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“This Chance Planet” by Elizabeth Bear is a near future science fiction story about a young Russian waitress with ambitions to become an engineer and her musician boyfriend, who wants her to gestate a liver for money so his band can tour. Plus, there’s a dog.

La Corse, presqu'île de la Revellata, entre mer et montagne.

Une route en corniche, un ravin de vingt mètres, une voiture qui roule trop vite… et bascule dans le vide.

Une seule survivante: Clotilde, quinze ans. Ses parents et son frère sont morts sous ses yeux.

Clotilde revient pour la première fois sur les lieux de l'accident, avec son mari et sa fille ado, en vacances, pour exorciser le passé.

A l'endroit même où elle a passé son dernier été avec ses parents, elle reçoit une lettre.

Une lettre signée de sa mère.

Troisième auteur français le plus lu en 2015, Michel Bussi séduit aussi les lecteurs du monde entier («Impressionnant» pour le ). Professeur de géographie à l'université de Rouen, il a publié aux Presses de la Cité (polar le plus récompensé en 2011), (Prix Maison de la presse 2012), et .

From the internationally bestselling author of comes a captivating and brilliantly realized story of two young women — a Caribbean immigrant in 1960s London, and a bohemian woman in 1930s Spain — and the powerful mystery that ties them together.

England, 1967. Odelle Bastien is a Caribbean émigré trying to make her way in London. When she starts working at the prestigious Skelton Art Gallery, she discovers a painting rumored to be the work of Isaac Robles, a young artist of immense talent and vision whose mysterious death has confounded the art world for decades. The excitement over the painting is matched by the intrigue around the conflicting stories of its discovery. Drawn into a complex web of secrets and deceptions, Odelle does not know what to believe or who she can trust, including her mesmerizing colleague, Marjorie Quick.

Spain, 1937. Olive Schloss, the daughter of a Viennese Jewish art dealer and English heiress, follows her parents to Arazuelo, a poor, restless village on the southern coast. She grows close to Teresa, a young housekeeper, and her half-brother Isaac Robles, an idealistic and ambitious painter newly returned from the Barcelona salons. A dilettante buoyed by the revolutionary fervor that will soon erupt into civil war, Isaac dreams of being a painter as famous as his countryman, Picasso.

Raised in poverty, these illegitimate children of the local landowner revel in exploiting this wealthy Anglo-Austrian family. Insinuating themselves into the Schloss’s lives, Teresa and Isaac help Olive conceal her artistic talents with devastating consequences that will echo into the decades to come.

Rendered in exquisite detail, is a passionate and enthralling tale of desire, ambition, and the ways in which the tides of history inevitably shape and define our lives.

Over the course of a single night in 2052, a homeless man named Cuthbert Handley sets out on an astonishing quest: to release the animals of the London Zoo. As a young boy, Cuthbert’s grandmother had told him he inherited a magical ability to communicate with the animal world — a gift she called the Wonderments. Ever since his older brother’s death in childhood, Cuthbert has heard voices. These maddening whispers must be the Wonderments, he believes, and recently they have promised to reunite him with his lost brother and bring about the coming of a Lord of Animals. if he fulfills this curious request.

Cuthbert flickers in and out of awareness throughout his desperate pursuit. But his grand plan is not the only thing that threatens to disturb the collective unease of the city. Around him is greater turmoil, as the rest of the world anxiously anticipates the rise of a suicide cult set on destroying the world’s animals along with themselves. Meanwhile, Cuthbert doggedly roams the zoo, cutting open the enclosures, while pressing the animals for information about his brother.

Just as this unlikely yet loveable hero begins to release the animals, the cult’s members flood the city’s streets. Has Cuthbert succeeded in harnessing the power of the Wonderments, or has he only added to the chaos — and sealed these innocent animals’ fates? is an enchanting and inventive tale that explores the boundaries of reality, the ghosts of love and trauma, and the power of redemption.

Young Moroccans gather regularly in a seafront cafe to gaze at the lights on the Spanish coast glimmering in the distance. A young man called Azel is intent upon leaving one way or another. At the brink of despair he meets Miguel, a wealthy Spanish gallery-owner, who promises to take him to Barcelona if Azel will become his lover.<

Tahar Ben Jelloun’s , the first fictional account published on the Arab Spring, reimagines the true-life self-immolation of Mohamed Bouazizi in Tunisia, an event that has been credited with setting off the Tunisian revolt. The novella depicts the days leading up to Bouazizi’s self-immolation. Ben Jelloun’s deliberate ambiguity about the location of the story, set in an unnamed Islamic country, allows the reader to imagine the experiences and frustrations of other young men who have endured physical violence and persecution in places beyond Tunisia. The tale begins and ends in fire, and the imagery of burning frames the political accounts in , Ben Jelloun’s nonfiction writings on the Tunisian events that provide insight into the despotic regimes that drove Bouazizi to such despair. Rita S. Nezami’s elegant translations and critical introduction provide the reader with multiple strategies for approaching these potent texts.<

"Morocco's greatest living author." —

"A writer of social and moral acuteness." —

"A writer of much originality." —

Lalla Fatma believes she is in Fez in 1944—where she grew up — not in Tangier in 2000, where the story begins.

Guided by her fragmented memories, Ben Jelloun reimagines his mother's life in Fez at the end of the war, in the heavily ritualised world of custom and tradition that saw her married, pregnant, and widowed by sixteen. He gains privileged, painful access to her lives as daughter, sister, thrice-widowed wife — lives in which she had little say, mostly spent working in kitchens, marked by a deep religious faith and love for her family — as Alzheimer's rips them all away.

A delicate portrait of a woman's slow and unwinding descent into dementia, maps out the beautiful, fragile, and complex nature of human experience in prose equally tender and compelling.

