by Ella Berthoud, Susan Elderkin · Jean-Claude Lattès · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782709648639
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«Remèdes littéraires: Se soigner par les livres» is the bibliotherapy guide by Ella Berthoud and Susan Elderkin (Jean-Claude Lattès, paperback, 640 pp.)
The book presents reading as a remedy for various ailments: agoraphobia, insomnia, jealousy, loneliness or the passage of time, and for each case recommends works of world fiction. The French adaptation, signed by Alexandre Fillon and enriched with booksellers' advice, reads like a stroll through the history of literature and its most celebrated authors.
Original title: The Novel Cure, published in 2013; the French adaptation was carried out by Alexandre Fillon, with booksellers' advice.
For readers who seek in fiction relief from minor ailments and for those who want to discover classics of world literature with a playful eye.
Susan Elderkin is an English author of two critically acclaimed novels, her first, Sunset Over Chocolate Mountains won a Betty Trask Prize and was shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction, her second, The Voices was shortlisted for the Ondaatje Prize and longlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award. She was one of Granta Magazine's 20 Best Young British Novelists in 2003 and won the 2007 Society of Authors Travel Award. She is the author, with Ella Berthoud, of The Novel Cure: An A-Z of Literary Remedies and The Story Cure: Books to Keep Kids Happy, Healthy and Wise.
