Heatwave

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Dolende tiener, een campingvakantie, een hitte die maar niet lijkt af te nemen, een lijk op het strand. It’s a stark reminder of the world he’s not a part of and taking his behaviour into account, might never be. A prizewinning sensation in France and now stunningly translated by Sam Taylor, Heatwave is Victor Jestin’s unforgettable debut—a searing portrait of adolescent desire and recklessness, and secrets too big to keep. I would rather have died like him, and we could have watched each other die while the others danced. If you like Slimani, I think you’ll enjoy this, and at just over 100 pages, chances are you’ll inhale it like I did.

Oder doch egal ist, oder oder oder … Die typischen Gefühlsverwirrungen eines jungen Hirns im Umbau, die der Autor hier mit gezielten Worten und dennoch in all ihrer Vieldimensionalität einfängt. French author Victor Jestin’s short yet forceful debut novel is part dark coming-of-age novel, part morality tale. Leo didn’t kill Oscar, but he didn’t help him, either, and he didn’t hesitate to bury him on the beach.

Inspired by David Copperfield, Kingsolver crafts a 21st-century coming-of-age story set in America’s hard-pressed rural South. Heatwave is a multiple award-winning thriller written by bestselling French author Victor Jestin in which he fictionalises an experience that happened to him on a camping excursion in his teen years.

Ma su Leonard sembra incombere qualcosa di più ampio, di più spaventoso e opprimente come il caldo di quello scorcio di estate. I’m not normally that keen on translated fiction, which this is, but I really did quite like this one. Drifting from place to place, making missteps, expressing vulnerability, and finally achieving at least one of his goals (only to be supremely underwhelmed by the experience), Leo’s late-summer day --- dead body aside --- perfectly encapsulates what being a teenager feels like sometimes.Frozen into inaction, he watches Oscar struggle to breathe until finally his body comes loose and falls lifeless to the ground.

Poi, ci si inoltra nel marasma dei suoi diciassette anni, nella sua spasmodica incertezza, nel suo ossessivo senso di inadeguatezza, nelle sue fantasie erotiche, in Luce, che ha un anno di più, in Louis, che ha la stessa età di Léonard e vuole essergli amico a ogni costo, Louis usa Tinder per rimorchiare le ragazze, ma forse non sono davvero loro che lo attirano di più.I could almost feel the intense heat, and thus I could empathize with the protagonist's apathy caused by the heat. A literary sensation in France, Heatwave is an unsettling and evocative novel that examines our darkest impulses. Wright's take on racial injustice seems to have unsettled his publisher: A note reveals that an editor found reading about Fred’s treatment by the police “unbearable. Mi accingevo a vivere l’ultimo giorno di vacanze, quello più caldo, forse addirittura il più caldo degli ultimi diciassette anni. This is a compulsive and profound crime novel about the visceral impact of trauma and guilt and how it eats away at your conscience; of a teenager foreign to the world around him, a young man in his formative years who does not know how to play the game, that of seduction, of the perennial party, of the holidays, and who opposes, passively but in all of his strength, to this injunction to happiness that the loudspeakers of the campsite in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region of southwestern France pour out.

A vivid, mesmerizing novel about a teenage boy on vacation who makes an irrevocable mistake and becomes trapped in a spiral of guilt and desire—in the tradition of Alice McDermott’ s That Night and E.All this while the parents have their own fun at the other end of the beach where a bunny-costumed host is prancing around, shouting Olé! Tired of awkwardly creeping out of beach parties after only a couple of beers, he chooses to spend the final Friday night of the trip in bed. As the holiday is coming to the end, Leo witnesses something, and what he chooses to do or not do is most of the premise of this coming of age story. Told over the space of a long weekend, this intense and brilliant novel is the story of an adolescent struggling to fit in.