FRANKFURT 2014

FRANKFURT 2014

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FICTION

NOVELS

6 Le réveil du cœur – François d’Epenoux

7 Une femme blessée – Marina Carrère d’Encausse

8 D’entre les pierres – David Lelait-Helo

9 Les combats du cœur – Alain Stoeffler

10 La voyageuse des îles – Marie-Odile Ascher

THRILLERS

11 Le baptême des ténèbres – Ghislain Gilberti

12 Reflex – Maud Mayeras

ÉDITIONS LE NOUVEL ATTILA (in coedition with Éditions Anne Carrière)

NOVELS

13 Aujourd’hui l’abîme – Jérôme Baccelli

14 Debout-Payé – Gauz

NON FICTION

NARRATIVE

18 Mon petit gène, ma seconde chance – Laëtitia Mendès

PSYCHOLOGY

19 La petite voiture rouge au fond de mon tiroir – Pr Philippe Duverger

ESSAY

20 En tout espoir de cause – Philippe Dessertine

ÉDITIONS PLEIN JOUR (in coedition with Éditions Anne Carrière)

NARRATIVE

22 Changer de vie – Géraldine Barbe

CONTENTS

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FOREIGN LITERATURE

NOVELS

24 USA & U. KPurple Hibiscus – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

(USA – Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill)Hope and other dangerous pursuits – Laila Lalami

(USA – Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill)The Blackest Bird – Joel Rose

(UK – Canongate Books)The Bouddha and the Terrorist – Satish Kumar

(USA – Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill)The end of Mr Y – Scarlett Thomas

(UK – Canongate Books)A Reliable Wife – Robert Goolrick

(USA – Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill)The End of the World as We Know It – Robert Goolrick

(USA – Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill)Heading out to wonderful – Robert Goolrick

(USA – Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill)The Fall of Princes – Robert Goolrick

(USA – Algonquin Books of Chapel HillThe Eye of the Red Tsar – Sam Eastland

(UK – Faber & Faber)The Red Coffin – Sam Eastland

(UK – Faber & Faber)Siberian Red – Sam Eastland

(UK – Faber & Faber)The Red Moth – Sam Eastland

(UK – Faber & Faber)The Beast in the Red Forest – Sam Eastland

(UK – Faber & Faber)The girl who fail from the sky – Heidi W. Durrow

(USA – Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill)Till we have faces – C.S. Lewis

(C.S. Lewis Company Ltd.)Vida – Patricia Engel

(USA – Grove Atlantic)Hikikomori and the Rental Sister – Jeff Backhaus

(USA – Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill)Moth Diaries – Rachel Klein (U.S.A – Bantam)If You Could Be Mine – Sara Farizan

(USA – Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill)The Family Hightower – Brian Francis Slattery

(USA – Seven Story Press Inc.)

CONTENTS

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LA BELLE COLÈRESomebody Up There Hates You – Hollis Seamon

(USA – Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill)The Potential Hazards of Hester Day – Mercedes Helnwein

(USA – Simon & Schuster)Speak – Laurie Halse Anderson –

(USA – Macmillan)Grow up – Ben Brooks

(UK - Canongate)

27 SPAIN & LATINA AMERICAL’homme à l’accordéon – Marcio Veloz Maggiolo(Dominican Republic – Siruela)L’incendie du paradis – Antonio Alamo

(Spain – Random House Mondadori)Sept histoires impossibles – Javier Argüello

short stories (Argentina – Editorial Lumen)

28 ITALYC’est géant ! – Cristiano Cavina

(Marcos y Marcos)Conclave – Roberto Pazzi

(Edizioni Frassinelli)L’ombre du père – Roberto Pazzi

(Edizioni Frassinelli)Soleil brûlé – Elvira Dones

(Giangiacomo Feltrinelli Editore)

