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FRENCH PUBLISHERS FOR FOREIGN
CATALOGUE FILM PRODUCERS
E>LL=N;B>? EDITION 2011
3
‘From Page to Film’: stories you’ll long to make into movies...
With the encouragement of the SCELF, BIEF has published this
collective catalogue for foreign producers who are keen to exploit
France’s editorial production and would like to discover its diversit
y.
Here is a selection of roughly fifty books whose universe, charact
ers
or historical settings provide, in the opinion of the thirty French
publishers who chose them, ideal material for cinematic adaptat
ion.
Each entry is an invitation to embark on an audiovisual adventu
re.
A contact is given for each book presented: in just a few pages,
you’ll
find many names to create or complete your address book.
We hope this catalogue will be the beginning of many new projects
.
Enjoy!
BIEF
115, boulevar
d St-Germain
75006 Paris
Tel.: +33 (0
)1 44 41 13
www.bief.org 16
4 5
’t make a good
‘I believe that if I love a book, there’s no reason why it shouldn
out of a terrible book. But
film. Similarly, it’s also possible to make a great movie
form the basis for the film, even if it
I’m convinced that it’s the book that should
better basis than an origina l fifteen page
goes astray. In general, that’s a much
scenario.’
Michel Audiard, 1983
on behalf of
In France, publishers tend to negotiate the audiovisual rights
this widespr ead practic e has the
the authors they represent. For authors
that negotia tes the subsidi ary rights for their works
advantage of a single body
radio, theatre , etc) as well as experie nced advice on the scope of
(adaptations for
n of the rights sold
rights, guarantees associated with adapted works, the duratio
and payment.
(SCELF) brings
Created in 1960, the French Language Publishers Association
ing compan ies who manage their author’ s subsidiary rights.
together the publish
use (film or
Two years ago, the SCELF started to catalog the audiovisual
a databas e called ’Source d’Images’.
television) of books published in France for
than a thousan d books and can be
This database already contains more
website on www.sc elf.fr or request ed by e-mail from:
consulted on the SCELF
scelf@wanadoo .fr
the Paris
SCELF also organizes the AUDIOVISUAL RIGHTS MARKET during
Book Fair.
elf.fr
For further information, contact Elise Griffon by email on: mda@sc
SCELF
15, rue de Buci
75006 Paris
Tel.: +33 (0)1 53 34 97 13
w w w.scelf.fr
secretariat@scelf.fr6 7
Author : Jean-Luc Fromental
Genre : Pop-up book, ages 3 and up
Epoch : The present, or a time
Contents close to the present (there is a
bus, a bowling game, signs...)
10 P’tits Pingouins p.05 Les Légendaires p.34
Setting : An ice floe
Timespan : Brief lapse of time
___________ _______________
Adieu Chaussette ______________ p.06 Le Malentendu _________________ p.35
Airborne 44 ___________________ p.07 Marcel Proust à 20 ans _
_______ p.36
L’Archéologue et le mystère de Mon nom est Victoria __________ p.37
Néfertiti _____________________ p.08 La mort de Staline ____________ p.38 10 P’tits Pingouins
10 p’tits pingouins : un livre
Au coeur des étoiles __________ p.09 Mr. _
___________________________ p.39 9782358510165
animé pour jouer à compter
Le Bar du vieux français _
_____ p.10 Muette _
________________________ p.40
Boris Vian à 20 ans ___________ p.11 Myrtille _
______________________ p.41
A playful book to practice counting
Les Brumes de sang ____________ p.12 Les ombres du souvenir _
_______ p.42
Cassio _
________________________ p.13 Pas de pitié pour les baskets Ten Little Penguins stand on an icy shore. They start bowling. When one of them
Comédie d’amour _______________ p.14 _
______________________________ p.43
gets knocked off, there are only… nine Penguins left, teasing a whale. One of
them bites its tail. The whale is so furious the Penguin flees, and now there are
Cristal défense p.15 Qu’avez-vous fait de moi ? p.44
only… eight Penguins left, following a boat. The cook says, Fish one of them! So
_______________ _
___
De Briques et de sang p.16 Le Rabbin de Salonique p.45
_
________ _
_______
there are only… seven Penguins, having supper at the igloo. But while the stew is
Dernier été à Mayfair _
________ p.17 Rossmore Avenue _______________ p.46 cooking, the heat makes the igloo melt…
Les derniers jours de Mussolini Le Scorpion ___________________ p.47 It goes on and on: six, five, four, three, two, one… until there are… no Penguins
_
______________________________ p.18 Smoke City ____________________ p.48 left!
Les enfants de l’envie _
_______ p.19 Le troisième jour _____________ p.49 From 10 to 0, the Penguins are eager to introduce children to the concepts
of subtracting, and then adding. The Ten Little Penguins disappear one after
Et pourtant je l’aimais p.20 Un début de mois difficile
the other, until we realize with the last pop-up surprise that it was just a huge
_
______
La Face p.21 Itinéraire d’une maman braqueuse
Penguin joke!
_
_______________________
La Face cachée des miroirs _
___ p.22 _
______________________________ p.50
Le Faucon du désert ___________ p.23 La vengeance du Djinn _
________ p.51 References : The Smurfs (TV)
Fritz Kolbe ___________________ p.24 Les vies sauvées d’Alexandre
Grands gestes la nuit _
________ p.25 Vielski _
_______________________ p.52
Histoire d’un état secret p.26 War & Dreams p.53
Placed copies: 7.000. 10.000 copies
_
____ __________________
L’homme de Kaboul p.27 La Zingarina p.54
sold in France since October 2010.
