Hachette Antoine/Novel

Oh, Reza, the most beautiful thing about writing is that you can't interrupt me. I admit that you might turn away from me if I speak to you, or silence me, or throw away our old gifts and letters and then lie about not...

The Internment Sameera Ahmed A novel set in a fictional version of the United States, unfolding at a thrilling, breathtaking pace, it is a call for hope and resilience, and a silent plea to move towards better societies today. Following the American President's declaration...

The Guard of Deceit Khaled Khalifa   Alone, as I always am, I do not enter through closed doors. My departure exhausts me, and the moons on the brass-hued nights hang over the gates of Damascus. Damascus, the abyss of waiting and crystal walls…...

The Faculty of Education, 1968. The students of Lebanon had never known such a time before, yet they certainly felt it. There was ample opportunity for leisure, for forming relationships with girls, and for discussing politics and expressing opinions freely. Everyone played, even in...

Gypsy Notebooks Khaled Khalifa At the threshold, I stand and observe the wall plastered with white lime. My grandmother rises from her sleep, enveloped in that awe I see in the eyes of others, so I approach her. Aisha protests and tries to pull...

A Chance for One Last Love Hassan Daoud     In the first Arab novel about the Coronavirus pandemic, relationships begin and end just like the pandemic itself. From his Beirut balcony, Ezzat spots a single light on a single balcony in the building...

No One Reached Them A novel that delves into the narratives of the region, proposing a new and different narrative for the city of Aleppo in the 19th and mid-20th centuries, through intertwined stories of doomed love, certain death through massacres, plague, earthquakes, and...

The obscure writer receives a call from an unknown number. A strange number appears on the screen. The handmade product... and then the labyrinth begins. The novel is divided into three parts, three voices, yet they all converge into a single book, from which...

Dawn broke over the ruins. After half an hour of silence and frost, a new convoy appeared. Hundreds of women with their children. Boys and girls. Dressed in black. Their mouths gagged. They walked like mobile prisons, concealing bodies, and bodies concealing souls, and...

Through the story of Grandmother Nadia Al-Faour, the narrative unfolds, specifically a narrative of Palestine. While the setting is geographically confined to Istanbul and Haifa, between Kadıköy and Wadi al-Nassas, it is a tale of Palestine under occupation, offering a concise and varied glimpse...

Franz Goldstein is not just a publisher, and Edifice du Sable is not just a publishing house. Monsieur Goldstein dedicates his work and his life to this cause, his cause of bringing one of the novels to the Nile River in a simple literary...

Love is a new life. What if, with every love, lovers lightened their names, titles, and pasts? Their sorrows and hungers? What if their stories began with the lightness of newly born beings, a new Adam and Eve, every day? Monsieur Dac and Madame...

"I didn't do anything else to offend the iron-clad man who's turned against his own people. He didn't go out to the demonstration, he wasn't the reason for the first bullets and tears being shed, and to be put in that way on the...

Small and their dreams are small. A bigger oar's appearance. Fathers, mothers, football polluters, Monica Bellucci fans, the poor who subsist on one meal a day, seekers of freedom or identity... it doesn't matter. The boat has room for everyone. And the boat promises...

When silence falls between us, his face seems to me like a word on the barrel of a cannon, and I always fear we might feel superior to him. One feels superior to someone who has had a bad day. Yes, offering condolences and...

That was my first love, a face I've never known. Her laughter guided me to unravel the details, and witnessing them led me to connect them. Sleeping beside her brought the tranquility of the night, and gazing at her face in the moments before...

Dying at the edge of memory—what happened there, on that land that was once home to them and later became a cause and a conflict? That land, before it became a cause and a conflict, was like everything else, embracing all backgrounds and religions....

The life of Shanuq, this strange, enigmatic man, unfolds before us through the women in his life. Through them, the novel explores key moments in Yemeni history, particularly those preceding unification. From the time of Saleh's alliance with the al-Baidh group in the north...

The Day I Learned to Live Laurent Gounelle Successful in your career. Stable in your life. You have a roof over your head, and some possessions... but you're not entirely satisfied. There's something missing, or perhaps too much. You're not alone in this state...

Here are women who wage passive battles for survival every day. They pay with their own flesh the price of a heavy legacy of pervasive social values, and they pay with their lives the bills entirely built on the premise that their existence is...