Literature: 5 award-winning novels available in paperback
Natacha Kotlarevsky and Alice Le Dréau
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The shelves of a bookstore in Perpignan, November 2020. IDHIR BAHA / Hans Lucas via AFP
Amid the multitude of books published each year, it's not always easy to stand out. A literary prize can help. L'Hebdo has selected for you five novels, acclaimed by judges and published in paperback in recent months. Five novels that tell the story of wars—world wars, fratricidal wars, intimate wars—and how to recover from them.
"You know, Saskia, it's only during war that we see the worst in human beings so starkly. But it's also during war, and only there, that some people reach the sublime." Claire Deya, A World to Remake
Camera Obscura , by Gwenaëlle Lenoir. 2024 Relay Travelers' Readers' Prize. Pocket edition, 192 p., €8.10
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