Just a few weeks after its arrival in the French literary season, Thélyson Orélien is climbing to the top of sales. It was that or die, his novel published by Grasset, occupies the first place in the Datalib ranking of best-selling books in France for the week of September 4 to 10.

The novel by the Haitian-Québécois writer surpasses Us too by Anne Godard and The solitude of professors is infinite by Yanick Haenel, which also rank among the top-selling books during this period.