Our meetings
This novel of thwarted love is also the novel of an era. Amélie and Vincent meet as young men at the Sorbonne in the late 80s. Each felt love at first sight, but didn’t dare admit it to the other: neither felt “up to it”...
Instagrammable
« À la terrasse des cafés, seuls ou avec des amis, ils sont sur le qui-vive. À l’affût d’une nouvelle, dans une attente fébrile, constante, ils ont toujours leur téléphone à portée de main. Le soir, ils ne s’endorment pas sans l’avoir...
The desire to believe
«This diary is mine, that of a woman, a mother and a philosopher who asks herself questions. How can we live in a world where everything can be bought and sold at the click of a button? A world whose sole purpose is to manufacture needs? A world...
The shadow of the golem lecture musicale
Prague, 1552, Jews are persecuted. A rabbi creates a clay being to protect his community. But the powers that be are worried, and kidnap Zelmira to use her as a bargaining chip for the Golem, this fantastic being.
And now you are allowed to every man
« Wife? Wife? No. You are Agouna. Chained, anchored, stuck.»
A happy event
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...
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 Toledo...
Qumran
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...