FRANKFURT 2018 Foreign Rights - Editions JC Lattès
←
→
Page content transcription
If your browser does not render page correctly, please read the page content below
Foreign Rights
FRANKFURT
2018
JC Lattès - Le Masque
17 rue Jacob
75006 Paris - France
www.jclattes.fr - www.lemasque.com
THREE DAYS
IN JERUSALEM
Trois jours à Jérusalem
A literary moving book; a spiritual coming-of-age;
a celebration of life.
Two thousand years ago, a young boy named Joshua ran
away by himself to Jerusalem, where he encountered the
selfishness, cruelty and injustice of the world. And where
he discovered a marvellous secret. This is the story of that
episode, which changed his life and ours.
Stéphane Arfi reveals a forgotten episode from the Bible
and offers us a charismatic, philosophical novel that exa-
mines the greatest question of all: how to be happy despite
the trials of life?
“It is in this life
we must be happy
and not any other”
288 pages, November 2018
Stéphane Arfi is born in Martinique in 1966 and
lives in Brittany where he is inspired by the works of Victor
Hugo, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Malcom de Chazal. He is
the author of Devance tous les adieux under the pen name Ivy
Edelstein,(Points Seuil 2015) and La vie magnifique de Frank
Sragon (Grasset, 2017).
A literary gem for those
who loved The Alchemist and The Little Prince
FICTION
Tous les hommes désirent naturellement savoir
ALL MEN
“All Men Naturally Want to Know is the story of
NATURALLY my nights as a young woman, my wanderings,
my alliances and my heartbreaks.
WANT TO KNOW
© Patrice Normand
It is the story of my desire that became my iden-
tity and my struggle.
I was eighteen, an arrow shot towards her target;
Listed for
Prix Médicis
nothing could make me deviate from my trajectory.
2018! I was feverish. Four times a week I went to the Kat,
a club reserved for women, rue du Vieux Colom-
bier in Paris. Two hearts beat in unison back then: Nina Bouraoui
mine and the eighties. is a novelist, born in 1967.
I was looking for love. It taught me violence and She is the author of, among
submission. The violence was a link to the country others, La Voyeuse interdite
of my childhood and my adolescence: Algeria, and (prix du Livre Inter 1991),
its poetry, its brutal, untamed wilderness.” La Vie heureuse, Mes mau-
vaises pensées (prix Renaudot
This book is the unlimited space between these 2005), Standard et Beaux
two territories. rivages. Her books have
been translated all over the
Already 15,000 copies sold! world.
"An account full of emotion. This gripping book in which
the author lays herself bare, speaks only of love, what welco-
256 pages, August 2018 mes it with open arms and what impedes it.” Marie-Claire
“In her new novel Nina Bouraoui begins a search for her roots and discovers a captivating destiny.” Elle
L’Age d’or
A stunning fresco that plunges us into the
THE
heart of the civil war in Lebanon and the mee- GOLDEN
ting of two destinies, that of Georgina Rizk,
elected Miss Lebanon and then Miss Universe, AGE
and Ali Hassan Salameh, a Palestinian terrorist.
At the end of the sixties, rock music and bell bot-
toms, freedom and sun on the silky skin of women. Listed for
Prix Renaudot
These are the last days of the golden age of Leba- 2018!
non but no one knows it yet. Least of all Georgina,
a beautiful young girl of Christian faith, nor Roland,
her first love, who waits for her at the pool in the
sensual laziness of the afternoon, in the company
© Patrice Normand
of their party-loving friends. Nearby, just beyond
the conversations of adults can be heard the tur-
bines of airplanes, announcing the terror to come.
Meanwhile, Ali Hassan Salameh, son of a his-
torical Palestinian leader, is about to take up Diane Mazloum
arms. He will become the most handsome and is the author of a first
the most dangerous man of the Middle East. novel, Beyrouth, la nuit
(Stock, 2014) and an
The Golden Age is a love story, the story of a illustrated narrative,
family and a country caught up in the fever of Nucleus, en plein coeur de
war and the heartbreaking drama of brother Beyrouth City (Edition de
against brother. It is the tragedy of a people 406 pages, August 2018 la Revue Phénicienne,
for whom nothing will ever be the same again. 2009).
FICTION
femme prenant plaisir a ses fureurs
WOMAN TAKING The story of a secret addiction. The destiny
PLEASURE IN of a woman under the influence.
