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FICTION
NOVELS
6 Le réveil du cœur – François d’Epenoux
7 Une femme blessée – Marina Carrère d’Encausse
8 D’entre les pierres – David Lelait-Helo
9 Les combats du cœur – Alain Stoeffler
10 La voyageuse des îles – Marie-Odile Ascher
THRILLERS
11 Le baptême des ténèbres – Ghislain Gilberti
12 Reflex – Maud Mayeras
ÉDITIONS LE NOUVEL ATTILA (in coedition with Éditions Anne Carrière)
NOVELS
13 Aujourd’hui l’abîme – Jérôme Baccelli
14 Debout-Payé – Gauz
NON FICTION
NARRATIVE
18 Mon petit gène, ma seconde chance – Laëtitia Mendès
PSYCHOLOGY
19 La petite voiture rouge au fond de mon tiroir – Pr Philippe Duverger
ESSAY
20 En tout espoir de cause – Philippe Dessertine
ÉDITIONS PLEIN JOUR (in coedition with Éditions Anne Carrière)
NARRATIVE
22 Changer de vie – Géraldine Barbe
CONTENTS
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FOREIGN LITERATURE
NOVELS
24 USA & U. KPurple Hibiscus – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
(USA – Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill)Hope and other dangerous pursuits – Laila Lalami
(USA – Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill)The Blackest Bird – Joel Rose
(UK – Canongate Books)The Bouddha and the Terrorist – Satish Kumar
(USA – Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill)The end of Mr Y – Scarlett Thomas
(UK – Canongate Books)A Reliable Wife – Robert Goolrick
(USA – Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill)The End of the World as We Know It – Robert Goolrick
(USA – Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill)Heading out to wonderful – Robert Goolrick
(USA – Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill)The Fall of Princes – Robert Goolrick
(USA – Algonquin Books of Chapel HillThe Eye of the Red Tsar – Sam Eastland
(UK – Faber & Faber)The Red Coffin – Sam Eastland
(UK – Faber & Faber)Siberian Red – Sam Eastland
(UK – Faber & Faber)The Red Moth – Sam Eastland
(UK – Faber & Faber)The Beast in the Red Forest – Sam Eastland
(UK – Faber & Faber)The girl who fail from the sky – Heidi W. Durrow
(USA – Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill)Till we have faces – C.S. Lewis
(C.S. Lewis Company Ltd.)Vida – Patricia Engel
(USA – Grove Atlantic)Hikikomori and the Rental Sister – Jeff Backhaus
(USA – Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill)Moth Diaries – Rachel Klein (U.S.A – Bantam)If You Could Be Mine – Sara Farizan
(USA – Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill)The Family Hightower – Brian Francis Slattery
(USA – Seven Story Press Inc.)
CONTENTS
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LA BELLE COLÈRESomebody Up There Hates You – Hollis Seamon
(USA – Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill)The Potential Hazards of Hester Day – Mercedes Helnwein
(USA – Simon & Schuster)Speak – Laurie Halse Anderson –
(USA – Macmillan)Grow up – Ben Brooks
(UK - Canongate)
27 SPAIN & LATINA AMERICAL’homme à l’accordéon – Marcio Veloz Maggiolo(Dominican Republic – Siruela)L’incendie du paradis – Antonio Alamo
(Spain – Random House Mondadori)Sept histoires impossibles – Javier Argüello
short stories (Argentina – Editorial Lumen)
28 ITALYC’est géant ! – Cristiano Cavina
(Marcos y Marcos)Conclave – Roberto Pazzi
(Edizioni Frassinelli)L’ombre du père – Roberto Pazzi
(Edizioni Frassinelli)Soleil brûlé – Elvira Dones
(Giangiacomo Feltrinelli Editore)
28 GERMANYLe goût des pépins de pomme – Katharina Hagena
(Kiepenheuer & Witsch)L’envol du Héron – Katharina Hagena
(Kiepenheuer & Witsch)Un fabuleux menteur – Susann Pasztor
(Kiepenheuer & Witsch)Jusqu’ici et pas au-delà – Joachim Meyerhoff
(Kiepenheuer & Witsch)Der Gang von die Hunde – Erich Kästner (Atrium Verlag)
29 ICELANDUltimes rituels – Yrsa Sigurdardottir
(Bjartur Verold)Bien mal acquis – Yrsa Sigurdardottir
(Bjartur Verold)Je sais qui tu es – Yrsa Sigurdardottir
(Bjartur Verold)
CONTENTS
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NOVEL
François d’EpenouxLE RÉVEIL DU COEUR
(HEARTS AWAKENED)“PRIX 2014 MAISON DE LA PRESSE”
THE AUTHOR François d’Epenoux has
written several novels. Deux jours à tuer
(Anne Carrière, 2001) and Les Papas du
dimanche were adapted for film by Jean Beck-
er and Louis Becker.
