New Releases Point to Dark Fall for French Literature

A teenage boy in a small French town falls in love with the girl of his dreams. Then comes the horror — the January 2015 attacks in Paris, the first of a series of terror strikes that has left this country scarred and divided. "Do we have the right to be in love, to experience joy, to smile when death strikes?" asked Arnaud Cathrine, describing one of the questions he explores in his newly released novel, A La Place du Coeur (roughly translated as Instead of the Heart), the...

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