HER FURY Raphaëlle Billetdoux published her first novel at
age 19. But, what no one suspected was that her
© Patrice Normand
famous writing career was fueled by the will of a
brilliant, enchanting, proud woman with a diaboli-
cal intelligence and a violent, borderline personality:
her mother, Evelyne Billetdoux. She sent a wordless
message to Raphaëlle that her mission was to repair
the wounds of her mother’s painful childhood. Marie Billetdoux
When, twelve years after publishing Mes nuits sont is the author of a consi-
plus belles que vos jours, Raphaëlle began an attempt to derable number of works.
rid herself of her mother’s powerful influence, little She was awarded the
did she know it would be a life or death battle that Interallié Prize in 1976 for
has lasted over twenty years. Prends garde à la douceur des
Woman taking pleasure in her fury is the saga of this choses and the Renaudot
long awakening, with accents of a crime novel, that Prize in 1985 for Mes nuits
explores the eternal mother-daughter conflict with sont plus belles que vos jours.
its jealousy, rivalry and struggle for identity, a strug-
gle exacerbated here by the daughter’s literary talent
and the mother’s creative frustrations.
It is also the fresco of a family of Parisian artists
from the 1950’s to the present day, written in a ly-
rical, often comical tone and infused with the hope
400 pages, September 2018 of capturing the peculiarities of that impure senti-
ment we call love.
Augustin
AUGUSTIN
On November 11th, 1918 at 11 AM, armistice is
declared. At 10:45 AM, Augustin Trébuchon was
killed. He was the last French soldier to die in
the war.
On November 11th 1918 at 5:15 AM, France and
Germany signed the peace treaty to end the First
World War but the French military high command
decided to wait until 11 AM on this 11th day of the
11th month of the year to announce the armistice.
At 10:45 AM private first class Augustin Trébuchon
was shot.
Alexander Duyck scoured military and civilian ar-
chives to find out all the facts he could about Tré-
©DR
buchon, a former shepherd, and imagined the rest of
his story: Alexandre Duyck
Who was this courageous, silent, keen observer is a journalist. He was a
who was wounded twice, participated in numerous 208 pages, October 2018 grand reporter and today
battles, faithfully followed orders and in four years collaborates with seve-
only took one leave of absence? ral newspapers, among
which Le Monde.
Augustin is his first novel.
FICTION
Pour Sensi
FOR SENSI
Whoever persists in mourning the loss of a
loved one beyond the prescribed thirty days
and eleven months, say the Scriptures, is mour-
ning some other loss.
© Patrice Normand
When this story begins Serge Bramly is facing the
SERGE BRAMLY simultaneous end of a literary adventure and the
end of a love story.
Pour Sensi Rivka, his young mistress for the past eighteen
months, has just left him. And the novel he has
been working on about the Catiline conspiracy is at Serge Bramly
roman
a standstill. The author feels like the door to the fu- is born in 1949 in Tunisia.
ture has been slammed shut and he will never love He is a novelist and
or write again. essayist. He was awar-
ded the Prix Interallié for
The result is a profound feeling of emptiness that Le premier principe, le second
compels him, for the first time, to turn to the past principe (Lattès 2008).
and travel the winding roads of cause and effect in He is notably the author
his life, in the hope of finding understanding. of a novel on Marcel
Duchamp, Orchidée fixe
(Lattès 2012) and, more
recently, of an acclaimed
272 pages, August 2018
essay, La transparence et le
reflet (Lattès, 2015).
Il est déjà demain
IT’S ALREADY
Eight years after Congo’s independence, the
government in place demanded that its high-
TOMORROW
ranking officials prove that they were truly of
Congolese descent. Henri Lopes was thirty years
old and this request landed like a bombshell.
He never forgot the pain and indignation he felt.
© Patrice Normand
How is it possible to prove what we are, what mul- HENRI LOPES
tiple and changing identities we are composed of ?
Il est déjà demain
Henri Lopes digs into his family histo-
ry. Both his parents were of mixed descent,
born from the union of a native African wo- Henri Lopes
man and a white colonist. Sometimes they is born in Congo in
are considered “negro”, other times “white”. 1937. He is is the au-
thor of a considerable
Lopez inherited their stories - he grew up on number of books,
the banks of the Congo River and the Ouban- among which, Tribaliques
gui River before he discovered the Loire and (1972, Grand Prix litté-
the Seine. He returned to Congo, left again, tra- raire d’Afrique noire), Le
velled, wrote and became a militant. His entire chercheur d’Afriques (1990).
life has been about wanderings and mixed race. The Grand Prix de la
Francophonie was awar-
512 pages, August 2018
ded to him by the Acadé-
mie française.
