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FICTIONRights sold: Spain (Destino), Italy (Sellerio)“Cette saga est menée de main de maître à un rythme trépidant où les situations claquent et les motsfusent.” Le Figaro“Dureté, pureté : comme son personnage, le roman balance entre les deux, révélant les rêves et lestensions, l’obstination et la résignation. Portrait d’un homme, de trois femmes, d’une ville et d’une sociétéentière, le roman surprend son lecteur jusqu’à la fin. Un lyrisme qui met K.-O.” L’Express“Entre roman d’initiation et fresque historique, Khadra fait une épopée du destin grandiose et tragiqued’un enfant d’Oran.” La Vie“Khadra offre un roman puissant où les personnages sont composés avec nuances et subtilité. Sonroman est également un hommage à l’Algérie de l’entre-deux-guerres, belle et misérable à la fois.” Page deslibrairesLenoir, Frédéric & Simonetta, Greggio: NINA(Stock, May 2013, 304 pages)Ø Simonetta Greggio and Frédéric Lenoir have created this two-handed novel as an immersion in theintransigence and simplicity of the love we look for all our lives, and that we sometimes find only at thevery beginning.Adrien is a single, forty-something Parisian with no children. He has lost all lust for life and oneevening decides to commit suicide. He writes a will and a last letter to Nina, the love of his life, the only womanhe loved passionately and unconditionally.Nina and Adrien were children when they met. Memories of their summer holidays spent in Ravellosweep back over Adrien in great waves. Putting off his suicide till the following evening, then the next and thenext again, he writes these memories down in his long letter to Nina which, over the course of those evenings,becomes the overwhelming declaration of love he never dared to make to the young Italian woman herself.Adrien has always dreamed of becoming a writer. He had to wait until this final moment to have thecourage to write. Exhausted but at peace with himself, he takes a cocktail of pills and slips into a deep coma. Hecould never guess that his words will turn several people’s lives upside down: firstly Nina’s but also all thepeople in some way touched by his writing.Simonetta Greggio and Frédéric Lenoir have created this two-handed novel as an immersion in theintransigence and simplicity of the love we look for all our lives, and that we sometimes find only at the verybeginning.Simonetta Greggio is Italian and writes in French. She has written five novels published by Stock,including LA DOUCEUR DES HOMMES (2005), DOLCE VITA 1959-1979 (2010) and L’HOMME QUIAIMAIT MA FEMME (2012).The philosopher and writer Frédéric Lenoir hosts a weekly show, Les Racines du ciel for FranceCulture. He has written some thirty books, including five novels that have been translated into twenty languages.His latest successes include: L’AME DU MONDE (NiL), PETIT TRAITÉ DE VIE INTÉRIEURE (Plon) andLA GUÉRISON DU MONDE (Fayard).“A novel in which love is laid bare.” Figaro Littéraire“A stirring romantic thriller.” Livres HebdoDarrieussecq, Marie: IL FAUT BEAUCOUP AIMER LES HOMMES(P.O.L., August 2013, 285 pages)Longlisted for the Goncourt Prize and Médicis Prize.Ø A perceptive and entertaining portrait of Los Angeles that goes behind the scenes in Hollywood.Ø A striking female character: a woman rendered fragile by love, a prisoner of her feelings.Ø A fascinating male character: mysterious and opaque, he struggles with exile, his roots, his dreams andwith everyday racism.Ø A tragically doomed love story, with sensitive, appealing and mysterious characters.Ø A novel that revives romanticism, over a background of ideas about love and racism.Contact: Mrs Anastasia Lester ; Email:anastassia.lester@free.fr 11