David Foenkinos

Charlotte Salomon is born into a family stricken by suicide and a country at war. But there is something exceptional about her - she has a gift, a talent for painting. And she has a great love, for a brilliant, eccentric musician. But just as she is coming into her own as an artist, death is coming to control her country. The Nazis have come to power and, as a Jew in Berlin, Charlotte's life is narrowing, and she knows every second is precious.Inspiring, unflinching, terrible and hopeful, Charlotte is the heartbreaking true story of a life filled with curiosity, animated by genius and cut short by hatred.

Everyone, at some point in their lives, wants to be someone else. Eric Kherson - forty, divorced, disconnected - is questioning all his life choices. One meeting with an old school friend is all it takes for him to pack in his prestigious job and accept her offer of a high-powered government position. He throws himself into her world of endless networking and high-risk deals, but when a business trip to Seoul starts unravelling, Eric feels more lost than ever. Wandering the city streets, he stumbles across Happy Life, a shop offering a curious service: fake funerals. For Eric, this encounter with death might be the very thing to reawaken his appetite for life...

A disillusioned Parisian writer finds inspiration in the ordinary lives of his neighbours, the Martins. 'A charming, clever book' The Independent Is it true that every life is the stuff of novels? Or are some people just too ordinary? This is the question a struggling Parisian writer asks when he challenges himself to write about the first person he sees when he steps outside his apartment. Secretly hoping to meet the beautiful woman who occasionally smokes on his street, he instead sets eyes on octogenarian Madeleine. She's happy to become the subject of his project, but first she needs to put her shopping away... Wondering if his project is doomed to be hopelessly banal, he soon finds himself tangled in the lives of Madeleine's family. Though calm on the surface, the Martins have secrets, troubles and woes, and the writer discovers that the most compelling story is that of an ordinary life.

«Ninguna otra poca ha estado tan marcada por el deseo de cambiar de vida. En alg n momento de nuestra existencia todos queremos ser otra persona. A sus cuarenta a os, divorciado y padre de un adolescente al que apenas ve, ric Kherson es director comercial de una gran marca deportiva. A pesar de su xito laboral, se encuentra al borde de la depresi n, consumido por un drama familiar. Cuando una vieja amiga del instituto le ofrece un puesto en el gobierno, l acepta. Pero la alegr a es temporal. Durante un viaje a Se l para cerrar un importante trato, ric se va encontrando cada vez peor. De repente, en una calle cualquiera, se topa con la tienda Happy Life, que ofrece a sus clientes algo que podr a cambiarlo todo: un funeral falso. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION "At no time in history have so many people wanted to change their lives. At some point in our existence, all of us want to be someone else." Forty years old, divorced, and with a teenage son he barely sees, Eric Kherson is the marketing director of a leading sports brand. Despite his professional success, he is struggling with a family drama that has him teetering on the edge of depression. When an old school friend offers him a government post, he accepts, but the relief is temporary. During a trip to Seoul to close an important deal, Eric starts feeling worse than ever. Wandering the city's streets, he comes across Happy Life, a store that offers its customers something that could change their lives: a fake funeral.

Hundreds of actors were auditioned, but only two remained. This novel tells the story of the boy who wasn't chosen. It's 1999. Martin Hill is ten years old, crazy about Arsenal and has a minor crush on a girl named Betty. Then he makes it to the final two in the casting for Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. In the end, the other boy is picked for the role of a lifetime. A devastated Martin tries to move on with his life. But how can he escape his failure, especially when it's the most famous film series in the world? Foenkinos's smash-hit Second Best is a playful, poignant story about fate, loss and forging one's own path in an age of never-ending comparison.