THE BOOK When the Old Man accepts to
look after his grandson, Malo, during the
whole month of August, he doesn’t even try
to put a good face on it. It has to be said that
between the solitary misanthropist and the
six-year-old child, there’s not only a gap of
seven decades, there’s an abyss, centuries, a whole universe.
Yet… with the magic of a timeless setting, shared atavism, a mirroring of
hearts, the pair somehow bring each other to heel, each one recognising
something of himself in the other in a mutual warmth and strength of
character that sweeps away the years.
Their encounter is a unique one. On the one side, the old man gets caught
up in the game, opening the eyes of his grandson to all the things that
children – glued to their screens – no longer see: nature, animals, seasons.
On the other, a kid opening up the heart and mind of a grandfather to the
new ways of the world.
Grating, with caustic humour when the author adopts the viewpoint of the old
man – a highly colourful character; moving and poignant when he portrays
the child’s vision of things, this novel isn’t so much about generational conflict
as about passing time: by what standards should we judge today’s world?
By History’s? Or by our own?
Isn’t the world today much more desirable, because it’s the one we live in?
“D’Epenoux wanted to express the idea of transmission and intergenera-
tional sentiments. A commonplace notion in itself, except when it is writ-
ten with humour and talent.” Valérie Trierweiler, Paris Match
“This book will cast sunlight on your winter.” Télé 7 Jours
Sold in Spain & Latin America (Penguin Random House / Grijalbo), Holland (Xander Uitgevers)
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NOVEL
Marina Carrère d’EncausseUNE FEMME BLESSÉE
(A DAMAGED WOMAN)
THE AUTHOR Marina Carrère d’Encausse
is a Doctor of Medicine. With Michel Cymes,
she co-hosts Le Magazine de la santé and Allô
docteurs on France 5, as well as special pro-
grammes and documentaries about health
issues.
In November 2011, she published Alcool, les
jeunes trinquent for Éditions Anne Carrière.
Une femme blessée is her first novel.
THE BOOK Fatimah lives in Iraqi Kurdistan
with her husband, children and her husband’s
family. One day, she is taken to the hospital in Sulaymaniyah, suffering
from serious burns. A domestic accident, seemingly… ‘Seemingly’… for
these accidents, affecting countless, generally very young women - are of-
ten a cover for honour crimes.
While Fatimah struggles to remain alive, despite her injuries, for the sake
of her children and the child she’s carrying – the ‘baby of shame’, as she
calls it – life in the village carries on as usual, as though she’d never existed.
Only her oldest daughter continues to talk about her mother.
What will become of Fatimah? What really happened on the day of the
‘accident’? The day the ‘baby of shame’ was conceived? What are the
mysteries surrounding this woman?
A poignant novel that conveys the terrible reality of ‘crimes of honour’.
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NOVEL
David Lelait-HeloD’ENTRE LES PIERRES
(BETWEEN THE STONES)
THE AUTHOR David Lelait-Helo, 42, is the
author of Poussière d’homme, Sur l’épaule
de la nuit, C’était en mai, un samedi, several
books of philosophical tales and numerous bio-
graphies (Eva Peron, Maria Callas, Barbara,
Edith Piaf…).
