La prochaine fois que tu mordras la poussière

Panayotis Pascot

« Ce livre me fait peur. Le processus a été douloureux. Mon père nous a annoncé qu’il n’allait pas tarder à mourir et je me suis mis à écrire. Trois années au peigne fin, mes relations, mes pensées paranoïaques, mon rapport étrange à lui, crachés sur le papier. Je me suis donné pour but de le tuer avant qu’il ne meure. C’est l’histoire de quelqu’un qui cherche à tuer. Soi, ou le père, finalement ça revient au même. » Panayotis Pascot s’attaque d’une plume tranchante et moderne à trois thématiques qu’il tisse pour composer un récit autobiographique aussi acide qu’ultralucide. La relation au père, l’acceptation de son homosexualité et la dépression s’enchevêtrent ici dans un violent passage à l’âge adulte. Mais la lumière en sort toujours, d’un regard, d’une façon d’observer le quotidien avec autant de tendresse et d’humour que de clairvoyance.

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La prochaine fois que tu mordras la poussière

Panayotis Pascot

« Ce livre me fait peur. Le processus a été douloureux. Mon père nous a annoncé qu’il n’allait pas tarder à mourir et je me suis mis à écrire. Trois années au peigne fin, mes relations, mes pensées paranoïaques, mon rapport étrange à lui, crachés sur le papier. Je me suis donné pour but de le tuer avant qu’il ne meure. C’est l’histoire de quelqu’un qui cherche à tuer. Soi, ou le père, finalement ça revient au même. » Panayotis Pascot s’attaque d’une plume tranchante et moderne à trois thématiques qu’il tisse pour composer un récit autobiographique aussi acide qu’ultralucide. La relation au père, l’acceptation de son homosexualité et la dépression s’enchevêtrent ici dans un violent passage à l’âge adulte. Mais la lumière en sort toujours, d’un regard, d’une façon d’observer le quotidien avec autant de tendresse et d’humour que de clairvoyance.

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Don Quichotte

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Alonso Quijano, pauvre hidalgo, après avoir lu plus que de raison des romans de chevalerie, décide d'embrasser la profession de redresseur de torts et de protéger la veuve, l'orphelin et les nécessiteux, en parcourant le monde... L'énorme mérite de Cervantes réside dans le fait que non seulement il a créé le personnage même de don Quichotte mais que, de plus, il lui a trouvé le compagnon idéal, son antithèse parfaite, à savoir : son écuyer Sancho Panza. L'auteur a voulu combattre une mode, néfaste à ses yeux, pour ses compatriotes et apparaît, de ce fait, à travers son récit, comme le peintre fidèle de la société de son temps. Nous n'avons retenu, délibérément, que les chapitres mettant en évidence le mécanisme de la folie chez don Quichotte, la fidélité à toute épreuve de Sancho Panza et la méchanceté des tiers qui se gaussaient des fous, des faibles et des simples d'esprit.

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V13

Emmanuel Carrère

Le procès des attentats du 13 Novembre 2015 (130 morts et 350 blessés) s’est tenu entre septembre 2021 et juin 2022. Plus de 300 témoins ont été entendus, dont des rescapés de cette nuit d’horreur. Les 20 accusés ont été jugés, dont Salah Abdeslam, le seul survivant des commandos de l’organisation du groupe État islamique. Emmanuel Carrère a assisté à l’intégralité du procès et tenu une chronique hebdomadaire, publiée dans 4 grands journaux européens, L’Obs en France, El País en Espagne, La Repubblica en Italie, Le Temps en Suisse. Pourquoi avoir voulu suivre ce procès ? « Nous allons nous retrouver jour après jour enfermés dans cette boîte de sapin blanc où s’éprouveront et se diront des expériences extrêmes de mort et de vie, et je pense qu’entre le jour où nous entrerons dans cette boîte et celui où nous en sortirons, quelque chose en nous, acteurs et même témoins, aura bougé, changé. Je ne sais pas quoi, je viens pour l’apprendre. »

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Un jour sans femme

Laetitia Colombani

Islande. À la mort de sa meilleure amie, tuée par son compagnon, Katla se lance un défi inédit : organiser une grève des femmes dans le monde entier, pour dénoncer les violences et les inégalités. Japon. Michiko, jeune salariée enceinte, est harcelée par son patron. Salvador. Ana María, ouvrière à l'usine, se bat pour sa fille, condamnée à trente ans de prison pour suspicion d'avortement. Sénégal. Hawa, urgentiste, tente de sauver une enfant quand le trauma de son passé ressurgit. Katla, Michiko, Ana María et Hawa ne se connaissent pas, mais toutes décident de dire non. Elles étaient seules, elles seront des millions. Sans les femmes, le monde s'arrêtera-t-il de tourner ? Et s'il suffisait d'un jour pour tout changer ?

