De Tonino Benacquista à Leïla Slimani, ce sont 15 plumes solidaires qui abordent selon leur propre univers le thème des souvenirs de vacances. Riad Sattouf illustre la couverture en mettant en scène son personnage iconique, Esther, dans un univers bucolique propice à la rêverie et à la lecture. Chaque acteur de la chaîne du livre offre son savoir-faire afin que l’intégralité des recettes soit reversée aux Restos. Un livre acheté = 4 repas distribués. Depuis 2014, l’édition des sept premiers tomes de « 13 à table ! » a permis de distribuer près de 6 millions de repas.
Authors
Leïla Slimani is a French writer and journalist of Moroccan ancestry. In 2016 she was awarded the Prix Goncourt for her novel Chanson douce. Slimani was born in Rabat, Morocco and studied later political science and media studies in Paris. After that she temporarily considered a career as an actress and began to work as a journalist for the magazine Jeune Afrique. In 2014 she published her first novel Dans le jardin de l’ogre, which two years later was followed by the psychological thriller Chanson douce. The latter quickly turned into a bestseller with over 450,000 copies printed within a year even before the book was awarded the Prix Goncourt.
