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"Rodoreda had bedazzled me by the sensuality with which she reveals things within the atmosphere of her novels." — Gabriel García Marquez
"Rodoreda plumbs a sadness that reaches beyond historic circumstances. . an almost voluptuous vulnerability." — Natasha Wimmer,
"It is a total mystery to me why [Rodoreda] isn't widely worshipped; along with Willa Cather, she's on my list of authors whose works I intend to have read all of before I die. Tremendous, tremendous writer." — John Darnielle, The Mountain Goats
Despite its title, there is little of war and much of the fantastic in this coming-of-age story, which was the last novel Mercè Rodoreda published during her lifetime.
We first meet its young protagonist, Adrià Guinart, as he is leaving Barcelona out of boredom and a thirst for freedom, embarking on a long journey through the backwaters of a rural land that one can only suppose is Catalonia, accompanied by the interminable, distant rumblings of an indefinable war. In vignette-like chapters and with a narrative style imbued with the fantastic, Guinart meets with numerous adventures and peculiar characters who offer him a composite, if surrealistic, view of an impoverished, war-ravaged society and shape his perception of his place in the world.
As in Rodoreda's , nature and death play an fundamental role in a narrative that often takes on a phantasmagoric quality and seems to be a meditation on the consequences of moral degradation and the inescapable presence of evil.
Nom : Maximum Ride Age : 14 ans Domicile : pas d'adresse - maison isolée dans les bois Parents : inconnus Fonction : chef de famille (cinq enfants) Particularité : peut voler Objectif : échapper aux Erasers et à la mort Méthode : tous les coups sont permis But ultime : retrouver Angel
Pas facile d'avoir une vie normale quand on est un mutant ! Surtout quand la mission qui nous est confiée est de sauver la Terre du plan R-évolution - un génocide de la moitié de la planète - prévu par le puissant groupe Itex. Moi, j'aurais largement préféré avoir une vie d'ado normale... Au lieu de ça, je m'occupe de cinq mômes et, ensemble, nous sillonnons le ciel de l'Europe pour tenter d'échapper à des ennemis de cauchemar. Vous imaginez la pression que je subis tout le temps ? Mais qui sait, si je survis à tout cela, peut-être qu'un jour je l'aurai, cette vie normale d'ado ordinaire ?
Friendships are built on chatter, on gossip, on revelations — on talk. Over the course of the summer of 1965, Linda Rosenkrantz taped conversations between three friends (two straight, one gay) on the cusp of thirty vacationing at the beach: Emily, an actor; Vince, a painter; and Marsha, a writer. The result was , a novel in dialogue. The friends are ambitious, conflicted, jealous, petty, loving, funny, sex- and shrink-obsessed, and there’s nothing they won’t discuss. Topics covered include LSD, fathers, exes, lovers, abortions, S&M, sculpture, books, cats, and of course, each other.
Frannie O'Neill, une jeune et brillante vétérinaire installée dans les monts du Colorado, vit hantée par le souvenir de son mari David, assassiné dans des conditions mystérieuses. Pour tenir le coup, elle s'est investie à corps perdu dans son travail ; sa clinique, affectueusement surnommée le "zoopital", ne désemplit pas.
Bientôt, un autre meurtre inexpliqué frappe la région et Frannie voit débarquer chez elle Kit Harrison, un agent du FBI au style très particulier qui, lui aussi, lutte contre son passé. Puis, au détour d'une route de montagne, au beau milieu de la nuit, surgit Max, une fillette extraordinaire dotée d'une inépuisable énergie qui va mettre Frannie et Kit sur la piste d'un des projets les plus diaboliques de la science contemporaine...
