What is there to read this week? Here are our journalists’ suggestions.
Published yesterday at 12:00 p.m.
Eden: Icelandic lessons
“Icelanders are certainly among the people in the world best placed to recognize the impact of climate change on the environment. In her new novel, author Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir continues to tell us more about this small island nation where nothing is like anywhere else, and also expresses through her character her own concerns about the future of the planet and not just its survival she fears that she will disappear,” writes our journalist Laila Maalouf.
A Simple Dinner: Dinner in Three Acts
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A Simple Dinner, first novel by Cécile Tlili
“As this nightmarish evening unfolds, a play is unfolding before our eyes. Like a fiasco in three acts, with the costumes and masks falling off one by one,” writes our journalist Laila Maalouf.
The Light Wind: Representation of a Drama in Pastel
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The Light Wind by Jean-François Beauchemin
“This 26th novel crowns the 25-year career of Jean-François Beauchemin, who, with a pen as deft as ever and even in the face of the darkest subjects, manages to breathe light, as light as the wind that lazily rolls across the pages “Family history,” writes our journalist Sylvain Sarrazin.
Controlled Stress: The Pitfalls of a Lifetime
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Controlled Need, by Marilyse Hamelin
“Having arrived at the middle of her life, the author and columnist Marilyse Hamelin delves back into the memories of her eventful childhood, her rebellious youth and the history of her family in order to get to know the different women in her,” writes our journalist Valérie Simard.
Just arrived at the bookseller
Among all the books that have recently arrived in bookstores, here are a few that caught our attention.