FICTION
JANET
Janet
The incredible life of Janet Flanner, free-spirited Paris
correspondent for The New Yorker from the 1920s to the 1970s,
and pioneer of narrative journalism.
Janet Flanner’s story is intimately linked to that of the The New
Yorker for which she was the Paris correspondent for over half a
century. A feminist, lesbian, pacifist, seductress and leading figure
in the artistic and intellectual circles, she chronicled post-war Pari-
sian life. She was a brilliant stylist with a scathing sense of humor,
and her work as a political and investigative journalist took her
across Europe to bear witness to the remarkable events of her
time. Her most famous portraits include: Hitler, Petain, Nurem-
berg, Matisse, Braque, Malraux, De Gaulle…
For the first time, Michèle Fitoussi brings back to life the woman
who invented narrative journalism, well before Truman Capote,
Tom Wolfe or Gay Talese, yet only recognised near the end of her
life when she won the National Book Award for Paris Journal.
In a biography that reads like a novel, we are transported back
to the Paris of the Lost Generation, encountering some of the
era’s celebrated figures: Ernest Hemingway, Nancy Cunard, Sylvia
432 pages, September 2018 Beach, Natalie Barney and Gertrude Stein…
Janet is the sparkling portrait of a trailblazer of modern journa-
lism and cultural history.
1st print-run: 10,000 copies
"She dreamed of writing novels; but her life was one. Far from a classical biography, this
“Janet” is a beautiful exercise in biographical vampirism. Through her heroin, the novelist
creates a world that believes in its future.” Livres-Hebdo
“We love it!” Elle
Michèle Fitoussi was for many years an editor and
reporter with Elle magazine. She has written for theater and
television and published twelve books, including The Prisoner
with Malika Oufkir, an Oprah pick translated into 30
languages, and Helena Rubinstein, The Woman who Invented Beauty
(2010).
© Patrice Normand
© Library of Congress
NON-FICTION
MY LIFE IS A
MIRACLE
Ma vie est un miracle
On July 11th 2008 at 5:45 PM Sister Bernadette Moriau had
just entered the grotto of Lourdes when she felt a strange
presence, an energy radiating throughout her entire body. A
few days later, although she had been paralyzed in both legs
for years, she realized she could walk again!
For ten years, close to two hundred doctors and professors will
carefully study her astounding recovery and decide in the end that
it “remains unexplainable in the light of our present scientific knowledge.”
Another commission headed by Bishop Jacques Benoit-Gon-
nin will, a few months later, officially recognize this healing as
“miraculous and given as a sign from God through the intermediary of Our
Lady of Lourdes.” Thus Bernadette Moriau’s full recovery officially
became the 70th miracle of Lourdes in over 160 years on February
11th, 2018.
Wth great honesty, the author ceaselessly questions the mys-
terious reasons for her recovery. Why was she chosen? It is the
simple and unique story of a woman who has dedicated her life to
others and to God, and who shares with us her doubts, her certi-
tudes, her hopes and her faith.
272 pages, October 2018
This sincere and modest confession is accompanied by the
detailed medical report that explains the conditions in which this
miracle took place, lay people and doctors who have followed
Bernadette since her recovery up to the conclusion of a miracle.
Offers in Italy
1st print-run: 20,000 copies
and Poland!
Bernadette Moriau has written her autobiography
with the help of journalist Jean-Marie Guénois, responsible for
religious questions and the Vatican for the Figaro newspaper.
“El número 70 en 160 años ! ” La Vanguardia
“Nuovo miracolo riconosciuto a Lourdes” La Stampa
“French nun, 79, tells how she was 'cured by miracle at Lourdes'
©La Croix
and can now walk without morphine and her leg brace
after 40 years in agony” Daily Mail
NON-FICTION
dans le cyberspace, personne ne vous entend crier
IN CYBERSPACE,
Digital war has been declared. Welcome to
NO ONE CAN HEAR the implacable reality of cyberspace.
