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London Book Fair 2020 Editions Grasset & Fasquelle 61 rue des Saints-Pères, 75006 Paris, France LONDON BOOK FAIR 2020 Heidi Warneke Rights Director [email protected] Gabriela Panaget Christiaan van Raaijen Rights Manager Rights Manager [email protected] [email protected] CONTENTS FICTION HIGHLIGHTS Frédéric BEIGBEDER L’Homme qui pleure de rire 5 Grégoire DELACOURT Un jour viendra couleur d’orange 6 Gaëlle NOHANT La Femme révélée 7 Katharina VOLCKMER The Appointment 8 FIRST NOVEL Salomé BERLEMONT-GILLES Le Premier qui tombera 9 Pauline CLAVIERE Laissez-nous la nuit 10 Sébastien CHAUZU Modifié 11 Maurizio SERRA Amours diplomatiques 12 LITERARY FICTION Christophe BATAILLE La Brûlure 13 Elisabeth BARILLE L’Ecole du ciel 14 Tancrède VOITURIEZ Piraterie 15 Johann ZARCA Chems 16 UPMARKET AND WOMEN’S FICTION Eliette ABECASSIS Nos rendez-vous 17 Laetitia COLOMBANI Les Victorieuses 18 Adrien GOETZ Intrigue en Egypte 19 Mathieu MENEGAUX Disparaître 20 Antoine SENANQUE Que sont nos amis devenus ? 21 2 AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL FICTION Hugo BORIS Le Courage des autres 22 Oscar COOP-PHANE Morceaux cassés d’une chose 23 GRAPHIC NOVELS CATEL Le Roman des Goscinny 24 Dany LAFERRIERE L’Exil vaut le voyage 25 REMINDERS Laurent BINET Civilizations 26 Hugo BORIS Police 27 Sorj CHALANDON Une joie féroce 28 Gaël FAYE Petit pays 29 Olivier GUEZ La Disparition de Josef Mengele 30 NON-FICTION HIGHLIGHTS Vanessa SPRINGORA Le Consentement 31 HISTORY AND GEOPOLITICS Amir HOSSEIN JAHANSHAHI Le Grand Iran en marche 32 and Renaud GIRARD Alain MABANCKOU Huit leçons sur l’Afrique 33 Anne SINCLAIR La Rafle des notables 34 Rithy PANH and Christophe BATAILLE La Paix avec les morts 35 3 CULTURAL HISTORY AND SOCIAL ISSUES Alain Baraton My Paris gardens 36 Stéphanie CHAYET Phantastica 37 Anne-Sophie JAHN Bob Marley and the Dictator’s Daughter 38 Marc NEXON La Traversée de Pyongyang 39 Bruno PATINO La Civilisation du poisson rouge 40 BIOGRAPHY José ALVAREZ Helmut & June, la dernière session 41 Thierry THOMAS Hugo Pratt, trait pour trait 42 PHILOSOPHY AND ESSAYS Pascal BRUCKNER Une brève éternité 43 François JULLIEN L’Inouï 44 François L’YVONNET François Jullien 45 Michel ONFRAY La Résistance au nihilisme 46 Contre-histoire de philosophie, vol. 12 REMINDERS Marc JEANSON and Charlotte FAUVE Botaniste 47 Ginette KOLINKA and Marion RUGGIERI Retour à Birkenau 48 Amin MAALOUF Le Naufrage des civilisations 49 Rithy PANH and Christophe BATAILLE L’Elimination 50 4 L’Homme qui pleure de rire THE LAUGH-CRYING MAN Frédéric Beigbeder HIGHLIGHTS January 2020 – 256 pages After 99 Francs, and Au Secours, pardon! (both translated all over the world), this new novel will be the third volume of Octave Parango’s adventures, and is set in current-day society. For now, the plot remains a well-guarded secret... Octave Parango was a copywriter in the 1990s and a fashion model scout in the 2000s. Today, in the late 2010s, in a world that has greatly changed, we find him at it once again. This time, in a brand-new career... After portraying the tyranny of the advertising world in 99 Francs and the commodification of feminine beauty in Au secours pardon, this new, satirical, hilarious and hopeless novel rounds out the Octave Parango trilogy and its depiction of contemporary alienation. Sadly, everything in this playful yet disenchanted parody of our société du spectacle is true and comes from first-hand experience. • Frédéric Beigbeder is the author of ten novels, including the renowned 99 Francs, Windows on the World (Prix Interallié, 2003) and Un roman français (prix Renaudot, 2009). He has also directed the film L’Amour dure trois ans (2011, based on a script by him, adapted from his eponymous novel), and L’Idéal (2016, based on his own script, adapted from his novel, Au secours pardon). In addition to this, he has written the scripts for five films and documentaries and is a literary critic for both Le Figaro Littéraire and the famous French radio show, Le Masque et la plume. Rights sold: German (Piper), Lithuanian (Tyto Alba), Macedonian (Tri), Romanian (Trei Editura), Russian (Gorodets), Serbian (Booka). Under offer: Bulgarian, Korean. Rights sold for previous titles: Albanian (Shtepia Botuese), Armenian (Antares), Azerbaijani (Qanun), Bosnian (TDK), Bulgarian (Colibri), Castilian (Anagrama), Catalan (Ara Libres), Chinese (Shanghai 99, China Citic Press), Croatian (Ocean & More), Czech (Garamond), Danish (Egmont), Dutch (De Geus Uitgeverij), English (UK | Harper Collins), Estonian (Varrak), Finnish (Like), German (Piper), Georgian (Paltira), Greek (Astarti), Hebrew (Babel), Hungarian (Europa), Italian (Mondadori), Islandic (Forlagid), Italian (Bompiani), Japanese (Kadokwa, Kawade Shobo Shinsha), Korean (Chong-Ye Won), Latvia (Zvaigzne), Lithuanian (Tyto Alba), Macedonian (Tri), Montenegrin (Nova Knjiga), Polish (Noir sur blanc), Portuguese – Brazil (Record), Portuguese – Portugal (Presenca), Romanian (Pandora-Trei), Russian (Azbooka-Atticus), Serbian (Booka), Slovene (Vale Novak), Thai (Bluescale), Turkish (SEL), Ukrainian (Krajina Mriy), Vietnamese (Nha nam). 