_____________ __________________
L’inconnu du réveillon _
_______ p.28 Rights sold to the U.S., Spain
Jacotte p.29 (and Catalonia), Germany, The
Hélium
_
_______________________
Le Jeu de l’ombre p.30 Netherlands, Italy, England, Japan,
12, rue de l’Arbalète
_____________
Journal de guerre d’un juge Finland. Sales in France and
75005 Paris
abroad: 80.000 copies.
militaire allemand p.31 List of publishers 58 +33 (0)1 45 87 99 15
www.helium-editions.fr
____________ ______________
Journal intime d’une prédatrice Index by topic 62
Sophie Giraud
__________________
_
______________________________ p.32 Index by author _________________ 64 sgiraud@helium-editions.fr
Lazard frères _________________ p.33 Notes _
___________________________ 568 9
Author : Benjamin Chaud Author : Philippe Jarbinet
Genre : Children’s literature, Genre : Fiction
ages 4-8 Epoch : World War II
Epoch : The present Setting : French Ardennes
Setting : The forest Timespan : A few weeks
Timespan : One day
Goodbye, Socks! Airborne 44
9782358510394 Adieu chaussette Airborne 44, Vol. 2. Demain
sera sans nous
A dramatic episode of WWII takes place
A book about friendships with stuffed on an isolated farm of the Ardennes.
animals, and how to know when we’re ready to grow up. The Ardennes Offensive was a major German
a clumsy rabbit offensive launched towards the end of WWII
What was I supposed to do when I realized I was too old to have
I made up my mind: he should go back to the through the forested Ardennes mountains. Airborne
named Socks as a best friend? Copies sold : 50.000 (two titles)
I need to find real friends , like other childre n, and stop 44 is set during the Battle of the Bulge over the
forest. The truth is Prix du scénario - Festival BD de
g all my time with a fluffy rabbit. So I decided to leave for the forest with course of a few cold weeks in winter. The story tells
spendin Chambéry 2010
say a word. I of an American unit fighting against a German
him. He was completely unaware of what was going on and didn’t Brique d’Or du meilleur album -
and wonder ed what they were doing platoon. A few civilians, a widow and two Jewish
saw a little girl and her dog in the distance, Festival BD de Toulouse
was how hard it would be to leave stupid orphans, are trapped between the two groups of
there. The only thing I did not realize Translation : German
to a tree and walked away, and I started feeling really men. Strong characters recount this fascinating
Socks behind… I tied him
when I change d my mind and decided to go back for him, Socks had story. A prequel to this book, with the same
scared. But
characters in Normandy, will be released in
disappeared. I yelled out his name, but he did not answer…
November 2011.
References : Snoopy (TV)
References : Battle of the Bulge (1965), Saints and
soldiers (2003)
Number of copies placed and sold:
Hélium
6.000. Reprint under way. Rights Casterman
12, rue de l’Arbalète
sold (under way): Finland, Sweden, Cantersteen 47,
75005 Paris
Greece, Spain BP4 - 1000 Brussels Belgiu
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+32 22098369
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Sophie Giraud
Sophie Levie
sgiraud@helium-editions.
fr s.levie@casterman.com10 11
Author : Pierre Boulle Author : Denise Fabre
Genre : Historic mystery Epoch : 20th century
Epoch : the 1950s Setting : France
Setting : Europe and Egypt Timespan :
Timespan : Several months
The Archeologist and the L’archéologue et le mystère Among the stars
Mystery of Nefertiti de Néfertiti Au Cœur Des Etoiles 9782268069098
9782749104195
The incredible rise of a young girl from Nice, who becomes
the sources of
This “archeological mystery” is also a lot of fun. It goes back to a television star.
a three-th ousand -year-o ld crime scene.
mystery novels, through the discovery of
e crash in Egypt, our heros unravel the mysteri es of a failed
After an airplan
light a conspiracy
assassination attempt on the mythical Nefertiti. They bring to No matter what, she’s always smiling and in a good mood.
that is nothing short of Pharaonic.
In fact, she is at ease both onstage and off, even if her family and private life
explodes. The
Once again, the Machiavellian talent of author Pierre Boulle have been difficult at times. From her turbulent youth, boarding schools, and a
y of Nefertit i is a myster y novel that intersects
Archeologist and the Myster TV career in Monte Carlo (TMC), Nice (Studios de la Victorine), and finally Paris,
Egyptia n history . The two main charact ers, a wealthy , young where she received the famous “Le 7 d’Or” of 1975, she has often appeared
with ancient
t keen on Egyptol ogy and a true-to- life archeol ogist straigh t out of an on the front page of Paris Match. And now, with a recent comeback in Nice in
dilettan
sing investig ation on the trail
Agatha Christie novel, lead us through a hair-rai politics, she has stars in her eyes.
Nefertit i. Step by step, the men
of Pharaoh Akhenaton and his wife, Queen
of a conspir acy by way of the objects they find References : La Valise en carton
reconstitute the circumstances
of deducti on of the older and wiser of the two. They learn
and the great powers
Nefertiti and
that the great priests of Amon were scheming to eliminate Queen
thus destroy the heretic Athon.
Groupe d’éditiond DDB/Le Rocher
. 10 rue Mercœur
References : Agatha Christie, Hercule Poirot, Indiana Jones…
75011 Paris
novel was +33 (0)1 40 46 54 00
Editor’s note : Written on the back of another manuscript, this
death. It was an Sabine Larivé
discovered years after the legendary author Pierre Boulle’s
ide bestsellers The Bridge over the rights@ddbeditions.fr
unexpected revelation. Boulle wrote the worldw
Here, he questions the truth of what we see,
River Kwai and Planet of the Apes.
with Machiavellian intelligence. The plot maintains
suspense with humor, offering the perfect film script.
Le Cherche midi éditeur Translated into English and
23, rue du Cherche Midi Italian.
75006 Paris
Rights sold: Univers Poche and Le
+33 (0)1 42 22 00 20
Grand Livre du mois
www.cherche-midi.com
Sylvie Cann
scann@cherche-midi.com12 13
Author : Stassen Lapiere Author : Claudine Plas
Genre : Romantic coming-of-age Genre : Biographical documentary
drama Epoch : 20th century
Epoch : Today Setting : France
Setting : Africa (Central and Timespan : 1920-1950
North), France (Paris to Marseille)
Timespan : One year
The Old frenchman’s bar s Boris Vian at 20
Le bar du vieux Français Boris Vian à 20 ans : J’avai 9782846262088
vingt ans en 1940
9782800128627
Célestin and Leila were born and raised How Boris became Vian, an
thousands of kilometers away. They were never extraordinary young man in a not-so-ordinary era.
supposed to meet. But in the middle of the desert, fate Reprinted several times and The life and work of a great writer at age twenty. From Vian’s exodus to the
can offer you the most beautiful gift… at the cruelest translated, it has also been brutal murder of his father, from his studies in engineering to the Occupation
price. awarded at the most important of France, and jazz music: these are the beginnings of the writer, musician and
Célestin and his little sister were born in the heart European book festivals pataphysician who would one day author the great l’Ecume des jours (Froth on a
of Africa. Hopeless orphans, they decide to flee from (Angoulême, Le Mans, Sierre,
Daydream), only to die at the age of thirty-nine.
famine and go to France, a land of opportunities. But the Breda, Durbuy, etc.).
walk in the desert is fatal for his sibling, and Célestin Denis Lapière is a famous Belgian
must continue his journey alone, hitch-hiking his way writer who has also worked in the
References : Coco avant Chanel (Coco Before Chanel)
up to North Africa.