28 GERMANYLe goût des pépins de pomme – Katharina Hagena

(Kiepenheuer & Witsch)L’envol du Héron – Katharina Hagena

(Kiepenheuer & Witsch)Un fabuleux menteur – Susann Pasztor

(Kiepenheuer & Witsch)Jusqu’ici et pas au-delà – Joachim Meyerhoff

(Kiepenheuer & Witsch)Der Gang von die Hunde – Erich Kästner (Atrium Verlag)

29 ICELANDUltimes rituels – Yrsa Sigurdardottir

(Bjartur Verold)Bien mal acquis – Yrsa Sigurdardottir

(Bjartur Verold)Je sais qui tu es – Yrsa Sigurdardottir

(Bjartur Verold)

CONTENTS

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FICTION

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NOVEL

François d’EpenouxLE RÉVEIL DU COEUR

(HEARTS AWAKENED)“PRIX 2014 MAISON DE LA PRESSE”

THE AUTHOR François d’Epenoux has

written several novels. Deux jours à tuer

(Anne Carrière, 2001) and Les Papas du

dimanche were adapted for film by Jean Beck-

er and Louis Becker.

THE BOOK When the Old Man accepts to

look after his grandson, Malo, during the

whole month of August, he doesn’t even try

to put a good face on it. It has to be said that

between the solitary misanthropist and the

six-year-old child, there’s not only a gap of

seven decades, there’s an abyss, centuries, a whole universe.

Yet… with the magic of a timeless setting, shared atavism, a mirroring of

hearts, the pair somehow bring each other to heel, each one recognising

something of himself in the other in a mutual warmth and strength of

character that sweeps away the years.

Their encounter is a unique one. On the one side, the old man gets caught

up in the game, opening the eyes of his grandson to all the things that

children – glued to their screens – no longer see: nature, animals, seasons.

On the other, a kid opening up the heart and mind of a grandfather to the

new ways of the world.

Grating, with caustic humour when the author adopts the viewpoint of the old

man – a highly colourful character; moving and poignant when he portrays

the child’s vision of things, this novel isn’t so much about generational conflict

as about passing time: by what standards should we judge today’s world?

By History’s? Or by our own?

Isn’t the world today much more desirable, because it’s the one we live in?

“D’Epenoux wanted to express the idea of transmission and intergenera-

tional sentiments. A commonplace notion in itself, except when it is writ-

ten with humour and talent.” Valérie Trierweiler, Paris Match

“This book will cast sunlight on your winter.” Télé 7 Jours

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NOVEL

Marina Carrère d’EncausseUNE FEMME BLESSÉE

(A DAMAGED WOMAN)

THE AUTHOR Marina Carrère d’Encausse

is a Doctor of Medicine. With Michel Cymes,

she co-hosts Le Magazine de la santé and Allô

docteurs on France 5, as well as special pro-

grammes and documentaries about health

issues.

In November 2011, she published Alcool, les

jeunes trinquent for Éditions Anne Carrière.

Une femme blessée is her first novel.

THE BOOK Fatimah lives in Iraqi Kurdistan

with her husband, children and her husband’s

family. One day, she is taken to the hospital in Sulaymaniyah, suffering

from serious burns. A domestic accident, seemingly… ‘Seemingly’… for

these accidents, affecting countless, generally very young women - are of-

ten a cover for honour crimes.

While Fatimah struggles to remain alive, despite her injuries, for the sake

of her children and the child she’s carrying – the ‘baby of shame’, as she

calls it – life in the village carries on as usual, as though she’d never existed.

Only her oldest daughter continues to talk about her mother.

What will become of Fatimah? What really happened on the day of the

‘accident’? The day the ‘baby of shame’ was conceived? What are the

mysteries surrounding this woman?

A poignant novel that conveys the terrible reality of ‘crimes of honour’.

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NOVEL

David Lelait-HeloD’ENTRE LES PIERRES

(BETWEEN THE STONES)

THE AUTHOR David Lelait-Helo, 42, is the

author of Poussière d’homme, Sur l’épaule

de la nuit, C’était en mai, un samedi, several

books of philosophical tales and numerous bio-

graphies (Eva Peron, Maria Callas, Barbara,

Edith Piaf…).

