Le Passé Malgré Nous
“Malgré Nous” means “Against our will.” A native of Alsace, Roland was forced to serve in the German army. He survived the brutal war on the Eastern front, but the scars are deep. Late in life, he meets Claire, whose fiancé, a resistance fighter, was executed by the Nazis in 1942. The past finds a way back into their lives when Claire discovers that Roland hasn’t told her the whole truth about his days as a German soldier.
“… describes the horrific fate of the 130,000 Frenchmen forcibly drafted into the Nazi army … Relates with realism their cruel circumstances and difficult return to Alsace after the war … Faithfully chronicles how many failed to understand those who had been forced to wear the hated uniform.”
Les Dernières Nouvelles d”Alsace
Simple soldat
A retarded young man is drafted by the French army during the Algerian war. A soldier by accident, he dies a hero by accident and in the process changes the young men around him.
“Pierre Delerive’s novel is tough and has muscle. His words hit their mark. A spade is a spade and these soldiers are in no need of intellectual justifications.”
Le Figaro Littéraire.
Victor et les femmes
On the day of his mother’s funeral, a middle-aged man remembers his teen years struggling with his exploding sexuality under her regime of madness and terror.
“A beautiful book of memories written without nostalgia, but with subtle charm. Delicious.”
Marie Claire.
“Delerive’s painting of the transition between childhood and adolescence is a success. There are beautiful portraits of women. Both tragic and hilarious.”
Le Figaro Magazine.
Te souviens-tu de moi?
In wartime Paris, a young man was once forced to choose between selling his best friend to the Nazis, or saving his Jewish lover. Years later a telephone call reminds him that the past cannot be buried.
“Unforgettable. Impossible to put down. Awesome writing. In short – sorry for the superlatives – an unforgettable book.”
Marie Claire.
“Unsetttling”
Elle
Bayou Cruel
Two strangers die at the same time: Toby, an old black man, is murdered near a Louisiana bayou; Arnaud, a Parisian restaurateur, is trapped in a fire. Resuscitated after several minutes of clinical death, Arnaud awakens unaware that he’s now inhabited by Toby’s soul. Drawn to the place of the crime where he’s haunted by a sense of déjà vu, he falls in love with the victim’s protégée and sets out to find the old man’s murderer, who, he eventually comes to suspect, wants him dead too.
“The feeling of déjà vu is haunting. Danger!”
Télé 7 jours.
“A good thriller, beautifully romantic.”
La Semaine Des Spectacles.