YOU SCREAM
Ransomware. In just a few short days the en-
tire planet came to realize the devastating potential
of this new kind of virus capable of encrypting
and blocking all data until a ransom was paid. Mil-
lions of computers have been infected, hospitals
paralyzed, factories forced to cease all activity for
Gilles Fontaine
is a journalist with
months and companies compelled to close…
Challenges magazine who
Losses are counted in the billions of dollars.
is interested in the pro-
More and more connected, modern man has
found changes taking
never been so vulnerable to the ever-increasing
place in high-tech and
sophistication of hackers who can infiltrate our
the media. He is the au-
mailbox, seize our bank account, or highjack our
thor of Microsoft: comment
access to Netflix. On top of that we are inundated
Bill Gates a fait main basse
with fake news fabricated on an industrial scale to
sur votre ordinateur.
influence elections, economic policy or geo-politi-
cal strategy…
Not only that, there is also the invisible maneu-
vering by groups such as the cyber mafia who ope-
rate on the dark net; the state-recruited cyber-war-
riors who spy on and destabilize their adversaries,
pillage the intellectual property of their businesses
315 pages, September 2018 and destroy vital infrastructure…
dans la lumière des grands peintres
IN THE LIGHT
The extraordinary adventure of the Maeght OF GREAT
family who became friends with most of the great ARTISTS
artists of the 19th and 20th centuries.
The adventure of the Maeght family is a 20th century
saga that spans both World Wars and the political, artis-
tic and intellectual revolutions from Moscow to Berlin
and from Paris to New York.
Aimé Maeght was the son of a French rail worker
and Marguerite was the daughter of a grocery store
owner and yet the couple became the art dealers and
friends of the greatest artists: Bonnard, Matisse, Braque,
Miro, Giacometti, Léger, Chagall, Calder… Starting from
almost nothing, they built the largest modern art gallery
in the world and then the first Foundation in France at
Saint-Paul-de-Vence.
Adrien Maeght, their son, grew up in this exceptional
family and is a unique witness to their story. He reveals Adrien Maeght
the intimate lives of the painters... is president of the Mar-
guérite and Aimé Maeght
Love, jealousy, friendship, artistic rivalry, money, Foundation of Saint-Paul-
inheritance battles.. In this book, no stone is left un- de-Vence.
turned.
300 pages, October 2018 Written with the collabo-
ration of Patrice Trapier.
NON-FICTION
La Médecine du bon sens
COMMON SENSE
The principles for a healthy and happy life
MEDECINE based on the experience of our ancestors and
on the most recent research in neuroscience.
Healthcare has evolved over thousands of years
to reach our present level of development. From
prehistoric times to the wise men of the Orient,
from the first Greek scholars to the alchemists of the
Renaissance, each stage of human evolution has its
corresponding healthcare based on common sense. Michel Lejoyeux
is a professor of psy-
Learning self-confidence and mastication are chiatry and addictology
prehistoric. Ancient Chinese wisdom taught us and head of department
to privilege prevention over cure and become in several Parisian hos-
aware of the fundamental link between mind and pitals. He is the author
body. Hippocrates recommended a daily 15 mi- of several books notably
nute walk, a diet based on fish, carob seed and the best-seller Tout dépri-
rice… and an afternoon nap and sex. The alche- mé est un bien portant qui
mists promoted the virtues of warmth and music. s’ignore and Les 4 saisons
de la bonne humeur.
Professor Lejoyeux proposes a simple and easy
program, adapted to daily living,that will help us live
342 pages, October 2018 better lives and develop a positive outlook on life.
Maman, Papa on joue à quoi?! MOMMY, DADDY,
Agathe Lecaron and Sylvia Gabet have divi- LET’S PLAY!
ded their book into nine different categories
of 70 activities to share with your children –
cooking, places to visit, things to build, garde-
ning, scientific experiments for kids, quiet ga-
mes, dress-up, sports… and sometimes doing
nothing at all!
We all know, and psychologists repeat it enough,
that parents must have quality time with their child-
ren. But we don’t always have the energy or ideas
or even the desire to play. And screens are such an
easy solution and so difficult to resist!
We know that the perfect mother or father does
© Patrice Normand
not exist but these 70 fun and educative activities
for all ages, even toddlers, are guaranteed enjoy-
ment for both you and your children! Agathe Lecaron
is a journalist and French
television show host for La
Maison des Maternelles a show
272 pages, October 2018 devoted to childhood and
parenthood. She is mother
to two boys.
1st print-run: 16,000 copies!
Sylvie Gabet
is a well-known cookbook
author who just published
What’s for dinner? devoted to
cooking for kids).
NON-FICTION
Eloge de la passoire
PRAISE FOR
THE SIEVE A well-trained memory is as useful as a sieve : it keeps
what’s important and lets go what is not.
© Victoria Lafaurie
We will discover the secrets of memory in the light of co-
gnitive science. What helps memorization or, on the contrary,
makes it more complicated? Should we be frustrated when we
forget things or consider forgetfulness necessary to a well-func-
tioning memory?