THE BOOK ‘Walls have ears; you’d better get

used to the idea. You’ve often said so yourself,

never really believing it. Because you didn’t

want to; but today I’m putting you up against

the wall, if you’ll pardon the pun, I like my lit-

tle joke […] Ah, if only walls could speak! Believe me, they can. My parquet

flooring squeaks with a thousand whispers, my woodwork creaks out tiny

cries and, despite my great age, my windows can see far, beyond passing time

and across the centuries. History is not inscribed in books, it breathes. It pre-

fers the wind and blood to ink and paper.’

A very old house in Buenos Aires tells its story for the very first time. As

demolition looms near, it divulges what it has seen and kept silent for far too

long: the tragedy of Soledad Salvador, the woman who lived within its wall

for over fifty years, and the dramatic events she was powerless to prevent…

As it recounts the lives of its inhabitants, the house – a survivor of bygone

times, now hovering between dream and reality – evokes the founding of the

city five centuries earlier, the immigration which, in the 19th century, gave

birth to Argentina, the mythical Eva Peron and the dictatorship of the 1970s.

This novel is about the bonds we establish with our surroundings and the

secrets that fill our lives. It travels to the very core of the Argentinian myth

in a reverie that embraces the great lessons of life, love and peace.

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NOVEL

Alain StoefflerLES COMBATS DU COEUR

(BATTLES OF THE HEART)

THE AUTHOR Alain Stoeffler published

Histoire de Bathyllus et de Florien, a fairy tale

for grown-ups.

Les combats du coeur is his first novel.

THE BOOK Alexis is planning a special

surprise for his grandfather’s 90th birthday.

He senses that if the old man could write, he

would like to leave something behind, some

record of his life and its marking events.

So Alexis gives him the services of a public

writer, who can help him put down on paper

those memories, in particular those of the 1914-18 War and the hell of the

trenches.

In the midst of all that carnage, two young men had developed a loving

bond that enabled them to support each other and rise above the horror

– a remarkable friendship which the old man now wants to recount. Love

sometimes chooses tangential paths that necessitate secrecy…

This novel is a marvel of delicacy, emotion and sensitivity.

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NOVEL

Marie-Odile AscherLA VOYAGEUSE DES ÎLES

(ISLAND TRAVELLER)FORTHCOMING IN NOVEMBER 2014

THE AUTHOR Marie-Odile Ascher lives

in La Gaude, near Nice. Pain amer, her first

novel, received the 2011 Hisler-Even Prize. La

Voyageuse des îles is her third novel.

THE BOOK The island of Mauritius, second

half of the 19th century. Sita, an ill-treated little

Indian servant of superior intelligence, succeeds

in straddling the three worlds that constitute

Mauritian society: that of the white masters, the

agricultural labourers and Indian domestics,

and the world of the former black slaves.

Sita strikes up a friendship with her employers’ daughter and dreams of

belonging to their caste but, contrary to her hopes, the universe of the

‘grands mounes’, the white people, remains definitively closed to those with

dark skin. Sita’s beauty makes her the object of desire and envy, and she

is obliged to use all her wiles to escape the clutches of the men, and one

woman, who have designs on her. At the age of fifteen, she learns that her

own family intends to marry her off against her will, and does everything

she can to extricate herself from this imposed union.

At the same time, in Burgundy, Guillaume, a humble country teacher, is

determined to spare no effort to escape the path life seems to have traced

out in front of him. At the first opportunity, he grabs the chance and ends up

in Mauritius, that far-off country where anything is possible.

Guillaume and Sita have to face adventures, including a stolen identity,

thwarted love and violence, before they are finally able to come together

and, in the face of all prejudice, build a life for two.

