Title : The Child of the Next Dawn - Louise Erdrich - book Summary Our world is coming to an end. In the wake of a biological apocalypse, the evolution of species has come to an abrupt halt, and the United States is now under the control of a religious and totalitarian government that requires pregnant women to register. It is in this context that Cedar Hawk Songmaker, a young Indian woman adopted at birth by a white couple in Minneapolis, learns that she is expecting a child. Determined to protect her baby at all costs, she sets out on a desperate flight, hoping to find a safe place to take refuge. Knowing she is threatened, she sets out on a desperate flight, determined to protect her baby at all costs. Strikingly renewing the universe of the author of LaRose And In the silence of the wind, Louise Erdrich's new novel takes us far beyond fiction, into a frightening future where the notions of freedom and procreation are political weapons. Echoing The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood, this story, reminiscent of an Orwellian fable, reminds us of the power of imagination, the key to interpreting a reality that is beyond us. EAN : 9782226438904 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Art of Losing - Alice Zeniter - book Summary Algeria, where her family originates, has long been nothing more than a backdrop of little interest to Naha. Yet, in a French society racked by questions of identity, everything seems to want to send her back to her origins. But what connection could she have with a family history that was never told to her? Her grandfather Ali, a Kabyle mountaineer, died before she could ask him why history had made him a Harki. Yema, her grandmother, could perhaps answer, but not in a language that Naha understands. As for Hamid, her father, who arrived in France in the summer of 1962 in the hastily set up transit camps, he no longer speaks of the Algeria of his childhood. How can a country of silence be resurrected? In a powerful and daring novelistic fresco, Alice Zeniter recounts the destiny, between France and Algeria, of successive generations of a family imprisoned by a tenacious past. But this book is also a great novel about the freedom to be oneself, beyond inheritance and personal or social injunctions. EAN : 9782081395534 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Mountain of Perfumes - Pedro Nguyen Long - book Summary Thao and Xuân have four lovely daughters, but no sons... In one of the sixteen pagodas of Perfume Mountain, Thao then goes on a pilgrimage. His wish will be granted: a boy will be born, Nguyên Long Cuong - he will later be called Pedro. His exceptional and tormented destiny will merge with that of his country, Vietnam. Pampered by his family, Pedro grows up in Haiphong, where, in the 1940s, colonization was casting its last flames. He is still a child when the first bombings of the Indochina War push his family onto the roads of exodus. Soon seduced by the revolutionary ideal, Pedro joins the maquis and becomes an actor in a communist propaganda troupe. He is fourteen years old. Two years later, his father rescues him from the hands of the Viet Minh. He is nevertheless tortured in French jails. Released from prison, now a man, he learns to survive, first in Hanoi, then, after the fall of Dien Bien Phu, in a charming and corrupt Saigon where he will experience impossible love with a Eurasian woman... Pedro manages to leave Vietnam before the war against the Americans sets his country ablaze. But his family will continue to suffer - in the re-education camps, in the hell of the boat people - and he will not rest until his family is finally reunited... Twenty years after the bestseller The Palanquin of Tears, the new great story by Georges Walter. EAN : 9782221079645 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Transparency - Marc Dugain - book Summary In the late 2060s, the French president of Transparence, a digital company based in the wilds of Iceland, is accused by the local police of orchestrating her own assassination. At the same time, her company is preparing to market the Endless program, a revolutionary project on immortality, which consists of transplanting the human soul into an artificial body shell. With the planet seriously threatened by global warming, will this small start-up, which is about to take control of the digital sector, be able to save humanity? This dazzling futuristic novel reveals the world of tomorrow to better reveal the world of today and shed light on the greatest technological revolution in our history. EAN : 9782072797033 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Inch' Allah - Complete - The Breath of Jasmine - The Cry of the Stones - Gilbert Sinoué - book Summary 1916-2001. In the heart of the Middle East, four families—one Egyptian, one Iraqi, one Israeli, and one Palestinian—will experience the tragic events of the 20th century, during which the power of certain states enslaved countries and communities that had previously lived in tolerance and peace. Characters who are at once courageous, fragile, dignified, and committed, they refuse the shipwreck imposed on them by the West. Generation after generation, they all try to preserve the humanity that drives them. But between the Six-Day War and the Yom Kippur War, the conflagration of Lebanon and the Intifada, is