THE BOOK ‘Walls have ears; you’d better get
used to the idea. You’ve often said so yourself,
never really believing it. Because you didn’t
want to; but today I’m putting you up against
the wall, if you’ll pardon the pun, I like my lit-
tle joke […] Ah, if only walls could speak! Believe me, they can. My parquet
flooring squeaks with a thousand whispers, my woodwork creaks out tiny
cries and, despite my great age, my windows can see far, beyond passing time
and across the centuries. History is not inscribed in books, it breathes. It pre-
fers the wind and blood to ink and paper.’
A very old house in Buenos Aires tells its story for the very first time. As
demolition looms near, it divulges what it has seen and kept silent for far too
long: the tragedy of Soledad Salvador, the woman who lived within its wall
for over fifty years, and the dramatic events she was powerless to prevent…
As it recounts the lives of its inhabitants, the house – a survivor of bygone
times, now hovering between dream and reality – evokes the founding of the
city five centuries earlier, the immigration which, in the 19th century, gave
birth to Argentina, the mythical Eva Peron and the dictatorship of the 1970s.
This novel is about the bonds we establish with our surroundings and the
secrets that fill our lives. It travels to the very core of the Argentinian myth
in a reverie that embraces the great lessons of life, love and peace.
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NOVEL
Alain StoefflerLES COMBATS DU COEUR
(BATTLES OF THE HEART)
THE AUTHOR Alain Stoeffler published
Histoire de Bathyllus et de Florien, a fairy tale
for grown-ups.
Les combats du coeur is his first novel.
THE BOOK Alexis is planning a special
surprise for his grandfather’s 90th birthday.
He senses that if the old man could write, he
would like to leave something behind, some
record of his life and its marking events.
So Alexis gives him the services of a public
writer, who can help him put down on paper
those memories, in particular those of the 1914-18 War and the hell of the
trenches.
In the midst of all that carnage, two young men had developed a loving
bond that enabled them to support each other and rise above the horror
– a remarkable friendship which the old man now wants to recount. Love
sometimes chooses tangential paths that necessitate secrecy…
This novel is a marvel of delicacy, emotion and sensitivity.
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NOVEL
Marie-Odile AscherLA VOYAGEUSE DES ÎLES
(ISLAND TRAVELLER)FORTHCOMING IN NOVEMBER 2014
THE AUTHOR Marie-Odile Ascher lives
in La Gaude, near Nice. Pain amer, her first
novel, received the 2011 Hisler-Even Prize. La
Voyageuse des îles is her third novel.
THE BOOK The island of Mauritius, second
half of the 19th century. Sita, an ill-treated little
Indian servant of superior intelligence, succeeds
in straddling the three worlds that constitute
Mauritian society: that of the white masters, the
agricultural labourers and Indian domestics,
and the world of the former black slaves.
Sita strikes up a friendship with her employers’ daughter and dreams of
belonging to their caste but, contrary to her hopes, the universe of the
‘grands mounes’, the white people, remains definitively closed to those with
dark skin. Sita’s beauty makes her the object of desire and envy, and she
is obliged to use all her wiles to escape the clutches of the men, and one
woman, who have designs on her. At the age of fifteen, she learns that her
own family intends to marry her off against her will, and does everything
she can to extricate herself from this imposed union.
At the same time, in Burgundy, Guillaume, a humble country teacher, is
determined to spare no effort to escape the path life seems to have traced
out in front of him. At the first opportunity, he grabs the chance and ends up
in Mauritius, that far-off country where anything is possible.
Guillaume and Sita have to face adventures, including a stolen identity,
thwarted love and violence, before they are finally able to come together
and, in the face of all prejudice, build a life for two.
