French novel:
The Mystery of the Headless Woman
, by Myriam Leroy
In Brussels, during confinement, Myriam Leroy discovered the grave of a certain Marina Chafroff, beheaded with an ax in 1942. Who was Marina?
Intertwining her own thoughts on the place of women today, Myriam Leroy tries to understand why Marina, a small woman with a rebellious gaze, a young Russian exiled in Belgium, will be, on Hitler's orders, killed for having wanted to save innocent people.
An intense and poignant novel about a forgotten story.
Editions du Seuil, 288 p., €19.50.
Editions du Seuil
Foreign Novel:
The Fire
, by Daniela Krien
She is 48 years old, her husband no longer wants to make love, her daughter, mother of two, annoys her, her son had the strange idea of becoming a soldier, and the house they rented for the holidays burned.
She finds herself on a farm where she was taken in as a child.
She observes and listens to what is happening, her husband's gestures, his looks… She is not the best mother, but she is a good cook, she is not the best wife, but she does the housework well.
Everything written by Daniela Krien, a famous German author in her country, seems fair and humane.
Editions Albin Michel, 256 pages, €21.90.
Translated by Dominique Autrand.
Editions Albin Michel
Bio/Story:
Submissive
, by Christine Orban
Blaise Pascal loved numbers;
famous scientist, great thinker, he remained in the light.
Jacqueline loved words, poetry, she was attracted to light, that of God;
she remained in the shadow of History and of Blaise, her brother.
She was the woman he loved the most in the world.
After much research, with a precise, attentive and loving pen, Christine Orban paints the portrait of this “submissive” woman and that of an era shaken by religious quarrels.
Justice is done.
Editions Albin Michel, 304 pages, €20.90.
Editions Albin Michel
BD/Graphic novel:
Twin
, by Florence Dupré la Tour
After
Cruelle
, on her relationship with animals, and
Pucelle
, on her relationship with the flesh, Florence Dupré la Tour now tells us about her childhood and adolescence through the prism of twinship.
Within the Nagot estate and its hectares of enchanted woods, between an absent father and an attentive but neglected mother, Florence lives intensely a sisterly relationship unique in its kind, restored with a mixture of humor and violence by an extraordinarily expressive.
Editions Dargaud, 176 pages, €20.50.
Editions Dargaud
