France – The Modern Novel

Thuận: Chinatown : tiẻ̂u thuyé̂t (Chinatown)

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Post published:8 December 2023
Post category:France Paris The Modern Novel website Vietnam Women
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The latest addition to my website is Thuận's Chinatown : tiẻ̂u thuyé̂t (Chinatown). Our unnamed heroine spends the entire book on a Paris metro train which is held up by…

Sami Tchak : Place des Fêtes

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Post published:6 December 2023
Post category:France The Modern Novel website Togo
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The latest addition to my website is Sami Tchak's Place des Fêtes. The title refers to a stop on the Paris metro where a key scene in the novel takes…

Jean-Baptiste Andrea:Veiller sur elle [Watch Over Her]

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Post published:17 November 2023
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The latest addition to my website is Jean-Baptiste Andrea's Veiller sur elle [Watch Over Her]/. This novel won the Prix Goncourt in 2023. It tells the story iof Mimo (real…

Patrick Modiano: La Danseuse [The Dancer]

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Post published:22 October 2023
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The latest addition to my website is Patrick Modiano's La Danseuse [The Dancer]. Modiano's latest follows the basic plot line of many of his earlier novels. A young man, presumably…

Guillaume Lecasble: Lobster (Lobster)

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Post published:25 July 2023
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The latest addition to my website is Guillaume Lecasble's Lobster (Lobster). We follow the story of a lobster who, along with his parents, is caught and placed in an aquarium…

Michael Ferrier: François, portrait d’un absent (François, Portrait Of An Absent Friend)

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Post published:21 May 2023
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The latest addition to my website is Michael Ferrier's François, portrait d’un absent (François, Portrait Of An Absent Friend). The eponymous absent friend is François Christophe, very much a real…

Manuel Rivas: O último día de Terranova (The Last Days of Terranova)

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Post published:11 November 2022
Post category:Bookshop France Galicia The Modern Novel website
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The latest addition to my website is Manuel Rivas'O último día de Terranova (The Last Days of Terranova). In 2014 Vicenzo Fontana is having to close his beloved bookshop in…

Sonallah Ibrahim: العمامة والقبعة (The Turban and the Hat)

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Post published:21 August 2022
Post category:Egypt France Napoleon The Modern Novel website War
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The latest addition to my website is Sonallah Ibrahim's العمامة والقبعة (The Turban and the Hat). The novel takes place during the French occupation of Egypt from 1798 to 1801.…

Sylvie Germain: Jours de colère (Days of Anger)

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Post published:19 August 2022
Post category:France Gothic The Modern Novel website Women
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The latest addition to my website is Sylvie Germain's Jours de colère (Days of Anger). This book, a reissue by publishers Dedalus, is a classic modern French novel, mixing Gothic…

Georges Magnane: Où l’herbe ne pousse plus (Where the Grass No Longer Grows)

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Post published:18 August 2022
Post category:France The Modern Novel website World War II
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The latest addition to my website is Georges Magnane's Où l'herbe ne pousse plus (Where the Grass No Longer Grows). The novel is a fictionalised account of a historical event…