Books To Entertain Dad This Father’s Day!
This Father’s Day, we turn to stories of fathers and father figures—tender, tormented, mythic, flawed—told with emotional precision and literary brilliance. Whether you’re honoring a father, remembering one, becoming one, or simply thinking about the men who’ve shaped you, these novels invite their readers to reflect on what it means to guide, to fail, to inspire, and to endure. Happy Father’s Day!
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In L’Invention de Tristan, Adrien Bosc pulls back the curtain on the myth of Tristan Egolf—the cult American novelist whose brief, meteoric life has long blurred the lines between fact and legend. What begins as a literary investigation unfolds into a subtle act of demystification: not to destroy a myth, but to examine how myths are made—by the publishing world, by desire, and by literature itself.
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L’Invention de Tristan by Adrien Bosc, éditions Stock
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Step into the salons, cafés, and bedrooms of 19th-century Paris, where revolution crackles in the streets and genius is forged in the heat of aesthetic combat. With Le Roman des Artistes, Dan Franck launches a sweeping literary saga that brings to life the artists, writers, and musicians who redefined modernity between 1820 and 1848.
This first volume in a planned tetralogy is a vibrant, addictive blend of history and storytelling, capturing both the grandeur and grit of a generation that gave us Hugo, George Sand, Delacroix, Chopin, and Baudelaire. Franck writes with the narrative flair of a novelist and the precision of a historian, pulling these towering figures off their pedestals and into the throes of love affairs, rivalries, revolutions, and salons crackling with ideas.
Part gossip, part epic, part cultural history, Le Roman des Artistes is a thrilling immersion in the creative ferment of a century that invented not just modern art, but the very idea of the artist as rebel, visionary, and icon. It’s history with a heartbeat.
Le Roman des artistes by Dan Franck, éditions Grasset
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Winner of this year’s Prix Inter
A novel of rare tenderness and quiet brilliance, Un perdant magnifique invites us into the half-lit world of Jacques—a charming, eccentric, and increasingly fragile man whose presence lingers like a forgotten melody. Through the eyes of his teenage stepdaughter Anna, Florence Seyvos paints an unforgettable portrait of a man both tyrannical and endearing, magnetic and melancholic—a dreamer out of step with the world.
Set in 1980s Le Havre, amid cassette tapes and Renault 5s, Seyvos weaves a coming-of-age story that shimmers with emotional nuance. The writing is light yet loaded, elliptical and precise, capturing the bittersweet ache of adolescence, the quiet complexity of sisterhood, and the mystery of those we can never fully understand.
With the grace of a seasoned author and the soul of a musician, Seyvos composes a deeply moving elegy—one in which every silence, every vinyl scratch, every off-key dream resounds with fragile beauty. Un perdant magnifique is not just the story of a man—it’s the story of the echoes he leaves behind.
Un perdant magnifique by Florence Seyvos, éditions de l’Olivier
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Before he became the master of Catholic guilt, espionage, and psychological suspense, Graham Greene wrote Deux Hommes en un—his striking debut novel, now restored in a razor-sharp new translation by Claro. Set in the moody landscape of 19th-century England, this is the story of Andrews, a divided young man torn between crime and conscience, loyalty and betrayal. It’s a tale of smugglers, orphans, haunted mansions, and moral reckoning—Victorian in texture but already pulsing with Greene’s trademark inner turbulence.
You’ll find here all the raw materials of Greene’s future greatness: religious overtones, tormented characters, fog-drenched atmospheres, and a deep fascination with the human capacity for ruin—and redemption. What makes this reissue essential is its energy: stripped of stylistic dust, the novel reads like a confession laced with gothic flair and philosophical depth.
A thrilling rediscovery from the early days of a giant, Deux Hommes en un reveals not just a writer in the making, but a man already wrestling with the darkness within. A must for Greene devotees, literary thrill-seekers, and anyone intrigued by the shadowy line between good and evil.
Deux Hommes en un by Graham Greene, newly translated by Claro, éditions Flammarion