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THRILLER
Ghislain GilbertiLE BAPTÊME DES TÉNÈBRES
(THE BAPTISM OF DARKNESS)
THE AUTHOR Born in Belfort in 1977, Ghis-lain Gilberti is the author of Dynamique du chaos, a noir novel published on-line whose popularity has remained undiminished for years. In Le Baptême des ténèbres, we meet Cécile Sanchez again, the heroine of Le Festin du Serpent (Éditions Anne Carrière, 2013), winner of the Grand Prix France Bleu des lec-teurs, the Prix découverte Polars Pourpres and a finalist in the Prix du meilleur polar franco-phone. His books, in the contemporary noir genre, probe society’s deepest recesses to fuel his incisive, true-to-life and sombre fiction.
THE BOOK Cécile Sanchez, a police superintendent specialised in crim-inology, behavioural analysis and body language interpretation, heads an elite unit of the personal violence department. She tracks down the most dangerous criminals and deviants in France, backed by a forensic scientist – eccentric and competent in equal measure – a crime lab team that doesn’t miss a clue and an assault unit who carry out raids. In this new case, Sanchez has to pierce the bizarre psyche of an atypical killer whose nickname – ‘the Chimney Sweep’ – is spreading like wildfire through the police forces. He has a penchant for penetrating his female victims with a blade and signing his handiwork by drawing a gory death mask on their faces.While the investigators struggle to keep the case under wraps in order to hold the media at bay for as long as possible, the killer steps up the pace and alters his modus operandi to reach an indescribable degree of barbarity.As the case advances, Captain Cécile Sanchez finds herself in deep and murky waters, but fortunately, a specialist in the depths of human depravity joins the team and, like a modern-day Virgil, guides her through the ‘inferno’ of evil.
ABOUT LE FESTIN DU SERPENT (Éditions Anne Carrière, 2013):“Unfailingly throughout this double investigation, the author develops suspense that leaves the reader flabbergasted as it unfolds. A jewel of intel-ligence.” Télé 7 jours“Two stories in the same brilliant thriller, because the investigations inter-lock and are resolved in a truly remarkable conclusion.” La Voix du Nord“A captivating book, full of suspense, that readers have literally devoured.”L’Est Républicain
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THRILLER
Maud MayerasREFLEX
THE AUTHOR Maud Mayeras is 31. Reflex is
her second novel. Her first, Hématome, pub-
lished by Calmann Lévy in 2004, received the
Limbes Pourpres prize and was a finalist for
the Prix Polar SNCF in 2006. Today she lives
in Limoges with her husband, son, and a big
black cat called BlackMamba.
THE BOOK“Each time, it’s the same casual tone at the
other end of the line, the same rasping voices
from throats filled with smoke to the lips. And
each time, the same question:
‘Free tonight, Iris?’‘I’m always free’.”
Iris, a photographer in the Forensic Identification Dept., injects like others
knock back shots of whisky, to ease the pain. To forget the death of her son,
Swan, brutally murdered eleven years before.
Henry Witkin, the fruit of a chaotic lineage of unmarried mothers, kills for
the pleasure of wallowing in warm flesh. He meticulously skins his victims
and collects their odours like trophies.
When a heat wave leaves the town parched, bodies liquefying and minds
in frenzy, monsters sneak out of their lairs. Evil only shows its fangs when
it’s caught in a trap.
A story about asphyxiated hearts, mothers with shiny claws and starving
predators.
“Maud Mayeras forgets neither the good – the exclusive, marvellous love
that binds a child to its mother - nor the bad – the terrible ascendancy that
mothers can have over their young. Both, pushed to paroxysmal level (…)
make this a book you either love or hate, but one that will leave no one
indifferent.” Le Point
Sold in Holland (Uitgeverij De Bezige Bij / Cargo), Turkey (Pegasus Yayinlari)
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NOVEL
LE NOUVEL ATTILA(IN COEDITION WITH EDITIONS ANNE CARRIÈRE)
Jérôme BaccelliAUJOURD’HUI L’ABÎME
(TODAY THE ABYSS)
‘I set it all up. I’m just about to dismantle everything, and I’m a happy man.’
