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WOMEN WRITING“As short as it is striking […] a time bomb which she sets ticking.” Figaro littéraireChirousse, Myriam: LA PAUPIÈRE DU JOUR(Buchet Chastel/Libella, May 2013, 362 pages)Ø LA PAUPIÈRE DU JOUR describes the emergence of a woman who is breaking the chains that bind herto the past. Myriam Chirousse’s second novel features magnificently portrayed nature – splendid andomnipresent; characters who have not had it easy; tragedies, passions and deep dark secrets.Cendrine Gerfaut has just arrived in Barjouls, an isolated village in the mountains in the south ofFrance. She is ostensibly a botanist, come to conduct a survey of local plant species. But she is actually lookingfor Benjamin Lucas, a local man who murdered her fiancé years ago. Benjamin was released from jail not longago, and Cendrine has sworn to kill the man she blames for ruining her life. Barjouls is like one big, oldfashionedfamily. Behind a cheerful façade, everyone is keeping an eye on everyone else – whom they mightlove or hate. Cendrine Gerfaut will have to keep her guard up. And her quest will unearth some real surprises.A young woman arrives in an isolated village where just a few families live, bound by their secrets. Sheis passing herself off as a botanist, but is actually searching for the man who ruined her life, who she believes ishiding there, in order to kill him. By the author of MIEL ET VIN (Buchet Chastel, 2009).Myriam Chirousse lives in southeastern France. She translates from Spanish – including ROSAMONTERO’S novels. LA PAUPIÈRE DU JOUR is her second novel.“Un récit qui a du souffle On ne le lâche pas.” La Dépêche du Midi“L’auteure mène son affaire sans précipitation, dresse de beaux portraits, organise ses clans, laissedeviner les complicités, ce que cachent les silences.” La MontagneMinard, Céline: FAILLIR ÊTRE FLINGUÉ(Rivages, August 2013, 326 pages)Longlisted for the Prix Médicis, the Prix Femina and the Prix Wepler Offer from Germany !Ø A Western with roots, a veritable founding saga that ranges from lyrical to dramatic to burlesque,FAILLIR ÊTRE FLINGUÉ is first and foremost a vibrant celebration of the shifting limits of theimagination.On the outskirts of a burgeoning town that all trails lead to, a fresh breath is blowing over theinhospitable prairies of the Far West. That breath belongs to Water-Running-Over-the-Plains, a young Indianwoman whose clan was decimated and who has been using her skills as a healer for the good of both Whites andIndians ever since.She will meet plenty of people: Brad and Jeff, brothers who are crossing the great open spaces alongwith their dying old mother in a rickety cart drawn by two stubborn old oxen; Gifford, who would have died ofsmallpox if Water-Running hadn’t saved him in the nick of time; Elie, who’s on the run from Bird Boisverd,whose horse he stole; Arcadia, a wandering musician whose bow was stolen by the Quibble Gang. And plenty ofother characters whose singular fates, like the entwined strands of a colorful skein of wool, are woven into aboldly revisited Western tale in which that mythically untamed American landscape becomes a shared, stillpermeablespace open to all sorts of trafficking, transits and wanderings.Céline Minard’s novels include LE DERNIER MONDE (2007), BASTARD BATTLE (2008, PrixWepler Special Mention), OLIMPIA (2010) and SO LONG LUISE (2011). All of her books have been criticallyacclaimed for their demanding style and their narrative virtuosity. She is seen as one of the most unusual voicesin contemporary literature.“FAILLIR ÊTRE FLINGUÉ is one of the most intriguing and thought-provoking novels I’ve read in agood while. [...] Céline Minard handles things with admirably authoritative skill. She is by turns a painter, ageographer, a surveyor and a magician. In a word, a novelist.” Livres-Hebdo“FAILLIR ÊTRE FLINGUÉ [is] a marvel of intelligence and originality, one of the gems of this year’scrop of new books.” Le Monde des Livres“With perfect aim, Céline Minard’s entertaining characters, drawn over a poetic and contemplativebackground, bring this unique western blazingly to life.” Télérama36Contact: Mrs Anastasia Lester ; Email:anastassia.lester@gmail.com