It’s crazy, this woman has a golden feather. Everything she has published for over ten years has sold like hot cakes. In 2013, In Eve’s outfit: feminine, modesty and Judaism stood (according to Edistat) at 42,000 copies in 2019, Thoughts on the anti-Semitic question gleaned some 68,000 aficionados, and in 2021, Living with our dead won the bet with 280,000 copies sold!
After There is no Ajar in 2022 (82,000 sales), the French’s favorite rabbi is released today, still by Grasset, How is it not going? Conversations after October 7, which, in less than four days, sold 9,000 copies, enough to take first place on the test podium. Deeply traumatized by the massacre perpetrated by Hamas in Israel, Delphine Horvilleur attempts, through 10 conversations, real or imaginary, to renew dialogue with others.
He too was confronted with horror: an emblematic figure during the wave of attacks from 2012 to 2018, prosecutor François Moulins relates in In the name of the French people. Memoirs (Flammarion) his long career within the judicial institution through some major political-financial cases, Bygmalion, Cahuzac, Dupond-Moretti, during which he embodied an inflexible counter-power. Also published on February 21, his Memoirs infiltrated 6th place in the charts.
Third and final entrant this week, Israel Nisand. With Talk about sex. How to inform our teenagers (Grasset), the professor of gynecology reproduces without pretense the advice on sex that he has given to college students since the beginning of the 1990s: masturbation, orgasm, abortion, homo and bi sexuality, violence, incest, male domination, STIs , gender, desire and love too, he addresses all these questions which torment young people who are most often ignorant in the field and places his work in 16th place.
Only one entry, however, in the fiction list, that of Marie-Bernadette Dupuy who publishes with Calmann-Lévy Albane (t. I). A stormy sky. In the first volume of this saga taking place in July 1939 en Dordogne, the young heroine, Albane de Séguilières, 21 years old, a teacher, finds herself alone very quickly after her marriage, her husband having been mobilized. She takes refuge in the family castle where three families from Bas-Rhin are staying…
Otherwise ? Otherwise, the art historian and writer Thomas Schlesser continues his incredible epic at the top of the podium with his “intergenerational” novel, Mona’s Eyes (Albin Michel), which continues to gain readers (55,000 copies sold since January 31) and to attract foreign publishers (more than 25 have acquired the rights). In this successful first novel, it is about fifty paintings, present in different Parisian museums, from the Louvre to Beaubourg via Orsay. It is the grandfather of a 9-year-old girl, who will lose her sight in fifty-two weeks, who acts as a guide to convey his wonder to her and make her understand how much artists illuminate life.
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