Leila is an Arab girl, born and raised in France. She’s film industry.
the same age as Célestin. When she learns that for her
sixteen birthday she will be forced to marry a man she
hasn’t even met, she decides to run away to Morocco to
meet her grandparents.
, the two accidentally
After many adventures on the way to the land of their dreams
the desert of Tangier:
meet in the middle of nowhere, inside an unlikely pub lost in
finding someone to
The Old Frenchman’s Bar. They settle there for a while, finally
trust, like a bandage for a wound… and they discover love.
again, each in
But their dreams are too strong. They can’t help hitting the road
n of The Old
the opposite direction, swearing to write one other, to the attentio Au Diable Vauvert 4.500 copies printed and 3.000
Frenchm an’s Bar. La Laune books sold
each other. Braving
During the second part of their journey, they faithfully write 30600 Vauvert
reach their goals.
more dangers and many disillusions, Leila and Célestin finally +33 (0)4 66 73 16 56
delivered after the Bar
But they will never see each other again. The mail stops being
link. www.audiable.com
is suddenly destroyed by flames, forever rupturing their unique
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and Become (Va, vis et rights@audiable.com
References : Bagdad Cafe, Jake Kerouac’s On the Road, Live
deviens)
Dargaud / Le Lombard Dupuis
15/27 rue Moussorgski
75018 Paris
+33 (0)6 08 96 14 61
www.dargaud.com
Laurent Duvault
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Author : Jacques Mazaux Author : Recule Desberg
Genre : Fiction Genre : Historical adventure
Epoch : The First World War Epoch : Present day and Roman times
Setting : A small village in the Setting : The Mediterranean:
French countryside Turkey, Greece, Italy
Timespan : Several months Timespan : A few days now, ten
years in the past
The Vampires Cassio
The Fog of Blood Les Brumes de sang Cassio 9782803626298
9782258083738
One murder and four assassins. 2.000 years after
the fact, the investigation begins... and Ornella will have to solve the case if she
A series of mysterious deaths disrupts the life of a small
wants to save her life.
village. Could they be caused by an otherwordly being? To be published in the Fall of 2011
2.000 years ago, Cassio, one of Rome’s most influential men, was struck down by
August 3, 1914. War has just been declared. All the four masked shadows, his murder a conspiracy.
able men of a small Burgundy village have left for the Today in Turkey, archaeologist Ornella Grazzi finds a new excavation site. She
front. discovers hidden parchments written by the victim, Cassio, that tell the story of
That same day, the village priest is found dead. How his revenge after his death. She tries to reveal the faces of the four murderers,
can such a strong man have died of no apparent and unravels the story of a brilliant and mysterious man supposedly gifted with
cause? It then appears that he has been bitten by a magic healing powers.
strange creature with only one tooth, and drained of But Ornella’s discovery also seems to attract very real, contemporary dangers
tances, leaving
his blood. Soon, other victims are found dead in similar circums from powerful and invisible enemies, as if the Cassio case were never really
as to who or what killed them. Specula tion is rife
the villagers with no clue closed...
left in the village, until Isabelle , the cheeky young schoolteacher,
among the men A chase begins all around the Mediterranean… In the course of her investigation,
e?
comes up with a theory: What if it were a one-toothed vampir Ornella will realize that Cassio did not die that night. Instead, he tracked down
mysterious
Young inspector Dumont is sent to the village to investigate these his enemies and and eliminated them, one by one. Afterward, every trace of him
is confron ted with the archaic ideas
murders. There, the scientific-minded man disappears; there is no indication of how or when he died. It is as if he vanished
. The young woman deeply trouble s him, both with
of the villagers, and of Isabelle into thin air. Or perhaps he is still alive...
her beguiling beauty and with her myster ious demean or….
i, Adele Blanc-Sec Mixing contemporary adventure and historical flashback, Cassio is the perfect
References : The Fearless Vampire Killers by Roman Polansk vehicle for a new breed of documentary thriller.
by Luc Besson, Dracula by Francis Ford Coppola
References : Rome (TV series), Sahara, Sphinx, Tomb Raider
Dargaud / Le Lombard
Presses de la Cité / Place des Editeurs
Dupuis
12 avenue d’Italie Author Stephen Desberg is a
15/27 rue Moussorgski
75013 Paris famous comic book writer known
75018 Paris
+33 (0)1 44 16 07 56 for his bestselling series The
+33 (0)6 08 96 14 61
www.placedesediteurs.com Scorpio, I.R.$., and Southern Star.
www.dargaud.com
Frédérique Polet
Laurent Duvault
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laurent.duvault@mediatoon.com16 17
Authors : Author : Catherine Fraidier
Screenplay: Brigitte Luciani Genre : Mystery thriller
Drawings by Colonel Moutarde Epoch : Contemporary
Genre : Romantic comedy Setting : France / Belgique
Epoch : Now Timespan : Several weeks
Setting : Paris
Timespan : Several weeks
Paris, My Love Crystal Defense
9782756011332 Comédie d’amour Cristal défense 9782846262248
The comings and goings of lovers in Paris. This powerful thriller about economic
espionage, GMOs, and a food crisis is in keeping with American suspense films.
After yet another failed relationship, Jade, a young,
Éléonore de Coursange, also known as Léo, is the head of the Agency for
pretty actress, decides that she absolutely will not Ms. Brigitte Luciani is a writer
Economic Security (AES), an organization that protects and defends French
fall in love with the next guy who crosses her path. for children and young readers.
