In bookstores: Yahia Belaskri, Aroa Moreno Durán, Laure Murat...

The Armenian genocide of 1915 was not the first mass killing perpetrated by Turkish authorities. Yahia Belaskri's new novel ( The Silence of the Gods , Zulma, 2023) goes back six years to the April 1909 massacres in Adana and Aleppo. Maritsa, a doctor from Constantinople sent there by a humanitarian organization, recounts the horror of the attack in a fictional notebook. "Like a murderous storm in a cloudless sky, everything bursts into flames." The young woman and Father Burak, who had been officiating at the Adana monastery before its destruction, hit the road and fled east to Samarkand, in present-day Uzbekistan. Maritsa describes the political turmoil she witnesses, evident throughout the Ottoman Empire. Her voice mingles with those of anonymous women, whose poetic songs rise above the chaos. Mr. Yes.

Three poor Spanish Basque women are brought together in the same house: the grandmother (Ruth), the daughter (Adriana), and the granddaughter (Adirane), who comes to film and question her grandmother about her past. Adriana and Adirane have not seen each other for five years, for a reason that the reader gradually discovers. The chapters alternate between the points of view of each of them; each keeps secrets. This novel about the desire for a child, motherhood, and the way in which history colors maternal behavior is the second by Aroa Moreno Durán, born in 1981. It evokes, in dotted lines, the history of Spain from the 1980s to the 1990s.