John Burnside, novelist and poet, was born in Scotland in 1955. In A Lie About My Father, he brings his tyrannical father, a compulsive liar and violent alcoholic, back to life. Through this startling portrait, he revisits the torments of his own childhood and his time spent in a psychiatric home. With this dazzling book about lies, father-son relations and identity, John Burnside once again reveals the full extent of his talent. A true masterpiece!

Lídia Jorge was born in Boliqueim in the Algarve in 1946. She is one of the most important voices of contemporary Portuguese and European literature. Her novels often reflect Portuguese reality through a brilliant psychological analysis of her characters. InNous combattrons l’ombre, the author places us inside the troubled head of a psychoanalyst who is a victim of his anxieties, weaknesses and obsessions. The writing is intimate and captivating. On the release of the book, Jorge was awarded the Grand Prize of the Portuguese Authors’ Society.

Julie Wolkenstein, born in 1968, teaches comparative literature at Caen University. InL’Excuse, her fifth novel, she paints a magnificent portrait of an older woman with sensitivity and humour. Picking over her memories, Lise, the narrator, discovers that she did not determine the course of her own life and that her story is actually an exact reproduction of that of a fictional character. As a game of mirrors and connections, L’Excuse is a dazzling live story haunted by the tutelary figure of Henry James.

Born in Beirut in 1948, Elias Khoury is a literary critic, essayist and the author of nine novels, notably Gate of the Sun, for which he was awarded the most important prize for Palestinian literature. His latest novel,Comme si elle dormait, is set in Lebanon in 1947, on the eve of the birth of the State of Israel and the exodus of the Palestinians. Before this devastating period of history, with passion and gentleness Elias Khoury conjures up dreams and poetry as an alternative to the familial, religious and political oppression that Lebanon has experienced.