In a remarkable style, Sénanque reveals a poignant story, a quest for truth from which emerges a strong desire for justice and fraternity.

In delightful language, Chloé Delaume takes us by the hand and leads us into her world of captivating extravagance, redeeming self-mockery and insane clairvoyance. A real treat!

With baffling honesty, the author spares us nothing.

To break through taboos can require a certain prowess. This prowess Neige Sinno has demonstrated twice. Once, when aged 19, she filed a lawsuit against her step father who raped her repeatedly from her 7th until her 15 birthday. Then again, when she published Triste Tigre -- which is clearly the book phenomenon of this literary fall.

If, in her first novel Ressac, Maureen Wingrove alias Diglee honored the unknown women she met by chance during a retreat in a Breton abbey, she explores the destinies of women within her family, in her second novel. She tells the story of a lineage, and brings out a flamboyant, contradictory character: her great aunt Georgie, a woman who kept…

Beneath the surface of a seemingly perfect life (think Bree from Desperate Housewives), the protagonist of Mon Mari – English translator, mother of two, and married for 15 years – secretly holds an exclusive, all-consuming, and guilty passion for her husband.

In Eastbound, Maylis de Kerangal delivers the story of a tangent to Europe's most easterly point aboard the famous Trans-Siberian Railway. Set against a backdrop of wild landscapes - from the snowy forests of Siberia to Lake Baikal - Alyosha's adventure is sublimated by the beauty that flashes through the train's windows.

After The Little Communist Who Never Smiled (Seven Stories Press,) and Mercy Mary Patty (Actes Sud), Lola Lafon continues her exploration of the psyches of young girls--their fragility, their resilience--with Chavirer. Just like Nadia Comaneci and Patty Hearst, Chloé is a young girl whose destiny bears witness to the violence inflicted on women in our societies.