THE AUTHOR Jérôme Baccelli was born in Marseille in 1968. As a telecommunications consultant, he lived in Brussels, Copenhagen, Madrid and Lisbon before crossing China and Silicon Valley, where was involved in the success and collapse of various start-ups.
THE BOOK A man leaves his wife, his com-pany and his boss – John Edward Forese, the world’s greatest financier – to sail around the world on a raft. There, with only the horizon and the stars for company, abandoning all his bearings, he relives the memory of a mythical night he spent contemplating the paintings in a monastery in Corte and retracing the history of man’s fascination for the great void.From the study of the ether by Antique philosophers to Einstein, from Van Gogh’s skies to Klein monochromes, from Google to Radiohead and Stock Exchange software, he draws up a chart of an epoch. As he contemplates the strange dynasty of those who have sought the void, forever ahead of their times, he ends up pondering the secret link between Forese, with his troubled family background, and the scientists who preceded him: could it be that the secret of that global empire lay in just one word… or a paint-ing… or in the gaze of Mexican iguanas?
“A bewitching meditation on the void” Libération“156 pages you read in one go, like a cruise (…) when you think about it, there’s an element of kamikaze in this book: a novel about emptiness.”Chronicart“A style that draws you in, mordant and subtle; made up of interrupted rhythms and intertwined narratives.” Le Monde des Livres
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LE NOUVEL ATTILA(IN COEDITION WITH EDITIONS ANNE CARRIÈRE)
GauzDEBOUT-PAYÉ
‘If the same thing were to happen again today,
the Storming of the Bastille would free thou-
sands of prisoners of consumerism.’
THE AUTHOR After obtaining a degree in
biochemistry, and spending some time as an
illegal immigrant, Gauz is now a photogra-
pher, documentary maker and director of a
satirical financial newspaper on the Ivory
Coast. He has also written the scenario of a
film on the immigration of young Ivorians,
entitled Après l’océan…
THE BOOK Debout-Payé is a family novel about Ossiri, an Ivorian student
who arrives illegally in France in the 1990s to work as a security guard. It is
the tale of an immigrant, the hell he endures to find accommodation and
employment, and how he perceives France. But it is also a hymn in honour
of a family where, from father to son, the men become security guards in
Paris, and, more generally, in honour of the African community, with all
its foibles and generosity.
Gauz recognises three distinct mythical periods in the job of security
guard, as well as in relations between France and Africa: the bronze age
of the 1960s (neo-colonialism with ‘Francafrique’), the golden age of the
1990s, and the leaden age, following the events of 9/11.
This epic is peppered with observations: the things Gauz saw, heard
and thought when he worked as a security guard at the Bastille branch
of Camaïeu and the Champs Elysées branch of Sephora. The author is
equally caustic regarding managers or clients, with keen social awareness
and a sharp take on the excesses of today’s marketing world. He highlights
their most trifling aspects as well as their most universal.
A striking portrait of French society that is entertaining, rich and uncom-
promising, and an original, first-hand account of what really goes on in a
security guard’s head beneath the tough exterior.
NOVEL
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WHAT THE BOOKSELLERS SAY :
“Our best-seller for months and years to come…” Librairie Ouvrir l’œil (Lyon)
“One of the fall’s little bombs. Sarcastic. Brilliant. A socio-poetic object in
which language and analysis sparkle, revealing gems. The style is dynamic
and incisive.” Charlotte Desmousseaux (Nantes)
“The art of making our consumer society divinely grotesque, served by
striking, droll narration.” Sandrine Giraud, Fnac les Halles (Paris)
“We just ado-o-ore Gauz!” Amanda Spiegel, Folies d’encre (Montreuil)
“Droll, incisive, deliciously ironic.” Christophe Gilquin (Paris)
“The made-to-measure Africa of Paris’s ‘men in black’.” Quentin Schoëvaërt, Atout Livres (Paris)
“As caustic as can be and intelligently written.” Nadia Champesme, Histoire de l’œil (Marseille)
“This book is like a good hip-hop album: delightful interludes, bewitching
rhythms, impeccable phrasing and sociological precision at every turn (…)
A masterly achievement.” Vincent Ladoucette, Gibert (Vaulx-en-Velin)
“A unique voice and style, that disturbs and stands out from the crowd.
