Welcome back from Frankfurt, where you’ve probably heard of thousands of fantastic books; here is our short selection that particularly deserves your attention.

Albin Michel has collected Pierre Michon’s writings on literature Le roi vient quand il veut. This book is a beautiful reminder that English readers have not yet had the pleasure of reading his main works (Vies Minuscules, Rimbaud le Fils). Hopefully they will not have to wait much longer.

In the francophone world, Yasmina Traboulsi publishes her second novel Amers (Mercure de France). Contemporary Lebanon is at the heart of her novel, its climate of generalized suspicion and paranoia lending the fiction a strange kind of realism. Nadia Galy is the author of a first novel Alger, lavoir galant (Albin Michel): through the hero’s trials and tribulations, the whole of Algerian society comes under the microscope. With L’amour avant que j’oublie (Actes Sud), Lyonel Trouillot takes us to Port-au-Prince to an old bedsit where three men with mysterious pasts provide vital material for the author´s works to date.

Marcus Malte pens a new thrillingly assured novel, Garden of love (Zulma); Eric Reinhardt the critically acclaimed Cendrillon (Stock), a book of love and of secret wars fought against globalization and the excesses of modern capitalism. Pierre Cassou-Noguès tells a tale of the scientist Gödel’s decline from perfect peace to perfect madness in Les démons de Gödel (Le Seuil).

On a more clasical tone, Jacques Séréna presents us someone changing his life drastically in Sous le néflier (Editions de Minuit). There’s also been a renewed interest in André Gorz’s Lettre à D. published by Galilée in 2006. André Gorz and his wife took their own lives on September 24th last year; as he stated in the book : “neither of us would like to out-live the other”.

With all best wishes,