French novel:
The Clandestine Life
of Monica Sabolo
Return to where you don't want to return, the place flees, the hated gestures… Monica Sabolo has sought to move away from the cursed scene by focusing on the history of the terrorist group Direct Action.
She didn't want to write what happened, she, a child in pajamas, he, her father... This novel is the act of courage of an author who does not hide her fear and who goes there with her eyes open .
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Editions Gallimard, 320 pages, €21.
Gallimard
Foreign Novel:
Natasha Brown's
Assemblage
The narrator has gathered her best cards to win the game of life: a prestigious school, a job in a bank, an apartment and works of art, and a very chic boyfriend, who invites her to a garden party in her assertively progressive family… The narrator is black and has the impression that the dice are loaded.
A novel that explodes the myth of meritocracy, and the portrait of a woman who dreams above all of freedom.
Grasset Editions, 160 p., €17.
Translated by Jakuta Alikavazovic.
Grasset
Bio/story:
Three women disappear
by Hélène Frappat
They are three, three stars, three pure products of the Hollywood machine.
They are also mother, daughter and granddaughter, they are Tippi Hedren, Melanie Griffith and Dakota Johnson.
We remember the
Birds
,
Working Girl
or
Fifty Shades of Grey
.
A fascinating text investigates three generations, three actresses who tell the same story, that of women.
Editions Actes Sud, 192 p., €20.
South Acts
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Comics/Graphic Novel:
The Gourmet Life
of Aurélia Aurita
In 2018, Aurélia Aurita lost her Cambodian grandmother, and, in a restaurant owned by Pierre Gagnaire, she designed the dishes and the staff.
Hence this culinary autobiography where life and death mingle.
The color explorations of taste are mixed with the black and white chronicle of her breast cancer, and the conversations with Mona Chollet or Annie Ernaux respond to the stories of her love failures.
Casterman Editions, 368 pages, €29.50.
Casterman