Fiction littéraire

In a narrative as beguiling and mysterious as memory itself - shadowed and luminous at once - we hear the story of 14-year-old Nathaniel, and his older sister, Rachel. In 1945, just after World War II, they stay behind in London when their parents move to Singapore....

Meet Ove. He's a curmudgeon - the kind of man who points at people he dislikes as if they were burglars caught outside his bedroom window....

Shantaram is narrated by Lin, an escaped convict with a false passport who flees maximum-security prison in Australia for the teeming streets of a city where he can disappear....

An intimate portrait of a family and an epic tale of hope and struggle, Sing, Unburied, Sing journeys through Mississippi's past and present....

A gripping vision of our society radically overturned by a theocratic revolution, Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid's Tale has become one of the most powerful and most widely read novels of our time....

People say Beartown is finished. A tiny community nestled deep in the forest, it is slowly losing ground to the ever encroaching trees. But down by the lake stands an old ice rink....

The author of the classic best-sellers The Secret History and The Little Friend returns with a brilliant, highly anticipated new novel....

With incredible empathy, intelligence, and candor, Jodi Picoult tackles race, privilege, prejudice, justice, and compassion - and doesn't offer easy answers....

Tokyo resident Keiko Furukara has never fit in - neither in her family, nor in school - but when at the age of 18 she begins working at the convenience store chain Smile Mart, she realizes instantly that she has found her purpose in life....

Across two parallel narratives, Murakami draws listeners into a mind-bending universe in which Lauren Bacall, Bob Dylan, a split-brained data processor, a deranged scientist, his undemure granddaughter, and various thugs, librarians, and subterranean monsters collide to dazzling effect....

Esther Ann Hicks - Essie - is the youngest child on Six for Hicks, a reality television phenomenon. She's grown up in the spotlight, both idolized and despised....

Throughout the 10 stories in You Think It, I'll Say It, Sittenfeld upends assumptions about class, relationships, and gender roles in a nation that feels both adrift and viscerally divided....

Dans une véranda cousue de courants d’air, en retrait d’un village sans électricité, s’organise la vie de Matthias et d’un homme accidenté qui lui a été confié juste avant l’hiver. Telle a été l’entente: le vieil homme assurera la rémission du plus jeune en échange de bois de chauffage, de vivres et, surtout, d’une place dans le convoi qui partira pour la ville au printemps.  

Même si la guerre est terminée, la vie tarde à reprendre son cours. Tandis que les survivants peinent à guérir leur âme écorchée, les disparus, eux, laissent des traces indélébiles et des coeurs brisés. En Europe, la famille Nicolas trime dur pour faire renaître le verger tandis que Jacob veille à bâtir un avenir pour ses deux filles à Paris où, jadis, ils vivaient tous heureux avec Bertha. Brigitte quant à elle, tente de surmonter la disparition de son beau Canadien auprès de Madame Foucault et de la petite Éva tandis que Gilbert, au Québec, se dévoue à aider son bon ami Ernest à surmonter la perte de son fils.