Our favorites of the literary season. Luis Alvarez/Getty Images
Pages that listen to the intimate, make you travel, light up the world… The new season of romance is exciting.
The cheeky ones By Anne Scott
Bohemia, freedom, creativity. At the age of 45, angry with his best friend, out of a toxic romantic relationship and tired of Paris, the narrator, a musician, finds a rental on the seashore and escapes… This novel tries to capture: this narrow space between supposed solitude and the needs of others, between city and countryside, between desire and confrontation with reality, in an upside-down world. It tells about those who have not started a family and have time to think about existence, which makes them so precious. Friendship is essential for them, the narrator was suffering from being away from Jacques and Margot who remained in Paris…
Majority : A fine novel about our time searching for meaning and a very successful atmosphere.
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The cheeky ones, by Anne Scott. Calmann-Lévy Publications, 280 pages, €18.
Chameleon dayBy Ananda Devi
The Day of the Chameleons by Ananda Devi, Editions Grasset. Press
If the great Ananda Devi often drew inspiration from his native land of Mauritius, he rarely gave it voice, as in this beautiful novel that combines tragedy, thriller and fable. There, four destinies intertwine until the explosion. Nandini, 50, who is married to a judge, sends her life flying as a submissive wife. René, an exhausted single man, gets up to take his niece Sarah to school. Sara, a bright child, wears a white dress, only to soon bleed. and Zigzig, the little boss, is out to get revenge on a rival gang, as Maurice is out to get revenge on the people who robbed it, maybe…
Majority : a powerful language, alternately poignant and poetic, to express beauty and destruction in the same breath.
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Chameleon day By Ananda Devi. Grasset Editions, 272 pages, €20.90.
Wedding portraitBy Maggie O’Farrell
The Wedding Portrait of Maggie O’Farrell, Belfond Editions. Press
After painting the portrait of Shakespeare’s wife in Hamnet, Maggie O’Farrell resumes her pen to paint that of Lucretia de’ Medici. It is also a “marriage portrait” of the 15-year-old wild child of the daughter of the Grand Duke of Tuscany, married against her will to the formidable Duke of Ferrara. The latter is determined to get an heir from him to consolidate his duchy, and nothing and no one can oppose his will… From sumptuous dinners in fortified palaces to rides through sumptuous cypress-fringed landscapes, the author offers us an escape. the more beautiful, the more cruel.
Majority : everything in this novel exudes the glamorous perfume of the Renaissance.
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Wedding portrait By Maggie O’Farrell. Belfond Editions, 416 pages, €23.50.
Source: Le Figaro
