Sephardic Can you escape your destiny? The one chosen for you? asks Esther Vital. A Moroccan Jew born in Strasbourg, crushed by the weight of tradition and family, but also torn by nostalgia for abandoned paradises – Spain from Cordoba to...
The Messenger On the harbor, a young woman crosses paths with Anaël, a clairvoyant. He tells her about his itinerary and confides in her his vision, revealing the secrets of his strange power. Without knowing why, she agrees to follow him on a...
Mother and daughter, a novel “No one will make you happier than I, since I made you. No one understands you like I do, since you come from me, since you are me.” Two fashion personalities, mother and daughter. A story of love...
The book of smugglers Father and daughter Armand Abécassis and Éliette Abécassis, together for the first time in a book, offer an unprecedented approach to the world’s oldest religion. From Genesis to Philip Roth, through the books of the...
The invisible corset What are women really going through today? Women can’t take it anymore: they’ve got to juggle work and family life, they’re burdened with household chores, they’re struggling with divorce...
A happy event “From then on, my life no longer belonged to me, I was nothing but a hollow, an emptiness, a nothingness. I was now a mother.” Violent, heartfelt and immodest, Eliette Abécassis’s new novel shatters the taboos...
The last tribe Why has the body of a man murdered two thousand years ago in Tibet turned up today in a Shinto temple in Kyoto? Why is he holding a fragment of a Qumran manuscript in his hand? Who had an interest in its discovery? Commissioned by...
My father «All women have a father: it is important to understand this, which is not self-evident. All women have a father: that means that all women are doomed to unhappiness.» When, one day, she receives a letter from a stranger who...
Qumran It was one of the most important discoveries of the century. The Dead Sea Scrolls, found in the caves of Qumran. And soon stolen. Will Ary, a young religious Jew, uncover the secret they contain in the course of an investigation...
Qumran It was one of the most important discoveries of the century. The Dead Sea Scrolls, found in the caves of Qumran. And soon stolen. Will Ary, a young religious Jew, uncover the secret they contain in the course of an investigation punctuated...
The Temple Treasure April 2000, Judean desert. An archaeologist is sacrificed on an altar near the Qumran caves. The Israeli secret services are on high alert. Ary, the hero of Qumran, is once again plunged into the heart of one of...
The repudiated « I have been loved, this is the end of love, loved and adored, that is the end of love, loved and repudiated. »
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