In this essay filled with concrete examples and exercises, the Anne de
author demonstrates how our ancestors and traditional oral Pomereu
civilizations used simple and efficient methods to remember has a degree from the
things. She also warns of the hidden enemies of memory (in- famous French uni-
formation saturation, multi-tasking, IT...) and offers sound ad- versity HEC. She is a
vice on how to strengthen our ability to pay attention, the very professor of memory
first step to a good memory. and methodology and
is also a consultant for
businesses.
336 pages, October 2018
SAVING
Mon amie la peau YOUR SKIN
Understanding and protecting the largest organ of
our body throughout our lives.
What is skin and what role does it play? The skin is the only
visible organ of the body. It is embodies our sense of touch.
It is a protective barrier and also serves as a truthful, often
instantaneous, expression of our deepest feelings. It can be
disguised under make-up or tattoos or modified with surgery.
But do we really know our skin’s basic structure, its limits, Nicolas Dupin
is a dermatology professor
its evolution and its needs? at the University Paris Des-
cartes and he practices der-
matology at Cochin Hos-
pital. Today, he is leading
research on skin diseases
and skin cancer.
280 pages, June 2018
HOW FRENCH
WOMEN FEEL Les jeunes femmes de 50 ans
GREAT AT 50’S In this uplifting book, Mylène Desclaux speaks
tenderly and honestly about herself and the other
middle-aged women in her entourage. In her tiny
personal laboratory she analyzes the new lifestyles of
women in their fifties, from the sharing of housework
to the choice of an ideal companion, not to mention
© Patrice Lenormand
sex and social networking.
Les Jeunes femmes de 50 ans offers a list of what can
help when sadness, anger or discouragement invade our
thoughts. We happily tag along with the author when she
goes to have her fortune told, we lay next to her on the Mylène Desclaux
couch of her far-too-emotional psychiatrist, witness her has lived several lives: first
deal with younger rivals and share family secrets. She shows as a publicist and then di-
us how to handle as best we can the inevitable changes that rector of a company, she
can wreak chaos but also conceal new paths to happiness. now has left those lives
behind and devotes her-
320 pages, October 2018 Rights sold: self to writing her blog.
• WEL - Headline She lives in Paris. Les Jeunes
femmes de 50 ans is her first
• Japan - Diamond Inc.
NON-FICTION book.Le retour d’Arsène Lupin
THE RETURN OF
An intrigue rich in unexpected developments set ARSENE LUPIN
in the extravagant Belle Epoque. This is Arsène
Lupin at his finest, as crafty and cunning as ever!
© Romain Slocombe
1908 – Arsène Lupin has begun therapy to
cure his addiction to burglary but he is forced
to find an honest means to pay for the sessions
that he hopes will be successful. In that goal,
he opens a detective agency, the Barnett Agency. Frédéric
Lenormand
His first client is the very wealthy Madame Bo- is a specialist of 18th
varoff who claims that someone has stolen a price- century history and the
less self-portrait by Delacroix entitled L’Homme au gi- French revolution. He is
let vert. Yet suddenly the painting magically reappears the author of Nouvelles
back on the same wall from which it disappeared. Enquêtes du Juge Ti, that
has been translated into
Not only that but all those who held the painting several languages.
in their hands are murdered, one after the other...
256 pages, October 2018
La Porte d’ivoire
THE IVORY
DOOR A brand new novel by Serge Brussolo!
A foolish, elderly billionaire leaves on an expedition
to the heart of the Congo and disappears. His daugh-
ter tries everything to find him and recruits the help
of Tracy, a skilled ex-military nurse, Russel, a talented
sharp-shooter and Diolo who knows the jungle like Serge Brussolo
the back of his hand. was born in Paris in 1951.
After several different
Serge Brussolo invites us to a very strange universe professions, he emerges
where the most insane situations follow one after the on the literary scene
other and where the characters are confronted by their with Funnyway (awar-
worst nightmares: a murderous elephant, a psycho- ded the Grand Prix in
pathic Hollywood actor and man-eating pygmies, to science-fiction, 1979). A
name a few, not to mention the jungle itself! A jungle prolific author, his nu-
that devours everyone and everything… forever. merous successful novels
To enter it is to hurdle down the path of oblivion. include several series for
children and adolescents
as well as historical and
crime novels.
336 pages, October 2018Foreign Rights
Eva Bredin-Wachter Elsa Misson
Rights Director Rights Manager
ebredin@jclattes.fr emisson@jclattes.fr
+33 1 44 41 74 30 +33 1 44 41 74 31
Spanish & Portuguese rights
A.C.E.R.
Catherine Passion
cpassion@acerliteraria.comForeign Rights FRANK FURT 2018
You can also read
