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        In the Heart of a Golden Summer

        by Anne Serre

        An unknown mother who looks like Liz Taylor, a dearly loved father who thinks he is Musset, a married lover who plays with a revolver, another who appears the day Beckett dies, friends in Germany, Corsica, and England, whose memory has sometimes almost faded, and an I, feminine or masculine, vulnerable or murderous, appear in turn, as one knocks down cards, in this new game by Anne Serre, placed under the sign of Lewis Carroll.

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        Leaving Madrid

        by Sarah Manigne

        March 11th, 2004: terrorist attacks on Madrid train station. Alice has been living in Madrid for seven months, she is a paintings conservator, specialist on Zurbarán’s works, and she is among the numerous victims. She escapes unharmed from the tragedy which killed more than 200 people. After the drama, Alice is not the same. She enjoyed working on specifics of silk products, brightening up the beauty of the saints from the Allegory of Charity. From now on, she finds her work ridiculous. And the loving relationship she has with Angel, a chef from Colombia, is being called into question as well. She is suffering the “survival guilt”. Soon she is imprisoned by walls of silence, alone with her trauma. She needs to get back to France. But how to do when we are unable to travel by plane either by train? In France, the Spanish drama is now a distant memory… Sober and intimate, Sarah Manigne takes a close look to the angst of a victim, and questions the pictorial representation of the pain. To what degree is it possible to heal the wounds with art?

      • Fiction
        February 2020

        On the Edge of the Sun

        by Bertrand Leclair

        Édouard, a collector and seller of ancient books, owns a precious notebook that dates back to the 17th century, which is said to have been kept by a certain Melchior Soubeyran. When he entrusts it to the narrator, who plunges into it, the latter finds himself rushed to Moscow in 1689 to the bedside of Jean-Baptiste Tavernier, dying before the eyes of his young apprentice. Past his eighties, the Protestant author of Six Voyages to Turkey, Persia and India, who was Louis XIV's supplier of exceptional diamonds, was forced to take the road to the East again. This seventh departure is a consequence of the persecutions unleashed by the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, but also of the shenanigans of his flamboyant brother-in-law, supposedly a prince of Persian blood and certainly a swindler of the most beautiful water. While his master is delirious and threatens ghosts that only he can see, the young Melchior sinks into his notebook like a hunted animal down in too soft a soil. The fever contaminates the pages, in the Moscow night, and the narrator, caught in his turn, will not escape it…

      • Fiction
        January 2020

        Grand Cafe Martinique

        by Raphaël Confiant

        1702, the young Gabriel-Mathieu d'Erchigny de Clieu, from Normandy, is barely fifteen years old. Once he obtains his ship's ensign stripes, he finds himself immediately sent to Martinique. Following Christopher Columbus’s footsteps, his dream of America becomes a reality. He grows sugar cane, which quickly provides him with a nice fortune, a wife, and a prosperous plantation. In 1720, he returns to France with a new idea in mind: to grow coffee in the West Indies. This new beverage is terribly fashionable in all European courts, but the French buy it from producing countries at a very high price. However, the Jardin Royal des Plantes keeps some coffee plants under close surveillance. Luck brings Clieu into contact with the niece of Louis XV's personal doctor (Mr. de Chirac has unlimited access to the garden), and who, for her beautiful eyes, steals two precious plants! The adventure has only just begun....

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