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Samir Éditeur
Founded in 1947, Samir Éditeur is a Beirut-based francophone publishing house specializing in children’s books and textbooks. We publish in both French and Arabic languages, and our books are distributed worldwide. Our children’s book list includes picture books, first readers, fiction and non-fiction titles for ages 2 to 17. We publish original content as well as carefully curated translations such as Roald Dahl’s books. Our family of culturally and geographically diverse authors and illustrators enriches our catalogue with award-winning titles, such as our YA title Caballero by Lenia Major that won 3 awards and got 3 mentions in France (2017-2018) or our picture book Raconte encore, grand-mère ! by Marido Viale and Xavière Broncard that won the Prix Chronos (2016). Our latest YA novel Droit devant is currently shortlisted for 5 literary awards. We are among those who were the most affected by the Beirut blast this past August. Our offices were completely destroyed; fortunately, our staff had been working from home due to the covid outbreak, so there were no human losses. And so we live to tell another story! – BOP Finalist 2019
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2016Ces galettes dont tout le monde parle
Recettes sans sucre et sans gras ajoutés. Miamski !
by Madame Labriski
Vous avez de la broue dans le toupet. Vous voulez prendre soin de vous. Vous cherchez des solutions faciles pour vous régaler de bonheur sans culpabilité ? Tadamski ! Vous en trouverez une profusion dans le livre de Madame Labriski ! Carburez dès aujourd’hui aux Labriskis. Et changez votre vieski ! Pour en apprendre davantage sur cet éditeur, cliquez ici : http://bit.ly/2tgnvs0
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October 2016Le boulevard
by Jean-François Sénéchal
Chris has the body of a young man and the mind of a child. On the day of his eighteenth birthday his mother leaves their home, forcing him to cope with life on his own. At first overwhelmed by despair, he manages to regain his strength and to support himself working as the caretaker of the building he lives in. In order to ease his sorrow and loneliness, he talks to his absent mother, telling her of his everyday life – his walks along the suburban boulevard, his visits to the flea market, his emotional disappointments, his sometimes incredible adventures… Seemingly helpless, the endearing innocent and kind character who shows unusual strength and maturity befriends people, sparking a relationship of mutual support. The generous community with a working-class background will become the family that Chris has missed all his life. With Le boulevard (The Boulevard), Jean‐François Sénéchal tells a story that’s in turns funny, touching and deeply moving, a lesson in hope and resilience, written in a simple and singular language of harrowing beauty.
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2015Le nénuphar et l'araignée
by Claire Legendre
You’re scared of spiders, afraid of heights, illness, and the opinion of others. You’re terrified to be betrayed or abandoned, and you’re petrified to the idea that the little gypsy fortune-teller’s predictions may come true. So you stop smoking, you shun insects and medical confidences; you avoid the stage, the airplanes, you don’t fall in love and you don’t lean over balconies. You never take your driving test and you begin reading novels from the last page, like you’d wear a chastity belt. You think you’re ready, that you’ll never be caught off guard, and that nothing can happen to you. Until they discover a butterfly in your chest and you can feel its fluttering wings. Then you simply can’t pretend to ignore it. Le nénuphar et l’araignée is an autobiographical story about fear that explores the symptoms, the sources, and the origins of anxiety, from the most intimate to the most ordinary.
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2018Planètes
by Mario Cyr
Ils ne viennent pas du même monde. Ils s’attirent comme des aimants. À l’un le quotidien pèse, et l’autre apporte des réponses. La forme surprend. Les personnages n’ont pas de nom, et tout le récit est au présent. Pas de passé, pas d’imparfait. Ni futur ni conditionnel. Planètes sait nous toucher par la sensibilité sans mièvrerie qui l’anime, sa tendresse pour les déshérités et les vulnérables, son goût de la beauté, son adhésion à la vie.Pour en apprendre davantage sur cet éditeur, cliquez ici : http://bit.ly/30R3zwd
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2018Natalia Z.
