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DOUZE ANS, SEPT MOIS ET ONZE JOURS THE SUMMER OF THE FIREFLIES / L’été DES LUCIOLES LORRIS MURAIL GILLES PARIS UNDER MY NIQAB / SOUS MON NIQAB A WOMAN IN THE POLAR NIGHT / EINE FRAU ZEINA, WITH DJÉNANE KAREH TAGER ERLEBT DIE POLARNACHT CHRISTIANE RITTER URBAN / URBAN LUC BRUNSCHWIG (WRITER) & ROBERTO RICCI (ARTIST) VINTAGE / VINTAGE GRÉGOIRE HERVIER MORE BOOKS / CONCEPTION GRAPHIQUE WE WILL NEVER BE HEROES Line Célo THE BACKWARD SUMMER / L’été contraire NOUS NE SERONS JAMAIS DES HÉROS OLIVIER JOUVRAY (WRITER) & FRÉDÉRIK SALSEDO (ARTIST) PRINTED IN FRANCE BY YVES BICHET Créa&Fab PUBLISHED BY BOB DYLAN: POET OF HIS OWN LIFE / Bureau international de l’édition française BOB Dylan – Poète DE SA VIE 115, boulevard Saint-Germain 75006, Paris - France JEAN-DOMINIQUE BRIERRE T.+33 (0)1 44 41 13 13 www.bief.org THE GREEN CITROËN 2CV / LA 2CV VERTE [email protected] MANU CAUSSE THIS PUBLICATION IS SUPPORTED By the Centre national du livre 5 A tense and emotional journey based on a SETTING true story: June 1940. German troops have Country roads, a farm, a small town. MAIN CHARACTERS just invaded Paris. Eight million people have Léon Werth, “The Committed Observer”, fled. Among them is a couple about to learn Male, 60s Suzanne Werth, “A Resistant in a real lesson in humanity and freedom. the Making”, Female, 50s Abel Delaveau, “The Resistant Farmer”, Male, 60 years old RIGHTS GUIDE Published in 5 languages: English 33 DAYS (Melville House), German (S. Fischer Verlag, 33 Tage), Italian (Bompiani, 33 JOURS 33 giorni), Dutch (De Geus, Adieu Parijs) PROMOTIONAL MATERIAL AVAILABLE LÉON WERTH “One of the few eyewitness accounts of this largely overlooked moment in After a word of warning from a friend, Leon Werth and his wife 20th century history.” – Publishers Weekly “The great virtue of the book, besides leave Paris by car for their country home in the mountains. The DRAMA its clean, concise style, is its honesty, ESTIMONY ESTIMONY trip, which usually takes just a few hours, ends up taking 33 days, Werth’s refusal to write propaganda T during which they have no news from their teenage son who took either for his country or himself.” – a separate route. On the road: endless traffic jams of cars, bikes, The Guardian “Werth’s devastating story captures the and livestock. Everyone is pushing forward with the same goal frustration and terror he experienced in in mind: crossing the Loire River into the unoccupied zone. Hour the slow-moving caravans and the fearful by hour, danger mounts and they see more and more German uncertainty of not knowing whether soldiers alongside the distressed French soldiers with a look of his son was still alive. It is, in short, an indispensable chronicle of a major defeat in their eyes. The Werths’ car breaks down and they are world-historical event.” – Flavorwire forced to stop. The first shells hammer down around them as Full English translation available. German soldiers fire at the crowd of French troops mixed with FILM & TV REFERENCES civilians. Chaos reigns, both outside and in the minds of those The full-feature film adapted from Irène faced with this unbelievable disaster. They decide to take back Némirosky’s Suite française (Saul Dibb, roads. Planning to cross the Loire by boat, they find refuge on 2014). TV series: Un village français (Frédéric PITCHED BOOKS a farm, but the owner seems to have a special appreciation for Krivine, Philippe Triboit and Emmanuel the German soldiers she houses. Hideaways like the Werths feel Daucé, 2009). trapped. However, a situation that first seems utterly futile gives FIND OUT MORE way to hope as they build relationships with strangers: a touching 20,000 copies sold in France and sometimes humorous one with a farmer or the German corporal who takes a liking to Leon Werth. He ends up providing the Werths with the fuel they need to get to their country home where their son is waiting. This exceptional account almost never made it into the public eye. In the Fall of 1940, Leon Werth knew that as a Jew, he would never find a publisher in France. He entrusted his manuscript to his best friend, Antoine de Saint- Exupéry. The legendary author of The Little Prince tried in vain to find a publisher in the US, hoping to warn the American public about the situation in Europe in order to encourage US intervention. For reasons that remain unknown, the manuscript was never published. Action-packed due to the urgent nature of the circumstances; endearing characters with whom it is easy to identify; an objective look at an important moment in history; the story behind the story of the manuscript of 33 Days being saved by Leon Werth’s friend Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. ÉDITIONS VIVIANE HAMY - VIVIANE HAMY [email protected] // +33 (0)1 53 17 16 00 6 7 Valentine has vanished. Two PIs with SETTING Dive into Cici’s rich and vibrant world! SETTING Paris and Barcelona in the 2000s. A small city and the surrounding area, nothing in common travel from Paris A curious and gutsy girl who aspires to be contemporary MAIN CHARACTERS to Barcelona to find her and ultimately Valentine Galtan, Female, Teenager a writer and is never without her precious MAIN CHARACTERS discover a diabolical plan. A socially La Hyène, Female, 40s diary, our ad-lib detective sets out to solve Cici, Female, Child Lucie, Female, 30s Cici’s mother, Female, 30s Annabelle Desjardins, Female, over 70s conscious and apocalyptic road movie. RIGHTS GUIDE life’s mysteries. Published in 14 languages: English (USA: RIGHTS GUIDE Feminist Press; UK: Serpent’s Tail), Published in 8 languages: English German (Berlin Verlag), Italian (Einaudi (First Second), German (Tokyopop), Editore), Swedish (Albert Bonniers Förlag), Spanish (Penguin Random House), APOCALYPSE BABY Dutch (De Geus Publishing), Finnish Cici’s JOURNAL: Italian (Panini Comics), Chinese (Like), Romanian (Editura Trej), Danish (Gingko Books)… (Tiderne Skifter), Bulgarian (Editions APOCALYPSE BÉBÉ Colibri), Czech (Host), Portuguese (Porto PROMOTIONAL MATERIAL AVAILABLE VIRGINIE DESPENTES Editora), Hungarian (Libri Publishing), THE ADVENTURES OF A French, German, Italian press reviews and Latvian (Zvaigzne ABC) FILM & TV REFERENCES PROMOTIONAL MATERIAL AVAILABLE Moonrise Kingdom by Wes Anderson EL Valentine Galtan is always high, full of teen angst, and constantly V French and foreign press reviews Amélie [original title: Le Fabuleux Destin O N WRITER-IN-TRAINING running away.