David Foenkinos

"It's 1999. Martin Hill is ten years old, crazy about Arsenal and has a minor crush on a girl named Betty. Then he makes it to the final two in the casting for Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. In the end, the other boy is picked for the role of a lifetime. A devastated Martin tries to move on with his life. But how can he escape his failure, especially when it's the most famous film series in the world?"--Provided by publisher.

A disillusioned Parisian writer finds inspiration in the ordinary lives of his neighbours, the Martins. Is it true that every life is the stuff of novels? Or are some people just too ordinary? This is the question a struggling Parisian writer asks when he challenges himself to write about the first person he sees when he steps outside his apartment. Secretly hoping to meet the beautiful woman who occasionally smokes on his street, he instead sets...

"Ce roman retrace la vie de Charlotte Salomon, artiste peintre morte ©¿ vingt-six ans alors qu'elle ©♭tait enceinte. Apr©·s une enfance ©¿ Berlin marqu©♭e par une trag©♭die familiale, Charlotte est exclue progressivement par les nazis de toutes les sph©·res de la soci©♭t©♭ allemande. Elle vit une passion amoureuse fondatrice, avant de devoir tout quitter pour se r©♭fugier en France. Exil©♭e, elle entreprend la composition...

When a woman loses the love of her life, she struggles to rekindle any kind of passion until she begins an unlikely relationship with a klutzy underling at work.