Au début de 2007, alors que les deux principaux candidats déclarés à l'élection présidentielle font à peu près jeu égal, les Français s'interrogent : va-t-il oser se représenter ? Préférera-t-il se retirer sans donner aucune consigne de vote ? Apportera-t-il au candidat de la droite ultra-libérale un soutien assez chiche pour valoir celui que la corde apporte au pendu ? Sortira-t-il au dernier instant de sa manche un candidat hors-parti ? L'incertitude qui plane sur les intentions du chef de l'Etat à quelques mois de l'expiration de son second mandat témoigne d'un fait avéré : alors que des tombereaux d'ouvrages lui ont été consacrés, le plus souvent pour le démolir, l'hôte de l'Elysée demeure une énigme aussi bien aux yeux des citoyens que pour ceux qui prétendent décrypter les intentions et arrière-pensées du pouvoir. Pour connaître un homme, fût-il président de la République, le mieux était encore d'aller le trouver et de l'interroger. C'est ce qu'a fait Pierre Péan, journaliste, homme de gauche, séduit par l'attitude du chef de l'Etat face à la guerre américaine en Irak, qui a recoupé ses propres investigations avec le contenu de douze longs entretiens que lui a accordés Jacques Chirac au cours du dernier semestre 2006. Entre la biographie dialoguée et l'autobiographie à deux voix, ce livre ne vient pas s'ajouter à tous ceux qui ont été consacrés à celui qui préside depuis dix ans aux destinées de ce pays. Il parle - et porte le témoignage direct - de l'homme politique le moins bien connu des Français
A girl who repeatedly halves her boyfriend; a waitress who turns into Elvis; a family of conceptual artists who live their art. Every story packs its share of explosive material, often with a side of magic. Consider Angela Carter as the fairy godmother of this award-winning writer.
Que deviennent les rêves de nos 13 ans ? 1974. La bible de Petra, c’est le journal des fans de David Cassidy, chanteur à minettes et vedette d’une série télévisée, qui déchaîne les foules de groupies. Chaque fois que Petra et sa meilleure amie Sharon reçoivent le journal, elles le dévorent et s’imaginent leur rencontre avec « David !!! », dont elles sont bien sûr folles amoureuses. Lorsque le magazine lance un grand concours pour gagner des places de concert et un accès aux coulisses, les deux amies se jettent dessus. Problème : la mère de Petra, violoncelliste autoritaire et allergique à la variété, voit d’un très mauvais œil cette passion de midinette. Vingt ans plus tard, Petra, séparée de son mari, vient de perdre sa mère et voit sa fille vivre ses 13 ans et son premier coup de foudre à son tour. Face à sa fille ado, Petra est nostalgique, elle a besoin d’un nouveau souffle, de légèreté et de tendresse… C’est à ce moment-là qu’elle découvre, dans une pile de lettres cachées par sa mère, un courrier qui aurait pu changer sa vie. Et qui va lui redonner envie de rêver.
In a masterwork of international adventure, supernatural mystery, and apocalyptic prophecy, New York Times bestselling authors James Rollins and Rebecca Cantrell open the next chapter in a world of shadow and light, of salvation and damnation, where the fate of the heavens is locked within a child of…
A vicious attack at a ranch in California thrusts archaeologist Erin Granger back into the folds of the Sanguines, an immortal order founded on the blood of Christ and tasked with protecting the world from the beasts haunting its shadows and waiting to break free into the sunlight. Following the prophetic words found in the Blood Gospel — a tome written by Christ and lost for centuries — Erin must join forces with Army Sergeant Jordan Stone and the dark mystery that is Father Rhun Korza to discover and protect a boy believed to be an angel given flesh.
But an enigmatic enemy of immense power and terrifying ambition seeks the same child — not to save the world, but to hasten its destruction. For any hope of victory, Erin must discover the truth behind Christ's early years and understand His first true miracle, an event wrapped in sin and destruction, an act that yet remains unfulfilled and holds the only hope for the world.
The search for the truth will take Erin and the others across centuries and around the world, from the dusty plains of the Holy Land to the icy waters of the Arctic Ocean, from the catacombs of Rome to an iron fortress in the Mediterranean Sea, and at last to the very gates of Hell itself, where their destiny — and the fate of mankind — awaits.
With The Blood Gospel, the first novel in the Order of the Sanguines series, James Rollins and Rebecca Cantrell breathtakingly combined science, myth, and religion and introduced a world where miracles hold new meaning and the fight for good over evil is far more complicated than we ever dreamed. In Innocent Blood they again take us to the edge of destruction… and into the deepest reaches of imagination.
In a masterpiece of supernatural mystery and apocalyptic prophecy, bestselling authors James Rollins and Rebecca Cantrell bring to a thunderous conclusion their epic trilogy of novels set between the worlds of shadow and light, between salvation and damnation, where the very gates of Hell must be shattered to discover the true fate of humankind in…
As an escalating scourge of grisly murders sweeps the globe, archaeologist Erin Granger must decipher the truth behind an immortal prophecy, one found in the Blood Gospel, a tome written by Christ and lost for centuries: With the Apocalypse looming and the very barriers of our world crumbling, Erin must again join forces with Army sergeant Jordan Stone and Father Rhun Korza to search for a treasure lost for millennia, a prize that has already fallen into the hands of their enemy.
