Hachette Antoine/Novel

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...

Samia glanced at her watch: half past two. Strange, it wasn't like Nabil to be late without telling her. She had barely finished her thought when the doorbell rang. She rushed to the door. It was Suha. "Did Aunt Aziza bring you?" Samia asked,...

On the first Thursday of 1981, a large shell accidentally struck Kevork's house, causing a fire that consumed its entire contents. Inside the dilapidated house, which he returned to inspect days later, Kevork realized he had lost everything. He had lost all his possessions:...

Balqis, Youssef, Walid, Ghassan. Four characters, four faces. Four questions about meaning. And four yellow ones trying to confront the muscle of existence. Youssef the poet escapes his existence into a perfected image, a weapon he doesn't intend. Walid the rebel fights to escape...

Shams, an elderly artist, lost his painting hand in the 2005 bombing that targeted the convoy of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, killing him. As a child, he lived in Cuba. As a teenager, he lived with his mother in her native Lebanon,...

What kind of ending is this for a novel searching for a beginning? This is where this novel should have started, but the beginning was delayed more than once, and the ending came more than once. It is a novel about a woman of...

The Secret Life of Writers Guillaume Musso In 1999, three months after the ineffectual radio, novelist Nathan Fowles announced his retirement and sought refuge on the chosen Belgian island of Beaumont, which he had researched for tranquility.In the autumn of 2018, journalist Mathilde Monney...

America entered Iraq. The war began. Saddam Hussein went into hiding, orchestrating events behind the scenes. But he would suddenly appear in the middle of the night at a dentist's office, complaining of a toothache. From the window overlooking Firdos Square, he would witness...