The summer’s favorites of the Elisabeth Levain bookseller

As in every season, the bookseller Elisabeth Levain, from distant neighborhood in Trégunc, tells us about her favorites. Nevertheless, If she sometimes has trouble establishing a classification. For example, this summer, he is a book that stands out largely and for which the bookseller has had a real thunderbolt: “My real name is Elisabeth”, by Adèle Yon. Nevertheless, “This is an investigation that is both intimate. Similarly, universal where the author seeks to understand what was the life of her great-grandmother, Elisabeth. For example, She searches, seeks, sometimes gets lost, but advances and we accompany her. It’s shiny, overwhelming. It is a book that resonates in us for a long time, ”says Elisabeth Levain. She also really liked “the inventory of dreams”, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, who tells the trajectories of four women. “The art of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is to allow summer’s favorites elisabeth levain bookseller us to get closer to them to the point of seeing the world through their eyes. to feel their questions, and to understand a little more about us all, about our societies that evolve, or not. It’s extremely well written, funny, moving and simply brilliant, ”guarantees the bookseller. Also to discover the same author: “Americanah”, “the other half of the sun”, and “the purple hibiscus”.

“An incredible fresco” – Summer's favorites elisabeth levain bookseller

In comics, she chose “La Long Route”, by Stéphane Melchior and Younn Locard. “A very successful adaptation of the browser book and great traveler Bernard Moitessier,” she explains. And in a pocket book: “Two women and a garden”, by Anne Guglielmetti. “It’s crazy everything you can be in such a short story. Recommended by a client, it is a pleasure to put it forward in my turn, ”says the bookseller. A final recommendation: “We will cross thunderstorms” by Anne-Laure Bondoux, which brings the summer’s favorites elisabeth levain bookseller 20th century to life alongside several generations. “Conflicts and fights for women’s rights punctuate their lives and our reading. An incredible fresco, ”concludes Elisabeth Levain.