Thélyson Orélien is experiencing a meteoric success with his book C’était ça ou mourir, which has climbed to the top of the sales in France, according to the Datalib ranking. This novel, recently published by Grasset, surpasses other works such as Nous aussi by Anne Godard and La Solitude des professeurs est infinie by Yanick Haenel. The Haitian-Quebec author thus establishes himself in the literary rentrée.