Title : The Great Winter - Ismaïl Kadaré - book Summary : Winter 1961, little Albania will break off diplomatic relations with the Soviet giant. An upheaval in history. An upheaval in individual destinies. It is a winter of ruptures for all the characters. For Besnik, interpreter at the Moscow conference. For his fiancée Zana. For the secretary of the Albanian Communist Party, but also for Ben, the street sweeper, for the old mountaineer, and for Nurihan, a former "bourgeois" stripped of her estates. Politician or humble peasant, adult or child, each one has their own voice, and the voices mingle, the visions blend, poetic or coldly critical, sometimes mad, to compose Ismail Kadaré's most beautiful symphonic novel. EAN : 9782020061254 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Diadorim - João Guimarães Rosa - book Summary : In South America, João Guimarães Rosa (1908-1967) is, along with Jorge Luis Borges, the continental giant of the century. Compared to The Song of Roland , the Aeneid and Thomas Mann's Doctor Faustus, Diadorim is a novel of love and adventure, at once mythical, realistic and romantic, classic and innovative. If this book is the novel of Brazilian literature, it is also, due to a unique work on language, one of the great works of universal literature. EAN : 9782264021403 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Anta - Memoirs of a Lapp - Andreas Labba - book Summary : A self-taught Lapp, born at the beginning of the century into a family of reindeer herders, Andreas Labba became a novelist in his late sixties thanks to Swedish friends, including Dag Hammarskjöld, the UN Secretary-General. Thus was born "Anta," typed in Lapp, stroke by stroke, on an old typewriter, before being translated into Swedish; then "Anta and Marie," written directly in Swedish. This autobiographical text brings to life an Arctic people, confronted with the perils of nomadism between the long winters of inland Lapland and the short summers of the Norwegian coast. One of the first novels of a boreal people, one of the last great contemporary peoples of European prehistory. The joy of lyrical and naive writing. A Lappish Douanier Rousseau. Before our eyes, the ancient civilization of the reindeer comes to life again, with its acute memory of places and seasons; a society in balance until the time of colonization by the "great Swedes" with railways, miners, and schools. Everything, then, changes. Andreas Labba bore witness until the end of his life, challenging the proud Swedes and calling the Sami, "sons of the sun," to awaken. After Andreas Labba's death, the Sami faced industrial expansion and Chernobyl and its misfortunes: an area so polluted that herds had to be slaughtered in some regions. Recent support from the Western intelligentsia facilitated the ongoing circumpolar cultural revolution. EAN : 9782266073547 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : In Patagonia - Bruce Chatwin - book Summary : See photos EAN : 9782246398127 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Black Hill Twins - Bruce Chatwin - book Summary : See photos EAN : 9782246314622 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Women in the Time of the Emperors of China - Danielle Elisseeff - book Summary : Imperial China, land of the "Middle Ground" but also of terrible excesses, has always been a dream of the West: a land of silk, porcelain, and flower girls with rosebud smiles, moving gracefully on tiny feet. A superficial and mawkish vision of a barbaric traveler, but a gentle, reassuring image that the Chinese themselves loved to evoke. For perhaps no other civilization has feared women so much, seeing them as strange, disturbing beings, capable of the best and the worst. Danielle Elisseeff, archivist-paleographer, doctor of Far Eastern studies, and one of the best current specialists on China, recounts the difficult journey of Chinese women under the Empire, to situate themselves in a world that distrusted them, a difficult and long journey since it spans two millennia and has its roots deep in Prehistory. Destinies unfold in a relentless unfolding - seduction, love, cruelty, terror. An unforgettable saga where the thrill of life combines with the breath of epic. EAN : 9782253052852 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Hannah Volume 2 - The Empress - Paul-Loup Sulitzer - book Summary : See photos EAN : 9782253045137 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Ru - Kim Thuy - book Summary : A woman travels through the chaos of memories: childhood in her golden cage in Saigon, the arrival of communism in fearful South Vietnam, escape in the belly of a boat off the Gulf of Siam, internment in a refugee camp in Malaysia, the first shivers in the cold of Quebec. A story between war and peace, Ru speaks of emptiness and overflow, loss and beauty. From this tumult, tragicomic incidents, ordinary objects emerge as landmarks on a journey. By evoking an acrylic bracelet filled with diamonds, blue bowls rimmed with silver, or the power of a fabric softener scent, Kim Thúy recreates the Vietnam of yesterday and today with the mastery of a great writer. EAN : 9782867465772 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Along the Silk Road - On Foot to China - Philippe Valéry - book Summary : Venice, the Bosphorus, Isfahan, Samarkand, the Afghan Wakhan. It was the road of silk, spices, and precious stones that Philippe Valéry followed, the same one traveled by Marco Polo and taken by Alexander the Great and Genghis Khan. In search of sincere and warm relationships, he walked for two years and 10,000 kilometers, from Marseille to Kashgar, China, through fifteen picturesque countries. From the Mediterranean to the foothills of the Himalayas, houses, huts, and yurts opened up, as the souls of their inhabitants were revealed. EAN : 9782361570750 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Who am I to judge others? - Serge Portelli - book Summary : Who am I to judge others? Who can possibly have the legitimacy to judge the meaning of a man's life? How can one be oneself and a judge at the same time? " Magistrate Serge Portelli takes over our collection to recount the hard business of living. "Who am I to judge others? Who can possibly have the legitimacy to judge the meaning of a man's life? How can one be oneself and a judge at the same time?" Magistrate Serge Portelli takes hold of our collection to recount the hard work of living. He tells not the truth, but his truth, his innermost conviction. This is the story of a man facing others, victims or aggressors, human, all so terribly human. He remembers the savagery of certain children, the pain of raped women, his setbacks (and victories) with the political world. He holds up a mirror to us reflecting the chaos of our world—violence, inequality, injustice... To share what life means to him is to reveal his doubts and his certainties, to take us into his fights for liberty, equality, and fraternity. It is to intertwine modesty, anger, tenderness, and hope. It is also to write to understand, to shed the legal gibberish, and to take the side of the other—these other "selves." It is, even beyond horror, to reject fatality, recidivism, and to believe, always, in the dignity of Man. Serge Portelli calls Verlaine and Montaigne to the rescue and confesses with rare elegance, often tinged with humor. EAN : 9782373851885 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo some passages highlighted

