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France treats the novel as a second parliament, a place where the questions that matter are put to the vote of the imagination. This running list gathers the finest contemporary French novels now in English, from newly crowned Goncourt and Renaudot winners to the modern masters of art, memory, and the vanishing countryside.

Veiller sur elle by Jean-Baptiste Andrea is a sweeping, poignant novel set in 20th-century Italy, centered on the lives of Michelangelo “Mimo” Vitaliani, a gifted sculptor born into poverty and afflicted with dwarfism, and Viola Orsini, a spirited heiress from…
