Hervé Le Tellier

Winner of the Prix Goncourt, this dizzying literary page-turner ingeniously blends crime, fantasy, sci-fi, and thriller as it plumbs the mysteries surrounding a Paris-New York flight. In June 2021, a senseless event upends the lives of hundreds of men and women, all passengers on a flight from Paris to New York. Among them: Blake, a respectable family man, though he works as a contract killer; Slimboy, a Nigerian pop star tired of living a lie; Joanna, a formidable lawyer whose flaws have caught up with her; and Victor Miesel, a critically acclaimed yet commercially unsuccessful writer who suddenly becomes a cult hit. All of them believed they had double lives. None imagined just how true that was. A virtuoso novel where logic confronts magic, The Anomaly explores the part of ourselves that eludes us. This witty variation on the doppelgänger theme, which takes us on a journey from Lagos and Mumbai to the White House, proves to be Hervé Le Tellier's most ambitious work yet.

The Anomaly

L'anomalie

Die Anomalie

A Anomalia

Clara Usón

El viaje de las palabras

GONCOURT PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR Any man—or woman—who wants to hear nothing—or no more—about love should put this book down. Anna and Louise could be sisters, but they don’t know each other. They are both married with children, and for the most part, they are happy. On almost the same day, Anna, a psychiatrist, crosses paths with Yves, a writer, while Louise, a lawyer, meets Anna’s analyst, Thomas. Love at first sight is still possible for those into their forties and long-married. But when you have already mapped out a life path, a passionate affair can come at a high price. For our four characters, their lives are unexpectedly turned upside down by the deliciously inconvenient arrival of love. For Anna, meeting Yves has brought a flurry of excitement to her life and made her question her values, her reliable husband, and her responsibilities to her children. For Louise, a successful career woman in a stable and comfortable marriage, her routine is uprooted by the youthful passion she feels for Thomas. Thought-provoking, sophisticated, and, above all, amusing, Enough About Love captures the euphoria of desire through tender and unflinching portraits of husbands, wives, and lovers.

A Novel

Enough About Love

"Il est une chose admirable qui surpasse toujours la connaissance, l’intelligence, et même le génie, c’est l’incompréhension." En juin 2021, un événement insensé bouleverse les vies de centaines d’hommes et de femmes, tous passagers d’un vol Paris-New York. Parmi eux : Blake, père de famille respectable et néanmoins tueur à gages ; Slimboy, pop star nigériane, las de vivre dans le mensonge ; Joanna, redoutable avocate rattrapée par ses failles ; ou encore Victor Miesel, écrivain confidentiel soudain devenu culte. Tous croyaient avoir une vie secrète. Nul n’imaginait à quel point c’était vrai. Roman virtuose où la logique rencontre le magique, L’anomalie explore cette part de nous-mêmes qui nous échappe.

PRIX GONCOURT-WINNING AUTHOR A prominent French writer delves into his own history in this eloquent reflection on dysfunctional family relationships. Hervé Le Tellier did not consider himself to have been an unhappy child—he was not deprived, or beaten, or abused. And yet he understood from a young age that something was wrong, and longed to leave. Children sometimes have only the option of escaping, driven by their even greater love of life. Having reached a certain emotional distance at sixty years old, and with his father and stepfather dead and his mother suffering from late-stage Alzheimer’s disease, Le Tellier finally felt able to write the story of his family. Abandoned early by his father and raised in part by his grandparents, he was profoundly affected by his relationship with his mother, a troubled woman with damaging views on love. In this perceptive, deeply personal account, Le Tellier attempts to look back on trying times without anger or regret, and sometimes even with humor.

A Memoir

All Happy Families

"Je n'ai pas été un enfant malheureux, ni privé, ni battu, ni abusé. Mais très jeune, j'ai compris que quelque chose n'allait pas, très tôt j'ai voulu partir, et d'ailleurs très tôt je suis parti. Mon père, mon beau-père sont morts, ma mère est folle. Ils ne liront pas ce livre, et je me sens le droit de l'écrire enfin. Cette étrange famille, j'espère la raconter sans colère, la décrire sans me plaindre, je voudrais même en faire rire, sans regrets. Les enfants n'ont parfois que le choix de la fuite, et doivent souvent à leur évasion, au risque de la fragilité, d'aimer plus encore la vie. " H. L. T.

Toutes les familles heureuses

L'anomalia

"Il est une chose admirable qui surpasse toujours la connaissance, l’intelligence, et même le génie, c’est l’incompréhension." En juin 2021, un événement insensé bouleverse les vies de centaines d’hommes et de femmes, tous passagers d’un vol Paris-New York. Parmi eux : Blake, père de famille respectable et néanmoins tueur à gages ; Slimboy, pop star nigériane, las de vivre dans le mensonge ; Joanna, redoutable avocate rattrapée par ses failles ; ou encore Victor Miesel, écrivain confidentiel soudain devenu culte. Tous croyaient avoir une vie secrète. Nul n’imaginait à quel point c’était vrai.

Neun Tage in Lissabon : Roman

When flight Air France 006 enters a terrifying storm, the plane - inexplicably - duplicates. For every passenger on board, there are now two. Just one thing sets them apart. One plane leaves the storm in March. The other doesn't land until June. For world leaders, the emergence of the June flight raises serious alarms. No science, faith, or protocol can explain this unprecedented event. But for the passengers, a bigger question is at stake. What happens to them, now that their life is shared? And as the doubles prepare to meet, only one thing is certain- life as they know it, will never be the same.

