In old Shanghai left to the bulldozers, expropriations are raging. For Zhang Yingxiong, the sudden death of his father is due to the attitude of the civil servant in charge of compensations. Haunted with resentment, he spies from a distance the man and his daughter on their balcony.

China, late 1960s. Arrested and taken into custody by the government, the ballet dancer Sun Likun remembers her success from when she played the first role in the ballet version of "The Legend of the White Snake", in which two spirits half-snake half-women lived among us in the human form. One day, a mysterious inspector comes to interrogate her.

Haunted by the ghosts of the past, old Fan Tinghan and the narrator form a strange relationship nourished by poetry.

Champollion, on the heart: his correspondence with Angelica Palli, met in literary circles in Livorno during a mission in Tuscany, reveals an unknown facet of the rich personality of the founder of Egyptology.

With the sobriety of style that characterizes Hubert Delahaye, these 'Sea Stories' transport us to other worlds, inhabited by heroes and anti-heroes, struggling with their fatal destinies. The stories are often poignant or steeped in bitter irony, full of reading and travel. It is possible to see reflections of Orwell, Conrad, Hemingway or Mishima, Melville and a few others in the writing, but the tone of these Stories is entirely unique to their author.

• A tender and realistic look at Chinese society of today.
• After the success of Lettres d’Ogura and De Thé et d'amour, the new opus of an erudite and sensitive writer.
• An invitation to the knowledge of facets of China in tales with timeless flavors.

Angkor in the 1930s: a young couple of French researchers settle in Cambodia, but their relationship deteriorates when their ambitions diverge and jealousy sets in. The mysterious death of the husband, Daniel, sets the scene within which, through two points of view, the reader may find the truth.

This modern epic, which is inspired by the sources of ancient Sanskrit literature, is built around the theme of the genesis of the human race at the end of the Flood, staging mythological characters. The story includes the quest of the five goals in human life : dharma (moral duty), artha (wealth acquisition), kama (sensual and emotional satisfaction), moksa (release)