After “Nothing is black”, her latest novel which was interested in the life of Frida Khalo, Claire Berest returns today with “Artifices”. An addicting thriller-like novel based on characters steeped in mysteries.
Take a cop as lost as he is lonely, one of his colleagues who is worried about him and who trains him on the Tinder dating app. Continue with a neighbor who drums completely drunk in the middle of the night at her door. Add an international performer who ignites the art market, not to mention a fox, a wolf and a horse, a white Camarillo horse who broke into the heart of one of the greatest Parisian museums.
Here are just a few pieces among others of an addicting puzzle-like novel. A story with drawers between past and present that draws on the flaws, memories and wounds of characters who we wonder if they are what they are, and what they hide deep inside them- same.
“Artifices”, the new novel by Claire Berest is published by Éditions Stock.
Replay of the show from Monday, November 1.