by Chantal Garand
Oslo, juin 1945. Natalia accouche d’un garçon qu’elle abandonne à la naissance. Plus de 60 années se sont écoulées lorsque Tollef met la main sur son dossier d’adoption. Il apprend alors que le destin de sa mère est intimement lié à l’état du monde pendant la Deuxième Guerre mondiale. Décontenancé par ce qu’il découvre, il décide d’entreprendre les démarches qui feront la lumière sur les événements entourant sa venue au monde. Ce roman est inspiré par des faits réels.Pour en apprendre davantage sur cet éditeur, cliquez ici : http://bit.ly/30R3zwd
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2017On n'entend plus jouer les enfants
by Allen Côté
Face au désir de sa compagne d'avoir un enfant, un auteur de polars, troublé, essaie tant bien que mal de poursuivre l'écriture de son livre. Mais peu à peu, le récit d'un épisode crucial de son enfance — son expérience de pensionnaire dans une école religieuse — se substitue à l'œuvre en chantier. Mettant en scène un enfant hypersensible et obsédé par sa mère absente, ce roman nous restitue la vision du monde d'un jeune garçon au tournant des années 1970, au Saguenay. Pour en apprendre davantage sur cet éditeur, cliquez ici : http://bit.ly/29CtZYL
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February 2021Je suis le courant la vase
by Marie-Hélène Larochelle
Athletic Centre, Toronto. Under her coach's watchful eye, a swimmer struggles against the liquid element to improve her time and earn a spot in national competitions. The training sometimes continues outside the athletic center, in his apartment, where she must submit to rituals designed to free her from her resistance. Marie-Hélène Larochelle's novel recounts this relationship of power and desire. It tells of what one must sometimes embrace to reach the highest levels of athletic performance. Readers follow the athlete and her team as they train and compete, swimming and almost drowning with her in all kinds of waters. Je suis le courant la vase echoes the recent revelations that shook the sport world, and despite all the chlorine and salt that suffuse the text, the experience leaves a feeling of being dirty and bruised.
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September 2021La pierre au milieu d'eux tous
by Caroline Renédebon
In the garden of her Parisian home, the narrator discovers by chance a modest tombstone. Haunted by the deceased’s date of birth, which except for the year, is the same as her own, she becomes intimate with a discreet and disturbing presence that settles in her life. A century after Marie’s death, leaving Paris to settle in Quebec, the narrator feels more than ever the urgency to write in order to give back, fictitiously and with a moving respect, an existence to someone she knows nothing about. What to do with what is only a name but is nonetheless a life that ends in the middle of a war at the age of thirty-six? Alternating between excerpts from notebooks written since 2017 and a story set against a historical background, La pierre au milieu d’eux tous is the imagined delicate portrait of a woman who escapes the shackles of early 20th century conventions through imagination, dance and the secret relationship she builds with her daughter.
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August 2021Sur la route des grandes sagesses
by Jean Bédard
The story begins in Galilee, around the year 30. Jairus, a young rabbi, questions his own religion as well as the Greek materialism preached by his wife, both of which only breed hatred. This is the time when a strange carpenter from Nazareth offers to stop the violence with love and reconciliation. “Good for the children,” thinks Jairus, choosing Instead to take over his father’s business (trading in rare manuscripts on the Great Silk Road). Across the deserts, mountains and vastness of Persia, Kashmir and Tibet, Jairus and his daughter will face the usual cruelties of civilisations, and encounter priests of Zoroaster, Buddhist monks, Taoist sages... The beauty of the world and the wisdom of a few masters will transform them. When Jairus returns to Galilee thirty years later, he will no longer be insensitive to the actions of the famous carpenter who has turned the whole of Jerusalem upside down, the same one who once brought joy to his daughter when she was in the throes of despair. This story is based on a deep knowledge of history, customs, human nature and the main philosophies that still condition human existence. This novel, with well-crafted and engaging characters, offers unforgettable scenes where humour and love, depth and lightness give us hope. The author’s quest is expressed in simple, everyday, contemporary language. An ideal read for those who are not looking for life guides, but for an intimate metamorphosis that expands the heart.
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September 2021L'horizon des évènements
by Biz
Reprising the characters from his 2017 novel La chaleur des mammifères a few years later, Biz here casts a sociological look on academia, in the time of trigger warnings, snowflakes and cancel culture. With humour, he depicts the fear that grips those who are supposed to educate but who grovel to preserve what they have acquired, namely a job, and some power. The result is the portrait of a milieu that no longer knows what it stands for... Filled with references to brilliant writer of ill repute Louis-Ferdinand Céline, this tragicomedy raises the question of teaching at a time when everyone’s sensibilities mustn’t be offended and when ignorance is bliss, always preferable to knowledge that hurts.
