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September 2023Die total normalen Abenteuer von Odette Germaine
by Franziska Lagemann, Kristina Kister
Odette Germaine kann Tote zum Leben erwecken – und tut das auch. Als Kind hat die zwölfjährige Odette eine magische Rassel von ihrer etwas zu experimentierfreudigen Urgroßmutter Eloise bekommen. Seitdem hat Odette nekromantische Fähigkeiten und kann Tote zum Leben erwecken und kontrollieren. Deshalb verbringt sie ihre Zeit am liebsten zusammen mit ihren toten Freunden auf dem Pariser Friedhof Père Lachaise. An Halloween plant sie eine große Party für alle. Blöd nur, dass sie nicht die einzige Nekromantin dort ist. Auch die Dunkle Bruderschaft macht sich auf dem Friedhof breit und plant – ausgerechnet an Halloween – die Weltherrschaft zu übernehmen. Das kann Odette nicht zulassen. Sie setzt alles daran, den Friedhof zu verteidigen und ihre Party zu feiern. Halloween auf dem Pariser Friedhof Père Lachaise – es lebe die Fantasie! Die eigensinnige Odette lässt sich von nichts und niemandem beeindrucken oder gar von Erwachsenen etwas vorschreiben – in der Tradition von Pippi Langstrumpf und der roten Zora. Spannung, Spaß und Gruseln sind garantiert. Die Gänsehaut gibt's gratis dazu. Geballte Mädchenpower macht dich stark und beschert dir das Lesevergnügen deines Lebens. Ein fantastisches Abenteuer zum Schmökern, Schaudern und Kichern. Franziska Lagemann geht mit ihrer Gruselgeschichte für Kinder ab 10 Jahren das schwierige Thema Tod von einer ungewöhnlichen Seite an. Buch des Monats November der Deutschen Akademie für Kinder- und Jugendliteratur.
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Children's & YABras de fer pour un ballon (Arm wrestling for a ball)
by Augustin Mansare
Salif is a good student, but a soccer fan. His father finds that he spends too much time playing in the street with "thugs". In no time the passion turns to obsession. The father gives nothing. From hope to disappointment, from running away to depression, how will this showdown for a ball end?
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Children's & YALe voyage de papa (Dad's journey)
by Saliou Bah
Dad is not there when Bobo wakes up. The child looks for him everywhere. How could Dad leave without telling his little boy?
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Children's & YABobo et le cerf volant (Bobo and the flying deer)
by Saliou Bah
Bobo would like Mom to buy Grand Bali's beautiful kite right away. But Mom doesn't see it that way. How will Bobo react? This new adventure of Bobo plunges us into the heart of the emotions of a little boy who wants everything right away.
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Children's & YALa forêt sacrée (The sacred forest)
by Nicolas Condé
Koné is old enough to return to the sacred forest to bring back a fantastic animal that will accompany him all his life. But the forest is full of dangers and the animals have become rare and hard to find. When Koné finally meets the Chameleon, will he understand the message and be able to carry out his mission?
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Children's & YALe mouton de Modibo (Modibo's sheep)
by Abdourahmane Diallo
Fanta gets up, walks around the house, looks in the kitchen, in the garage and even in the bedrooms. No sheep! She walks around the block. Still no sheep. Distraught and trembling, she returns to announce the disaster to Modibo...
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Children's & YAAlamako, l'enfant aux grands rêves (Alamako, the child with big dreams)
by Abdoulaye Kéita
Alamako bustles near the cemetery. The whole village would like to know his secret.Will Alamako be able to follow his dreams to the end?
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Children's & YAUn amour de parapluie (An umbrella love)
by Adrienne Yabouza
A bride more beautiful than beautiful under her beautiful umbrella. And here is Djénabou dreaming, dreaming of the day when, in turn, she will have a beautiful red shirt over her indigo loincloth!
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Children's & YALes chimpanzés de Bossou (The chimpanzees of Bossou)
by Moussa Kourouma
The chimpanzee is a very intelligent animal that knows how to use tools: stones to crush palm kernels, sticks to pick fruit, leaves to drink water, stems to search termite mounds or catch grasshoppers. When he falls ill he knows how to use certain plants to heal himself.
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Children's & YAL'orage (The storm)
by Kidi Bebey
Kidi Bebey offers toddlers a poetic explanation of the storm to ward off their fear.
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Children's & YALa fille de l'eau (The water girl)
by Yves Pinguilly, Sarang Seck
West African mythical tale. Yves Pinguilly and Saran Seick introduce you to the world of love and beauty of the African woman.
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Children's & YAEldéric et le Livres des Mondes (Eldéric and the Book of Worlds)
by Marie Desvignes
On an autumn evening, a fire broke out in the only school in the province of Saint-Andre and completely destroyed it. Johann, a thirteen-year-old boy who was still inside, was reported missing. It is a shock. There is no trace of the boy, whom everyone thinks is dead. Transported to another world, on the continent of Onirix, among the Menz people, Johann, now endowed with great powers, is entrusted with a great mission: to find the manuscripts of the Book of Worlds stolen for two centuries by the witch Theuz.
