Top 3 Marc Levy Books

There is the thing about French writers. Because previously I had reviewed the work of the always singular Eric Vuillard and now I get to the no less puzzling Marc Levy.

Levy is said to be a writer of romance novels. But other readers enjoy its component between fantasy and science fiction. And even sometimes Levy starts off with something resembling historical fiction. He must be the fate of the self-taught writer who discovers the joy of the profession in a way that is as casual and rewarding as it is difficult to abandon for the rest of life.

Even more so if it happens that as soon as you start writing after trying your business and personal luck in different projects and places, it turns out that people give that desired support in any literary takeoff. Today Levy is one of the French bestsellers and with each new novel he continues to baffle and fascinate "wide-ranging" readers.

Top 3 Recommended Novels by Marc Levy

I wish it were true

The novel with which Levy discovered that he could dedicate himself to writing. The round plot that addressed a scenario between the fantastic and the spiritual, with its doses of romanticism and existentialism.

The border between life and death is a very fruitful threshold in creativity and surely we all remember books or movies that tell about the supposed tunnel, the light in the background or the appropriate version. But in this case the review opens up new disruptive possibilities. Lauren is an internist from San Francisco who lives dedicated to her work, without time to socialize. One day, she suffers a car accident that leaves her in a coma.

When his family puts their apartment up for rent, Arthur, a landscape architect, moves there without knowing that the tranquility in his new apartment will soon be disrupted by the appearance of a woman whom only he can see and who claims that space as her own.Lauren intends to recover her old life. Arthur, having overcome her initial shock, will want by all means to be able to help her. Both must learn to live together and overcome their differences... until they become inseparable.

What they did not tell us

Stories with intersecting destinies, as a writer by a screenwriter who knows more about the lives of the protagonists than they do, draw a hook of overflowing intrigue.

In this novel, Marc Levy immerses us in a mystery that spans three generations and covers various settings and eras, such as occupied France in the summer of 1944, Baltimore in the freedom of the 90s, and London and Montreal today. . Eleanor Rigby is a journalist for National Geographic magazine and lives in London. One morning, upon returning from a trip, she receives an anonymous letter informing her that her mother had a criminal past.

George Harrison is a cabinetmaker and lives in the Eastern Cantons, in Quebec. One morning he receives an anonymous letter informing him of those same events. Eleanor Rugby and George Harrison do not know each other. The author of the letters meets them both in a fisherman's bar in the port of Baltimore. What link unites them? What crime did their mothers commit? Who writes those letters and what are their intentions?

What they did not tell us

A girl like her

This if openly is the romance novel that always seemed to slide as a subplot in all of Levy's above. But of course, the point is not to try to pull such hackneyed arguments between best-selling authors of the genre. So Levy squeezed his meninges to tell us about a love "made" in his particular imaginary.

On Fifth Avenue in New York we can find a small building that is not really like the others ... Its inhabitants are very fond of its elevator operator, Deepak, who is in charge of operating an old and venerable mechanical elevator. But the happy life of this community is disrupted when the night shift elevator operator has an accident that will see Sanji, Deepak's mysterious nephew, arrive to replace him.

No one can imagine that the person who now wears the elevator operator's uniform is the head of an immense fortune in Bombay... and even less so Chloé, who lives on the top floor. She enters number 12 Fifth Avenue, crosses the hall, boards the elevator and asks the elevator operator to take you to... the most delicious New York comedy.

A girl like her

Other recommended books by Marc Levy

it happened at night

The underworld is moving from the dark alleys and dark offices to the deep internet. And as in the past, one can find in those parts from mafias to would-be criminals from three to a quarter. The point is that unlike what used to happen before, modern epic vigilantes also move around the network from time to time, hackers capable of reversing established orders as if it were Robin Hoods...

Nine outlaws working together for the greater good. They are friends, but they have never met before: Ekaterina, Mateo, Maya, Cordelia, Diego, Janice, Vital and Malik are part of Group 9, a group of hackers who, from different parts of the planet and without ever having seen each other, fight against big and small political tyrants, bankers, media and pharmaceutical companies that seek to dominate the world. That's why, when Ekaterina receives a message from Mateo saying that they have to see each other urgently in her city, Oslo, she knows that something very serious must be happening.

Passionate and immersive, Marc Levy addresses in this novel the hidden powers that run our societies, and as one of his characters asks: “How can we resist when our democracies are being sabotaged, when our very notion of truth is under attack?”

It Happened at Night is a wild and terrifying chase through the streets of Oslo, Madrid, Paris, Istanbul and London as the nine try to fulfill their mission: confront the sinister forces that collude to corrupt the modern world.

It Happened at Night, Marc Levy
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