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September 2021Plie la rivière
by Audrée Wilhelmy
With an ever powerful writing, carried away by the animal strength that takes her back to the raw world of Oss – where the uniqueness of her literary universe was revealed – Audrée Wilhelmy delivers a tale of full maturity whose erotic spell will bewitch readers. Noé, known as the Little One, leads this amoral story of male trinity – of father, son and bear – through her body, first as a child and then as a woman. A fetish character in Audrée Wilhelmy’s work, Noé, the untamable, the implacable, the insubordinate, meets young Emessie, a travelling candy salesman who criss-crosses the continent in his horse-drawn cart every year. This time, however, losing his virginity to Grumme – the obese shopkeeper – and magnetised by Noé, he’ll serenely overcome the fear of the secret beast within him: perhaps this totemic bear that the little girl will have first tamed by the animistic impulses that make her an initiatory character through whom others are fulfilled. This text, as delicate as amber, once again gives the measure of an immense writer.
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August 2021Symbiose
by Normand Chaurette
In the therapeutic world of Symbiosis, a workshop for personal growth that is still being developed, a dozen test subjects in their early thirties are brought together. During these experiments, physical aggression is encouraged in order to overcome the contradictory forces that coexist within each person. Based on the premise that each person is his or her own worst enemy, this form of art therapy promotes supervised partnerships between the trainees, aiming to explore their positive strengths in order to achieve recognition of their self-destructive instincts and reconciliation with themselves. However, this programme is compromised by the death of Michael Ropa, one of the participants, who is found brutally murdered on the workshop premises. Through a detective story in which the main characters are suspected of murder, this novel tells the story of two brothers, Alex and Jay-Rémi, who were separated as teenagers and who meet again around the memory of a mysteriously suppressed childhood. Through the eyes of Alex, a visual artist trapped in the violence that runs through his work, Symbiose depicts the distorted relationships that unite members of a struggling generation in their quest for light and salvation.
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August 2021Léonore
by Linda Amyot
Shaken by a heartbreaking tragedy, Léonore’s family is trying to look forward and get back to normal life. In her difficult transition from elementary to high school, the young girl can count on her grandmother, who tries to make up for the absence of her parents and bring a little joy to the home. When her teacher asks the students in her class to recount the story of their year, wounds are reopened. The façade everyone displays sometimes hides painful stories. What will Leonore tell? Each new book by Linda Amyot conveys the same beauty and enchantment. From this novel rise strong teenage characters that life puts to the test.
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August 2021De son oeil
by Maryse Pagé
Anju, a lonely and introverted teenager, speaks inwardly to Noah, the most popular student in his school, whom he considers his ideal: Noah is handsome, brilliant, a leader, athletic, ambitious, and empathetic. He is person Anju admires, to whom he tries to get closer, someone he would like to resemble. To the point of becoming one with him. Anju offers Noah remedial maths in exchange for basketball lessons. He monitors his social media posts and hooks up with Megan, who resists to this more-than-perfect being. A student trip to New York offers him the perfect opportunity to spy his idol and his devoted fans even more. His plan seems to work: Noah gradually takes him under his wing and introduces him to rap. However, a disturbing event puts a stop to his almost obsessive voyeurism and opens his eyes to the lure of appearances...
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March 2021Trash anxieuse
by Sarah Lalonde
Struggling with an unlimited quota of fear, the novel’s main character is constantly bombarded by her thoughts. Her mother travels to Italy with her new flame. Her father cries in the shower. The planet’s carbon footprint is at an all-time high. Her friends have told her off. She must deal with eco-anxiety, eviction, influencers, social media, the moral contradictions of our time. Fortunately, she can rely on Régis, her homeless friend, and the singleparent waitress at the local snack bar, on Orion. But most of all, she can count on life-saving writing and acts of rebellion; on the happiness spreading all around, and on the future that’s just around the corner. Fluctuating between bitterness and tenderness, harshness and sensitivity, demands and indulgence, mixing caustic dialogues, sitcom scripts and poetry in a fragmented narrative, Sarah Lalonde’s voice both hurts and consoles.
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January 2020Dire l'autre
Appropriation culturelle, voix autochtones et liberté d'expression
by Ethel Groffier
In the summer of 2018, Quebec experienced a brutal introduction to the notion of cultural appropriation when one of its most famous playwrights, Robert Lepage, had two of his productions cancelled in the face of protests from activists who criticized him for representing their reality without their consent and for featuring very few members of their community. In an accessible, clear and nuanced essay, Groffier sets out to explain the origins, overarching concepts and implications of the cultural appropriation debate. Groffier uses the experience of Canada’s Aboriginal peoples as an example, and argues that they are still struggling to find ways to tell their own stories. The questions she poses, however, go beyond this specific case: Who has the right to represent others and their reality without distorting its meaning and usurping its legitimacy? And, above all, who decides? In Dire l’autre [Voicing the Other], Ethel Groffier does not take a position, but suggests that any agreement on cultural appropriation with Aboriginal people must involve a renewed dialogue based on reconciliation.