there still room for love? A Syrian woman as passionate as she is elusive and an Egyptian, a Palestinian woman ready for any fight and an Israeli, will try to prove it, like a challenge to the madness of men. Here are brought together, in a single volume, the two parts of this grandiose and romantic fresco. EAN : 9782290100462 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Birth of a Bridge - Maylis de Kerangal - book Summary Medici Prize 2010 "At dawn on the second day, when suddenly the Coca-Cola buildings rise, perpendicular to the surface of the river, it is another man who emerges from the woods, a man beside himself, a potential murderer. The sun rises, it ricochets against the glass and steel facades, iridescent the rainbow-colored oil slicks that halo the waters, and the triangular metal plates that festoon the planking of the canoe, gleaming in the light, draw an open jaw." This book starts with an ambition that is both simple and crazy: to tell the story of the construction of a suspension bridge somewhere in an imaginary California based on the intertwined destinies of a dozen men and women, all employees of the gigantic construction site. A sweeping novel, "American style," that mixes sensations and dreams, landscapes and machines, career plans and social classes, trades and bodies in general. EAN : 9782070130504 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Book of the Lost - François Debré - book Summary This novel takes place during the revolutionary period and tells the story of how French Jews gained citizenship. It follows the character of Théodore Cerf, a young Jewish orphan who became a figure of the Enlightenment. The Book of the Perplexed begins at the end of the 18th century, with a pogrom scene in an Alsatian village. It tells the story of the accession of French Jews to French citizenship, led by the character of Théodore Cerf, a young orphan who became a figure of the Enlightenment. This novel takes place against a backdrop of anti-Semitism in an entire society and competition between poor Jews from the East of France and wealthy Jews well established in Paris and Bordeaux. It is the story of this march towards justice, integration, dignity, and reconciliation between Jews and Christians that François Debré tells us in this beautiful book. EAN : 9782716508742 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Mémé - Philippe Torreton - book Summary This is the portrait that Philippe Torreton, at over forty years old, paints of the woman who was the central character of his childhood, a tender and nostalgic portrait, constructed with small touches like memory, where everyone will find their grandmother or the one they dreamed of. This is the portrait that Philippe Torreton, at over forty years old, paints of the woman who was the central character of his childhood, a tender and nostalgic portrait, constructed with small touches like memory, where everyone will find their grandmother or the one they dreamed of. EAN : 9782913366619 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Man Who Loved Dogs - Leonardo Padura - book Summary The Destructive Power of Lies In 2004, after the death of his wife, Iván, a budding writer and manager of a miserable veterinary practice in Havana, recalls his encounter in 1977 with a mysterious man who was walking on the beach with two borzoi greyhounds. After a few conversations, the "man who loved dogs" confides in him about Trotsky's assassin, Ramón Mercader, whom he seems to know intimately. Through these confidences, Iván reconstructs the trajectories of Lev Davidovich Bronstein, also known as Trotsky, and Ramón Mercader, also known as Jacques Mornard, and how they became victim and executioner of one of the most revealing crimes of the 20th century. He follows these two itineraries, starting from the exile of one and the childhood of the other, and their meeting in Mexico City. These two stories take on their full meaning when the Cuban projects his private and intellectual adventures into contemporary Cuba. Leonardo Padura, in a powerful writing style, tells, through ambiguous and convincing characters, the story of the consequences of ideological lies and their destructive force on the most important utopia of the 20th century and its current repercussions in the lives of individuals, particularly in Cuba. EAN : 9782864249009 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Journeys into Absurdity - Stéphane de Groodt - book Summary Stéphane De Groodt offers a collection of his best columns. In a very offbeat tone, he plays with words with a self-proclaimed absurdity and follows in the footsteps of Raymond Devos. A humorist with a growing reputation, this collection is his first published work. "You may know, yes, well I say what I want... and if you don't know I'll tell you anyway, because forewarned is forearmed and forearmed is forearmed, but these chronicles, from Latin chronicum and Franco-Greek chroNikos, will have allowed me to lead my pen to London of my own accord, to the six sides of the Hexagon, to the highest peaks of the depths, in the most remote, advanced, seated, standing, lying regions of the four corners of the world for encounters as sure as they are realistic, as curious as they are laughing. With a single keystroke on my spiral keyboard I met Reza Pahlavi, the son of the late Shah and