by Véronique Ovaldé · Actes Sud · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782742744442
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«Les hommes en général me plaisent beaucoup» is the novel by Véronique Ovaldé, published by Actes Sud in paperback (134 pages, in French).
One night, Lili no longer hears the animals at the zoo; from the garden she watches them pass under the moon and returns to her husband. The next morning, a glint near the cages brings back the memory of desire. This novel explores emotional dependence and the madness of desire, with an echo of childhood.
It is Véronique Ovaldé's third novel, after «Le Sommet des poissons» (2000) and «Toutes choses scintillant» (2002).
For readers of contemporary French fiction seeking intimate stories about emotional relationships.
Véronique Ovaldé is a French novelist. Her fifth novel Et mon cœur transparent won the Prix France Culture/Télérama in 2008. Her seventh novel Ce que je sais de Vera Candida won the Prix Renaudot des lycéens (2009), the Prix France Télévisions (2009) and the Grand prix des lectrices de Elle (2010). She has had two books translated into English by Adriana Hunter, but Ovaldé's other titles are still available for interested publishers and translators. In 2024, she published A nos vies imparfaites which received the Prix Goncourt de la nouvelle.
