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Guides to crossing the Atlantic with confidence. Novels to explore what it's like to live between two worlds. Each book is an invitation—to act, to dream, or both.
FLAGSHIP BOOK
PROFESSIONAL GUIDE · INTERNATIONAL MOBILITY
Succeeding in the USA
The reference guide for setting up a business in the United States
Starting a business in the United States, relocating there with your family, navigating two legal, tax, and cultural systems: these are just some of the challenges Vanina JB has experienced firsthand. This guide condenses 20 years of expertise into a practical, structured, and user-friendly tool—the essential companion for any French-American entrepreneur.
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Gereso Editions
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Book & Ebook
LANGUAGE
French
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SEMI-FICTIONAL NOVEL
In search of lost meaning
COLLABORATIVE BOOK (25 AUTHORS)
Our Asian Letters - Colors
COLLABORATIVE BOOK
A tribute to Colette's cats
In Search of Lost Meaning follows the destinies of four characters across four continents in a profoundly human quest. The author immerses the reader in gripping stories, addressing prostitution, female genital mutilation, the World Trade Center attack, and forced labor camps. She explores these unsettling and universal themes with great sensitivity, while offering a powerful reflection on the human condition and contemporary challenges. Through these interwoven narratives, the novel presents a true autopsy of our societies, questioning notions of resilience, identity, and the search for meaning.
Asia has long been present in French-language literature, from Saint-John Perse's "Lettres d'Asie" to Amélie Nothomb's contemporary Japan. But it's sometimes overlooked that many Asian authors write in French and that a number of major figures in French literature hail from Asia… Consider Aki Shimazaki, Eun-Jan Kang, Akira Mizubayashi, Ook Chung, Ryöko Sekiguchi, Ying Chen, Shan Sa, Dai Sijie, Wèi Wéi, Ya Ding, and of course, the renowned François Cheng, a member of the French Academy. To mark the first Francophone Authors' Festival in Kuala Lumpur on March 24, 2024, RENCONTRE DES AUTEURS FRANCOPHONES (Meeting of Francophone Authors) invited its members to explore this fusion of French-language literature and Asia, paying tribute to the Asian continent and those who write about it in French. This journey through Asia brings together twenty-five texts written by passionate authors, eager to let words flow in homage to their city. Short stories, poems, reflections, texts, illustrations… We invite you to discover what Asia inspires in them and to immerse yourself in the travel journals of Pom Ehrentrant, our Ambassador in Malaysia.
Seventy years ago, on August 3, 1954 to be exact, Colette passed away. On this occasion, the RENCONTRE DES AUTEURS FRANCOPHONES (Meeting of Francophone Authors) wished to invite its members to pay tribute to her.
But a tribute to Colette is inconceivable without mentioning cats, hers and ours. Colette could not live without them, and since they have so many lives—seven, nine, perhaps even more—why not pretend that they lend her one? Jean Cocteau
he wrote, when he learned of his death:
"I was far from the Palais-Royal when our Colette pretended to disappear. I will no longer visit her at home, for she has regained her youth and she enters my room, without opening the doors, like cats."
So, to invite her to join us once again in our room and to ensure that she would come, we decided to invite all the cats, hers, ours, all those faithful shadows of writers, fervent lovers and austere scholars,
to bring her to life for the duration of a collection. With just cats and a few poems.
COLLABORATIVE BOOK
The Avatars of a Genius
COLLABORATIVE BOOK
MEDITERRANEAN: Shores and Dreams
In May 2024, we celebrate the one hundred and tenth anniversary of the birth of Romain Gary. Author but also a man of multiple identities, Gary constantly reinvented his life, blurring the lines of his origins, becoming in addition a pilot, diplomat, director, and of course a passionate lover.
After a few transformations, the man born Roman Kacew became the Romain Gary we know, the persona that would bring him all the accolades. But this multifaceted individual, once fame arrived, did not hesitate to reinvent himself as an unknown author, Émile Ajar, to whom he lent the face of a distant cousin. This final persona allowed him to achieve a remarkable feat: becoming the only author to have won the Prix Goncourt twice under different identities: first as Romain Gary for *The Roots of Heaven* in 1956, and then as Émile Ajar for *The Life Before Us* in 1975.
Gary may have chosen to withdraw, but he only succeeded in adding to his legacy, and now it's our authors' turn to breathe new life into him. Short stories, poems, reflections, texts, illustrations—they share what Romain Gary inspires in them.
I don't know how to talk about the sea. All I know is that it suddenly frees me from all my obligations. Every time I look at it, I become a happy drowned man.
Romain Gary, "The Promise of Dawn".
The authors of Rencontre des auteurs francophones invite you to discover their Mediterranean shores, the shores of their roots, their childhoods, their lives, their dreams. Whatever yours may be—be it the Calanques of Marseille, the Corniche of Beirut, the beaches of North Africa, the mythical port of Alexandria, or the small fishing ports of the Greek islands and beyond—rediscover in this collection, through the writings of our authors, the colors, the scents, the sounds, the flavors, and the treasures of what the Romans called Mare Nostrum. The one we cherish so much. The taste of salt, the bite of the sun, the caress of the wind on the skin. Their shores and their dreams. For even when we are far from its shores, our Mediterranean dreams continue to dance within us.
"This book saved me years of mistakes. Vanina writes like she coaches—with precision, kindness, and a practical knowledge that can't be faked."
— Reader, entrepreneur based in San Francisco
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