David Foenkinos or Roberto Saviano are on the podium? – L’Express

It is very calm this week from February 3 to 9 with three arrivals in the list of fictions and only two entries in that of the tests -it is always so after the frenzy of January. Let us first attack the novels. Starting with the irruption, with drum and trumpets, Everyone loves Clara (Gallimard) by David Foenkinos, duly commented by the press.

The 20th novel of the sympathetic author and director settles Derechef in 4th row, just behind the winning trio, Pierre Lemaitre, Leïla Slimani and Freida McFadden. He intertwines the lives of several characters there, including that of Clara, victim of an accident at 16 and who wakes up, after eight months of coma, with a gift of clairvoyance. There is also talk of a writer, author of a first novel in 1982 and has not published anything since (the antithesis of Foenkinos), and, more generally, of rebirth, of second chance, of return to the Life, so many themes dear to David Foenkinos. In 5th place, we see another writer of the Gallimard house arise in the person of the courageous Roberto Saviano, the Italian author celebrated from Gomorra (2007).

Gallimard also in force in the “Essay” category

In Giovanni Falconehe rompes the life of the Sicilian judge who battled at length against the mafia and Cosa Nostra and was assassinated on May 23, 1992 after organizing the Maxi-Prosès de Palermo. Then comes, in the 10th row, The Auschwitz orphan (City), from the American Anna Stuart, the famous septuagenarian novelist author of the mega seller Auschwitz’s midwife (I read). As in her previous novels, she is inspired by acts and real characters, in this case the story of a 17 -year -old Polish Jewish girl determined after the release of the camps in 1945 to find her mother. We note, at the start of the year, the very good start of the Gallimard house which places no less than four authors (Leïla Slimani, David Foenkinos, Roberto Saviano, Camille Laurens), followed by Albin Michel with three authors (Jean- Christophe Grangé and his two titles, Agnès Ledig, Valérie Perrin).

Gallimard is also doing well this week on the test side with the arrival, in 6th place, of Irresponsible. Who brought Hitler to power ?, of Johann Chapoutot. The professor of contemporary history at the Sorbonne University of Paris, a specialist in the history of Nazism, has computed many political archives, newspapers, correspondences, speeches, press articles and memories of the actors and major witnesses of Germany at the start From the 1930s. Rich in all these readings, he demonstrated the irresponsibility of the authoritarian liberal power which made an alliance with the extreme right and thus enabled the arrival of Hitler at the top of the State. The second arrival (18th place) is none other than Bill Gates. In Source code. My beginnings (Flammarion), the co -founder of Microsoft and a 69 -year -old billionaire delivers a personal story, from his childhood to his years of student through the adolescent already passionate about IT.