the cat, saw Régine dance the girdle twist, transported myself from Obama's shack to Silvio's jacuzzi, embedded myself in Fidel, entered the queen, made Delon walk wide, struggled with Jean-Marine, and left Mitt on the ground... " EAN : 9782259222464 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Confession in the Hills - Angelo Rinaldi - book Summary During Holy Week, two secular pilgrimages plunge the narrator back into his past, without restraint. In Paris, in front of a vacant lot where a hotel once stood, near the Buttes-Chaumont, this solitary rediscovers "the awakenings in the alcove of Lardennois, the mad laughter of Maleterre, the songs of Teddy, the cackling of Éliane de Lassonne, a sleeping cat, a prunus in the sun and the fleece of a woman's sex like a stuffed object under the hand". The second pilgrimage, more dangerous, and surely guilty, brings him back to his native country. In his luggage, a briefcase with mysterious contents. This bad boy will redeem himself there, however. Not as he had intended for a moment, by carrying the cross of Christ in the Good Friday procession, but by procuring a sinner for his old regimental comrade, Restitude, who looks after goats in the bush, at the end of the world. The renewal of the mystery of the Passion, the intertwining of destinies, a faceless fear, the syncopes and surprises of memory, by the virtue of writing, will never cease to surprise. EAN : 9782070721290 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Orphans of Evil - Nicolas D'Estienne D'Orve - book Summary 1995, in Germany. Four men are found dead. Naked, with a broken cyanide vial in their mouths, their right hand severed. All were born in a "Lebensborn," the human stud farms where the SS bred Aryan babies to "purify the race." The authorities cover up the affair. Paris, 2005. A young journalist, Anaïs, is contacted by a strange character, Vidkun Venner, a wealthy Norwegian collector who has received four mummified right hands in a briefcase. He would like Anaïs to help him discover what lies behind this macabre package. But very quickly, archive files are stolen, witnesses refuse to speak, others... disappear. Anaïs begins to doubt: did everything really stop at the end of the war? A virtuoso and gripping thriller. EAN : 9782298010183 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : A Promise - Sorj Chalandon - book Summary We are in Mayenne, a house on the edge of a village. In this house, here are Etienne and Fauvette, an old couple who have never stopped loving each other. The house is silent. The shutters are closed and the door is closed. Night and day, however, seven of them cross the threshold. Seven friends, one after the other, from Sunday to Monday, each in turn and each with their own task. There is the boatswain, a former sailor who runs the village bar, there is Madeleine who, every week, decorates the house with flowers, there is Berthevin who turns all the lights on and off, there is the teacher who recites poems aloud, there is Ivan, the former railwayman, who opens the windows, there is Léo who crosses the village on his bicycle, and then finally Paradis, who winds the small clock. In the attic, like a sentinel, an old lamp watches over the ceremony. This is the story of a promise. The promise made to Etienne and Fauvette. A childhood promise, kept by seven friends, to thwart the greatest of perils. These men swore to cheat death. And then one day, they gave up. They stopped visiting the old house. Because time passed. Because of weariness. Because in the attic, the night light waited for two souls to give in to it. This is the story of a brotherhood. EAN : 9782246711711 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Frenchman of Roseville - Ahmed Tiab - book Summary Oran, Algeria. Commissioner Kémal Fadil is called to a renovation site in the Marine district, where human remains have just been found, likely dating back to the 1960s. It appears to be that of a child wearing a crucifix around his neck. The investigation isn't going to be easy, is it?! In reality, it had been started much earlier, led by French police officers... Fifty years later, the historical truth is still just as complicated to tell. Ahmed Tiab offers us an immersion in Algeria before independence, but also in Oran today, and will lead his investigator to Marseille. This series is a great discovery, effective and promising. EAN : 9782815913577 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Laughter Brigade - Gérard Mordillat - book Summary There's Kowalski, known as Kol, born angry. Betty, fired from the printing house where she worked. Dylan, an English teacher and poet. The twins Dorith and Muriel, for whom life is a permanent party. Wolf Child, a runner and fighter. Suzana, a psychiatric nurse. Rousseau, a handsome economics teacher. Hurel, an industrialist, a reader of Marx and Kropotkin. Isaac the redhead, a film distributor, and Victoria, whom no one expected... Formed into a "Laughter Brigade", for fun, they kidnap Pierre Ramut, the star editorialist of French values, and, in a bunker converted into a workshop, they install him in front of a drill press. Forced to work according to what he prescribes in his weekly papers - 48-hour week, salary 20% below the minimum wage, maximum productivity, Sunday work - Ramut will now know what he's talking about... In