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Yesteryear

Caro Claire Burke

A traditional American woman, a “tradwife” influencer, suddenly awakens in the brutal reality of 1855—where she must unravel whether this living nightmare is an elaborate hoax, a twisted reality show, or something far more sinister in this sensational debut novel. My name was Natalie Heller Mills, and I was perfect at being alive. Natalie lives a traditional lifestyle. Her charming farmhouse is rustic, her husband a handsome cowboy, her six children each more delightful than the last. So what if there are nannies and producers behind the scenes, her kitchen hiding industrial-grade fridges and ovens, her husband the heir to a political dynasty? What Natalie’s followers—all 8 million of them—don’t know won’t hurt them. And The Angry Women? The privileged, Ivy League, coastal elite haters who call her an antifeminist iconoclast? They’re sick with jealousy. Because Natalie isn’t simply living the good life, she’s living the ideal—and just so happens to be building an empire from it. Until one morning she wakes up in a life that isn’t hers. Her home, her husband, her children—they’re all familiar, but something’s off. Her kitchen is warmed by a sputtering fire rather than electricity, her children are dirty and strange, and her soft-handed husband is suddenly a competent farmer. Just yesterday Natalie was curating photos of homemade jam for her Instagram, and now she’s expected to haul firewood and handwash clothes until her fingers bleed. Has she become the unwitting star of a ruthless reality show? Could it really be time travel? Is she being tested by God? By Satan? When Natalie suffers a brutal injury in the woods, she realizes two things: This is not her beautiful life, and she must escape by any means possible. A gripping, electrifying novel that is as darkly funny as it is frightening, Yesteryear is a gimlet-eyed look at tradition, fame, faith, and the grand performance of womanhood.

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Daybreak (Sorrowsong University)

Autumn Woods

Alex’s Corbeau-Green’s world is burning down around him, and Ophelia Winters is desperate to prove she didn’t light the fire. When Ophelia first accepted a scholarship from Sorrowsong, an elite university in the Scottish Highlands, she wanted nothing more than to destroy Alex and his family at any cost. But that was before she knew him, before they became each other’s everything. Now, after an unthinkable betrayal and the disappearance of his father, Alex is forced to return to New York, desperate to forget what they had, and salvage the damage done to his family. In Scotland, Ophelia is left reeling, alone . . . and watched. With a new anonymous tormentor threatening to release evidence that Ophelia and Alex committed a murder on campus, it’s clear that they’re going to need each other once again. But can they find a way to trust each other, and repair the love that they had? And even if they can—will it be enough this time to keep them alive?

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I Saw a Man

Owen Sheers

The event that changed all of their lives happened on a Saturday afternoon in June, just minutes after Michael Turner - thinking the Nelsons' house was empty - stepped through their back door. After the sudden loss of his wife, Michael Turner moves to London and quickly develops a close friendship with the Nelson family next door. Josh, Samantha and their two young daughters seem to represent everything Michael fears he may now never have: intimacy, children, stability and a family home. Despite this, the new friendship at first seems to offer the prospect of healing, but then a catastrophic event changes everything. Michael is left bearing a burden of grief and a secret he must keep, but the truth can only be kept at bay for so long. Moving from London and New York to the deserts of Nevada, I Saw a Man is a brilliant exploration of violence, guilt and attempted redemption, written with the pace and grip of a thriller. Owen Sheers takes the reader from close observation of the domestic sphere to some of the most important questions and dilemmas of the contemporary world.

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Daybreak (Sorrowsong University)

Autumn Woods

Alex’s Corbeau-Green’s world is burning down around him, and Ophelia Winters is desperate to prove she didn’t light the fire. When Ophelia first accepted a scholarship from Sorrowsong, an elite university in the Scottish Highlands, she wanted nothing more than to destroy Alex and his family at any cost. But that was before she knew him, before they became each other’s everything. Now, after an unthinkable betrayal and the disappearance of his father, Alex is forced to return to New York, desperate to forget what they had, and salvage the damage done to his family. In Scotland, Ophelia is left reeling, alone . . . and watched. With a new anonymous tormentor threatening to release evidence that Ophelia and Alex committed a murder on campus, it’s clear that they’re going to need each other once again. But can they find a way to trust each other, and repair the love that they had? And even if they can—will it be enough this time to keep them alive?

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Yesteryear

Caro Claire Burke

A traditional American woman, a “tradwife” influencer, suddenly awakens in the brutal reality of 1855—where she must unravel whether this living nightmare is an elaborate hoax, a twisted reality show, or something far more sinister in this sensational debut novel. My name was Natalie Heller Mills, and I was perfect at being alive. Natalie lives a traditional lifestyle. Her charming farmhouse is rustic, her husband a handsome cowboy, her six children each more delightful than the last. So what if there are nannies and producers behind the scenes, her kitchen hiding industrial-grade fridges and ovens, her husband the heir to a political dynasty? What Natalie’s followers—all 8 million of them—don’t know won’t hurt them. And The Angry Women? The privileged, Ivy League, coastal elite haters who call her an antifeminist iconoclast? They’re sick with jealousy. Because Natalie isn’t simply living the good life, she’s living the ideal—and just so happens to be building an empire from it. Until one morning she wakes up in a life that isn’t hers. Her home, her husband, her children—they’re all familiar, but something’s off. Her kitchen is warmed by a sputtering fire rather than electricity, her children are dirty and strange, and her soft-handed husband is suddenly a competent farmer. Just yesterday Natalie was curating photos of homemade jam for her Instagram, and now she’s expected to haul firewood and handwash clothes until her fingers bleed. Has she become the unwitting star of a ruthless reality show? Could it really be time travel? Is she being tested by God? By Satan? When Natalie suffers a brutal injury in the woods, she realizes two things: This is not her beautiful life, and she must escape by any means possible. A gripping, electrifying novel that is as darkly funny as it is frightening, Yesteryear is a gimlet-eyed look at tradition, fame, faith, and the grand performance of womanhood.

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