"Carmen Boullosa is, in my opinion, a true master." — Alvaro Mutis

Part bildungsroman, part ghost story, part revenge novel, tells the story of a woman who returns to the landscape of her childhood to overcome the fear that held her captive as a girl. This powerful exploration of the path to womanhood and lost innocence won Mexico's two most prestigious literary prizes.

Slave. Swordwielder. Spy. Some girls have all the luck...

When Rialla was young, slave traders from Darran ambushed her clan, killing all the men and enslaving the women and children. For years, Rialla lived in bondage, until she escaped and fled to the mercenary nation of Sianim.

Now she can strike back at her former masters. A lord in Darran seeks to outlaw slavery—but there are plots to kill him before he can. Rialla is chosen by the Spymaster of Sianim to prevent the murder—and is plunged into a world of deadly magic...

From international bestselling author, Alessandro Baricco, comes a scintillating and sensual novel about a young woman’s ingress into a fantastically strange family.

The hand of the young woman in question has been promised to the scion of noble family. She is to make her preparations for marriage at the family’s villa, where the inhabitants never seem to sleep. The atmosphere turns surreal as the days pass and her presence on the family estate begins to make itself felt on her future in-laws.

In this erotically charged and magical novel, Alessandro Baricco portrays a cast of mysterious characters who exist outside of the rules of causation as he tells a story, an adult fable, about fate and the difficult job of confronting the Other and creating an Us.

"An invigorating challenge. The reader indeed finds in it entertainment, emotions and intrigue, but also reflection and thought on grave issues." — Lluís Satorras,

Riddled with problems, Joanes has to travel to the Mayan Ribera to attend his father-in-law's new wedding. There, forced to leave the hotel due to a hurricane alert, on his trip toward safer ground he has a chance encounter with an old college professor, whom he blames for the failure of his career. It will be Joanes' opportunity to settle accounts with him.

"Andrés Barba needs no introduction. He has his own intentional world perfectly contained and a literary gift that belies his age." — Mario Vargas Llosa

"A story that has been described as an explosive clash between Pavese's and the adolescents of Gus van Sant's ." — Daniel Entrialgo,

"A new Spanish great, that’s all I need to say." —

Fourteen-year-old Tomás goes with his well-off family on their usual seaside summer holiday, but he is at a stage in his life when nothing is the same. Sullenly detached from them, full of confused intimations of sexuality, he is also faced with death when his widowed aunt, who lives in the resort, is taken seriously ill. As he becomes close to her on her deathbed he frequents the forbidden in the form of some lower-class village kids — casually transgressive boys and even more alien, sexually knowing girls — that will get him involved on the last day in a gang rape of a vulnerable girl. Though when it is his turn, Tomás only pretends to do it — enough to save face with the boys. Back in Madrid, he wrestles with guilt and confusion. He finally decides to go back secretly, alone, to find the girl and apologize for what happened, but despite the moving scene of atonement and forgiveness, ambiguity lurks even in this redemption.

Manfred Baumann is a loner. Socially awkward and perpetually ill at ease, he spends his evenings quietly drinking and surreptitiously observing Adele Bedeau, the sullen but alluring waitress at a drab bistro in the unremarkable small French town of Saint-Louis. But one day, she simply vanishes into thin air. When Georges Gorski, a detective haunted by his failure to solve one of his first murder cases, is called in to investigate the girl's disappearance, Manfred's repressed world is shaken to its core and he is forced to confront the dark secrets of his past. 'The Disappearance of Adele Bedeau' is a literary mystery novel that is, at heart, an engrossing psychological portrayal of an outsider pushed to the limit by his own feverish imagination.<

DOCUMENTS RELATING TO THE CASE OF RODERICK MACRAE

A brutal triple murder in a remote northwestern crofting community in 1869 leads to the arrest of a young man by the name of Roderick Macrae. There’s no question that Macrae is guilty, but the police and courts must uncover what drove him to murder the local village constable.

And who were the other two victims? Ultimately, Macrae’s fate hinges on one key question: is he insane?

Un début de guerre nucléaire libère dans l’atmosphère d’immenses volumes de méthane enfoui sous les fonds marins polaires. Or le méthane est un gaz à effet de serre.

Il va faire chaud, partout sur la planète déjà torride, l’été prochain, en 2028. Des ouragans gigantesques vont parcourir les océans, se transformer en tornades au-dessus des continents, faire naître des vents supersoniques et soulever des marées de tempête de cent mètres de haut.

Et autant de passions humaines, de l’amour à la panique.

John Barnes réunit, dans ce somptueux roman-catastrophe, une science approfondie de la météorologie et de l’écologie, un sens aigu du suspense et un talent impressionnant qui lui permet de dresser le tableau d’une planète entière balayée par la mère des tempêtes. Au-delà d’une fiction, Barnes nous prévient de ce qui nous attend, sur une Terre déjà menacée par le réchauffement planétaire.

Mark est revenu.

Mark, le clone-jumeau de Miles. Mark le fou errant. Et, pour fêter son retour, il a volé aux Dendariis un navire de guerre ainsi qu’un commando entier, en se faisant passer pour Miles. Armé jusqu’aux dents, il fonce à présent vers l’Ensemble de Jackson.

Miles Naismith se lance à la poursuite de son double. En aveugle, sans savoir ce qui l’attend… En fait, un raid démentiel. Trafic de clones, transplantations de cerveaux… Avec, au bout du voyage, la mort.

La mort pour Miles et la folie pour Mark. Est-ce la fin de l’histoire ?

Non, car la mort, pour un Vorkosigan, n’est pas irréversible : on peut le ramener à la vie. A condition de retrouver son corps…