But the forces of darkness have crowned a new king, a demon named Legion, who walks this Earth wearing many faces, whose reach is beyond measure, where even the walls of the Vatican fall before him. To have any hope of saving the world, Erin must discover the truth behind man's first steps out of the Garden of Eden, an event wrapped in sin and destruction, an act that damned humankind for eternity.
The search for the key to salvation will take Erin and the others across centuries and around the world, from the dusty shelves of the Vatican's secret archives to lost medieval laboratories, where ancient alchemies were employed to horrific ends. All the while, they will be hunted across the breadth of the globe, besieged by creatures of uncanny skill and talent. As clues are slowly dug free from ancient underground chapels or found frozen in icy caverns high in the mountaintops, Erin will discover that the only hope for victory lies in an impossible act, one that will not only destroy her, but all she loves. To protect the world, Erin must walk through the very gates of Hell and face the darkest of enemies, the adversary of humankind, the very serpent in the garden. She must confront Lucifer himself.
With , the first novel in the Order of the Sanguines series, James Rollins and Rebecca Cantrell breathtakingly combined science, myth, and religion and introduced a world where miracles hold new meaning and the fight for good over evil is far more complicated than we ever dreamed. And now, in this epic conclusion to the Sanguines trilogy, , they take us to the very pit of Hell itself, making us peer into the abyss and face our greatest fears, answering the ultimate question:
Chagrin d’école, dans la lignée de Comme un roman, aborde la question de l’école du point de vue de l’élève, et en l’occurrence du mauvais élève. Daniel Pennac, ancien cancre lui-même, étudie cette figure du folklore populaire en lui donnant ses lettres de noblesse, en lui restituant aussi son poids d’angoisse et de douleur. Le livre mêle les souvenirs autobiographiques et les réflexions sur la pédagogie, sur les dysfonctionnements de l’institution scolaire, sur le rôle des parents et de la famille, sur le jeunisme dévastateur, sur le rôle de la télévision et des modes de communication modernes, sur la soif de savoir et d’apprendre qui, contrairement aux idées reçues, anime les jeunes d’aujourd’hui comme ceux d’hier.
La grille d'un enclos, dans un zoo. Un vieux loup tourne en rond. Jour après jour, un petit garçon le regarde et, un matin, leurs regards se croisent. D'un côté, le loup borgne, de l'autre, le petit garçon à l'œil fermé. Les deux se racontent leur histoire. Toute la vie du loup défile au fond de son œil : une vie sauvage dans le Grand Nord, la meute, la traque des chasseurs, la capture et le zoo enfin. L’œil de l’enfant raconte le sable de l'Afrique, les forêts équatoriales, le guépard, le dromadaire.
Shortlisted for Sweden's August Prize, Elisabeth Rynell's To Mervas is a vivid exploration of both external and internal wilderness. Marta, a middle-aged woman who has withdrawn almost completely into herself, is jolted back into contact with the world by a letter from her once-great love. Physical and emotional abuse, longing and loss, and the nature of love and redemption are explored with remarkable empathy and a visceral lyricism in Rynell's wrenching novel. Elisabeth Rynell is a novelist and a poet. Her first novel, Hohaj, was adapted into the film Snowland, To Mervas is her first novel to appear in English. Victoria Hggblom is a writer and translator. She has received several translation grants and awards from the PEN American Center, the Swedish Institute, and others.
Pal has a shameful secret that has dragged him into huge debt, and he is desperate that his teenage daughters and ex-wife don't find out. Sixteen-year-old Sandra also has a secret. She's in love with the delinquent Daniel William, a love so strong and pure that nothing can get in its way. Cecilie has the biggest secret of them all, a baby growing inside her. But she's trapped in her small-time, criminal existence, and dreams of an escape from it all. Over three fateful September days, these lives cross in a whirlwind of brutality, laughter, tragedy, and love that will change them forever. A fast-paced, moving, and darkly funny page-turner. "A dense literary novel that moves like a thriller. . Renberg gives us a novel, rooted in noir softened by comedy, that gets to the serious business of how our shortcomings are all linked."-Kirkus Reviews.
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