In his late 20s, a piano teacher of disinterested pupils, has recently been dumped and his musical project rejected by all the record companies. Ultimately, Julien’s existence could be described as banal, mediocre, passable; almost pointless. He’s one of those average people to whom life doesn’t always smile. One evening, a little sadder than another, he stumbles into a virtual parallel world, the Anti-World, where everything seems possible. This new life is a form of rebirth for Julien: his own uchrony. Little by little, the boundary between virtual and real becomes blurred, until he no longer knows which of the two lives is the “real” one. Read more

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This is the story of a chance encounter: the meeting of two people, two cultures, two passions, two lives. A man and a woman who have nothing in common – he’s an artist, she works in a boarding house; he’s French, she’s French-Korean – are brought together for a few days in a Korean village.

It’s also a story of borders and passage. Should the heroine stay with her mother in the village, or leave with her boyfriend for the capital? Will winter finally give way to spring, synonymous with flowering and the heroine’s blossoming? Why did she agree to accompany the French artist to the border between the two Koreas? Read more.

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Ici commence un amour is a story about love, but it is also a story about grief and class and growing up, about trying to be a writer and a man and a person. It’s tender and restless and vicious at times. It reminded me of Sheila Heti in certain ways and of Edouard Louis in others. Like his protagonist, Théo, Johannin is from Marseille, and the book feels steeped in the city, exposing its contradictions and hypocrisies, its particular brand of politics, its staggering wealth inequality, its thriving culture, and brutish repression. Read more.

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Les Garçons de l’Été is a surprising read that tells the story of two brothers surfing on Reunion Island until tragedy strikes. This accident marks the beginning of the inexorable end for this family to whom life seemed to be smiling. Each chapter plunges us into the minds of these characters, most of whom are paradoxically unsympathetic and fascinating.

Les Garçons de l’été, a novel by Rebecca Lighieri, Folio

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