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THRILLER

Ghislain GilbertiLE BAPTÊME DES TÉNÈBRES

(THE BAPTISM OF DARKNESS)

THE AUTHOR Born in Belfort in 1977, Ghis-lain Gilberti is the author of Dynamique du chaos, a noir novel published on-line whose popularity has remained undiminished for years. In Le Baptême des ténèbres, we meet Cécile Sanchez again, the heroine of Le Festin du Serpent (Éditions Anne Carrière, 2013), winner of the Grand Prix France Bleu des lec-teurs, the Prix découverte Polars Pourpres and a finalist in the Prix du meilleur polar franco-phone. His books, in the contemporary noir genre, probe society’s deepest recesses to fuel his incisive, true-to-life and sombre fiction.

THE BOOK Cécile Sanchez, a police superintendent specialised in crim-inology, behavioural analysis and body language interpretation, heads an elite unit of the personal violence department. She tracks down the most dangerous criminals and deviants in France, backed by a forensic scientist – eccentric and competent in equal measure – a crime lab team that doesn’t miss a clue and an assault unit who carry out raids. In this new case, Sanchez has to pierce the bizarre psyche of an atypical killer whose nickname – ‘the Chimney Sweep’ – is spreading like wildfire through the police forces. He has a penchant for penetrating his female victims with a blade and signing his handiwork by drawing a gory death mask on their faces.While the investigators struggle to keep the case under wraps in order to hold the media at bay for as long as possible, the killer steps up the pace and alters his modus operandi to reach an indescribable degree of barbarity.As the case advances, Captain Cécile Sanchez finds herself in deep and murky waters, but fortunately, a specialist in the depths of human depravity joins the team and, like a modern-day Virgil, guides her through the ‘inferno’ of evil.

ABOUT LE FESTIN DU SERPENT (Éditions Anne Carrière, 2013):“Unfailingly throughout this double investigation, the author develops suspense that leaves the reader flabbergasted as it unfolds. A jewel of intel-ligence.” Télé 7 jours“Two stories in the same brilliant thriller, because the investigations inter-lock and are resolved in a truly remarkable conclusion.” La Voix du Nord“A captivating book, full of suspense, that readers have literally devoured.”L’Est Républicain

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THRILLER

Maud MayerasREFLEX

THE AUTHOR Maud Mayeras is 31. Reflex is

her second novel. Her first, Hématome, pub-

lished by Calmann Lévy in 2004, received the

Limbes Pourpres prize and was a finalist for

the Prix Polar SNCF in 2006. Today she lives

in Limoges with her husband, son, and a big

black cat called BlackMamba.

THE BOOK“Each time, it’s the same casual tone at the

other end of the line, the same rasping voices

from throats filled with smoke to the lips. And

each time, the same question:

‘Free tonight, Iris?’‘I’m always free’.”

Iris, a photographer in the Forensic Identification Dept., injects like others

knock back shots of whisky, to ease the pain. To forget the death of her son,

Swan, brutally murdered eleven years before.

Henry Witkin, the fruit of a chaotic lineage of unmarried mothers, kills for

the pleasure of wallowing in warm flesh. He meticulously skins his victims

and collects their odours like trophies.

When a heat wave leaves the town parched, bodies liquefying and minds

in frenzy, monsters sneak out of their lairs. Evil only shows its fangs when

it’s caught in a trap.

A story about asphyxiated hearts, mothers with shiny claws and starving

predators.

“Maud Mayeras forgets neither the good – the exclusive, marvellous love

that binds a child to its mother - nor the bad – the terrible ascendancy that

mothers can have over their young. Both, pushed to paroxysmal level (…)

make this a book you either love or hate, but one that will leave no one

indifferent.” Le Point

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NOVEL

LE NOUVEL ATTILA(IN COEDITION WITH EDITIONS ANNE CARRIÈRE)

Jérôme BaccelliAUJOURD’HUI L’ABÎME

(TODAY THE ABYSS)

‘I set it all up. I’m just about to dismantle everything, and I’m a happy man.’