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Title : Manuella - Philippe Labro - book Summary : That's all I write, platitudes. In fact, I'm useless. All my friends tell me I'm great and beautiful and nice and positive, and my parents say the same thing and everyone thinks I'm incredibly confident, if only they knew how useless I think I am. I'm completely wrong. I'm still a virgin, 9/10 (or rather 10/10) of my friends haven't been for a long time, they all more or less have a boy in their life, and I have nothing. Pity, pity the poor little loveless chick, the nice, upstanding girl who doesn't know what physical love means, the baby with a woman's body who has ankles that are too thick, hips that are too wide, a nose that is too flat, one ear that says hello to the other, dimples that are too high and a chin that is too pointed, and who walks with movements like boats that rock in the harbor when there is a swell." EAN : 9782070416288 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Lorelei - Maurice Genevoix - book Summary : See photos EAN : 9782253024750 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Crève - François Nourissier - book Summary : The already high sun beats down hard, a horn calls the crane operator from the neighboring construction site, cars pile up and panic: a morning begins in Paris, a Wednesday in June whose din wakes Benoît Maggelant from his sleep. He balks, delays, finally gets up. He has to face his own, then go face the others, live another day. Why this disenchantment, this paralyzing weariness? Benoît has a job he likes, an exemplary wife, two sons, a good-natured ease. But does this compensate for that? And that is being deprived of Marie, whom he met five months ago and loved to the point of obsession, to the point of wanting to give up everything. Benoît goes about his usual tasks like a sleepwalker. In fact, he weighs the pros and cons, mulls over the past and the present. With the evening his decision is born and he leaves for Switzerland, towards Marie, towards the future. The future? EAN : 2253004952 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Professor and the Mermaid - Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa - book Summary : Nostalgic for a Sicily bathed in light, the narrator recounts the lost kingdom of his childhood, the vast aristocratic mansions with a thousand hidden corners. The same happy melancholy runs through the story of this famous professor, who has never recovered from his love affair with a mermaid... Through stories where beauty and death intertwine, the author prepares The Cheetah , his masterpiece. Born in Palermo, the Sicilian prince Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa (1896-1957) was an aristocrat of high European culture. He died just after writing The Cheetah , his masterpiece, translated worldwide and adapted for the cinema by Visconti. “A magnificent picture of provincial customs.” Release EAN : 9782253050421 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Figure from the Outside - Kenneth White - book Summary : See photo EAN : 9782253050421 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Eunuch Woman - Germaine Greer - book Summary : See photo EAN : 9782357800694 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Theodora - Paul Wellman - book Summary : See photo EAN : 9782357800694 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Summer Palace - Serge Velay - book Summary : At the end of the 1970s, Serge Velay, a young philosophy professor with a passion for literature, met Jean Carrière (1928-2005), a decorated novelist who won the Prix Goncourt in 1972 for Maheux's L'Epervier. Nearly three decades of friendship and fruitful complicity followed. The Summer Palace brings together two sets of fragments composed ten years apart (2005 and 2015), in memory of the late writer. This album is, all at once, the modest chronicle of a mourning, a loving portrait of the artist, and a fervent eulogy to literature and music. "I will probably be criticized for the disjointed nature of these pages," writes Serge Velay, "but I didn't want to squeeze my friend into a book like someone puts him in a tomb. To let his words resonate, I wanted to create a house of words open to the four winds, in a setting that would have all the appearances of disorder." » We will therefore read this book as it was written, following “the butterfly rule”: at random – and at the risk of getting lost in the vicinity of “true literature”. EAN : 9782357800694 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Portraits of Women - Jean Dutourd - book Summary : Rémy Chapotot is a successful novelist, academic, rather left-wing, and surrounded by women he hardly understands but whose company he enjoys: his secretary, a fiancée-mistress, the old fairy of a literary salon... but above all Jackie, an ambitious beautician who has sworn to become Madame Chapotot. It is of all these women's hearts beating around his hero that the novelist of the Bordeaux Seminary speaks to us with jubilation in this funny and subtle novel, where the amused description of the "very Parisian" circles of literature also plays a prominent role. EAN : 9782253065241 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Country You Never Arrive At - André Dhotel - book Summary : What kind of world have I fallen into? I, whom my aunt doomed to routine, was carried off by a piebald horse, sent here by a baroque hairdresser, and now I'm playing checkers with the son of a cat whisker collector, who is immensely rich. So, in this new world for Gaspard, there were certainly terrible and bizarre things. EAN : 2277110612 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Return to Heritage Port The Face of the Past - Meredith Webber Annie Claydon - book Summary : See photos EAN : 9782280328913 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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