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No-no-yuri
by Aki Shimazaki
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Editions Actes Sud, 172 pages, €16.50.
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Born in Japan, Aki Shimazaki lives in Montreal and writes in French.
No-no-yuri is part of a pentalogy as she likes to write.
Each novel can be read separately, and we find in each a secondary character highlighted.
Here, Kyoko, who lives freely in love in Tokyo.
She is an executive secretary, her new boss, an American, troubles her.
Everything seems light with Shimazaki, but we feel the possible coming of an earthquake.
And she describes with absolute finesse the place of women in Japanese society.
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Editions Actes Sud, 172 pages, €16.50.
The water in the lake is never sweet
by Giulia Caminito
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Gallmeister editions, 352 pages, €23.90.
Translated by Laura Brignon.
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In 2000, an Italian family struggling to survive moved north of Rome, near a lake.
There is the mother, a disabled father and four children.
We follow the daughter, Gaia, a teenager who feels bad about herself, marked by the weight of social inequalities.
Like his life, the water in the lake is not sweet.
In this cruel world, reading remains a great emergency exit.
Giulia Caminito, between humor, cold anger and rage, paints a portrait of society coupled with that of a teenager who does not want to sink into a lake whose water is not so fresh.
Gallmeister editions, 352 pages, €23.90.
Translated by Laura Brignon.
The magic lake
of Yael Cojot-Goldberg
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Editions du Seuil, 204 pages, €18.50.
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Once upon a time there was a lake in Canada… Every morning, women come to bathe there, naked.
A community where you can tell each other everything, rediscover the deep meaning of nature and your own too.
A magical lake for Yaël, in her forties, a husband and two daughters.
They have just settled in the region.
Yaël finds it hard to put down the heavy suitcases of a painful past.
A liberating tale of the beauty of nature, the power of sisterhood and the power of water, which can envelop you and free you from your old demons.
Editions du Seuil, 204 pages, €18.50.
Waco Horror
by Lisa Lugrin, Clément Xavier, Stéphane Soularue
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Waco Horror
by Lisa Lugrin, Clément Xavier and Stéphane Soularue Press Service
In 1916, the suffragette Elizabeth Freeman, warned by an African-American friend, leaves for Texas, worried about the disappearance of Jesse, a teenager, in Waco.
She will face the worst.
We discover the extraordinary destiny of this little-known heroine who shed light on the secret of an entire city.
An event that provoked national indignation.
Glénat Editions, 168 pages, €22.