THE AUTHOR Jérôme Baccelli was born in Marseille in 1968. As a telecommunications consultant, he lived in Brussels, Copenhagen, Madrid and Lisbon before crossing China and Silicon Valley, where was involved in the success and collapse of various start-ups.

THE BOOK A man leaves his wife, his com-pany and his boss – John Edward Forese, the world’s greatest financier – to sail around the world on a raft. There, with only the horizon and the stars for company, abandoning all his bearings, he relives the memory of a mythical night he spent contemplating the paintings in a monastery in Corte and retracing the history of man’s fascination for the great void.From the study of the ether by Antique philosophers to Einstein, from Van Gogh’s skies to Klein monochromes, from Google to Radiohead and Stock Exchange software, he draws up a chart of an epoch. As he contemplates the strange dynasty of those who have sought the void, forever ahead of their times, he ends up pondering the secret link between Forese, with his troubled family background, and the scientists who preceded him: could it be that the secret of that global empire lay in just one word… or a paint-ing… or in the gaze of Mexican iguanas?

“A bewitching meditation on the void” Libération“156 pages you read in one go, like a cruise (…) when you think about it, there’s an element of kamikaze in this book: a novel about emptiness.”Chronicart“A style that draws you in, mordant and subtle; made up of interrupted rhythms and intertwined narratives.” Le Monde des Livres

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LE NOUVEL ATTILA(IN COEDITION WITH EDITIONS ANNE CARRIÈRE)

GauzDEBOUT-PAYÉ

‘If the same thing were to happen again today,

the Storming of the Bastille would free thou-

sands of prisoners of consumerism.’

THE AUTHOR After obtaining a degree in

biochemistry, and spending some time as an

illegal immigrant, Gauz is now a photogra-

pher, documentary maker and director of a

satirical financial newspaper on the Ivory

Coast. He has also written the scenario of a

film on the immigration of young Ivorians,

entitled Après l’océan…

THE BOOK Debout-Payé is a family novel about Ossiri, an Ivorian student

who arrives illegally in France in the 1990s to work as a security guard. It is

the tale of an immigrant, the hell he endures to find accommodation and

employment, and how he perceives France. But it is also a hymn in honour

of a family where, from father to son, the men become security guards in

Paris, and, more generally, in honour of the African community, with all

its foibles and generosity.

Gauz recognises three distinct mythical periods in the job of security

guard, as well as in relations between France and Africa: the bronze age

of the 1960s (neo-colonialism with ‘Francafrique’), the golden age of the

1990s, and the leaden age, following the events of 9/11.

This epic is peppered with observations: the things Gauz saw, heard

and thought when he worked as a security guard at the Bastille branch

of Camaïeu and the Champs Elysées branch of Sephora. The author is

equally caustic regarding managers or clients, with keen social awareness

and a sharp take on the excesses of today’s marketing world. He highlights

their most trifling aspects as well as their most universal.

A striking portrait of French society that is entertaining, rich and uncom-

promising, and an original, first-hand account of what really goes on in a

security guard’s head beneath the tough exterior.

NOVEL

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WHAT THE BOOKSELLERS SAY :

“Our best-seller for months and years to come…” Librairie Ouvrir l’œil (Lyon)

“One of the fall’s little bombs. Sarcastic. Brilliant. A socio-poetic object in

which language and analysis sparkle, revealing gems. The style is dynamic

and incisive.” Charlotte Desmousseaux (Nantes)

“The art of making our consumer society divinely grotesque, served by

striking, droll narration.” Sandrine Giraud, Fnac les Halles (Paris)

“We just ado-o-ore Gauz!” Amanda Spiegel, Folies d’encre (Montreuil)

“Droll, incisive, deliciously ironic.” Christophe Gilquin (Paris)

“The made-to-measure Africa of Paris’s ‘men in black’.” Quentin Schoëvaërt, Atout Livres (Paris)

“As caustic as can be and intelligently written.” Nadia Champesme, Histoire de l’œil (Marseille)

“This book is like a good hip-hop album: delightful interludes, bewitching

rhythms, impeccable phrasing and sociological precision at every turn (…)

A masterly achievement.” Vincent Ladoucette, Gibert (Vaulx-en-Velin)

“A unique voice and style, that disturbs and stands out from the crowd.

