Anna Gavalda
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Born in Paris in 1970, Anna Gavalda published her first work in 1999 while working as a high school French teacher. Her first published work was the critically acclaimed collection of short stories I Wish Someone Were Waiting for Me Somewhere, which sold over half a million copies in her native France and was published in the US by Penguin in 2003. Gavalda has since published three novels, all of which have become bestsellers across Europe. Her first novel, Someone I Loved, was adapted to film in 2009 and her novel Hunting and Gathering was made into a film starring Audrey Tatou and Daniel Auteil. Gavalda’s novels and short stories have been translated into over forty languages. She lives in Paris.
Books
La consolante
Charles Balanda, 47 ans, architecte à Paris, apprend incidemment la mort d'une femme qu'il a connue quand il était enfant, et adolescent. Il déchire la lettre et la jette dans la poubelle de la cuisine. Quand il relève son pied de la pédale et que le couvercle retombe, clac, il a l'impression d'avoir refermé, à temps, une espèce de boîte de Pandore, et, puisqu'il est devant l'évier, s'asperge le visage en gémissant. Retourne ensuite vers les autres. Vers la vie. Se sent mieux déjà. Allez... c'est fini. C'est fini, tu comprends? Le problème, c'est que non, il ne comprend pas. Et il n'y retourne pas, vers la vie. Il perd l'appétit, le sommeil, abandonne plans et projets et va essayer de comprendre pourquoi tour se fissure en lui; et autour de lui. Commence alors un long travail de deuil au bout duquel il est obligé de se rendre à l'évidence : l'échelle de cette vie-ci est illisible et il faut tout rebâtir.
Glotok svobody
On the way to a family wedding, Garance reflects on adult life - its disappointments and responsibilities and how it has not always gone as she wished. However, just around the corner is a chance to revisit their younger and more carefree selves.
Des vies en mieux
Mathilde a 24 ans. Elle a abandonné ses études pour un boulot sans intérêt et vit en colocation avec deux autres filles. Elle dit qu’elle est heureuse, mais est toujours obligée de boire pour s’en souvenir. Un jour, elle oublie son sac à main dans un café. Un homme le lui rend la semaine suivante. Quelques mois plus tard, et à cause de cet homme justement, elle décide de changer de vie. [babelio.com]
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From the first day, school had always been torture for Gregory, but his expulsion from school in sixth grade allows him to find his own path and deal with his parents' fights and his beloved grandfather's illness.
Billie
Tomboy Billie reluctantly takes ballet lessons and grows not only to love them, but to appreciate being a girl.
Hunting and Gathering
Prize-winning author Anna Gavalda has galvanized the literary world with an exquisite genius for storytelling. Here, in her epic new novel of intimate lives-and filled with the "humanity and wit" (Marie Claire) that has made it a bestselling sensation in France-Gavalda explores the twists of fate that connect four people in Paris. Comprised of a starving artist, her shy, aristocratic neighbor, his obnoxious but talented roommate, and a neglected grandmother, this curious, damaged quartet may be hopeless apart, but together, they may just be able to face the world.
Life, only better
Mathilde is twenty-four. She has abandoned her studies in art history in lieu of a menial job and lives in a house she shares with twin sisters. One day she forgets her bag in a café and a week later an unknown man returns it to her. Following this encounter, Mathilde decides to throw caution to the wind and change her life entirely. Yann is twenty-six, a university graduate, unemployed. There may be better days ahead. Perhaps. While waiting for them, he works as a sales assistant in a home appliances store. He wouldn't say he is unhappy. But sometimes when he is crossing a bridge over the Seine River at night, he imagines jumping. One day he does a favor for one of his neighbors and is asked to stay for dinner as thanks. The following morning Yann throws caution to the wind and decides to change his life entirely.
95 libras de esperanza
From his first day, school had been torture for Gregory and it got progressively worse, until he was expelled in eighth grade, but through all his difficulties, Gregory could count on support from his grandfather, until his grandfather became ill and needed support from Gregory.
95 pounds of hope
From the first day, school had always been torture for Gregory, but his expulsion from school in sixth grade allows him to find his own path and deal with his parents' fights and his beloved grandfather's illness.
Po prostu razem
Camille is doing her best to disappear. She barely eats, works at night as a cleaner, and lives in a tinyattic room. Philibert Marquet de La Durbelliere is a stammering, erudite aristocrat who sells postcards outside a museum. One evening, he overcomes his own execruciating reticence to rescue Camille, unconscious, from her freezing garret, and install her in the large, ornate apartment he is taking care of downstairs. He already has an unlikely flatmate--the foulmouthed, talented young chef Franck, who is made more obnoxious by guilt about his beloved grandmother--who in turn forms an unlikely bond with hes new friends. Apart, they may be hopeless, but together, this curious, damaged little quartet may be able to face the world.
L'échappée belle
"Garance, Simon, Lola et Vincent sont frères et soeurs unis par les souvenirs et le coeur. Ils se retrouvent à l'occasion d'un mariage qui s'annonce ennuyeux. Ils décident de s'éclipser quelques heures ...