'An exquisitely bittersweet comedy of life's missed opportunities' Jonathan Coe, author of Bournville A magical imagining of the fate of a fictional boy whose life is shaped forever when he loses out on the role of Harry Potter.It's 1999. Martin Hill is ten years old, crazy about Arsenal and has a minor crush on a girl named Betty. Then he makes it to the final two in the casting for Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. In the end, the other boy is picked for the role of a lifetime. A devastated Martin tries to move on with his life. But how can he escape his failure, especially when it's the most famous film series in the world? Foenkinos’s smash-hit Second Best is a playful, poignant story about fate, loss and how the lives we wish we’d led might not be all they’re cracked up to be . . .

Antuan Djuri, professor Lionskoj akademii izjaschnykh iskusstv, ljubimets kolleg i studentov, vnezapno brosaet rabotu, uezzhaet v Parizh, nikomu ne ostaviv novogo adresa, i nanimaetsja v muzej Orse smotritelem. Tselymi dnjami on sidit v muzejnom zale, razgljadyvaet raboty Modiljani, izbegaet otvechat na voprosy i voobsche predpochitaet ne razgovarivat. Etomu cheloveku javno est chto skryvat - no chto zhe proizoshlo? Tak prosto i ne objasnish, i potrebuetsja mnogo chutkosti i terpenija, chtoby Antuan smog vernutsja, ponjat i prinjat muchitelnuju istoriju, kotoraja pognala ego proch iz doma. V etoj istorii, rasskazannoj Davidom Fonkinosom - pisatelem, stsenaristom, muzykantom, ljubimtsem chitajuschej i kinopubliki, avtorom dvukh s lishnim desjatkov knig, perevedennykh na sorok jazykov, - budet molodaja khudozhnitsa, podlinnyj talant, slomannaja sudba, i chelovecheskaja khrupkost, i ljubov, i to, chto vydaet sebja za ljubov, i preodolenie gorja, i neizbezhnaja krasota.

Chto, esli vam vypal shans stat Garri Potterom? I chto, esli vy upustili etot shans? V preddverii semok pervogo filma znamenitoj kinofranshizy o junom volshebnike na glavnuju rol probovalos mnozhestvo detej, no v finale ostalis tolko dvoe, i te, ot kogo zaviselo reshenie, dolgo kolebalis, ne znaja, kogo vybrat. Oni vybrali Deniela Redkliffa - etu istoriju my prekrasno znaem. No David Fonkinos napisal ne o nem - on napisal o tom, kogo my ne znaem: o tom, kogo ne vybrali. Eto tozhe istorija o Malchike, Kotoryj Vyzhil, no u etogo malchika zhizn vystroilas vokrug gigantskogo umolchanija pod nazvaniem "Garri Potter i moj proval" - tselaja zhizn s pustotoj vmesto tsentra, i skolko ni khodi po krugu, izbezhat pustoty ne udastsja. Kak preodolet porazhenie, v kotorom ty ne vinovat? Kak vernut sebe zhizn, kotoruju u tebja ukrali? Stat nevidimkoj, stat Garri Potterom, stat soboj? Pered vami istorija o volshebstve - no zaklinanijami zdes delo ne ogranichitsja. Vpervye na russkom!

Charmig roman om familjer, författare och franska livsöden En parisisk författare med skrivkramp beslutar sig för att göra den första han möter på gatan till huvudperson i sin nästa roman. Ödet bestämmer att det blir den åttioåriga grannen Madeleine, som gladeligen hjälper till med boken - hon måste bara bära in sina shoppingkassar först. Det hela visar sig bli ett större projekt än väntat när Madeleines dotter Valérie med familj också blir en del av historien. Det är en salig blandning av familjebråk, förlorad ungdomskärlek, problem på jobbet och skilsmässotankar. Författaren inser snart att han blir mer inblandad i karaktärernas liv än vad han först tänkt sig. Skriven med träffsäker ironi, humor och värme handlar Foenkinos nya roman om en på ytan alldaglig familj, som väcker frågor kring vad som egentligen menas med att vara vanlig och om de otydliga linjerna mellan fiktion och verklighet. "... en underhållande berättelse som rör sig kring författarens värld och som handlar om att skriva och läsa - och att leva. /.../ Det är en intressant och kreativ intrig som påminner om att varje människa har en berättelse." - Göteborgs-Posten "David Foenkinos är i högform i den här lekfulla romanen" - Elle "Denna mycket underhållande och smått absurda roman är skriven i korta kapitel som här och där är försedda med små blinkningar till läsaren (betyg 4)" - BTJ-häftet 23/2022, Eva Lundgren David Foenkinos är en av Frankrikes bäst säljande författare med en mängd romaner bakom sig. På svenska finns bland annat Nathalie - en delikat historia och Mysteriet Henri Pick, som båda har filmatiserats och visats på svenska biografer.

