To avoid feeling dizzy when faced with the mountain of books at your bookstore, each week, the culture department of “the Obs” offers you its literary reviews. Novels, thrillers, comics… There’s something for everyone. Good reading !
Novels
Disco Queen, by Stephanie Janicot
♥♥♥ Albin Michel, 240 p., 19.90 euros.
By what alchemy could we transmute illness, old age? Hospitalized for a heart attack, Soizic, a teacher on the verge of retirement, dreams of transforming her life by opening a nightclub in her village of Breuil in Brittany. His two daughters, Yanne and Chloé, will help him carry out this improbable project in a shed transformed into a revival nightclub. But their mother’s wish to invite John Travolta for the election of the local Disco Queen seems quite chimerical. An airy breath, a contagious cheerfulness animate this whimsical novel. An ode to lightness. Claire Julliard
A real change of scenery, by Clement Benech
♥♥ Flammarion, 304 p., 19.50 euros.
Romain d’Astéries, a scion of the Bordeaux bourgeoisie who is destined for a professorship and had asked for a first assignment in Guyana, finds himself, by an unfortunate bug in “the DELF algorithm”, in the college of an Auvergne village. Bénech, who we knew was more inspired, tells us, in a linear story without asperities, the adventures of this apostle of neo-pedagogism who fights to impose his teaching methods supposed to make his pupils sensitive to “otherness”. He will come,
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