Books set in France
France
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Canoes
by Maylis De Kerangal
Paperback: Oct 2024
A colorful cast of female characters contends with UFOs, sonic waves, and the legend of Buffalo Bill in a spellbinding novella and 7 short stories about the mysteries of place and language.
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The Schubert Treatment: A Story of Music and Healing
by Claire Oppert
Hardcover: Oct 2024
A celebrated art therapist plays the cello for her patients—and offers a moving reflection on the extraordinary power of music to enrich our lives, all the way to the very end.
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Beyond the Door of No Return: A Novel
by David Diop
Hardcover: Sep 2023
Paperback: Sep 2024
The hotly anticipated new novel by David Diop, winner of the International Booker Prize.
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Creation Lake: A Novel
by Rachel Kushner
Hardcover: Sep 2024
From Rachel Kushner, a Booker Prize finalist, two-time National Book Award finalist, and "one of the most gifted authors of her generation" (The New York Times Book Review), comes a new novel about a seductive and cunning American woman who ...
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Loot: A Novel
by Tania James
Hardcover: Jun 2023
Paperback: Jun 2024
A spellbinding historical novel set in the eighteenth century: a hero's quest, a love story, the story of a young artist coming of age, and an exuberant heist adventure that traces the bloody legacy of colonialism across two continents and fifty ...
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My Husband: A Novel
by Maud Ventura, Emma Ramadan
Hardcover: Jul 2023
Paperback: Jun 2024
In this suspenseful and darkly funny debut novel, a sophisticated French woman spends her life obsessing over her perfect husband—but can their marriage survive her passionate love?
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Fatherland: A Memoir of War, Conscience, and Family Secrets
by Burkhard Bilger
Hardcover: May 2023
Paperback: Jun 2024
A New Yorker staff writer investigates his grandfather, a Nazi Party Chief, in this "unflinching, gorgeously written, and deeply moving exploration of morality, family, and war" (Patrick Radden Keefe, author of Empire of Pain).
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The Postcard
by Anne Berest
Hardcover: May 2023
Paperback: May 2024
Anne Berest's The Postcard is among the most acclaimed and beloved French novels of recent years. Luminous and gripping to the very last page, it is an enthralling investigation into family secrets, a poignant tale of mothers and daughters, and a ...
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Liberty Equality Fashion: The Women Who Styled the French Revolution
by Anne Higonnet
Hardcover: Apr 2024
Three women led a fashion revolution and turned themselves into international style celebrities.
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Change: A Novel
by Edouard Louis
Hardcover: Mar 2024
An autobiographical novel from Édouard Louis, hailed as one of the most important voices of his generation—about social class, transformation, and the perils of leaving the past behind.
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Essex Dogs: A Novel
by Dan Jones
Hardcover: Feb 2023
Paperback: Dec 2023
The New York Times bestselling historian makes his historical fiction debut with an explosive novel set during the Hundred Years' War.
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The Book of Goose: A Novel
by Yiyun Li
Hardcover: Sep 2022
Paperback: Aug 2023
A magnificent, beguiling tale winding from the postwar rural provinces to Paris, from an English boarding school, to the quiet Pennsylvania home where a woman can live without her past, The Book of Goose is a story of disturbing intimacy and ...
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