July 2006

Blood, sweat, and tears—that's what Churchill promised the British during WWII. And that's exactly what you'll find in this brutal little novel by Larry Brown. Leon Barlow lives in the depths of Mississippi. He's a writer, or at least he tries to be...

I'm afraid Jean-Paul Dubois isn't the writer who's going to reconcile me with contemporary French literature. Paul Siegelman, a Frenchman in his forties, flies to Miami to join his father. During the flight, he reflects on his life...

For those who haven't yet discovered Québécois literature, here's a little gem you absolutely need to read. Two orphaned children form an incredibly strong friendship. Hughes, the Québécois boy with almond-shaped eyes, and Habéké, the African boy...

At thirty, Lala becomes a widow with seven children to raise and an eighth on the way. Her obsession now becomes finding money to feed her kids. She juggles multiple small jobs. But times are tough in post-revolutionary China...

The woman who runs is Laura, a fragile and solitary young woman who thinks she might be a bit mad and watches herself living. When her father dies, she seems strangely relieved. She begins cleaning the back of her garden to clear an abandoned cottage...

Lily Bart, a young ruined orphan, has a plan: marry a wealthy heir who can provide her the luxurious and frivolous life she craves and can't live without. Meanwhile, she's the eternal guest of her rich friends...

A young woman searches for her mother. Raised in Miami by her grandfather, a Cuban refugee, she knows nothing about her parents and can't get a word out of her grandfather. Several trips to Cuba don't help her solve the mystery...

Volume 1 - The Bar Mitzvah. The rabbi has a daughter, very beautiful, who owns a cat. The rabbi also has a parrot that annoys everyone with its incessant chatter. So one day, the cat eats the parrot and at that very moment, acquires the power of speech...

It seems British youth systematically take a gap year between finishing secondary school and starting university, a year they spend traveling to some distant country that was once part of the Empire...

This novel belongs to the category of books about books, with this particular twist: the hero isn't a compulsive and passionate reader but quite the opposite—a non-reader. Because yes, they exist! There are still unfortunate souls...