a great tragicomic fresco, faithful to its universe - Long live the social, The Living and the Dead - Gérard Mordillat talks about today's world, its injustices, its struggles, and those who refuse to submit and take revenge with a great burst of laughter. EAN : 9782226318084 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : This country that resembles you - Tobie Nathan - book Summary It is in the Jewish ghetto of Cairo that Zohar the rebellious is born, against all odds, to a flamboyant young mother and a blind father. And now his foster sister, Masreya, born from the mire of the Delta, a dancer with the wiles of an enchantress, leads him to the gates of power. Here also are the beggars and the proud, the rogues and the gossips of the alley, the poor and the wealthy, the little people who go about rolling, shouting, rebelling, hoping and suffering. This saga, in the colors of the ancient sun, tells everything about Egypt: the rise and fall of King Farouk, the last pharaoh, a despot with the appearance of a charming prince, adored by his people and paralyzed by neuroses. Gamal Abdel Nasser's rise to power in 1952 and the expulsion of the Jews. The Islamization of Egypt under the pressure of the Muslim Brotherhood, the first eruption of a volcano that never stops roaring... It is the fall of the ancient world, which wrapped magic and spells in the clothes of Hollywood. The birth of a modern world, caught between gods and devils. EAN : 9782234078222 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : What Does It All Mean? A Very Brief Introduction to Philosophy - Thomas Nagel - book Summary An introduction to philosophy must be philosophical. It can also renew the genre. Thomas Nagel believes that there is no better way to learn something about philosophy than to focus on the questions: "Before learning a bunch of philosophical theories, it is better," he says, "to have been intrigued by the questions to which these theories attempt to find an answer." From knowledge of the world outside our minds to the question of the meaning of life, he examines, in this capacity, nine problems, with the legitimate concern of leaving them open, but without refusing to say what he thinks about them. With a remarkable economy of means, Thomas Nagel shows here that the presumed obscurity surrounding "philosophical problems" can easily be resolved in the clarity of a presentation whose rigor and conciseness are combined here with originality. EAN : 9782905372796 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Adventures of Ruben Jablonski - Edgar Hilsenrath - book Summary An ideal novel for discovering or rediscovering Edgar Hilsenrath, a sensitive and intimate look at a little-known historical period. Torn from the carefree, playful spirit of childhood by Nazi terror, young Ruben Jablonski finds himself in a desperate situation at the end of World War II. Freed from a ghetto, separated from his family, and in search of a new destiny, he embarks on an epic journey that takes him from Romania to the United States, via Ukraine, Turkey, Palestine, and France... Childhood memories, humanity surviving horror, and a love of literature as a guiding compass give The Adventures of Ruben Jablonski a rare power and humor. Edgar Hilsenrath wrote this novel in 1997—well after the other books that had already brought him international fame—and it provides a moving synthesis of the fifteen years that saw his life change dramatically. EAN : 9782370551375 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Memory of Abraham - Marek Halter - book Summary See photos EAN : 9782724219913 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Tony Hogan bought me an ice cream soda before he stole my mom - Kerry Hudson - book Summary The opening line sets the tone: little Janie Ryan is welcomed into the world with a barrage of insults from her laboring mother, Iris. Thrust into the midst of screaming, cigarette smoke, alcohol fumes, and a whole lot of love, Janie is the youngest child in a highly dysfunctional family. In a striking and original language, between laughter and tears, she goes back to her early days to tell us about her Scottish childhood between shelters, shabby council housing and dubious bed and breakfasts. Alcohol, drugs, difficult ends of the month and passing stepfathers: everything comes together to make her task difficult. But, full of verve and ready to face life, Janie is an irresistible heroine who, at sixteen, will find the courage and determination to build the life that corresponds to her expectations. Tony Hogan Bought Me an Ice Cream Soda Before He Stabbed My Mom may sound grim, but like Janie, the novel is hair-raising and brilliant. It's an intimate and authentic story about mothers, daughters, and what it means to grow up relying only on yourself. Kerry Hudson is a modern and original voice, who manages the feat of being both funny and sad, sarcastic and empathetic, but without ever being maudlin. EAN : 9782848763767 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Boris after love - Yann Queffélec - book Summary See photos EAN : 9782744165290 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Marie des brebis - Signol Christian - book Summary See photos EAN : 9782724260120 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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