A magical imagining of the fate of a fictional boy whose life is shaped forever when he loses out on the role of Harry Potter. In 1999 the search to find the actor to play Harry Potter began. Hundreds of actors were auditioned, but only two remained. Martin Hill was the the boy who wasn't chosen. A devastated Martin tries to move on with his life. But how can he forget his failure? Foenkinos' smash-hit Second Best is a playful, poignant story about fate, loss and how the lives we wish we'd led might not be all they're cracked up to be . . .

LA INCRE BLE HISTORIA DEL HARRY POTTER FALLIDO VUELVE EL MEJOR FOENKINOS (M S DE TRES MILLONES DE LECTORES Y QUINCE PREMIOS LITERARIOS) CON UNA GENUINA NOVELA SOBRE EL XITO Y EL FRACASO, EN LAS LISTAS DE M S VENDIDOS «Gracias por este libro, hechicero Foenkinos . -M. P., L'Express «Una novela divertida y melanc lica, cruel y dram tica . -Laurence Caracalla, Le Figaro Litt raire En 1999 centenares de j venes pasaron por las audiciones para interpretar a Harry Potter. Entre los dos candidatos que llegaron hasta el final, Daniel Radcliffe fue elegido por tener, seg n la directora del casting, «ese algo extra . Al leer estas declaraciones, David Foenkinos empatiz de inmediato con el chico que no ten a ese toque extra: el n mero dos. Esta novela narra su historia. La vida de Martin Hill, un chico con padres divorciados y gafas negras y redondas, da un vuelco cuando acude por azar a la productora londinense en la que trabaja su padre el mismo d a en que pasa por ah David Heyman, inmerso en la b squeda del actor que encarnar al peque o mago. Tras ser descartado, Martin ir cayendo en sucesivas depresiones con cada nueva entrega de los libros y las pel culas. A su alrededor, todo le recuerda el xito de su rival y poco a poco, en lugar de disfrutar de la vida de Radcliffe, la suya propia empieza a parecerse a la del atormentado personaje de ficci n. Podr sobreponerse a esa mancha en su destino y hacer del fracaso una fuerza? ENGLISH DESCRIPTION THE INCREDIBLE STORY OF THE FAILED HARRY POTTER THE BEST FOENKINOS IS BACK -OVER THREE MILLION READERS AND FIFTEEN LITERARY AWARDS --NOW WITH A GENUINE NOVEL ABOUT SUCCESS AND FAILURE, ON THE BEST-SELLING LISTS. "A funny and melancholy novel, cruel and dramatic." -Laurence Caracalla, Le Figaro Litt raire Following the success of his bestselling novels La D licatesse and The Mystery of Henri Pick, screenwriter and novelist David Foenkinos presents his latest book, Number Two. 1999 began the casting to find the young boy who would interpret Harry Potter and who, thereby, would become world famous. Hundreds of actors were auditioned. Eventually, there were only two left. In Number Two, David Foenkinos tells the story of the one who was not chosen.

"En 1999 débutait le casting pour trouver le jeune garçon qui allait interpréter Harry Potter et qui, par la même occasion, deviendrait mondialement célèbre. Des centaines d'acteurs furent auditionnés. Finalement, il n'en resta plus que deux. Ce roman raconte l'histoire de celui qui n'a pas été choisi".