Freshly arrived at the bookseller

Among all the books that have recently arrived in bookstores, here are a few that caught our attention.

Eternal wonder: growing up in the land of snow and infinite skyTomson Highway

Award-winning writer and Manitoba Cree musician Tomson Highway, author of the best-selling The White Queen’s KissWe offers in this work a unique perspective on the customs and realities of the Crees in the middle of the last century. He recounts his childhood, his love for his family and his nomadic world, then his discovery of a completely different universe when he left for boarding school at the age of 7, where he discovered the piano, the English language, Christmas and Christian traditions.

Rebellious emergence, Cynthia Wylde

This is a subject that deserves attention. The author of this essay is originally from the community of Pikogan, in Abitibi, and a doctoral student in indigenous studies at the University of Quebec in Abitibi-Témiscamingue. When she found herself having to wait alone in the evening for a taxi after a class in Val-d’Or, she began to think about the fate reserved for indigenous women, combining her personal reminiscences with an analysis of systemic racism.

Village scenes without pigs, Željka Horvat Čeč

This young Croatian author grew up during the Croatian war in the 1990s. Between school and her stays in hospital, she recounts her complicated childhood, mixing the naivety of youth with the black humor of those who saw too much, too soon. A window onto a corner of the world that is told too little in books.

Around childhoodHugues Corriveau

“Books are smiles that open, they have legs and heads and hats,” writes Hugues Corriveau in this collection of 22 short stories, which travel from the “light side” to the “dark side” of childhood. to create an astonishing mirror effect.

The language of hidden things, Cécile Coulon

We discovered this young French author with her superb novel Three seasons of storm. With this new title, the winner of the literary prize The world For A beast in paradise (in 2019) creates a dark and disturbing novel about the mysterious gift of a mother. When night comes, she heals and transmits this gift to her son, until an unforeseen event disrupts the order of things.

The Capitol HyenaSimon Liberati

The French journalist and writer, winner of the Renaudot prize for his novel Performance in 2022, returns to familiar territory with this novelty. As in almost all of his novels, there is a woman, nicknamed in this case “the Capitol hyena”, who revives the nostalgia of a bygone era and brings back to life, among other icons of the 1970s, legends like Helmut Berger, Truman Capote and Andy Warhol.

Yoko Ono: a poetic monograph, Julia Kerninon

The French novelist Julia Kerninon revisits in a poetic form the work of the multidisciplinary artist eclipsed by her status as “John Lennon’s wife”. We browse the collection as we would walk in an art gallery, guided by the author’s “humorous and feminist” grain of salt.

My Missing Piece, Acacia Black

Despite its title, it is not a new translation that we are republishing here, but a version adapted to the Quebec readership of the series new romance Of time. The author is from Guadeloupe and she has had great success on the application Wattpad (where Anna Todd made her series known After). With 2 million readers and translations into 22 languages ​​to date, it’s the new favorite of young adults who have devoured the series After And Ugly Love (by Colleen Hoover). Both volumes are already in bookstores.