The three graphic novels she industrial, scientific, and technological assets. She has just been given a new
Men bother her. She even refuses to act in films that
Then, after an improm ptu wrot e at Delcourt use tricks and mission: she must solve the assassinations that have occurred within Aristee,
are romantic comedies.
roof of her building , she literally hum or to recall family secrets and the company that monopolizes the GMO sector. With the help of her team,
escapade on the
of her neighbo r, Guy. Will she complicated love affairs. The book Latifa Boubaker, Eric Laville, Karl Saint-Léger, and Igor Sokolov, whose weighty
falls into the arms
has been translated in Spain with pasts can’t be checked at the office door, she will try to unravel the threads
fall madly, passionately in love? She will not!
refusin g roles, the title «Paris mon amour» of this case. Who really ordered these assassinations: a competing company?
She’s too busy. Now that she has been
two childre n. After a long The United States? China? Europe? How far will those behind the crimes go to
she has accepted to babysit
hide the truth? Are blood ties and romantic connections the reasons least to be
promenade through Paris (especially the Notre
suspected?
Dame)
with the two children she babysits and their
References : 24 heures chrono, Les tontons flingueurs (Crooks in Clover),
unwanted dad, Jade will decide for herself about the
Mission Impossible
charming Guy, and make a comeback to her career
as an actress.
.
Ms. Brigitte Luciani is a writer for children and young readers 8;000 printed, 5.000 copies sold.
The three graphic novels she wrote at Delcourt use games and Cristal défense (Crystal Defense)
book
humor to recall family secrets and complicated love affairs. This received the Prix polar Michel
has been translated in Spain with the title Paris mon amour. Lebrun in 2010.
Au Diable Vauvert
References : Le Témoin amoureux (Made of Honor), The Holiday La Laune
30600 Vauvert
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54, rue d’Hauteville www.audiable.com
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www.editions-delcourt.fr
Juliette Mathieu
jmathieu@editions-delcourt.fr18 19
Authors : David François and Author : Theresa Révay
Régis Hautière Genre : Fiction
Genre : Fiction Epoch : Contemporary
Epoch : 1914 and 1936 Setting : England (Sussex,
Setting : The city of Guise, in the London), France (Picardie).
north of France Timespan : From 1911 to the end
Timespan : A few months of World War I
Of Bricks and Blood Last Summer at Mayfair
97822030 08540 De briques & de sang Dernier été à Mayfair ?
A crime novel à la Agatha Christie
1911. The Rotherfields are a prominent English aristocratic family. The eldest
October 1936: the female narrator takes cares of her son died after an accident caused by his youngest brother, Edward, who has
father up until his death. After he passes away, she Very good media coverage since become a dashing aviator, womanizer and gambler. It is therefore Julian
recalls a strange case followed by a reporter about a who must carry the family name of the family forward. But he is known as «the
man and woman found dead in a worker’s community Spanish version reluctant heir». Evangeline, the oldest daughter, has joined the suffragettes. Only
run by a visionary manager. Victoria is looking for an eligible young man. Along with their German cousins
and French friends, their lives are shattered by the war. Personal challenges
meet head-on with the historical cataclysm, and Julian learns he is not his
father’s son. As these promising young heirs to European patrician families
discover the shocking truths behind family secrets, they must search for the real
purpose of their lives.
References : Remains of the Day by James Ivory, Howard’s End by James Ivory,
Gosford Park by Robert Altman, Downton Abbey by nwritten by Julian Fellowes.
To be published in the Fall of 2011
Casterman Place des Editeurs
Cantersteen 47, Belfond
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m +331 44 16 07 56
+32 22098369
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Sophie Levie Frédérique Polet
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Author : Pierre Milza Author : Gabrielle Piquet
Genre : Bioptic Genre : Fiction
Epoch : The 27th, 28th, and 29th of Epoch : The 1980’s
April, 1945 Setting : A French town
Setting : Italy Timespan : A few months
Timespan : 72 hours
The Last Days of Mussolini The Children of Envy
Les derniers jours de
9782213655482
Mussolini Les enfants de l’envie 9782203022171
The final three days of Il Duce’s life in a
and the history of a
fast-paced thriller that vividly portrays both one man’s story After WWII, American military bases spread across Europe. The American army
nation. also settled in France, remaining there for close to twenty years. When the
of events nor the army left the country, it disrupted the balance of the local economy, and
The verdict is in: Il Duce will die. Nothing – neither the myriad
72 hour chase precedin g his executio n – will alter Benito Mussolini’s ill- caused long-term upheaval in the community.
vertiginous
fated course. This story centers on Basile, the son of Henry, an American soldier, and Juliette,
removed from the
Indeed, Mussolini and his mistress Clara Petacci are abruptly a young French woman. Basile has never met his father, and as an adult he
they are being held prisone r, hurried to the nearby Belmonte Villa,
farmhouse where constantly wonders about his origins. He also nurtures a passion for the United
bursts of an MAS-38 machine gun, their
and placed against a wall. With two quick States, which is present in all of his paintings. The author Gabrielle Piquet
and a chapter in Italian Fascism , come swiftly to an end. Who was the gunman?
story,
later elected to the skillfully recounts the story of Basile and his struggles with his identity.
Today we know for certain that it was Walter Audisio, aka Valerio,
Italian Chamber of Deputies with the Communist Party.
leader’s life, Pierre
In his hour-by-hour account of the last three days of the Fascist
contrad ictory sources , placing particular
Milza sifts through a wealth of often
the numerous
emphasis on the testimonials of those closest to Il Duce, namely,
; Margherita
women in his life: Rachele, his wife and the mother of his children
was with him to the
Sarfatti, his mistress; and of course Claretta, the mistress who
the officials of Il Duce’s
bitter end. Historical and political figures of all stripes – from
partisan s of the Nationa l Liberati on Committee – round
Salò Republic to the fervent
out the compelling narrative of his decline.
both American and
In his remarkable 72-hour assessment, Milza recounts what Prix international de la Ville de
in the Lake Como region during that fateful three-
British secret services were doing Genève pour la BD 2010
why Churchill,
day period. Were there certain conflicts of interest? We also learn
lake under a pseudonym
having lost the election, returned to the shores of the Italian
trying to get his hands on the infamous and Spanish translation
following Mussolini’s execution. Was he
covered corresp ondence that would have tied him to Il Duce? Casterman
never-re
Cantersteen 47,
re Sokurov, Vincere
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Fayard
13 rue du Montparnasse 7500 Sophie Levie
6 Paris
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(0)1 45 49 82 47
www.fayard.fr
Carole Saudejaud / Ariane
Foubert
csaudejaud@editions-faya
rd.fr / afoubert@edition
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Author : Sarah B. Author : Pierre Boulle
Genre : Document Genre : Drama
Epoch : 20th century Epoch : the 1950s
Setting : France Setting : South of France
Timespan : Timespan : One Year
And Yet, I Loved Him
Saving Face
97822680 69487
Et Pourtant Je L’Aimais La face 9782749111254
To love without dying of it.
