Swiss authors dominate the Romandy bestseller charts this rentrée
At Payot bookstores, a Swiss thriller duo and a quieter narrative from Elisa Shua Dusapin are outselling the usual imports, according to a chronicle in Le Temps.
Swiss writers and publishers are occupying the top spots of this year's rentrée littéraire in French-speaking Switzerland, according to a chronicle published by Le Temps. Looking at the "Meilleures ventes" list from the Payot bookstore chain, the paper notes that homegrown titles have pushed aside the usual bestselling imports.
For three weeks running, first place has belonged to Imperium, the second installment co-written by Nicolas Feuz and Marc Voltenauer and published by Istya & Cie. The two authors, one from Neuchâtel and one from Geneva, continue an experiment begun in their first collaboration: merging their respective series heroes into a single plot set within the workings of the Swiss rail network, the CFF, in an effort to bring their separate readerships together.
Le Temps points out that this success has come at the expense of Freida McFadden's La Femme de ménage, which has dropped out of the Payot top ten entirely after holding a place in Swiss bestseller rankings for roughly two years — a run that continues, the chronicle notes, in French charts.
The same roundup also mentions Elisa Shua Dusapin's new book, described as an intimate narrative set in the West Bank, as one of the titles drawing strong reader interest in Romandy this autumn.
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