Polar or novel, the pocket books devour in summer, on the beach or at the bottom of the hammock ... Discover our selection.
Novels in paperback
- The woman who flees from Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette
The author, helped in her search by a private detective, follows in the footsteps of her mysterious grandmother, who one day decided to ply husband and children to get rid of the straitjacket of a society then very stuck. She went to live in a group of avant-garde artists who wanted to revolutionize everything, especially the freedom of women. A passionate and exciting character.
Prix des Libraires 2016 in the province of Quebec. Ed. The Paperback, 7,60 €.
- It will also go from Milena Busquets
In summer, the Mediterranean, swimming and boat trips, sparkling meals with family or friends. And all that warm-hearted troupe to which Blanca feels herself bound, from her current lover to her two ex-husbands passing by the sons she has had from them. Without forgetting his deceased mother, to whom she makes the inner account of all that she is living. Little tasty novel, sensual,
heart touching.
Translated from Spanish by Robert Amutio, ed. Folio, 6,60 €.
- A golden son of Shilpi Somaya Gowda
The parallel story of two young Indians, he left to study in the United States, and she remained in the country, victim of the tradition of arranged marriages. Crossed destinies, between the false American paradise
and the hell of violence against women, with - possibly - the possibility of a common future. A success (40,000 copies sold since its publication in January).
Translated from English (India) by Josette Chicheportiche, ed. Folio, 8,20 €.
- The almost lost art of doing nothing by Dany Laferrière
Let us forget that the author was laureate of the Medici prize and that he is a member of the French Academy, all things giving him an air of seriousness that does not resemble him. Let us rather retain this book, beginning with a perfect credo for the season: "I had become a world specialist of the siesta. "Memories by flashes, and a falsely nonchalant and humorous stroll in life, love, everyday things. The class, but relaxed.
Ed. The Book of Pocket, 7,90 €.
- The head out of the water of Dan Fante
Son of the famous John Fante (Demanding to the dust), in the disguised but (or so) genius, his son Dan is not bad either. Making the windscreen wiper between Alcoholics Anonymous and a rotten job of salesman by telephone where it happens to him to receive premium records, here he falls in love with a crack beauty. It is not a life. But it is a sacred novel. More funny than you think.
Translated from the English (United States) by Jean-Pierre Aoustin, ed. Points, € 6.50.
- Lily of Marilynne Robinson
Barack Obama loves this author, winner of the Pulitzer. Well, he's right. In this novel, her narrator's skill is amazing, recounting the journey of a forsaken child and wandering in America from the Great Depression, later marrying in a small Midwestern town with a pastor who might have been her father. Magic of a relationship as deeply amorous as intellectual.
Translated from the English (United States) by Simon Baril, ed. Babel, 8,80 €.
Polaroids in paperback
- Interior of Marisha Pessl
The daughter of a horror filmmaker is found dead. But this is not cinema. Suicidal, apparently. The doubt subsists and thickens following in the footsteps of this filmmaker holding both Lynch and Kubrick. A brilliant tale, a sort of road to fright.
Translated from the English (United States) by Clément Baude, ed. Folio, 9,80 €.
- The City of the Dead of Sara Gran
New Orleans, ravaged by Hurricane Katrina. So many dead, swallowed up with so many secrets. Detective Claire DeWitt investigates the disappearance of a prosecutor with a personal, sensitive and powerful logic.
Translated from the English (United States) by Claire Breton, ed. Points, € 7.70.
- Butterfly by RJ Ellory
Vietnam War, Ku Klux Klan and Kennedy Assassination: Welcome to the Sixties America. Daniel grew up there and, twenty years later, found himself on the death row. Accused of killing his best friend. Again, a story of conspiracy and betrayal. Seizing, by its alloy of roughness and finesse.
Translated from the English (United States) by Fabrice Pointeau, ed. The Book of Pocket, 7,90 €.
- And they will forget the anger of Elsa Marpeau
Originally published in the Série Noire by Gallimard, the French temple of the Polar. In a secluded corner of the Yonne, a young gendarme is investigating today the murder of a professor of history imbued with feminism. Event linked to the fate of a peasant mowed at the Liberation in 1944. When the ghosts of the past walk on the embers of revenge.
Ed. Folio, 7,20 €.