The cowardice of a high-level prosecutor
marital
Every two and a half days in France, a woman dies because of who doesn’t help a young woman as she drowns before his very eyes: during
women between the ages of
violence. It’s the number one cause of mortality for the lawsuit, he accuses an innocent person who is then condemned to death. A
ts. fascinating and timeless subject that profoundly speaks out to each one of us.
16 and 40, before cancer and road acciden
in black and
Recently in Nice, a colleague of Sarah notices that she is covered Chief Prosecutor for the French Republic Jean Berthier does nothing when
Horrifie d, she asks Sarah about it. Sarah collapse s in
blue marks and burns. he is the only witness to the accidental drowning of a young girl. The public
“It’s my husban d... One day he will kill me”. Two hours later, Sarah
tears, saying, prosecutor’s office is soon working on the case, which appears to be a crime, and
her to the main
is helped by a small, relatively unknown association that takes Berthier is in charge of proceedings. He wants to “save face” at any cost,
descent into hell. Five weeks
police station. There, Sarah explains her true and through cowardice he doesn’t dare do anything that will cause him to lose
and the court gives him a prison sentence of
later, her husband’s case is decided the prestige he has earned. How can this virtuous, sincere magistrate with
outside the Alpes-M aritime s area and a civil rights
three years, with five years scrupulous integrity behave in this way? He succeeds in progressively forgetting
impeachment. the scene to which he was witness. From that point on, he becomes caught up in
beaten, she
The main point of this book is to prove that if a woman is being an inexorable spiral that leads him to the depths of his abuse of judiciary power,
this spirit of solidari ty:
must register a complaint. Let us keep in mind laying bare the frightening contradiction that each man holds within him. A
, colleagu es, and the many associa tions,
the people around Sarah, her friends breathtaking, fascinating story up to the suspenseful end.
policemen, and judges, have all said “NO” to brutalit y!
Editor’s note : French author Pierre Boulle is a
References : Ne dis rien master at dismantling the human soul. His books
have been been made into hugely successful films, Translated into English and
and The Bridge over the River Kwai and Planet of the Italian.
Apes have been translated the world over.
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Author : Catherine Fraidier Author : Franz Zumstein
Genre : Mystery thriller Genre : Historic drama
Epoch : Contemporary Epoch : Spring 1942 and the
Setting : France years that follow
Timespan : Several weeks Setting : The desert in Lybia,
Germany
Timespan : Several years
The Hidden Face of Mirrors Falcon of the Desert
La face cachée des miroirs Le faucon du désert, Vol. 1. 9782756020310
Martuba airfield
9782846262422
Crystal Defense left its members from the A young man carried off by the torments
They must regain
Agency for Economic Security in a trap laid by their own allies. of war.
to act and unravel the hidden ties that unite governm ents and the
their freedom Ali is half German and half Arab. When he’s enlisted by the Afrika Korps for his
agro-business giants. ASE, season 2..
exceptional talent as an aviator, he decides to use these missions to go in search
has lost contact with
After the dismantling of the Agency, Éléonore de Coursange of his German origins and find his mother. As he flies off to the horrors of war,
h her investig ation and tries to bring her he leaves behind the beautiful Aicha, who is unable to tell him that she’s
her personnel. She decides to relaunc
friends , returni ng to the group from various intelligence expecting a child – their child. As the world seems to smile down upon him, Ali
team back together. Her
work to resolve their own sticky situatio ns. But in this deceiving flies off to Munich.
organizations,
as it is
hall of mirrors everything is connected, and danger is as diffuse
new posts, the
omnipresent. Whether in their private lives or serving in their
ic Securit y must remain constantly
members of the defunct Agency for Econom
converg e with econom ic interes ts, and the more the
on guard. Political ambitions
more a true maze of corrupt ion closes in on them.
friends fight it, the
References : 24 heures chrono, Mission Impossible
With two volumes published, this
new comic book series is in the
spirit of a grand romantic saga set
during the Second World War. The
author is Swiss-German.
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Author : Lucas Delattre Author : Thibault de Montaigu
Genre : Biography Genre : Saga
Epoch : The 1940s Epoch : The 1950s and the 1960s
Setting : Germany and Setting : Paris, Saint-Tropez
Switzerland Timespan : Twenty years
Timespan : World War II
Fritz Kolbe Great Moves, Great Night
Fritz Kolbe : un espion au
9782207253243
coeur du IIIe Reich Les grands gestes la nuit 9782213655345
A vintage, jazzy love story, from Paris to
The story of the greatest German spy of
the Nazi era.This unique documentary is the result of Saint-Tropez.
exemplary research and exclusive access to previously Francine Dalle is twenty-two. She and her friend Kiki have come to the French
1.500 copies
unpublished archives. Riviera to party. Then she meets Antoine Braque, the wealthy, thirty-six-year-
3.000 copies sold
‘‘Probably the greatest spying stunt in World War II’’, said Rights sold: old director of a pharmaceutical lab who is bored to death of his paltry existence.
William Casey, head of the CIA under Ronald Reagan. English USA /GROVE ATLANTIC He had simply come here to look at the sea. He falls madly in love with Francine.
Fritz Kolbe, alias George Wood (1900-1971), was the most German / PIPER For her he is willing to leave his beautiful wife whom he fears, squander his
important source of information to the Allied espionage Bulgarian / RIVA fortune, and open the Eden Plage. This Saint-Tropez den of insouciance and
forces, working from within Germany’s Third Reich. Czech / NAKLADATELSVI LIDOVE absolute excess will become a mythic club, “the place to be” for Brigitte Bardot,
A civil servant working in the German Ministry of NOVINY Françoise Sagan, and other stars of the time.