A must, quite unforgettable!” Julia Lerat, La Librairie de Paris

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NOVEL

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FICTION

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Laetitia mendesMON PETIT GÈNE, MA SECONDE CHANCE

(ONE LITTLE GENE, MY SECOND CHANCE)

THE AUTHOR Graduate of a distinguished

school in Corporate Communications, Laetitia

Mendes founded Charism in 2011, an agency

offering Advice on Image and Communication

strategy.

Laetitia Mendes, 33 years old, is the first woman

in France to have undergone a double mastec-

tomy for preventive reasons in 2008.

THE BOOK When she died, my mother left

me two things: a gene and a story. Or – to be

more precise – a bad gene and a beautiful story.

A few days before she died, she said to me: ‘You’re the one who will write my

book.’ For many years, I had too many ordeals to deal with my own life, my

breasts and myself, to sit down and start writing. But as the years went by, the

idea of handing down, to my daughter, the story of a whole line of women who

were a little different from others appealed to me more and more. That’s where

Angelina comes in. In 2013, she published an article called “My medical choice”

in the New York Times. Angelina Jolie dared to tell the whole world about her

devastating but liberating operation – a double mastectomy: an operation that

reduced the risk of developing breast cancer from 87 to 5%. In doing so, she

helped thousands of women by breaking down a taboo. Suddenly, I felt I was

ready. To speak out. To write. To give my testimony to help others – the 32,000

declared brca1 and brca2 gene mutation carriers in France, or 1 women in 500,

as well as 5% of women suffering from breast cancer. All those women who will

have to face, one day, the ablation and reconstruction of their breasts.

Lætitia

NARRATIVE

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Pr Philippe DuvergerLA PETITE VOITURE

AU FOND DE MON TIROIRet autres rencontres extraordinaires

(THE LITTLE RED AUTOMOBILE AT THE BACK OF MY DRAWER… and other extraordinary encounters)

THE AUTHOR Philippe Duverger is a child

psychiatrist, in charge of the child and ado-

lescent psychiatry unit in the university hos-

pital of Angers, and a university Professor.

THE BOOKIn my job, I see lots of kids and teens. Some

of them leave such an indelible impression on

me that I could never forget them; the mere

mention of their names is enough to make

me relive their story, one that – to me – is

unforgettable.

The reason why I tell the stories of those children is to try to understand

why they made such an enduring impression on me. Each one is unique,

but they are all about the same thing: an encounter.

It’s not a question of theorizing; rather gaining an almost impressionistic

idea of what that encounter is, and what is at stake. Is it a play of mirrors?

An illusion? A daydream? A moment of truth?

An encounter can be a bit of all those things at the same time, but it cannot

be confined in a definition: there is always a part that eludes description,

the part of mystery that makes it so rich.

Each reader of this book can think of encounters and meetings in his or

her own life, and relive those unique moments when fate took a hand…

For our lives are built around such meetings, fortunate or otherwise,

wonderful or horrible, traumatising or mysterious, dangerous or reassur-

ing… But who can say exactly what happens in those moments?

PSYCHOLOGY

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Philippe DessertineEN TOUT ESPOIR DE CAUSE

Le monde de demain a déjà commencé(EVERY REASON TO HOPE

Tomorrow’s world has already begun)

THE AUTHOR In this essay, Philippe Des-

sertine, professor and member of the Haut

Conseil des finances publiques, prolongs the

reflection he began in his previous book, La

Décompression.

THE BOOK Our times will prove to be a ma-

jor watershed in history. The economic crisis

that began in 2007 with subprime mortgag-

es announced the end of a world. The new

model is taking shape before our very eyes,

and occasionally when we’re off guard. One

thing is certain: our children and grandchildren won’t live as we have, and

will very probably be horrified by the folly of our times.

