Hervã Le Tellier: 9 books

Book cover of The Sextine Chapel
by Hervé Le Tellier
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2011

The delightful and daring English-language debut of French author Hervé le Tellier is a series of short, intimately interconnected stories making up a lively user's manual to pleasure, relating the various liaisons of couples from Anna and Ben to Yolande and Zach (taking in Chloe and Xavier along...
Book cover of Assez parlé d'amour
by Hervé Le Tellier
Language: French
Release Date: August 26, 2009

« La planète connut cette année-là son automne le plus chaud depuis cinq siècles. Mais de la clémence providentielle du climat, qui joua peut-être son rôle, il ne sera plus question. Ce récit couvre l’espace de trois mois et même un peu plus. Que celle – ou celui – qui ne veut pas...
Book cover of Leurs contes de Perrault
by Alexis BROCAS, Nathalie AZOULAI, Manuel CANDRE
Language: French
Release Date: October 1, 2015

Cette année, la collection " Remake " réunit 11 nouveaux auteurs pour un ouvrage collectif haut en couleur. Redécouvrez les incontournables Contes de Perrault, réinterprétés par Leila Slimani, Cécile Coulon et bien d'autres. Perrault, c'est ce dont on hérite au plus jeune âge et...
Book cover of Electrico W
by Hervé Le Tellier
Language: French
Release Date: August 24, 2011

Un photographe, Antonio, retourne à Lisbonne après dix ans d’absence. Il y retrouve le correspondant de son journal, Vincent, le narrateur de ce récit, afin de suivre le procès d’un tueur en série.  Enfant, Antonio a rencontré en une fillette, Canard, l’amour mythique, éternel, celui...
Book cover of Toutes les familles heureuses
by Hervé Le Tellier
Language: French
Release Date: August 23, 2017

« Je n’ai pas été un enfant malheureux, ni privé, ni battu, ni abusé. Mais très jeune, j’ai compris que quelque chose n’allait pas, très tôt j’ai voulu partir, et d’ailleurs très tôt je suis parti. Mon père, mon beau-père sont morts, ma mère est folle. Ils ne liront pas ce livre,...
Book cover of A Thousand Pearls (for a Thousand Pennies)
by Hervé Le Tellier
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2011

The answers are spontaneous, revealing, ominous, insignificant, grotesque, amusing, lecherous, tragic and trivial by turns, and lovable in their cheerful imperfection. This is a book about the basics: love, sexuality, death, and all the other things that lurk in our everyday thoughts.
Book cover of Electrico W

Electrico W

A Novel

by Hervé Le Tellier
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2013

By the celebrated Oulipo writer, this brilliant and witty novel set in Lisbon explores love, relationships, and the strange balance between literature and life. Journalist, writer, and translator Vincent Balmer moves to Lisbon to escape from a failing affair. During his first assignment there,...
Book cover of Enough About Love
by Hervé Le Tellier
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011

Any man—or woman—who wants to hear nothing—or no more—about love should put this book down. Anna and Louise could be sisters, but they don’t know each other. They are both married with children, and for the most part, they are happy. On almost the same day, Anna, a psychiatrist, crosses...
Book cover of The Intervention of a Good Man
by Hervé Le Tellier
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2011

A middle-aged man (our hero) is traveling to the heart of the Scottish Highlands to be with his young mistress (our heroine), who is twenty years his junior. Some people would call this madness, a mistake, as his visit is not entirely welcome—her boyfriend will arrive in a few days’ time. But...
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