Books from France
344 popular french books
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The target of the Read Around The World Challenge is to read at least one book written by an author from each and every country in the world.
All books that are listed here as part of the "Read Around Europe Challenge" were written by authors from France.
Find a great book for the next part of your reading journey around the world from this book list. The following popular books have been recommended so far.
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Scafandrul şi fluturele by Jean-Dominique Bauby RO
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Bestseller international, vandut in peste un milion de exemplare si tradus in 30 de limbi, cartea lui Jean-Dominique Bauby sta la baza filmului lui Julian Schnabel, distins in 2008 cu Globul de Aur.
Ce inseamna, de fapt, sa fii viu? Care ne sunt, cu adevarat, bucuriile vietii? Cine - sau ce - din noi traieste, se-ndragosteste, cauta, uita, iarta? Cata suferinta incape intr-un trup, cata nefericire intr-un suflet? De ce trebuie sa murim?
Publicat la cateva zile dupa moartea autorului, victima a unui accident vascular, "Scafandrul si fluturele" este una dintre cele mai zguduitoare ... continue
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Self-Portrait in Green by Marie NDiaye EN
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'NDiaye is a hypnotic storyteller with an unflinching understanding of the rock-bottom reality of most people's life.' New York Times ' One of France's most exciting prose stylists.' The Guardian. Obsessed by her encounters with the mysterious green women, and haunted by the Garonne River, a nameless narrator seeks them out in La Roele, Paris, Marseille, and Ouagadougou. Each encounter reveals different aspects of the women; real or imagined, dead or alive, seductive or suicidal, driving the narrator deeper into her obsession, in this unsettling exploration of identity, memory and paranoia. Se... continue
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She Came to Stay by Simone de Beauvoir EN
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Set in Paris on the eve of World War II, and sizzling with love, anger and revenge, "She Came to Stay" explores the changes wrought in the soul of a woman and a city soon to fall.
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Şi dacă e adevărat ... by Marc Levy RO
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"Ce-o să-ţi spun nu e uşor de înţeles, e imposibil de admis, dar dacă ai vrea să-mi asculţi povestea…"
Ce să crezi despre o femeie care-ţi alege dulapul din baie ca să-şi petreacă zilele în el? Care se miră că o poţi vedea? Care apare şi dispare brusc şi pretinde că este în comă profundă la celălalt capăt al oraşului? Pe ea trebuie să o duci la psihiatru, sau pe tine? Sau, dimpotrivă, trebuie să te laşi în voia acestei aventuri extravagante?
Şi dacă este adevărat?…
Dacă e adevărat că Arthur este singura persoană care poate împărţi ... continue
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Sido/Het huis van mijn moeder by Colette NL
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Bundeling van twee autobiografische verhalen van de Franse schrijfster over haar jeugd op het Franse platteland eind 19e eeuw en haar moeder.
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Sleeping Children : A Novel by Anthony Passeron EN
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An intimate, captivating first novel that tells the story of a family in southern France whose lives are intertwined with the history of the AIDS crisis—and with the forgotten French doctors who are among the first to detect the virus. Writing is the only way for my uncle’s story, my family’s story, not to disappear with them, with the town. To show them that Désiré’s life was part and parcel of all the world’s welter, a welter of historical, geographical, and social particulars. And help them to let go of their pain, to escape the loneliness into which that grief and shame had plunged them. F... continue
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Small Boat by Vincent Delecroix; Helen Stevenson EN
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Despite receiving numerous calls for help, the French authorities wrongly told the migrants they were in British waters and had to call the British authorities for help. By the time rescue vessels arrived on the scene, all but two of the migrants had died.
The narrator of Delecroix’s fictional account of the events is the woman who took the calls. Accused of failing in her duty, she refuses to be held more responsible than others for this disaster. Why should she be more responsible than the sea, than the war, than the crises behind these tragedies?
A shocking, moral tale of ou... continue
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Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See EN
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Lily is haunted by memories–of who she once was, and of a person, long gone, who defined her existence. She has nothing but time now, as she recounts the tale of Snow Flower, and asks the gods for forgiveness. In nineteenth-century China, when wives and daughters were foot-bound and lived in almost total seclusion, the women in one remote Hunan county developed their own secret code for communication: nu shu (“women’s writing”). Some girls were paired with laotongs, “old sames,” in emotional matches that lasted throughout their lives. They painted letters on fans, embroidered messages on handk... continue
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Strait is the Gate by André Gide EN
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Jerome Palissier, a delicate boy, spends many summers at his uncle's house in Normandy, where the whole world seems steeped in azure. There he falls deeply in love with his cousin Alissa and she with him. But gradually Alissa becomes convinced that Jerome's love for her is endangering his soul.
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Edouard Levé delivered the manuscript for his final book, Suicide, just a few days before he took his own life. Suicide cannot be read as simply another novel—it is, in a sense, the author’s own oblique, public suicide note, a unique meditation on this most extreme of refusals. Presenting itself as an investigation into the suicide of a close friend—perhaps real, perhaps fictional—more than twenty years earlier, Levé gives us, little by little, a striking portrait of a man, with all his talents and flaws, who chose to reject his life, and all the people who loved him, in favor of oblivion. Gra... continue