Each title in Riad Sattouf is a blaze of success. Released may 16, the fourth part of Books of Esther, story of my 13 years provides immediately the highest step of the podium. The series, initiated in 2015, is written based on the true stories told each week to the author of The Arab of the future by a real schoolgirl, Esther A. Each album consists of 52 stories, 52 weeks of the year. The project of Riad Sattouf is to follow the life of Esther, up to 18 years of age, at the rate of one album per year. In this fourth book, Esther is in the fifth. She talks about her secret boyfriend, the group XXXTentacion, the drugs, the end of the birthday celebrations… the torments daily to a teenager of today, in sum.
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Unbeaten for several weeks, the second volume of the series of anticipation created by Enki Bilal, Bug , right in step with him. The history of this saga is located in 2041. The planet was scanned to the utmost. Then, a mission to mars returns to earth, all the digital memory of the world disappears. Only a cosmonaut survivor, Cameron Obb, keeps all the data in his head.
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Finally, a newcomer in the trio of head, Sanäa K with the story of his first love affair. Released may 15, The Silence of the stars, has made an entry more than honorable in the standings, taking the third position.
the Best sales of the 13 to may 19, 2019 (exclusive leaderboard GFK/Livres Hebdo):
1) The Books of Esther, book 4, Stories of my 13 years, Riad Sattouf, Allary editions
2) Bug, volume 2 , Enki Bilal editions Casterman
3) the silence of The stars , Sanäa K, edition editions Marabulles
4) Les Bidochon tome 22, Bidochon restarting their couple , Binet, editions Dargaud
5) Bug, volume 1 , Enki Bilal editions Casterman
6) Titeuf Volume 16, Small poetry of the seasons , Zep, editions Glénat
7) Open bar: 1st tour , Fabcaro, editions Delcourt
8) The Wolf , Rochette, editions Casterman
9) the return to earth, volume 6, metamorphoses , Jean-Yves Ferri and Manu Larcenet, editions Dargaud
10) Airborne 44, tome 8, On our ruins , Philippe Jarbinet, editions Casterman
