Laura Kasischke, in a perfect world

The story: After a wedding Express with the pilot of his dreams is powered Jiselle mother of large family ... Gradually, as her illusions fall one after the other, the world crumbles around her little by little ...

Impressions: Do not rely on the summary, this book is not a book about the harsh Women ... Madame Bovary is not just another competitor ...
Very comfortable under cover of a book for young housewife in need of feeling, the reader is drawn into a tale of ordinary life in a blended family and a world in Apocalypse. Also at the border between fantasy and psychological literature, the author plays with favorite themes of the literature of anticipation. Of 'Ravage' through 'the plague', the tone is set! Without doubt the best book of the author ...
Gradually, as the world crumbles, heroin built his own, the consolidating getting rid of the superfluous.
A Barjavel with duvets in all!

The will, followed by Cross loveless, Heinrich Böll

Overview: These two works completed loveless Cross in 1947 and The Testament written in 1948, are among the earliest writings of Heinrich Böll and illuminate the genesis of his work.

In The Testament, 1943, on the Atlantic Wall, two officers compete: the Catholic Rhineland concerned about the lives of his men, the fanatical Prussian order and discipline. They reveal their true nature in Russia.

Cross loveless recounts the fate of a Catholic family from 1933 to 1945.Two brothers are opposed: the first, attracted by Nazi ideology, the second champion of individual resistance to the regime. Their reunion on the Russian front will be tragic.

The author describes his experience of war, a huge waste of human, but in the depths of abandonment, the opportunity to prove to ourselves, a glimpse of a chance of salvation.

These texts are marked with an impression that belongs only Böll humanist: the authenticity and an exasperated faith in God.

Born in Cologne in 1917 into a Catholic family, Heinrich Böll was convened in spring 1939 for a short period until 1945. Back in his hometown, he emerged as the leading writers of the postwar generation. Several collections of essays, a hundred stories, a dozen novels that mark his literary career, crowned by the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1972. He died July 16, 1985.

Translated from German by Alain Huriot

Impressions: I had the feeling of having found a nugget. Two stories, two facets of Heinrich Böll. "The Testament" is a critic of corruption and mediocrity of the German army. "The cross without love" is unquestionably a work of major Catholic .....

The idealist and humanist Christian conflict. One is committed to his country, unaware that it has signed a deal with the horror ... He rejected without really find his faith and his friends, on behalf of an Ideal named 'Germany'. Although in his quest he finds evil ... The other is a dreamer opposed to national socialism ....

A vigorous style, an almost mystical background. A true aesthetic shock !!!!!!! A Bernanos German? ...

worried man, Henning Mankell

History: Grandfather of a small Klara, Wallander has made his dreams: to live in the countryside with his dog.

After referring to the commissioner the cold war and a case of Russian submarines in Swedish waters, the stepfather of his daughter Linda, a former naval officer, disappears, then it's the turn of the stepmother .Suspicions of espionage. In favor of Russia? U.S.? Parallel to the Stockholm police and secret services, Wallander pursues its latest survey. He then started his own deep diving: the years passed and the women in his life parade. And the little Klara became his ultimate tag.

The author: Born in 1948, Henning Mankell divides his time between Sweden and Mozambique. Famous for its police officers, it is also the author of plays, books for youth and novels. Last published as: The Italian Footwear (Seuil, 2009).

Impressions: It's hard to classify this book among thrillers ... In the latest survey (well constructed) of his hero, the author takes a sort of diary of his anguish and depression that awaits the approach of old age ....

The hero is none other than Henning Mankell himself, is being weakened gradually have more and more health concerns, and sees the specter of Alzheimer lapping around him. Without falling into pathos and the sentimental, this book reminds us of the greatest weakness of modern man: a man who has lost meaning and hope. A man who, nearing its end does not know what to hang on ....

Apocalypse baby virgine Despentes

Book summary: Valentine Galtane , enigmatic and difficult teenager, disappeared. The narrator, Lucie , anti-heroine thirties, private detective without conviction or talent , bound by the grandmother of Valentine to monitor his movements, was lost on a subway platform in Paris. How to find it? What to do with Valentine edifying picture which shows if experienced with boys ? Would she joined in Barcelona this mother she has ever known?

The best would be for Lucy to team up with the Hyena , a ' private 'to radical methods, a powerful woman with flexible body full of violence expressed by saccades: a fee and also for fun, The Hyena accepts market. Here are mismatched colleagues, one lesbian volcanic, the other hetero low frequency crossing the France and Spain to Barcelona in search of the littlerunaway. 

Impressions: The first chapters packed me, my former suspicions were flying one after the other. I even went so far MYSELF congratulate telling me that everything had finally read the good books were not where the thought ....... But the plot thickened from the second half of the book ... The good novel has been transformed, not into a pumpkin, but manifest cradingue pro-lesbian and other oddities that frankly had nothing to do with the plot. As for the denouement, one hesitates between pity, irritability, anger, and eventually want to cry foul. It's really shocking that a book so pitiful denouement, which will look into the tricks of the da vinci code to appease the readers in search of thrill anti-Catholic ... (And yes .. The Opus Dei is still in the figure ....)

that this book gets the prize Renaudot !!!.. Here I do not know what to think ...

Mr. Nabe do not be disappointed, I think the jury did not deserve you ....

Elizabeth George, the procession of death

History: Inspector Thomas Lynley, the hero of fifteen novels of Elizabeth George, left the police after the murder of his wife, Helen. But his successor, Isabelle Ardery, who wants his team to win - especially the old accomplice Lynley, Barbara Havers - manages to convince him to return after discovering the body of a young woman in a cemetery. The investigation leads them into the region of the New Forest, where the victim's best friend is also trying to shed light on his death. Meanwhile, we discover another case: a three year old child has disappeared and the suspects could be three young boys ...

Impressions: This is really not the best of the author ... Trying too hard to do ... well ... We did too!

This book deserves to blunt cuts to give a bit of pace to the plot. The reader has trouble "hanging", his attention was constantly dispersed descriptions a bit long ...

Over 650 pages where you find the time long, it's a safe bet that you will not hold the shock ... And yet ... What a pity ... The plot was good and yet sympathetic characters ... Read all the same, not hesitating to skip pages ...