Luc Chomarat was born in Algeria in 1959. Noticed from his first novel in 1982, he returned to literature in 2014 with The Spy Who Came from the Book. In 2016, he received the Grand Prize for Police Literature for A hole in the web. Translator of Jim Thompson, he is also the author of essays and more recently of novels including The Polar of the summer (The Book Factory, 2017) and The last Norwegian thriller which confirm his taste for constructions in abyss, irony and melancholy.
” A portrait of a modern, active, rebellious woman who moves the lines, that’s what all publishers are looking for for the next literary season. And among them, Delafeuille has an interest, if he wants to keep his job, in unearthing the book which will be at the center of attention in September. But against all commercial logic, the novel that really attracts him is that of Luc, a slightly misogynistic author to whom he has long been linked. The writer has decided to devote his text to Delphine, his wife, and the latter whom Delafeuille meets in real life becomes his obsession. However, everyone – unscrupulous commercial director, philosophical bookseller, inspired student – are there to remind him of the rules of the game: there is no chance that this story will end with an idyll between the publisher and the author’s wife.
The Back-to-School Book draws a funny and acid portrait of our time, its struggles and its fashions. In this novel where reality and fiction intertwine, Luc Chomarat plays with literature and offers us a hymn to reading and the imagination. “. (Presentation of editionsThe Book Factory)