Rating: ★★★★☆ (4.5/5) Neige Sinno’s Triste Tigre is not a book one simply reads; it is a book one survives. Written with a rare blend of lucidity and anguish, this hybrid of memoir and essay examines the lifelong impact of sexual abuse […]
In The Hour of the Predator (L’heure des prédateurs), Giuliano da Empoli delivers a haunting exploration of modern power. Blending political insight with a sharp, almost cinematic narrative style, the author exposes how today’s global stage is dominated not by institutions or […]
In Jävla karlar (Damn Men), Andrev Walden delivers a brilliant and darkly funny debut that transforms chaos and trauma into sharp, lyrical storytelling. The novel, which won Sweden’s prestigious August Prize, recounts the author’s unusual childhood seven different fathers in seven years […]
Édouard Louis returns once again to the terrain of his own life and family with Monique s’évade (Monique Escapes), a slim yet deeply emotional book that continues his exploration of class, trauma, and the bonds between mother and son. Known for turning […]
Joël Dicker returns to his native Switzerland with a glittering, snowbound puzzle set in the Palace de Verbier, a luxury hotel tucked high in the Alps. One December morning, a body is discovered on the carpet of Room 622. The case fizzles […]
Lucinda Riley’s The Missing Sister continues the sweeping saga of the D’Aplièse family in what was meant to be the penultimate chapter of her beloved Seven Sisters series. With breathtaking locations, interwoven timelines, and the emotional intensity that fans have come to […]
Joël Dicker, best known for his intricate literary thrillers like The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair and The Baltimore Boys, takes a completely unexpected turn with The Very Catastrophic Visit to the Zoo (La muy catastrófica visita al zoo). This charming, […]
Francine Oomen returns to the world that raised a generation with a new entry aimed at those former teens who are now juggling rent, relationships, and the quiet panic of adulthood. Hoe overleef ik alles wat ik niemand vertel? promises a grown […]
Édouard Louis’s brief, blazing portrait of his mother is both elegy and emancipation narrative. In fewer than a hundred pages he traces a life hemmed in by class and by men, then records the moment at forty five when that life breaks […]
Édouard Louis returns with a blistering, intimate work that reads like a reckoning. L’Effondrement is the story of an older brother who dreamed past the borders of his class and the narrow futures available to him, and of the slow collapse that […]