The subject, the quality of its authors and the co-publishing with France Inter, a radio with undeniable impact, such is the winning cocktail of the work of Vincent Lemire and Thomas Snégaroff, Israel/Palestine. Anatomy of a conflict (Les Arènes/France Inter). At the helm, therefore, of this synthetic essay on the Israel-Palestine shock, the historian Vincent Lemire, teacher at the University of Paris-Est/Gustave Eiffel and the historian and journalist Thomas Snégaroff, presenter of Great Face-to-face on France Inter and C Politics on France 5. Rich in maps, infographics, chronologies and biographies of personalities, the essay proposes a division into six key dates, 1897 : the Zionist utopia, 1917: Promises Betrayed, 1947 : a sharing and an anger, 1967 : the time of wars, 1987: uprisings and migrations, 2007 : towards chaos. A clarity which is fortunate to please the readers who propelled the work to the highest step of the podium.
Change of subject with Anaïs Quemener who tells us about her extraordinary journey in All I wanted to do was run (Flammarion). Caregiver by night and high-level athlete by day, Anaïs Quemener was diagnosed with breast cancer at the age of 24. After fighting the illness, she has continued to accumulate trophies and marathon records since then, slipping into 5th place in the rankings. Three other women burst onto the best-seller charts this week from April 1 to 7: star dancer Aurélie Dupont who, with Don’t forget why you dance (Albin Michel, 11th row), she also tells us about the challenges overcome and “the price of demanding the absolute” ; there journalist Nadia Daam and her document The Kid (Grasset, 12th rank): the author, in 2008, of Bad mothers: The truth about the first baby (Jacob-Duvernet), returns, at 45, to mother-daughter relationships and the difficult education of an adolescent, between excessive protection and risky freedom.
Finally, Adeline Toniutti, singing teacher from the show Star Academy (TF1)revealed in Incandescent forever (Rocher) all the vicissitudes endured (accident, marital abuse, social decline, etc.) to “rediscover happiness”: fans of resilience appreciate which sends it to 18th place in the list. We will finish this little tour of the entrants with the CEO of the Fnac-Darty group, Enrique Martinez, helped by the journalist Corinne Scemama, author of What if we consumed better (L’Observatoire, 9th row), a plea for the circular business, centered on the booming repair and second-hand markets.
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It’s calm, much calmer on the fiction chart, still dominated by thrillers and romance. Only two entrants in fact this week. Bernard Minier, with his formidable The Erased (XO éditions), which we talked to you about at length in L’Express and which, as soon as it was published, took third place among the best sellers, and the comic strip artist, Jean-Marc Rochette, whose first novel, In the heart of winter (Les Etages), deals with a move to an isolated Alpine valley…
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