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Fourrure
by Adelaïde de Clermont Tonnerre
Published by Stock
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It is not until she walks past a newspaper kiosk in Nice that Ondine learns that her mother, the great writer Zita Chalitzine, has committed suicide. She was found in a car, swathed in a magnificent white fur coat. Zita, who spent her life generating scandal, is sticking to her reputation. Right up until her death she was still making sure she was talked about: she's accused of having merely leant her name to the books that made her famous. more |
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A never seen before social crisis has dropped France into chaos and despair. Everywhere cars are burning, exploding, groups of looters vandalize the streets. The police, overworked, are going through a big confidence crisis.
In this highly charged atmosphere, police captain Kolbe, in charge of a special unit fighting against pedophilia is in the hot seat.
His investigators just discovered a container of particularly atrocious video tapes. The case must be solved as quickly as possible. At the same time, 2 young girls throw themselves together under the subway. But is it really a double suicide?
On the back side of a cynical society whose only rule is profit and consumption, the novel´s protagonists confront their own demons with the energy of their despair.more |
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La Onzième Plaie
by Aurélien Molas
Published by Albin Michel
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Guide des jolies femmes de Paris
by Pierre-Louis Colin
Published by Robert Laffont
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"The greatest wonders of Paris are not in the Louvre; they are not in the streets and in the gardens, in the cafés and in the shops. The greatest wonders of Paris are the hundreds of thousands of women, whose smiles, decolletage, legs, are for the eternally happy strollers...on condition that they know where to gaze on them. But if today we can find entire departments dedicated to museums or Parisien wine bars, no one has ever attempted to reply to the only interesting question: where can one see pretty women in this town?"more |
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| Jeha, who is 28, has taken over his father´s grocery store after two years at university. Despite an unprepossessing appearance, he is a calm, happy boy who is keeping his parents and sisters (thirteen people living in two decrepit rooms with no running water), and is engaged to Selma, who nature has not been kind to either. He´s a delightful, optimistic character who cheers up everyone around him, until things fall apart. more |
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Alger, lavoir galant
by Nadia Galy
Published by Albin Michel
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Dit Violent
by Mohamed Razane
Published by Gallimard
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It is the Summer of 2002. Mehdi is 18 years old. He is an only child, unemployed, angry. His head is mixed up with images of the poverty in his area, an extreme-right candidate through to the second round of the presidential elections, the explosion of the Twin Towers being shown live on TV, his friends protesting against job cuts... Everything is getting mixed up, especially on the night of 14 July, when Parisians seem to forget their problems and celebrate regardless. But the party in Paris is off-limits for Mehdi. Everything around him is too serious, too weighty. He gives himself two-and-a-half days before ending it all. Before he does so, “it´s time for life in the suburbs to be described by those living it, not the way others imagine it”.more |
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