A must, quite unforgettable!” Julia Lerat, La Librairie de Paris
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NOVEL
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Laetitia mendesMON PETIT GÈNE, MA SECONDE CHANCE
(ONE LITTLE GENE, MY SECOND CHANCE)
THE AUTHOR Graduate of a distinguished
school in Corporate Communications, Laetitia
Mendes founded Charism in 2011, an agency
offering Advice on Image and Communication
strategy.
Laetitia Mendes, 33 years old, is the first woman
in France to have undergone a double mastec-
tomy for preventive reasons in 2008.
THE BOOK When she died, my mother left
me two things: a gene and a story. Or – to be
more precise – a bad gene and a beautiful story.
A few days before she died, she said to me: ‘You’re the one who will write my
book.’ For many years, I had too many ordeals to deal with my own life, my
breasts and myself, to sit down and start writing. But as the years went by, the
idea of handing down, to my daughter, the story of a whole line of women who
were a little different from others appealed to me more and more. That’s where
Angelina comes in. In 2013, she published an article called “My medical choice”
in the New York Times. Angelina Jolie dared to tell the whole world about her
devastating but liberating operation – a double mastectomy: an operation that
reduced the risk of developing breast cancer from 87 to 5%. In doing so, she
helped thousands of women by breaking down a taboo. Suddenly, I felt I was
ready. To speak out. To write. To give my testimony to help others – the 32,000
declared brca1 and brca2 gene mutation carriers in France, or 1 women in 500,
as well as 5% of women suffering from breast cancer. All those women who will
have to face, one day, the ablation and reconstruction of their breasts.
Lætitia
NARRATIVE
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Pr Philippe DuvergerLA PETITE VOITURE
AU FOND DE MON TIROIRet autres rencontres extraordinaires
(THE LITTLE RED AUTOMOBILE AT THE BACK OF MY DRAWER… and other extraordinary encounters)
THE AUTHOR Philippe Duverger is a child
psychiatrist, in charge of the child and ado-
lescent psychiatry unit in the university hos-
pital of Angers, and a university Professor.
THE BOOKIn my job, I see lots of kids and teens. Some
of them leave such an indelible impression on
me that I could never forget them; the mere
mention of their names is enough to make
me relive their story, one that – to me – is
unforgettable.
The reason why I tell the stories of those children is to try to understand
why they made such an enduring impression on me. Each one is unique,
but they are all about the same thing: an encounter.
It’s not a question of theorizing; rather gaining an almost impressionistic
idea of what that encounter is, and what is at stake. Is it a play of mirrors?
An illusion? A daydream? A moment of truth?
An encounter can be a bit of all those things at the same time, but it cannot
be confined in a definition: there is always a part that eludes description,
the part of mystery that makes it so rich.
Each reader of this book can think of encounters and meetings in his or
her own life, and relive those unique moments when fate took a hand…
For our lives are built around such meetings, fortunate or otherwise,
wonderful or horrible, traumatising or mysterious, dangerous or reassur-
ing… But who can say exactly what happens in those moments?
PSYCHOLOGY
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Philippe DessertineEN TOUT ESPOIR DE CAUSE
Le monde de demain a déjà commencé(EVERY REASON TO HOPE
Tomorrow’s world has already begun)
THE AUTHOR In this essay, Philippe Des-
sertine, professor and member of the Haut
Conseil des finances publiques, prolongs the
reflection he began in his previous book, La
Décompression.
THE BOOK Our times will prove to be a ma-
jor watershed in history. The economic crisis
that began in 2007 with subprime mortgag-
es announced the end of a world. The new
model is taking shape before our very eyes,
and occasionally when we’re off guard. One
thing is certain: our children and grandchildren won’t live as we have, and
will very probably be horrified by the folly of our times.