Foreign Affairs, Kolbe became an anonymous but very Chinese (Mandarin) / CHINESE Francine and Antoine’s crazy love story lasts ten years, during which they tear
efficient opponent of the Nazi regime from 1943 to 1945. PEOPLE ARMY each other apart and get back together again, endlessly in search of euphoria,
Estonian / OLION using and abusing every ploy imaginable. Antoine the big bourgeois becomes the
Polish / KSIAZKA I WIESZA number one heroin trafficker in France. A weird, messed-up crowd gravitates
Why this story? An extraordinary spy story completely
ignored until now. toward him, and his addiction will be the source of his loss.
Exclusive access to the Fritz Kolbe archives granted
by his own son, the archives of the Ministry of Foreign References : And God Created Woman by Roger Vadim, Revolutionary Road by
U.S. National Archives Sam Mendes
Affairs in Berlin, the Swiss Federal Archives in Bern, and the
in Washington (OSS documents).
wicz, Le renard
References : L’Affaire Cicéron (Five Fingers) by Joseph Mankie
May, Moritur i (The Saboteu r, Code Name
de Paris (Der Fuchs von Paris) by Paul
Morituri) by Bernhard Wicki
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Author : Jan Karski Author : Cédric Bannel
Genre : Memoir Genre : Action thriller
Epoch : World War II Epoch : Present day
Setting : Poland, Germany, Setting : Afghanistan
France, UK, US Timespan : Two weeks
Timespan : 6 years
Story of a Secret State The Man from Kabul
Mon témoignage devant le monde :
9782221115565
histoire d’un Etat clandestin L’homme de Kaboul 9782221117156
Jan Karski, a key figure in the Polish In Cédric Bannel’s fast-paced
underground resistance movement during WWII, thriller, Commissioner Kandar turns a routine investigation surrounding
seems to have gotten lost in history. Most people don’t a businessman’s apparent suicide in Kabul into an explosive case that has
Originally published in the U.S. in
know he was the man who offered the Western world international implications.
the first eyewitness account of the Holocaust and the 1944. Published in France, and to
A Swiss-based secret organization known as The Entity uses everything in
devastating conditions of the Warsaw Ghetto. be published in England, Germany,
Italy, Portugal and Spain. its power to terminate Kandar’s investigation of Wali Wadi’s death – even if it
In September 1939, when the German army invaded means putting an end to his life, as well as the lives of innocent civilians. Nick
Poland, Karski, 25, was an army officer. After Snee, an analyst for The Entity, searches for a man named Mandrake, who holds
the Polish army was handily defeated, many of its information The Entity is desperately after. Nick discovers that the information
soldiers, including Karski, were taken prisoner by Mandrake has is related to Wali Wadi’s death, but he doesn’t know how. Nick
the Russian army. He managed to escape from a POW joins forces with Kandar to find out what everybody is after, and to learn why
camp, only to fall into the hands of the Germans. so many innocent lives are being destroyed in the wake of the Mandrake Affair.
As he and his fellow soldiers travel by train to their What they discover ends up being far bigger than they could have possibly
certain enslavement in a work camp, he jumps from imagined.
a window and flees to safety amidst rifle fire. From
there he goes on to become a key figure in the Polish
underground. He is then captured by the Gestapo
during a mission and tortured. Once rescued, he is then asked
ration camps. Publication March 2011. First
to tell the rest of the world what is happening in the concent
ed into one so that he can actually provide print run: 20.000
But before leaving, he is smuggl
he meets FDR. To be published in Australia, Italy,
eyewitness testimo ny when
Germany
References : The Bourne Identity, The Pianist
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Author : Marc Pasteger Authors : Géraldine Collet
Genre : Fiction illustrations by Estelle Billon-Spagnol
Epoch : 20th century Genre : Small graphic novel for
Setting : Everywhere in the world ages 5 and up
Timespan : Epoch : The present
Setting : A city in France
Timespan : One school year
The Christmas Eve Stranger Jacotte
L’inconnu Du Reveillon Jacotte : 60 histoires à lire 9782358510400
seul(e) ou accompagné(e)
9782268070094
Anything can happen thanks to 60 short stories about a little French girl
Christmas! as unique as anyone else – to be read alone or with parents.
presents twenty- My name is Jacqueline. Can you believe it? That’s highway robbery. So I have
A positive and enchanting book about Christmas! The author
events. Each of the twenty- five texts delivers to decided to call myself Jacotte. I am red-headed, I hate princess dresses, and like
five true stories based on actual
as grace, letting us know that anythin g can happen on this to watch stuff grow in the garden. Highway robbery: I say that a lot. It’s because
us the gift of Christm
rs, but they I have strong opinions about a lot of things: school, schoolmates, teachers, the
day! Christmas Eve and Day are not magical dates on our calenda
are able to generate hope for each of us, whether child or adult. fact that everybody works so much, food, ecology, parenthood… I have parents
, the United who, sadly, are still together (all my friends’ parents are divorced), I have a little
Where do the stories take place? In France, Italy, Great Britain
and 25th of Decemb er, in the 1950s, 60s, and brother I love to torture, and I have a stuffed animal named Paulo who likes to
States... When? Only on the 24th
does the author use? Emotio n, optimis m, nostalg ia, and a speak his mind, even though nobody seems to hear him. I am madly in love with
70s. What ingredients
adults will enjoy this a boy named Perceval who does not care about me – but one day he will! And
great deal of hope, always with a truly happy ending. Young
childre n are not the there’s this other boy named Marcel who is crazy in love with me... This is all
book, as will those over thirty-five. Everybody knows that
only ones who believe in Christmas miracles! highway robbery!