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Children's & YAEldéric et le Livres des Mondes 2 (Eldéric and the Book of Worlds 2)
by Marie Desvignes
Eldéric continues his journey to the continent of Onirix to find the manuscripts of the Book of Worlds. This is the only way to restore freedom to the Menz people, kept in slavery by the spell of the witch Theuz. With the help of his friends Souleyman and Alderia, he breaks down the doors of this world of horror designed by the witch and confronts her in her own palace. Will we finally, after many decades, witness the fall of the cruel and despicable Theuz? Will Eldéric be able to take the treasure back to the White Queen and return home?
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La chant des blessures (The song of the wounds)
by Sybille Claude
In the midst of Operation Baghdad in Port-au-Prince, a man, poet and family man, is murdered with five bullets to the head. A dying, despairing and despondent mother succumbs to the banal disaster and the weight of a thankless, bitter life too heavy to bear. Faced with the disarray of his country, the son decides to set sail in search of artificial paradises under other skies. And it's a debacle. The only one left is little Sarah who, through books and poetry, tries to pick up the pieces of her life.
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Poème pour une petite fille à l’autre bout du monde (Poem for a little girl on the other side of the world)
by Dieulermesson Petit Frère
A statement on otherness, a song of love and sincerity, Poème pour une petite fille à l’autre bout du monde is an invitation into the intimate sphere of the poet. It is the figuration of the paternal real brought to its highest point. A father and a little girl meet somewhere, at the other end of a street or a railway station, to talk about friendship, life and their regrets, to take stock of all their failed acts and to give each other reasons to love each other, despite the distance, the disarray and the madness that can arise from absence.
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Nulle veine n’est fumante quand la joie est borgne (No vein is smoking when joy is one-eyed)
by Snayder Pierre-Louis
Nulle veine n'est fumante quand la joie est borgne is a book that one must go to meet as one goes to discover the song of the world. For this impulse of life and dream that emanates from poetic expression. For the need for tenderness that is born on the page. Finally, for the breath of life that words breathe in the face of the daily chaos that erodes hope.
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Powèm entèdi ak lòt powèm (Forbidden poems and other poems)
by Guy Régis Jr
Forbidden poems and other poems are a book designed with a series of words that say without lure all cause people fear to speak daylight. It gathers all the sweet words that make life thrive at night. Every poem in this book is a ochan so life can be plagued even when at night bare the sun at the tip of the dawn. It's a song the poet's hopes bring, a veve he draws for love spread without measure like the hay pid of Christmas.
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March 2023“Witness to the Mutilations of the Sky”
Fiction and testimony in the work of Mohammed Dib
by Hervé Sanson
From his earliest writings, Algerian writer Mohammed Dib (1920-2003) never gave in to the use of didactic, transparent language, nor to the expectations of so-called “commissioned” literature. It's the work of the language in its syntactic cutting, the weighing of the letter, that's important. In fact, the Dibian witness is masked: he conceals within himself what I'd like to call a literary witness, i.e. a textual device, plural in its declensions, which, going against the expected, allows for other times, (re)plays the texts in their unspoken, questions the memory of the texts, renews the very conception of the witness and asks the following question: what witness when fiction gets involved? This essay, covering fifty years of uninterrupted creation, sets out to delineate the various passages of witness that Dib's work encourages, but cannot avoid questioning the very nature of exegesis and the position of the exegete: do I become, at the end of this relay, the ultimate witness who wishes, from the depths of his heart, to pass the baton to a new guarantor? Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)
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November 2022The Doors of the Poem
Tribute to Habib Tengour
by Sagawe Regina Keil, Hervé Sanson
The twenty-seven contributions gathered here and superbly illustrated by Hamid Tibouchi - critical studies and creative texts - pay tribute to a work that is at the forefront of Algerian and, more broadly, contemporary letters, but paradoxically still little-known. On the occasion of Habib Tengour's seventy-fifth birthday, this volume is intended to open up new avenues of research into this work, and provide a more accurate understanding of the issues at stake. Tributes from his peers - poets from all over the world - give the book an affective, carnal dimension, extending the researchers' analyses with unexpected echoes. “Tengour warns us: “Only those with the right intention enter the poem! LES PORTES DU POEME thus opens on one of the most important poetic voices of his generation (Prix Dante in 2016, Prix Benjamin Fondane in 2022, Prix Dante Alighieri in 2023, for his body of work).
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October 2019The Civilization of Erzats
by Djawad Rostom Touati
“His great novel, his “immense contemporary social fresco”, his “made-in-bladi human comedy” - in the words with which he dazzles his virtual contacts - was now out of the question. To those who still asked him: “What's the status of this novel?”, he invariably replied: “Perhaps under other skies. Here, all we promote is mediocrity. And everyone would nod in agreement, wishing him well.” Djawad Rostom Touati Farid, Malia, Rami, Adib and other characters wander through ''The civilization of erzats'', the second part of the trilogy: ''the cult of It'', each equipped with their own socio-cultural baggage, some motivated to change the course of their lives, sure that the sun is much warmer elsewhere; others resigned to the idea that the world is as it is: just a two-variable equation - dominated/dominant -; and still others, self-sufficient, seeking redemption in the misfortunes of others, make their way between the strata of a society in turmoil, the victim of a frozen past, a sequestered present and a future held hostage. In La civilisation de l'ersatz, both neo-prolo-aspirants-bourgeois who don't even know they're there, replace each other between the fingers of a born writer. Everything is relativity: time, space, not to mention the mind...
