Hachette Antoine/Novel

Owen Quine, the author, disappeared overnight under very mysterious circumstances. Feeling both distraught and jealous, his wife consults private detective Cormoran Strike. But as Strike investigates, he realizes that the author's disappearance is not a passing whim and has not been overlooked. Prior to...

He arrives, mysteriously and in an equally mysterious way, to Robin Ellacott. But she soon freezes, stunned by a whole section of the content: a severed, overwhelming woman! As for the private investigator and liberated master, Cormoran Strike, he does not notice the shock...

Lethal White Robert Galbraith "Lethal White is a thrilling suspense novel and the fourth book in the Strike series, following the journey of the famous detective Cormoran Strike and his assistant Robin Ellacott, as they uncover a murder that their client claims to have...

Then He Vanished Rosie Walsh     "Seven days of life... then he vanished. 'It's like I've known you for a thousand years,' he tells her. 'It's like I've lived my whole life waiting for you,' she says. In an instant, love creates an...

A Woman Like Her Marc Levy     How far apart are two lovers? Two continents, two cultures, eight floors? Yet, that was the beginning: a delightful encounter, a strange coincidence, and developments that accelerated to the rhythm of events centered around an old...

Those Places Mahmoud Shukair     Each of us has their own story. And stories themselves have stories. Our movements are connected to the considerations of time and place, to the historical moment, and to the freedom or lack thereof available at the time....

A valuable and enjoyable book, both satirical and serious, about Palestine, in which the author recounts the stories of people he encountered, both inside and outside the walls of the Forensic Medicine Hospital adjacent to the Dheisheh refugee camp in Bethlehem, blending reality with...

This is not Mahmoud Asher's first novel about Palestine, nor will it be his last. The Palestinian writer never tires of delving into memory, of exploring the corridors of the Nakba's history, and of humanizing it. He recounts the customs and daily lives of...

Strangers we meet. But behind our faces, untouched by familiarity, a secret thread binds our lives, flowing between us like a mysterious current. A rope that tightens its terrifying grip around our necks. The past doesn't leave like a deeply buried guest. There's still...

Frédéric Chopin is not the protagonist of this novel, but he is its very soul, appearing as a fleeting presence among others. Joseph, the Jew spared by Nazi death in Poland, inhabits Chopin's house, and Chopin inhabits his soul. Later, this Jew will abandon...

The Country Akl Awit In this long poem, the voice rises above the flag, and the flag rises above the tragedy. In a book laden with rhetoric, containing French translations of the texts, the poet declares his stance against the stagnation afflicting Lebanon, calling...

Simone deceived Hamid. Hamid was the right-hand man of the father of the factory owner. And her father was none other than Shakib Khattar, one of the faces of the Observatory. This abduction came at a delicate time, as Shakib was deeply preoccupied with...

Neither of them knows the other: Hadeel, whose work is exhibited in a Paris gallery, and Louise, whose paintings he displays there. Between them is him. And with him, his grandfather's stories about the 1948 agreements and Tarshihata. Louise attracted him, though he believes...

In the 14th century, Yaqub becomes Chief Justice of the evil Mansa kingdom, but he remains an enigmatic elder. He awakens to his former self when love comes to him, and he comes to kill it, after a grueling journey, tested in spectacular fashion,...

From childhood, Shams El-Din's journey toward his identity begins. His spirit grows unnoticed by his rebellious body, leaving his name behind and crossing from Sudan to the other side of the Nile. There, he becomes a woman named Shams. Shams's new life begins in...

The End of the Desert Saïd Khatibi   The End of the Desert — One autumn day in 1988, Zakia Zaghouani found a body in the outskirts of the desert, beginning the search for the story of her death. As they investigate those involved...

Winter in Sokcho Elisa Shua Dusapin     "Winter in Sokcho — a forgotten place between the two Koreas. A girl whose life was given to her by a father she doesn't know and who didn't give her his name. He, who belongs to...

A joyful gleam spread through her brow, her gait, her cheek, and the shape of her lips, which touched without closing. It was a joy that might take flight if she so desired, when the opportunity arose—a playful, merriment-filled moment, or perhaps the beginning...

This is the story of a neighbor who can't sleep because his neighbor didn't close his balcony curtains on a stormy night. It's also the story of Karen, who filled the void of her fifties with a Chesterfield sofa, and on which she quickly...

He claimed that late in life, after the poisoning deaths of his two dogs, the secession of the South from the fourth capital, the trauma of the bombing of the two Buddha statues in Bamiyan—the target—and the removal of two internal organs (an appendix...