met fifteen years ago on the benches of the Saint-Serge Orthodox Theological Institute in Paris. The first, Alexandre … Read more