Travel through words and worlds

The cult club of we cult/ Foreign literature 2025. Therefore, The third and last part of our presentation of the literary school year is devoted to foreign literature. In addition, Among the 140 novels translated. In addition, we chose ten which are worth seeingwithout forgetting the sure values and new voices in this panorama.

Foreign literature 2025: A captivating journey through words. Nevertheless, worlds, where each novel is an open door to new emotions and reflections

• Let’s travel through words worlds open this panorama with “At the Wolf Table” d’Adam Rapp. Moreover, The author invites us to a poignant exploration of the family dynamics by telling the four children Larkin. Therefore, united by an underlying violence which brings them closer. Meanwhile, This novel. Therefore, served by a lively and precise language, sweeps sixty years of family history and explores the trauma that influences lives on several generations.

• In “Lightening”, Carys Davies Takes us on an island lost off the coast of Scotland in 1843. Ivar. the last resident, found an unconscious man on the beach, John Ferguson, travel through words worlds a pastor mandated to drive him out of his land. In ignorance. Ivar welcomes him to his home, creating an intimate drama around the vagaries of history that upset the fate of men.

• John Boyne could make the event with “The elements”. In the form of four subtly nested stories. here are four characters under the sign of the earth, water, fire and air, which explore themes such as pedophilia, homosexuality, rape and reconstruction.

• “The hut in the trees” of Vera Buck Tell how the idyllic holidays of Henrik and Nora with their son Fynn, will turn into a nightmare with the disappearance of Fynn and the discovery of a skeleton of children in the woods. This novel, located in the Swedish Västernorrland, offers a wild setting and palpable tension.

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• After the success of “Ephemeral” Andrew O’Haggan is expected with “Caledonian road”which paints a fresco of contemporary British society in London in the 21st century.

• Spanish Javier Cercas comes back with “The madman of God at the end of the world”a novel about faith and Pope Francis. An expected work that promises to captivate readers through its depth and news.

• The Icelandic Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir offers us “DJ Bambi”the story of Logn, a trans woman in sixty years, biochemist and DJ, in search of serenity after her operation. A touching and poignant novel about the quest for identity and inner peace.

• “Kairos” of Jenny Erpenbeckawarded the International Booker Prize 2024, plunges us into the East Berlin of Katharina and Hans, the lovers of a world at the end of the reign. A great novel about the travel through words worlds grip and the end of a world.

• In “By which between light” Joyce Maynard Follows Eleanor, a thirty -year -old woman, who returns to the New Hampshire campaign with her son. Through this story, she addresses loves, friendships, mourning and complex family dynamics that shape our lives.

• As of Jesmyn Ward, He returns with a powerful novel about the horror of slavery and his inheritances, “We travel through words worlds will be a storm”.

Among the other notable titles. we find in particular «Lincoln tragedy» of Karen Joy Fowlerwhich immerses us in an American family fresco of the 19th century through the history of the family of the murderer of Abraham Lincoln, “In the forest room” of Chiara Mezzalamaan intimate and poetic story on love mourning and reconstruction after loss, carried by a sober and sensual language, « Le Compromis de Long Island » of Taffy Brodesser-Aknerwhich transports the reader to the faults of the American dream through the story of a kidnapped patriarch and the repercussions on his family or « James » of Percival Everettwhich revisits Huckleberry Finn from Jim’s point of view, in a radically subversive story.

In this captivating journey through words. worlds, where each novel is an open door on new emotions and reflections, prepare to be also transported and inspired by “The rivers travel through words worlds of the sky” d’Eleness, “The wild girl” of Jim Fergus, « Gabriel’s Moon » of William Boyd, “Wandering stars” of Tommy Orange, “Universalists” of Natasha Brown, “The sisters” of Jonas Hassen Khemiri, “The gardener and death” of Guéorgui Gospodinov, “This other Eden” of Paul Harding or “At the bottom of past years” of Jens Christian Grøndahl.

Henri-Charles Dhalem

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