– Thursday, October 4, 2007, at 5:30 PM
Meeting with Franck Pavloff
โLa Chapelle des apparencesโ (published by Albin Michel) is a polyphonic novel where each character, trapped by the wounds of their past, agrees to participate in a seemingly senseless collective project: to recount the story of a 17th-century revolt by invoking the civil wars that bloody the world.
– Friday, October 5, 2007, at 5:30 PM
Can We Tinker with Harry Potter?
Meeting with author Gordon Zola. Gordon Zola, the insolent and iconoclastic author of โCโest pas sorcier, Harryโ (published by Le Lรฉopard Masquรฉ), imagines in a delirious thriller that the 7th and final book of J.K. Rowling is stolen by real wizardsโฆ
– Tuesday, October 9, 2007, at 5:30 PM
Meeting with Hubert Haddad
Fnac Riviera Readers’ Prize 2007 Selection
In this poignant novel โPalestineโ (published by Zulma), author Hubert Haddad transforms with Falastรฌn โ a modern Antigone โ all the horror of the conflict into an emblematic tragedy of great beauty.
– Thursday, October 11, 2007, at 5:30 PM
Meeting with Delphine De Vigan
Fnac Riviera Readers’ Prize 2007 Selection
A coming-of-age novel, โNo et moiโ (published by Lattรจs) is a dream of adolescence challenged by reality. A view from a precocious child, both naive and lucid, on the world’s misery. A look of a little girl who grew up too fast, dark and whimsical. A gaze on what sustains us and what we eternally miss.
– Friday, October 19, 2007, at 5:30 PM
Guide to the News Stories of the Cรดte d’Azur
Meeting with authors Philippe Jรฉrรดme and Franรงois Rosso. โGuide des faits divers de la Cรดte dโAzurโ (published by Le Cherche Midi) recounts the small history of our region through its news stories: 1,200 of them in 800 locations and addresses, from the Croisette to the Promenade des Anglais, from Cap dโAntibes to the Rock of Monaco, from the Lรฉrins Islands to the Pass of Death.
– Tuesday, October 23, 2007, at 2 PM
Meeting with Marie Darrieussecq and Olivier Poivre d’Arvor
Exclusive meeting with two authors making headlines in the literary season: Marie Darrieussecq featuring her work โTom est mortโ (published by POL) and Olivier Poivre d’Arvor for โJโai tant rรชvรฉ de toiโ (published by Albin Michel). An event not to be missed.
– Friday, October 26, 2007, at 5:30 PM
Meeting with Minh Tran Huy
Fnac Riviera Readers’ Prize 2007
Meeting with the author around her work โLa Princesse et le Pรชcheurโ (published by Actes Sud).
– Friday, November 9, 2007, at 5:30 PM
On Love in Generalโฆ
Meeting with the author Jessyca Falour around her work โDe lโamour en gรฉnรฉralโฆ et du sexe en particulierโ (OH! Editions)
– Friday, November 30, 2007, at 4 PM
Meeting with Clara Dupont-Monod
Fnac Riviera Readers’ Prize 2007 Selection
A dual-voice novel, โLa passion selon Juetteโ (published by Grasset) is a book of great talent that introduces us from the inside to the Middle Ages of mystics and warriors.
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