First of all, this positive, optimistic book seeks to inform the new, digital,
big-data, 3D-printing generation that the coming era belongs to them. In
Part 1, the three great revolutions – in agriculture, energy and especially
the digital universe – are presented as solutions to the impasses in which
the world now finds itself. Debt, global warming, population explosion
and chaotic, galloping urbanization are not inescapable. Humanity already
has the means to avoid these perils, and the transformation has begun. All
we have to do is believe in it and accept the challenge of the future, instead
of falling back on the old instincts. Also, we need to eradicate the results of
our past follies - public debt being one of the most terrifying.
In Part 2, we return to the crisis; which is, in reality, a crisis for rich, ageing
Westerners, who are attempting by all possible means to halt a revolution
that is likely to hit them hardest. Their conservatism lies at the root of
this situation. It is also the key to understanding the numerous measures
adopted to ‘manage’ the crisis, but are in reality designed to prolong it and
stave off the advent of the new world, whatever the cost.
In Part 3, the author evokes the ways in which we might prevent the older
generation from ‘killing off ’ the young, so enabling grand projects to get
ESSAY
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ESSAY
underway, great mutations to accelerate rather than slow down, so that
the youngsters of today, and tomorrow, find their place in a more serene
society.
“This book is a popularization that puts some problems into perspective:
debt, unemployment, growth, ecological crisis, energetic transition (…)
Philippe Dessertine describes the confrontation between an old world,
condemned but still fighting for its privileges, and the New World.”
Challenges
“Put a stop to the ambient pessimism! A New World is already on its way.
It’s Philippe Dessertine who says so.” Le Point
About La décompression
“This well-written book is a must-read. Because it rises above today’s noise
and clamour. Because it disturbs.” Les Echos
About Ceci n’est pas une crise
“As Philippe Dessertine puts it so brilliantly, we don’t know when the
global economic chaos will come to an end, but we can all guess that noth-
ing will ever be the same again.” Le Figaro.
About Le gué du tigre
“A breath-taking thriller about one night that shook China, and the world.”
AFP
‘The battle to come. The clash of the Titans. Tomorrow’s dual. Chine vs.
the USA. Economist Philippe Dessertine has produced an astonishing and
remarkable little book, Le Gué du tigre, based on a true story.” JDD
“A geo-political thriller that will remind you of John le Carré.” Le Point
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NARRATIVE
ÉDITIONS PLEIN JOUR(IN COEDITION WITH EDITIONS ANNE CARRIÈRE)
Géraldine BarbeCHANGER DE VIE
histoires de renaissances(LIFE CHANGES – renaissance stories)
Who can honestly say they’ve never yearned
to throw in their hand and start over? Some
people have done it. Géraldine Barbe tells
their stories.
THE AUTHOR Géraldine Barbe is an actor
and writer, with three novels to her cred-
it published by Éditions Léo Scheer: Rater
mieux (2008), Aimer Roger (2010) and Ne
pleure pas, on se reverra (2012), as well as a
children’s book, L’Invité surprise, published
by Le Rouergue, 2013.
THE BOOK One day or another, everyone dreams of changing their life.
Géraldine Barbe met some people who actually did it. This book describes
their adventures, some of them quite fantastic. Like the story of Irina, a
Georgian, who, after an extremely successful career in her own country,
came to France and lived from hostel to hostel; or Phia, who became a
woman, or Goldie, who decided to remain a strict orthodox Jew while
living her life as a lesbian, or Fabrice, who gave up his job in the police for
a life in the theatre…
Taking a mischievous delight in her task, Barbe peppers her narratives
with personal recollections and startling remarks, profound and amusing.
She tells the stories of these changed lives, the gradual, sudden, impulsive
or carefully considered decisions that enabled these people to cast off their
moorings and set sail in a completely different direction and, via their
personal transformation, finally find their true selves.