5 Un jour viendra couleur d’orange ONE DAY WILL COME ORANGE COLORED Grégoire Delacourt HIGHLIGHTS April 2020 – 272 pages Chapter by chapter the bestselling author Grégoire Delacourt adds colors to the monochrome portrait of contemporary France, chased by anger and torn by unrest. Pierre didn’t ask for much in life, but with his wife Louise and their son Geoffrey they are two steps away from losing everything. But even then, they chose to fight and struggle for the best. A portrait of society, a love story and an initiation novel, Un jour viendra couleur d’orange masterfully orchestrates the drama of its characters, their dreams and fears; despite the surrounding chaos, it leaves hope. Gripping and radiant. An early November morning in the North of France a group of friends decides to occupy a traffic circle. For Pierre, a part-time security guard in a supermarket, this is a way to let out the long- suppressed anger. Wearing the yellow vest of the protesters strangely makes him feel alive. Over the days of protests that follow he drifts away from his wife Louise, a hospice nurse, and their thirteen-year-old son Geoffrey. A unique child, silent and autistic, Geoffrey refuses to be touched, arranges objects by color, measures the exact length of his strides and remembers everything he reads. When Pierre forces Geoffrey to throw a Molotov cocktail in a public building, Louise decides to leave him, exhausted by the violence he incites and determined to protect their son. Abandoned by his friends, Geoffrey develops romantic feelings for Djamila, a young girl, living under the yoke of her older brothers, radicalized and defying the France that rejected them for too long. Together they leave for the woods where an old Armenian hermit, who made the forest his home, will hide them from the violence of the world. In the meantime, Louise falls in love with one of her patients, Aurélien, whom she will accompany through his last days. Pierre’s rage, the selflessness of Louise, the singularity of Geoffrey, the submission of Djamila and the renunciation of Hagop – all these personal battles will collide and interfuse, proving that even in the most desperate situations there is always a place for hope. • Grégoire Delacourt is the author of several acclaimed novels, that include L’Ecrivain de la famille (2001, Prix Marcel Pagnol, Prix Rive Gauche, Prix Carrefour du Premier Roman, Prix Coeur de France), La Liste de mes envies (2002, Prix Méditerrannée des lycéens, Prix Livresse de Lire), translated into 35 languages and made into a theater play, and On ne voyait que le bonheur (2014, Prix des lectrices Edelweiss, Meuilleur roman de l’année), adapted to a theater play in the framework of the Festival d’Avignon. His previous novel Mon Père was published in 2019. 6 La Femme révélée THE REVEALED WOMAN Gaëlle Nohant January 2020 – 400 pages HIGHLIGHTS Paris, 1950. Eliza Donneley has gone into hiding and lives in a shabby hotel under a false name. Overnight, she abandoned a dream life in Chicago, complete with a rich husband and a beloved son. Why did this woman run away and risk of losing everything? After the great success of her past novels, Gaëlle Nohant returns with a suspenseful portrait of a woman and her quest for freedom. A true Hitchcockian heroine. Quickly stripped of all her possessions, disoriented and alone in an unknown city, Eliza has become Violet. She must reinvent herself. After several encounters, she finds a job as an au pair and sets out to explore a grey, post-war Paris – but one that suddenly lights up with her newfound lust for life... all to the rhythm of the jazz clubs along Saint-Germain-des-Prés. Violet tames the city through the lens of her camera and captures the humanity of its meek and invisible denizens. In this fragile life, weighed down with secrets, she discovers a new strength and freedom within herself, forging deep friendships and finally allowing herself to experience passionate love. But is it possible for her to live, deeply wounded by the desire to see her son again and by the pain of exile? How can she calm the panic that pushed her to flee her country and loved ones? And, above all, how can she forgive herself for having left? Twenty years later, in the spring of 1968, Violet finally returns to Chicago. She finds a city that is seething with anger, inflamed by the civil rights movement, protests against the Vietnam War, and the assassination of Martin Luther King. After parting in search of her son, she is pulled into the riots that rage throughout the city. Once again, Violet takes every risk and accepts her fate with determination, whatever the sacrifice may be... • Gaëlle Nohant has published three novels, including the bestselling novel La Part des flammes in 2015 (160,000 copies sold; Prix France Bleu/Page des libraires 2015 and Prix des lecteurs du Livre de Poche 2016) and a biographical novel on Robert Desnos, La Légende d’un dormeur éveillé in 2017 (50,000 copies sold; Prix des libraires 2018).
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