First of all, this positive, optimistic book seeks to inform the new, digital,

big-data, 3D-printing generation that the coming era belongs to them. In

Part 1, the three great revolutions – in agriculture, energy and especially

the digital universe – are presented as solutions to the impasses in which

the world now finds itself. Debt, global warming, population explosion

and chaotic, galloping urbanization are not inescapable. Humanity already

has the means to avoid these perils, and the transformation has begun. All

we have to do is believe in it and accept the challenge of the future, instead

of falling back on the old instincts. Also, we need to eradicate the results of

our past follies - public debt being one of the most terrifying.

In Part 2, we return to the crisis; which is, in reality, a crisis for rich, ageing

Westerners, who are attempting by all possible means to halt a revolution

that is likely to hit them hardest. Their conservatism lies at the root of

this situation. It is also the key to understanding the numerous measures

adopted to ‘manage’ the crisis, but are in reality designed to prolong it and

stave off the advent of the new world, whatever the cost.

In Part 3, the author evokes the ways in which we might prevent the older

generation from ‘killing off ’ the young, so enabling grand projects to get

ESSAY

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ESSAY

underway, great mutations to accelerate rather than slow down, so that

the youngsters of today, and tomorrow, find their place in a more serene

society.

“This book is a popularization that puts some problems into perspective:

debt, unemployment, growth, ecological crisis, energetic transition (…)

Philippe Dessertine describes the confrontation between an old world,

condemned but still fighting for its privileges, and the New World.”

Challenges

“Put a stop to the ambient pessimism! A New World is already on its way.

It’s Philippe Dessertine who says so.” Le Point

About La décompression

“This well-written book is a must-read. Because it rises above today’s noise

and clamour. Because it disturbs.” Les Echos

About Ceci n’est pas une crise

“As Philippe Dessertine puts it so brilliantly, we don’t know when the

global economic chaos will come to an end, but we can all guess that noth-

ing will ever be the same again.” Le Figaro.

About Le gué du tigre

“A breath-taking thriller about one night that shook China, and the world.”

AFP

‘The battle to come. The clash of the Titans. Tomorrow’s dual. Chine vs.

the USA. Economist Philippe Dessertine has produced an astonishing and

remarkable little book, Le Gué du tigre, based on a true story.” JDD

“A geo-political thriller that will remind you of John le Carré.” Le Point

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NARRATIVE

ÉDITIONS PLEIN JOUR(IN COEDITION WITH EDITIONS ANNE CARRIÈRE)

Géraldine BarbeCHANGER DE VIE

histoires de renaissances(LIFE CHANGES – renaissance stories)

Who can honestly say they’ve never yearned

to throw in their hand and start over? Some

people have done it. Géraldine Barbe tells

their stories.

THE AUTHOR Géraldine Barbe is an actor

and writer, with three novels to her cred-

it published by Éditions Léo Scheer: Rater

mieux (2008), Aimer Roger (2010) and Ne

pleure pas, on se reverra (2012), as well as a

children’s book, L’Invité surprise, published

by Le Rouergue, 2013.

THE BOOK One day or another, everyone dreams of changing their life.

Géraldine Barbe met some people who actually did it. This book describes

their adventures, some of them quite fantastic. Like the story of Irina, a

Georgian, who, after an extremely successful career in her own country,

came to France and lived from hostel to hostel; or Phia, who became a

woman, or Goldie, who decided to remain a strict orthodox Jew while

living her life as a lesbian, or Fabrice, who gave up his job in the police for

a life in the theatre…

Taking a mischievous delight in her task, Barbe peppers her narratives

with personal recollections and startling remarks, profound and amusing.

She tells the stories of these changed lives, the gradual, sudden, impulsive

or carefully considered decisions that enabled these people to cast off their

moorings and set sail in a completely different direction and, via their

personal transformation, finally find their true selves.