References : Love Actually References : Mafalda (TV)
Number of copies placed and sold:
6.000. Reprint under way.
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Author : Sire Cédric Author : Otto Müller-Hill
Genre : Fiction Genre : Journal / memoirs
Epoch : Contemporary Epoch : 20th century - World War
Setting : Paris II - 1944-1945
Timespan : Several months Setting : Germany (Fribourg),
Strasbourg
Timespan : Two years
The Shadow Game The War Journal of a German
Le Jeu de l’ombre Journal de guerre d’un Military Judge
juge militaire allemend
9782842284329
One young man’s descent into a living hell Notes taken in the heat of the moment;
anguished, honest, humanitarian reporting; moving text that has remained
Swan is a young rock star. One night, after what was unpublished until now: sixty-five years after it was written, an important piece to
probably the most successful concert of his career, he To be published in the Spring of add to the file on major world conflicts.
goes for a drive in the countryside. 2011. Sire Cédric’s previous novel,
De Fièvre et de sang, was awarded Werner Otto Müller-Hill was in office in Strasbourg in 1944. He held the difficult
What possessed the young man to drive so recklessly position of democratic jurist and legalist in the reserves, and during the last year
that he suddenly crashed his car in a horrific the Prix Polar of Cognac in 2010.
of the war he kept a personal and political journal that remained hidden until his
accident? Miraculously, he survives. From that day son Benno discovered it with his inheritance. In it, he relates the gullibility of the
on, his life becomes a living nightmare. It starts German people, duped by the rodomontades and official lies of the Nazis, from
with him not being able to hear music anymore, and Dittmar to Goebbels; he denounces the extermination of the Jews, especially in
culminates with him waking up next to the bloody Poland and Russia; and he evokes his personal preoccupations. His wife Daisy
corpse of his latest lover, making him the prime and son Benno have taken refuge at their neighbors’ house in Fribourg and live
suspect in a serial killer case…. in extreme danger since the bombing that destroyed their house. He is not only
an honest judge, but also a sensitive father and husband who wonders with
References : Angel Heart by Alan Parker, The anguish how this evil farce will end for him and those close to him.
Crimson Rivers by Mathieu Kassovitz
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Author : Philippe Vasset Author : Guy-Alban de Rougemont
Genre : Aventure Genre : Bioptic
Epoch : Contemporary Epoch : Second half of the 19
th
Setting : New York, North Pole and first half of the 20 century
th
Timespan : Several months Setting : France, United States,
England
Timespan : 90 years
Diary of a Female Predator Lazard Frères & Co.
Journal intime d’une Lazard Frères : banquiers des 9782213661254
deux Mondes (1840-1939)
9782213655543
prédatrice
She helps herself to the Arctic Circle. Against the backdrop of ambitions,
travels, and money, the century-long story of one of the biggest investment banks
ent fund – a vulture
The call her She, or Ice Queen. She is at the head of a investm in the world, whose archives have recently become available for the first time.
g a godsend : under the
fund worth 500 million dollars. She finds global warmin Our story begins in the village of Lichtenstadt on territory that is now the Czech
fresh water, and diamon ds are all
Arctic ice, treasures of natural gas, petroleum, Republic, in the middle of the 19th century.Twenty years later, Abraham Lazard
within her reach! would leave there to arrive in Frauenberg, a village on the French-German
a snowmobile
From the Murmansk harbor to the offices of Sarah Palin, from border that became the cradle of the Lazard dynasty.
fundrai sing event at an ice skating rink in the city (with iceberg In 1840, Abraham’s two grandsons Lazare and Alexandre head for New Orleans
seminar to a
wears a baby seal fur to open Lazard Frères & Co., a dry goods business. Joined by their brother
cocktails), She pursues her irresistible race to wealth. She Simon, the associates see their business flourish as everyone takes part in the
fun of the powerfu l. Then a
coat, manipulates Inuits and ecologists, and makes rush for gold. In 1862, Alexandre and Lazare settle in San Francisco, while
ing from her stands in the way, at the head
former colleague who learned everyth Simon tends the thriving Paris office. The brothers then acquire Woolen Mills,
fund, and the Ice Queen’s anger is as large as her
of a competing investment the largest wool mill in California. The Civil War appears imminent. In reality, it
then asks her rightha nd man – who is secretly in love with her – favors the manufacturing sector, thanks to the need for military uniforms. Then
demagogy. She
in 1875, Simon Lazard proposes integrating the banking and finance divisions.
to spy on the actions of her worst rival.
women wage. Inaugurated on September 11th, 1876, the Lazard bank progressively enters
And it is he who narrates the war without mercy that these two the New York Stock Exchange in the 1880s, survives the Dreyfus Affair and
the San Francisco earthquake of 1906, and remains in the States up until the
Zelman, Glenn
References : Insomnia by Christopher Nolan, Damages by Daniel 1907 Bankers’ Panic, which puts an end to their American adventure. But before
Kessler and Todd A. Kessler anything else, the Lazards are one big family.
References : The Godfather II by Martin Scorsese, Giant by George Stevens,
There Will Be Blood by Paul Thomas Anderson
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Author : Patrick Sobral Author : Irène Némirovsky
Genre : Heroic fantasy Genre : Novel
Epoch : After the “Jovénia Epoch : The 1920’s
Accident”, when all adults become Setting : Paris and the Basque
ten-year-olds coast
Setting : The world of Alysia Timespan : A few months
Timespan : About 5-6 years
The Legendaires The Misunderstanding
Les Légendaires, Vol. 1. La
9782847894509
pierre de Jovénia Le malentendu 9782207259559
Children in a fantasy world. A disillusioned, cruel tale about a woman
and a man who don’t understand one another and long for different things, in
The Legendaires lost their last battle against the spite of their mutual feelings.
forces of evil. During the “Jovenia Accident” they Huge bestseller in the comic book
Yves Harteloup is the offspring of a wealthy, upper-class family, but the Great
became young again, and the entire population is now category, with more than one
million copies sold in France. This War has left him emotionally crippled, a penniless “outcast” socially estranged
ten years old. Not easy to rebuild a reputation when
series contains two volumes of from his origins. During a vacation in the Basque country he meets a married
you’re a ten-year-old kid and all the world has got it
adventures. Core target group ages woman, Denise, who belongs to the very same upper bourgeoisie world he grew
out for you. But the Legendaires are courageous, and
7-12, boys and girls. 13 volumes up in. Denise soon falls madly for him, but as her feelings grow more intense,
return to combat for strange, and sometimes tragic,
published. Yves becomes more and more aloof and melancholic. Without thinking for a
adventures.
moment that it could alter her relationship with Yves, she agrees to spend time
with another man, almost as a hobby. Yet in doing so, she is going to forever lose
References : Knights of the Zodiac
the man she loves...
Why this story? From the talented Irène Némirovsky, author of Suite
Française, an international best-seller, comes this beautiful and cruel love story.