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NOVELS
U.S.A. & U.K
Chimamanda Ngozi AdichiePURPLE HIBISCUS(U. S. A – Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill)
Laila LalamiHOPE AND OTHER DANGEROUS PURSUITS(U. S. A – Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill)
Joel RoseTHE BLACKEST BIRD(U. K – Canongate Books)
Satish KumarTHE BOUDDHA AND THE TERRORIST(U. S. A – Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill)
Scarlett ThomasTHE END OF MR Y(U. K - Canongate Books)
Robert GoolrickA RELIABLE WIFE(U. S. A – Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill)
Robert GoolrickTHE END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT(U. S. A – Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill)
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NOVELS
Sam EastlandTHE BEAST IN THE RED FOREST
(U.K - Faber & Faber)
Robert GoolrickHEADING OUT TO WONDERFUL
(U. S. A – Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill)
Robert GoolrickTHE FALL OF PRINCES
(U. S. A – Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill)
Sam EastlandTHE EYE OF THE RED TSAR
(U.K - Faber & Faber)
Sam EastlandTHE RED COFFIN
(U.K - Faber & Faber)
Sam EastlandSIBERIAN RED
(U.K - Faber & Faber)
Sam EastlandTHE RED MOTH(U.K - Faber & Faber)
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NOVELS
Rachel KleinMOTH DIARIES(U.S.A – Bantam)
Jeff BackhausHIKIKOMORI AND THE RENTAL SISTER(U. S. A – Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill)
Patricia EngelVIDA(U.S.A - Grove Atlantic)
Sara FarizanIF YOU COULD BE MINE(U. S. A – Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill)
Brian Francis SlatteryTHE FAMILY HIGHTOWER( U. S. A – Seven Story Press Inc.)
C.S. LewisTILL WE HAVE FACES(U. K – C.S. Lewis Company Ltd.)
Heidi W. DurrowTHE GIRL WHO FAIL FROM THE SKY(U. S. A – Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill)
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NOVELS
SPAIN & LATIN AMERICA
Javier ArgüelloSEPT HISTOIRES IMPOSSIBLES
SHORT STORIES(Argentina – Editorial Lumen)
Antonio AlamoL’INCENDIE DU PARADIS
(Spain – Random House Mondadori)
Marcio Veloz MaggioloL’HOMME À L’ACCORDÉON
(Dominican Republic - Siruela)
Mercedes HelnweinTHE POTENTIAL HAZARDS OF HESTER DAY
(U.S.A - Simon & Schuster)
Laurie Halse AndersonSPEAK
(U.S.A – Macmillan)
Ben BrooksGROW UP
(U. K - Canongate)
Hollis SeamonSOMEBODY UP THERE HATES YOU
(U. S. A – Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill)
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NOVELS
ITALY
Elvira DonesSOLEIL BRÛLÉ(Giangiacomo Feltrinelli Editore)
Roberto PazziL’OMBRE DU PÈRE(Edizioni Frassinelli)
Roberto PazziCONCLAVE(Edizioni Frassinelli)
Cristiano CavinaC’EST GÉANT !(Marcos y Marcos)
GERMANY
Katharina HagenaL’ENVOL DU HÉRON(Kiepenheuer & Witsch)
Katharina HagenaLE GOÛT DES PÉPINS DE POMME(Kiepenheuer & Witsch)
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NOVELS
Yrsa SigurdardottirULTIMES RITUELS
(Bjartur Verold)
Yrsa SigurdardottirBIEN MAL ACQUIS
(Bjartur Verold)
Yrsa SigurdardottirJE SAIS QUI TU ES
(Bjartur Verold)
ICELAND
Susann PasztorUN FABULEUX MENTEUR
(Kiepenheuer & Witsch)
Joachim MeyerhoffJUSQU’ICI ET PAS AU-DELÀ
(Kiepenheuer & Witsch)
Erich KästnerDER GANG VON DIE HUNDE
Der Gang von die Hunde – Erich Kästner (Atrium Verlag)
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