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FOREIGN

LITERATURE

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NOVELS

U.S.A. & U.K

Chimamanda Ngozi AdichiePURPLE HIBISCUS(U. S. A – Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill)

Laila LalamiHOPE AND OTHER DANGEROUS PURSUITS(U. S. A – Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill)

Joel RoseTHE BLACKEST BIRD(U. K – Canongate Books)

Satish KumarTHE BOUDDHA AND THE TERRORIST(U. S. A – Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill)

Scarlett ThomasTHE END OF MR Y(U. K - Canongate Books)

Robert GoolrickA RELIABLE WIFE(U. S. A – Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill)

Robert GoolrickTHE END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT(U. S. A – Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill)

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NOVELS

Sam EastlandTHE BEAST IN THE RED FOREST

(U.K - Faber & Faber)

Robert GoolrickHEADING OUT TO WONDERFUL

(U. S. A – Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill)

Robert GoolrickTHE FALL OF PRINCES

(U. S. A – Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill)

Sam EastlandTHE EYE OF THE RED TSAR

(U.K - Faber & Faber)

Sam EastlandTHE RED COFFIN

(U.K - Faber & Faber)

Sam EastlandSIBERIAN RED

(U.K - Faber & Faber)

Sam EastlandTHE RED MOTH(U.K - Faber & Faber)

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NOVELS

Rachel KleinMOTH DIARIES(U.S.A – Bantam)

Jeff BackhausHIKIKOMORI AND THE RENTAL SISTER(U. S. A – Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill)

Patricia EngelVIDA(U.S.A - Grove Atlantic)

Sara FarizanIF YOU COULD BE MINE(U. S. A – Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill)

Brian Francis SlatteryTHE FAMILY HIGHTOWER( U. S. A – Seven Story Press Inc.)

C.S. LewisTILL WE HAVE FACES(U. K – C.S. Lewis Company Ltd.)

Heidi W. DurrowTHE GIRL WHO FAIL FROM THE SKY(U. S. A – Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill)

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NOVELS

SPAIN & LATIN AMERICA

Javier ArgüelloSEPT HISTOIRES IMPOSSIBLES

SHORT STORIES(Argentina – Editorial Lumen)

Antonio AlamoL’INCENDIE DU PARADIS

(Spain – Random House Mondadori)

Marcio Veloz MaggioloL’HOMME À L’ACCORDÉON

(Dominican Republic - Siruela)

Mercedes HelnweinTHE POTENTIAL HAZARDS OF HESTER DAY

(U.S.A - Simon & Schuster)

Laurie Halse AndersonSPEAK

(U.S.A – Macmillan)

Ben BrooksGROW UP

(U. K - Canongate)

Hollis SeamonSOMEBODY UP THERE HATES YOU

(U. S. A – Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill)

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NOVELS

ITALY

Elvira DonesSOLEIL BRÛLÉ(Giangiacomo Feltrinelli Editore)

Roberto PazziL’OMBRE DU PÈRE(Edizioni Frassinelli)

Roberto PazziCONCLAVE(Edizioni Frassinelli)

Cristiano CavinaC’EST GÉANT !(Marcos y Marcos)

GERMANY

Katharina HagenaL’ENVOL DU HÉRON(Kiepenheuer & Witsch)

Katharina HagenaLE GOÛT DES PÉPINS DE POMME(Kiepenheuer & Witsch)

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NOVELS

Yrsa SigurdardottirULTIMES RITUELS

(Bjartur Verold)

Yrsa SigurdardottirBIEN MAL ACQUIS

(Bjartur Verold)

Yrsa SigurdardottirJE SAIS QUI TU ES

(Bjartur Verold)

ICELAND

Susann PasztorUN FABULEUX MENTEUR

(Kiepenheuer & Witsch)

Joachim MeyerhoffJUSQU’ICI ET PAS AU-DELÀ

(Kiepenheuer & Witsch)

Erich KästnerDER GANG VON DIE HUNDE

Der Gang von die Hunde – Erich Kästner (Atrium Verlag)

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