The number-one bestseller and winner of the Prix Goncourt in 2019 – a compulsive, riveting and...
Death on Credit
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"For a long time I used to go to bed early." The first two volumes in Proust's seven volume...
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Étienne Lantier, an unemployed railway worker, is a clever but uneducated young man with a...
The Book of Mother
Violaine Huisman’s remarkable debut novel is an exquisitely wrought story about a daughter’s...
The Elegance of the Hedgehog
The Elegance of the Hedgehog is a novel by the French novelist and philosophy teacher Muriel...
Nana
Perhaps Zola's most famous novel, Nana is an evocation of the glittering, corrupt world of the...
L’Assommoir
"I wanted to depict the inevitable downfall of the working-class family in the polluted atmosphere...
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