NOVELS
♥♥ One day my daughter disappeared into the night from my brain, by Stephanie Kalfon
Verticals, 208 p., 18.50 euros.
When Emma, the narrator, looks at Nina, who had gotten lost in a carnival before being found by the police the next day, she is convinced that her daughter has been replaced by another. Is it the trauma of the family drama that she experienced in her childhood that the anguish of this disappearance awakened? Paul, her husband, temporizes then rebels against his wife’s incomprehensible paranoia. The inventive and incisive language of Stéphanie Kalfon translates as closely as possible the suffocating universe of the delirium of this woman who can no longer recognize her child and who is ready to do anything to get her back. “true”.
Veronique Cassarin-Grand
♥♥♥ The House, by Robert Colonna d’Istria
Actes Sud, 160 p., 19 euros.
A woman, an initial. Her name is J., wants to build a house on an island where her mother once owned a large family home. A craftsman is soon hard at work restoring and enlarging a cabin with a breathtaking view of the sea. But J. is not, far from it, at the end of his troubles. With elegance and delicacy, Robert Colonna d’Istria recounts the obstacle course of J., a woman in search of a roof and an impossible happiness.
Didier Jacob
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FIRST NOVELS
♥♥ full and sweet, by Camille Froidevaux-Metterie
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