Jose Louis Bocquet

Sophie Képès

This truculent anthology of new short stories about love has a quip by Ferdinando Camon for an epigraph: “It’s hard to be a woman, they all complain of it. It’s impossible to be a man, none manage.” The narrator is a modern woman, in her thirties. In a series of quickly sketched scenes, she paints...

Charles Gancel

Humor, a fine stroke, a touch of cynicism, come together to make this collection of short stories a terribly funny book about a subject that isn’t necessarily a laughing matter. Because "Eggs" discusses power and impotence, strength and ruse, weakness and submissiveness. These are very human...

Marie-Hélène Lafon

"Liturgy" is an anthology of short stories on the theme of out-of-the-way villages and the life of the people “in the high country” — where nature is harsh, and winter lasts too long. It’s the eternal story of silent families and those who are crushed. Jeanne, whose face is gone and whose life is...

Anthologie

The Clash’s celebrated album, London Calling, will be 30 years old in December, 2009. 19 French authors pay tribute to it with original short stories, each one inspired by one of the 19 songs on London Calling. The result is sarcastic, breathtaking, burlesque, tragic, committed, sometimes dark and...