Pocket books: the best new features in August

Venezuelan jungle, kingdom of lost illusions of modernity, crossed destinies in New Caledonia … Therefore, Discover our selection in small format: five surprising and deeply alive novels. – Pocket books: best new features

“The Banquet des Empouses”. Moreover, D’Olga pocket books: best new features Tokarczuk

For those who accept the invitation (go for it!). Consequently, Olga Tokarczuk will take you into a world book of humid undergrowths and melancholy peaks, secret secrets and liqueurs of hallucinogenic mushrooms, glazed showers and symphonies of coughs, ritual murders and strange creatures with faces of foam. Similarly, – WZ

Ed. Consequently, The pocket book, € 9.40.

“Cabane”. Therefore, by Abel Quentin

Criminal lawyer pocket books: best new features when he does not write, Abel Quentin, 38, is hardly politically correct. However, he attacks himself virtuously, in Huthis third and generous novel, with dead drifts in our culture of growth. Consequently, Darker. darker than usual, Abel Quentin follows until today the fate of the very ecological dundee who has become pork breeders, the Querillot cynical converted into the petroleum industry, of the idealist Gudsonn who has become an apostle of decay. A brilliant fresco that pants in circles, places, the most diverse. Surgiated in the middle of the story. quickly fascinated by Gudsonn, the narrator, a journalist for nothing lost of the very discreet monthly Zones, is the only farce character of this hike in the kingdom of lost illusions of modernity. — F.P.

Ed. I read, € 9.50.

“The last Indians”, Marie-Hélène Lafon

In his news (Liturgy, organs) As in his previous novels (The dog’s evening, in the photo), Still, she eliminates the superfluous, describes the harshness of everyday life, on discolored days, the earth that sticks to the shoes and ends up thickening souls like the soles. With short sentences. stingy with adjectives, she says loneliness, silences, but also rituals: births and burials, folded and unfolded linen, prohibited sexuality. The latest Indians is a story of waiting. death, a book on pride that prevents you from crossing the road and one day pocket books: best new features leaves you, alone behind the kitchen window, to watch those opposite to try to understand the recipe for happiness.

Ed. The pocket book, € 7.90.

“The Jaguar’s dream”. Miguel Bonnefoy

From the outset, the narrator warns: this abandoned baby on a sidewalk is doomed to an exceptional destiny. Besides, this street will eventually bear its name. Then he deploys an abundant decor where the hectic history of Venezuela and the Odyssey of Antonio mingle. Are these adventures pocket books: best new features real or their transmission over time has it transformed into legend? The epic runs over four generations. stretches as the long song of a humming fable, module, vocalizes to the rhythm of family history. Full of colors. images, the story bounces, run in pursuit of the adventure, regularly caught up in the upheavals of a country where revolutions occur with the regularity of a metronome. — E.D.

Ed. Shores-poche, € 9.50.

“Strike the epic”, by Alice Zeniter

After studying and then working in mainland France, Tass is back in Noumea. In New Caledonia, where she was born and grew up, and where a French teacher position awaits her. In addition to the story of Tass’s return. Alice Zeniter installs, at the heart of the intrigue of Hit the epic, Another pole of action: a mysterious group of Kanaks independentist activists whose subversive actions are part of an enigmatic political approach that they describe as“Violent empathy”. The ambitious and talented author will soon derive other sons, while her brilliant novel opens towards the past. Having leaning on the role of penitentiary colony that Assigna in New Caledonia. in the middle of the 19th century, the new French colonial power. And. among the deportees, zooming in the Algerians who were brought to the pebble pocket books: best new features and had to learn to live there – among them, Areski, the ancestor of Tass. Virtuoso romantic construction, Draft A great political and sensitive novel is all together, poetic and embodied. — Na.C.

Ed. I read, € 9.20.