Laurence Cossé, trans. from the French by Alison Anderson, Europa (Penguin, dist.), $15 paper (432p) ISBN 978-1-933-37282-2
The founding of a unique Paris bookstore triggers jealousies and threats in Cossé's intriguing follow-up to The Corner of the Veil (1999). Former comic-book seller Ivan "Van" Georg and stylish Francesca Aldo-Valbelli team to establish the Good Novel,
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Laurence Coss%C3%A9, trans. from the French by Alison Anderson. Europa (Penguin, dist.), $15 trade paper (208p) ISBN 978-1-60945-049-6
The August 31, 1997, car crash that claimed the life of Princess Diana propels Cossé's gripping psychological thriller. Louise Origan, one of three female managers of a Corsican restaurant, is driving home through a Paris traffic tunnel one night...
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Laurence Cosse, trans. from the French by Alison Anderson. Europa, $146 (176p) ISBN 978-1-60945-089-2
An unlikely friendship forms in Cosse's latest (after An Accident in August) between a well-off French woman Edith, and her 60-year-old Moroccan housekeeper Fadila. When Edith learns that Fadila can neither read nor write, she takes it upon herself...
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Laurence Cosse, Author, Linda Asher, Translator, Jack Miles, Introduction by Scribner Book Company $23 (272p) ISBN 978-0-684-84667-5
This droll, paradoxical novel of theological manners, a bestseller and prize-nominee in France, is both provocative and thoroughly delightful. Father Bertrand Beaulieu, a member of a Jesuit-like order called the ""Society of Casuits,"" opens a...
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