L'Anomalia

Aşktan Bu Kadar

" Elle parle, dans le désordre, des moutons écossais, de la lande écossaise, des chardons écossais, des mouettes écossaises, il accepte, bon gré mal gré, d'aborder avec elle ce thème nationaliste et agreste. Il l'écoute, la regarde, troublé. Tout en elle l'enchante, et notre héros s'en veut de cet enchantement qu'elle fait naître si aisément en lui, par son simple éclat, sans nul effort, et pire, sans même le souhaiter. Beaucoup sont tombés, tomberont sous son charme. Il ne lui reproche pas cette injustice, mais il en souffre. Il devine aussi que, quels que soient les efforts qu'il déploiera, lui ne l'enchantera pas. Ne jette pas un sort qui veut. " Je m'attache très facilement est le récit clinique de trois jours d'une Bérézina amoureuse. Un homme (" notre héros "), bientôt atteint par la cinquantaine, a décidé, sur un coup de tête, de rejoindre en Ecosse sa jeune maîtresse (" notre héroïne "), de vingt ans plus jeune que lui. Sa visite n'est pas véritablement désirée. " Notre héros " s'en doute, mais rien ne l'arrête. La succession drolatique de ses mésaventures et déconvenues raconte, avec une belle énergie et un sens féroce de la dérision, la plus vieille histoire du monde, celle du fantasme d'amour et de son déni.

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Je m'attache très facilement

Qui était Philippe Perek, enlevé, et retrouvé carbonisé sur un terrain vague de banlieue ? Un dealer exécuté pour l'exemple, un étudiant en assyriologie sans histoire, ou tout simplement un jeune orphelin trop curieux ? Qui est ce chirurgien pourchassé par des tueurs parce qu'il en sait trop ? Parce que ce jeune orphelin n'est pas sans lui rappeler quelqu'un, Gabriel Lecouvreur décide de partir à la recherche de son identité et ses meurtriers. Grâce à l'assistance d'un légiste sympathique et déterminé, le Poulpe lève un coin du voile sur une machination d'envergure planétaire, et trouve un nouveau sens aux mots d'exploitation de l'homme. LE POULPE est un personnage libre, curieux, contemporain, qui aura quarante ans en l'an 2000. C'est quelqu'un qui va fouiller, à son compte, dans les failles et les désordres apparents du quotidien. Quelqu'un qui démarre toujours de ces petits faits divers qui expriment, à tout instant, la maladie de notre monde. Ce n'est ni un vengeur, ni le représentant d'une loi ou d'une morale, c'est un enquêteur un peu plus libertaire que d'habitude, c'est surtout un témoin.

La disparition de Perek

Nel marzo 2021, un Boeing 787 di Air France in volo da Parigi a New York incappa in una grande turbolenza prima di atterrare. Tre mesi dopo lo stesso aereo, con gli stessi passeggeri e un identico equipaggio, ricontatta i controllori di volo dell’aeroporto JFK. L’inspiegabile duplicazione preoccupa CIA, FBI e gli alti comandi dell’esercito, che dirottano l’aereo in una base militare. Le indagini degli Stati Uniti e delle altre potenze scatenano una caccia all’uomo planetaria per rintracciare i misteriosi doppi di tutte le persone a bordo. Ma durante quei tre mesi fatali, le vite di alcuni di loro sono cambiate per sempre: chi ha combattuto un male incurabile, chi ha raggiunto il successo soltanto dopo un gesto estremo, chi ha trovato l’amore e chi si è lasciato per sempre, chi ha finalmente affrontato le sue bugie. Tutti credevano di avere una vita segreta. Nessuno immaginava fino a che punto fosse vero. In un romanzo imprevedibile – dove la letteratura sfida la logica, la scienza, tutto quello in cui crediamo – Hervé Le Tellier racconta la verità e i suoi inganni, alla ricerca dell’anomalia nascosta che può sfiorare la vita di ognuno di noi. “ Un best seller che è anche un’opera letteraria.” Frédéric Beigbeder, Le Figaro “ Un romanzo folgorante. Sembra Dostoevskij riscritto da Queneau.” Louis-Henri de La Rochefoucauld, L’Express “ Una storia di suspense a un ritmo indiavolato in un romanzo pieno di domande affascinanti, colpi di scena letterari e trovate linguistiche.” Raphaëlle Leyris, Le Monde

Ian Monk

An interconnected series of playful stories on the expected and unexpected pleasures of sexual intimacy. The delightful and daring English-language debut of French author Herve? le Tellier is a series of short, intimately interconnected stories making up a lively user’s manual to pleasure, relating the various liaisons of couples from Anna and Ben to Yolande and Zach (taking in Chloe and Xavier along the way, as well as twenty others, as you may have guessed), until the criss-crossing of their lives and partners makes up a pattern as intricate as the fresco on the ceiling of a chapel . . . Harkening back to another playful book on an intimate subject—Harry Mathews’s Singular Pleasures—Herve? le Tellier’s The Sextine Chapel celebrates the wonderful, often random, often excruciating possibilities of sexual intimacy, with something here for just about everyone—and their wife, husband, lover, or passing fancy.

The Sextine Chapel

PRIX GONCOURT-WINNING AUTHOR By the celebrated Oulipo writer, this brilliant and witty novel set in Lisbon explores love, relationships, and the strange balance between literature and life. Journalist, writer, and translator Vincent Balmer moves to Lisbon to escape from a failing affair. During his first assignment there, he teams up with Antonio—a photographer who has just returned to the city after a ten-year absence—to report for a French newspaper on an infamous serial killer’s trial. While walking around the city together to take notes and photos for the article, they visit the places of Antonio’s childhood, swap stories from their pasts, and confide in each other. But the more they learn about each other, the more their lives become inextricably intertwined. With a structure that parallels Homer’s Odyssey, Eléctrico W recounts their nine days together and the adventures that proliferate to form a constellation of successive ephemeral connections and relationships.

Hervé Le Tellier

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