References : The Notebook by Nick Cassavetes, Cheri
by Stephen Frears
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Author : Jean-Pascal Mathieu Author : Victoria Donda
Genre : Biographical documentary Genre : Memory
Epoch : 19th and 20th centuries Epoch : 1970s to present
Setting : France Setting : Argentina
Timespan : 1871-1922 Timespan : 30 years
Marcel Proust at 20
My Name Is Victoria
Marcel Proust à 20 ans : le Moi, Victoria, enfant volée de
9782846262279
9782221112090
temps de la recherche la dictature argentine
How Marcel became Proust, a fragile boy
with an irresistible ambition. The harrowing true story of an
Argentinian woman who learns at 27 that her entire life is a lie: her parents were
his mother
The life and work of a great writer at age twenty. Marcel leaves murdered by the government, and the people who raised her as their own are not
first time when he joins the army at twenty. Upon returni ng to Paris,
for the who they appear to be.
salons. But in order to
he moves in artistic circles and takes part in literary Victoria is currently the youngest deputy in Argentinian parliament. To
the career his father has chosen for
continue this existence, he must first escape succeed on such a level, she had to live through an impossible situation. Her
him. left-leaning parents were killed by the Argentinian dictatorship just after her
birth. They were betrayed by her uncle, a member of the military who then
References : Coco avant Chanel (Coco Before Chanel) gave Victoria away to another family with military ties. Her grandmother
founded an association with eleven others to find the lost grandchildren of “the
disappeared”. They found Victoria when she was 27 years old.
4.500 copies, and 3.000 books sold
Published in Argentina, USA,
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Author : Robin Nury Author : Emma Becker
Genre : Historical dark comedy Genre : Fiction
Epoch : 1953 Epoch : The 2000s
Setting : Moscow Setting : Paris
Timespan : Two days and a few Timespan : A few months
weeks
The Death of Stalin Mister
La mort de Staline,
97822050 66760 Mr. 9782207109502
Vol. 1. Agonie
The death of Stalin and the two next days: In her first novel, Emma Becker
a true Soviet story scrutinizes the erotic vertigo experienced by a modern-day Lolita. A confession
that takes the form a novel, this cruel deconstruction of a fantasy is also the
On the 2nd of March in 1953, in the middle of the A complete English script is disenchantment of a contemporary Lolita.
night, Joseph Stalin, the “Father of Nations” and the already available, written by
Sometimes one extracts a splinter. Sometimes one is extracted from a splinter.
man who ruled over Russia as dictator for years, Fabien Nury who, besides being
ct of Commu nism” is a bestselling comic book artist, The rest matters very little. The rest is nothing but a slow process of unloving
has a stroke. The “Great Archite
is also a successful movie that brings all the little girls back to shore, where they unlearn pain and
declared dead two days later.
scriptwriter who penned Tiger’s compromise and abnegation and angst, where sorrows are more harrowing and
What follows are two days of internal fights and
intense days Brig ade. The book has just been pleasures less enthralling.
struggles for supreme power, two
ity and relea sed and is shortlisted Ellie is twenty. She leads a carefree and superficial life until the day she meets
drenched with the madnes s, pervers
. for all the major comics award Mister, a married surgeon nearing fifty. At first strictly epistolary, their affair
inhumanity of Totalita rianism
history speciali st to competitions. It is also Comic finally takes off in a hotel room in the 15th arrondissement of Paris. Ellie will
You don’t need to be a Russian
of the Month for RTL, a major go through several months of feverish waiting, punctuated by clandestine get-
enjoy this political and historical farce, where any
no doctor radio broadcaster in France. togethers and brief phone conversations. Their relationship becomes a vicious
member dares to take a decision, where
Human Happin ess” circle she will try to break, unsuccessfully.
is able to save the “Garden er of
because all the best ones were killed or deported
Why this story? A young woman’s erotic life, shamelessly experienced and
one month before, and where the only device that
described. A narrator that analyzes her love affairs with great lucidity.
could save Stalin isn’t compatible with the electrical
the aftermath of
system of his Palace... and it’s too noisy! The story also details
Russia, people fight to seize control , from those References : Lolita by Stanley Kubrick, Lady Chatterley’s Lover by Just
Stalin’s death: everywhere in
l. Jeackin, Une liaison pornographique (An Affair of Love) by Frédéric Fonteyne
repressed to the most powerfu
Inner Circle
References : The Lives of Others (Das Leben der Anderen), The
Dargaud / Le Lombard
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Author : Sylvie Taussig Author : Hugo Lamarck
Genre : Novel Genre : Novel
Epoch : Contemporary Epoch : Contemporary
Setting : France, Eastern Europe Setting : Paris (Montmartre and
Timespan : A few months Parc Monceau)
Timespan : A few months
Speechless Myrtille
9782351761212 Muette Myrtille 9782351760772
A social satire in the lineage of She will change your life. A deeply
Houellebecq charming, wonderful tale.
One person loves her, another adores her.
Meet Diane, a woman in her thirties leading a dull life To be published in September 2011
That’s the way Myrtille is. She will rarely fail to move you. Quite the contrary:
with Franck, her husband who doesn’t understand
she will make you fall in love with her.
her. Diane sometimes fantasizes he has someone else’s
Now thirty years old, serene Myrtille is a fruit that breathes love, whatever the
features. Memories of her friend Anne, now dead
season.
twenty years, still haunt her, as do their dreams.
She knows that happiness is built on the shifting sands that are threatened each
For the past fifteen years, Diane has been making a
living reading biographies for publishing houses. Her day by the tides.
head can no longer contain the stories of all these From Monceau Park to the heart of Montmartre, Myrtille can’t help but spend
people of every age, from everywhere and every her days inventing a universe for dreams and the imagination.
background. She has seen and lived it all, vicariously. Myrtille: a strange, bird-masked character who appears where one doesn’t
A confirmed gossipmonger, she has appropriated expect her. A telephone book, with pages as pale as nights can be. Angelo is in
these stories and tells them to her friends as if they her heart, but not in her bed.
were her own. Myrtille: a wonderful love story, a poetic fable that sparkles. A simple, beautiful
Until the day she is struck down by lightning invitation to pleasure.
and loses her voice…
References : The Piano and In the Cut both by Jane
Finalist for the Prix Orange 2010
Campion
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