The beautiful imprudence
After What I Know of Vera Candida and The Grace of the Brigands (ed.), Véronique Ovaldé, author with a particular voice, signs for Flammarion the training novel of a young girl, sizzling with her fantasy and his usual humor. Danger and imprudence as remedies against boredom. Everything is not rosy, fortunately.
Be careless the children of Véronique Ovaldé, ed. Flammarion, 20 €.
The party friend
After Hate of the Family, Confessions of a Radin, A Bright Future and A Catholic Education, Catherine Cusset plunges into the narrative of a loving friendship. Or rather in the portrait of this best friend, exuberant and depressive, bipolar in fact, who committed suicide at 39 years. Extraordinary of empathy and intensity. Without sinistrose nor chichi, a shock.
The other one adored of Catherine Cusset, ed. Gallimard, 20 €.
Road movie
The year of the sacred Duroy? After the prize MC 2010 for The sorrow, the Renaudot of the high school students for the winter of the men, the absentee seems also promised to success, so impresses this road movie of a man as disillusioned as tenacious in his will to understand costs what its affective disasters cost. His wife leaves him, and here he is wandering, and revisiting his life. What a journey !
The absence of Lionel Duroy, ed. Julliard, 19,50 €.
The essentials, very close to the sky
No, do not shake yourself. This book flies at an altitude where one must not despair of joining it. Apparently austere in its subject - a woman experiences a total isolation of several months in high mountain - as in its form (stripped, little complacent style), it fascinates very quickly and gives to breathe the air of the tops , in particular.
The great game of Céline Minard, ed. Shores, 18 €.
Stress Without Borders
The rising value of the letters, several times selected in the lists of Goncourt, Karine Tuil will seduce with this ambitious history, sometimes very rude in certain scenes of war. A well-mastered choral novel and a very sure psychology, this cosmopolitan fresco combines love, violence and politics. Not really carefree, but really successful.
The insouciance of Karine Tuil, ed. Gallimard, 22 €.
The dilemma of the woman cop
What is this Virginia, a simple fliquette of a Parisian police station? She's a woman who has ... tomorrow. And who, in the meantime, goes on a mission with two male cops - including the handsome Aristide, from whom she did not want to be pregnant, the serving husband, small wanker ... but maybe not so bad. They must bring back to the border, that is, to Roissy, a poor guy who will be tortured in his country of origin. Then begins, in this police carriage, a memorable in camera, waltz of bad conscience, state violence and love.
Police of Hugo Boris, ed. Grasset, 17,50 €.
For all guests
The other leaves us, and everything stops us. This very beautiful novel, poignant but not lacrimal, visits the defeat in love. The narrator of Nina Bouraoui, abandoned for another after an eight year bond, arrives - between antidepressants and psychoanalyst, intelligence and intuition - to find in her the lost source so as not to drown in misfortune ... The author, whose sensitivity to the page moves us strong enough to remind us of our own stories, says it bluntly: "I have written this book for all the world's left. In a low voice, thank her.
Beautiful shores of Nina Bouraoui, ed. JC Lattès, 19 €.
Human Beast
A tour de force that, in a large and deep style, succeeds in making us believe that Victor Hugo is not dead, and that this symphony of the earth, of those who work it and the animals that rub shoulders with it, emerges from this eternal feather. This agricultural Hugo is called Jean-Baptiste del Amo, leaning over five generations of farmers and their beasts, the last ambassadors of freedom.
Animal Kingdom of Jean-Baptiste del Amo, ed. Gallimard, 20 €.
The drama of the neighbor
A greyish neighbor with whom she is friends. Without ambiguity, without sex, neither now nor on the horizon. She is married, and quite well, too. A complicity is formed, pleasant, made of small things and attention paid to the other, area in which we are generally all deficient. When suddenly the tragedy. MC Prize for the 2013 Female Novel for Happy the Happy, Yasmina Reza, with her sense of observation and formula, her airy and cruel style, embarks and enchants us once more.
Babylon by Yasmina Reza, ed. Flammarion, 20 €.
A flower of skins
The two protagonists, tossed by their life of ultramodern loneliness to several, seem, despite their youth, already and forever on the go. She, 23 years old, in constant flirtation with alcohol, networks, sex and partying. He, age equivalent, fucker motivated but a little lost, financing his outings with a work of commercial with beautiful teeth where he scam the old. The author of this first novel himself is 25 years old, but something tells us that he has more future than his characters, otherwise fascinating.
Lithium by Aurélien Gougaud, ed. Albin Michel, 16 €.
Free Sex
The title does not lie. Ray love, it goes, without fear of what will be said. Shyness? Shame ? Sexuality like-it-must? Purely heterosexual? Gayly homosexual? Forget all that, the hero of this story follows only his desire, multifaceted. Nevertheless, if there is sex (and there is), the feeling is revealed. It is he who most often ignites the wick. His body will then fire for Lisa, with whom he has lived freely for years, or for a boy met on a train. Or for that Valentine with whom friendship oscillates between heart and lower abdomen. A novel that caresses talent, very current, very free, very bi, very well.
Amours sur mesure by Mathieu Bermann, ed. POL, € 12.
The victory by disenchanting
How to remain a woman in the army? For Emma, as for the author, it was an impossible mission. At 27 years old, both will spend a year and a half in the army, between various trades - including insurance agent. But precisely, the assurance of a cushy life (or meme), Emma-Emilie was fed up. She wanted the spectacular, the heroic. Here she is engaged, crawling in the mud, exhausting valiantly in a series of practices where she tries to learn not to die and to kill the others. One crapahute and one trembles with it, sharing also the beautiful emotions punctuating this first novel full of life, but fearing that it does not persevere. Wrongly.
Feminine by Emilie Guillaumin, ed. Fayard, 20 €.