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September 2021L'après-vie de George Cartwright
by John Steffler
George Cartwright : gentleman, aventurier, soldat et chasseur. Mort, aussi, dans son Angleterre natale, le 19 mai 1819, jour que son esprit errant revit sans cesse depuis cent soixante-dix ans, avec pour seule compagnie son faucon et son cheval. Observant le monde poursuivre sa course, Cartwright se remémore sa vie. De sa première affectation militaire en Inde à son passage dans l’armée prussienne, en passant par son commerce et son entreprise de pêche dans les terres vierges du Labrador, son récit emmène le lecteur dans un voyage époustouflant à travers ses succès et ses déceptions. En revivant sa première traversée vers le Labrador, ses plans ambitieux pour favoriser le commerce avec les Inuits et son installation sur place, Cartwright comprend peu à peu pourquoi il reste confiné dans sa solitude. Malgré la noblesse de ses intentions, après la fin désastreuse de sa relation avec l’Inuite Caubvick et son peuple, Cartwright perd un à un tous ceux qui lui importaient. Après cent soixante-dix ans passés à revivre la même journée, il touche enfin à la sérénité dans la conclusion surprenante et mystifiante de ce roman étonnant.
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March 2021Parole tenue
Les nuits d'un confinements - Mars-Avril 2020
by Wajdi Mouawad
Between Monday 16 in March (Day 1) and Monday 20 in April 2020 (Day 35), Wajdi Mouawad held twenty-five chronicles on the website of Le théâtre de La Colline that were widely followed and occasionally taken up by other European theatres. These texts, written in one go in the evening and at night and then recorded in the morning, are gathered in the present collection. Confined like millions of us within the four walls of his house in Nogent-sur-Marne, Wajdi Mouawad undertakes an odyssean dazzling interior journey from his own microcosm — home schooling, his Japanese maple tree, house cleaning, his disconcerted cat, pacing in the alley ; the subjects are varied — to the cyclopean eye of the Big Bang where dead stars shine. He takes us to Peter Handke's office and his father's retirement home, to the banks of the St. Lawrence River, to Montreal, to Greece, to Greenland, to the Lebanon of his childhood. Through Kafka and Star Wars, via French phonetics and the Apollonian temple of Delphi, he waltzes the madness brought on by the pandemic on the razor's edge, sharing the same dream as the members of the human tribe, making the sleeping brutality of the everyday roar. In so doing, he grinds away the darkness and manages to find bright solace at the end of a long tunnel. His incomparable writing traces the map of a fantastic territory, the beasts of a new mythology, the singular letters of a new Wajdian alphabet. Wajdi Mouawad writes at night. His plays, novels and essays all go through some form of darkness, some opacity, a fog, that dissipates as the words take shape. In the nights of this confinement, which has become the confinement of his nights, in the depths of the abyss explored, beyond the dazzling darkness, the writing of these chronicles has allowed him — has allowed us, by listening to them — to cure some of the blindness which has struck us.
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2019Sois belle et tais-toi
by Marie Gray
Audacieux et grinçant, ce roman déshabille le désir et la séduction, puis la peur et la honte à coups de dialogues savoureux et de scènes tantôt torrides, tantôt criantes et poignantes. À travers l’histoire de Mylène, une femme qui voit sa vie de couple éclater et qui doit se tenir debout, il rend hommage à ceux et celles qui rêvent de relations saines et respectueuses entre les hommes et les femmes. Une lecture divertissante qui pose les vraies questions.Pour en apprendre davantage sur cet éditeur, cliquez ici : http://bit.ly/2YogDvt
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Personal & social issues: self-awareness & self-esteem (Children's/YA)Duel at the Copacrabana
by Jonathan Blezard
Omar is an outstanding dancer. What he likes above all else is grooving at the Copacrabana on Friday nights; and winning all the competitions. Until the arrival of Brigitte, a graceful octopus who steals the show… Despite his intensive training, Omar loses the competition! Frustrated, he treats Brigitte poorly; but she chooses to rise above it to become his dance partner; and more importantly, his new friend. • A festive underwater world of dancing with a nod to the 80s music scene • Managing negative emotions (anger and frustration) in the world of competitions • Playful illustrations, rich in details and characters
