Strike the heart of Amélie Nothomb - release August 23

Why does Diane become a cardiologist? Because she heard this sentence from Alfred de Musset: "Ah! strike your heart, that's where the genius is. "A story of frustration and family jealousy, in the best vein of Amelie Nothomb.

Ed. Albin Michel, 16,90 €

Hold your crown of Yannick Haenel - exit August 17

We remember the Jan Karski of Haenel, Interallié 2009, but here is a less gloomy subject. A French author tries to convince Michael Cimino to turn his script on the writer Herman Melville. It sparkles with humor, emotion and stunning style.

Ed. Gallimard, 20 €

Our life in the forests of Marie Darrieussecq - released August 17

The heroine is a psychotherapist, and suffers from physical and mental problems that her life in the woods, within a horde fleeing the robots, does not help. But who is robot and who is not? A confusing book, of which one must accept not to understand everything right away.

Ed. Pol, 16 €

Eric Reinhardt's spouse's room - released August 17

The author's wife has cancer. Both make the bet to help herself, to heal, and he, to write Cinderella. On the scene another woman, suffering from the same disease. Hence complexities and a burden of emotions sometimes excessive.

Ed. Gallimard, 16,50 €

The art of losing Alice Zeniter - released on August 16

The story: Getting up every morning, brushing your hair, loving or not, thinking, laughing ... it's not always obvious to Naima. This young woman is perfectly enrolled in the Parisian world - she works in a gallery of pictures - but sometimes the origins of her family come back to her heart and submerge her. His Kabyle grandfather, exiled in the metropolis, with the Harkis, at the end of the war in Algeria, his parents also finding it difficult to find their place in France ... and all this past that it represses. But one day she decides to go up the line.

The verdict: To interest only people of a single origin, to follow over three generations the saga often told of returnees and beurs ... In short, it was snack. But this repetition is only apparent: no one has plunged so far and with such precision and humanity into the history of this community that this formidable and highly anticipated novel makes our own, whatever our origins. Every reader, every reader will say, "Naima, it's me. His family is mine. "

Ed. Flammarion, 22 €