Le souterrain #[nn]

A quietly unsettling image anchors this 2005 release from Éditions de l'An 2: a young figure bends toward an open book on the floor while a dark, wave-like mass looms and curls behind them, suggesting something vast and shadowy pressing in from above. The tension between the solitary reader and that encroaching darkness gives the cover a dreamlike, slightly ominous mood that feels perfectly suited to the title — le souterrain, the underground. Created by Sandrine Martin and Xavier Gélard, this slim volume promises the kind of thoughtful, atmospheric storytelling that lingers well after the last page.