Title : Kaddish for a Famous Orphan and an Unknown Sailor - Emmanuel Ruben - book Summary : Emmanuel Ruben invites us through this kaddish to question the importance of individual and collective memory. Two men, one night in the summer of 1957, in the midst of the Algerian War. They are the same age, born in the same region. The first, fatherless, lives far from the colonial hell. He knows how to handle words: his sentences are like punches. The second, a former sailor, is a man plunged into the misery and violence of the time. The first is called Albert Camus. The second is the narrator's grandfather. They are "brothers of the country and of torment." EAN: 9782916136639 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : In Silence - Daniel Arsand - book Summary : A chronicle of a family in the provinces at the beginning of this century, In Silence evokes a time that for millions of people was first one of exile: peasants believed they would find a better future in the city, and were then forced to wander as lost souls. Edgar sold the poor farm that his family ran in the hamlet of Doisnons, in the Madeleine mountains, and moved to Roanne with his wife Adélaïde and his two daughters, Marie and Anne. But the city is a strange place, where pleasure is bought - and escaped - where the earth is no longer there to protect you from its authority. Edgar will not resist it for long. He leaves behind three women who will each attempt, with varying success, to invent a new world in which to live... All three remain haunted by the feeling of a loss to be filled: Adélaïde, powerless to grasp life, withdraws into seclusion; Marie, who embodies the norm (selfishness and ambition mixed together), will soon offer the image of what is rather hastily called success; Anne, for her part, guardian of the old savageries, will refuse to abandon the free paths even if they lead to the worst. Three characters condemned to live outside themselves who have nothing left but the desperate desire to find themselves... or the fervor to lose themselves. Everything in them is irretrievable. Carried by the memory of a past from which they know they are excluded, they are at the mercy of the whims and renunciations of their own memory. Doomed by it to be, well before the hour of the end, nothing but emptiness and silence. A deafening silence, echoing with the thousand questions we cannot formulate. EAN: 9782752902085 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : All the answers to the questions you never asked yourself - Philippe Nessmann - book Summary : From the smallest details of our daily lives to the most spectacular cosmic phenomena, there are a thousand and one things to learn while having fun! Where do the names of musical notes come from? Why do the English drive on the left? Can you be reincarnated as a diamond? And, by the way, how many stars are there in the sky? With humor and simplicity, Philippe Nessmann answers these questions we've never asked ourselves. Food, great inventions, ecology, astronomy... Everything is said! EAN: 9782501055390 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Reclining Ones - Jeanne Galzy - book Summary : After her first novel published in 1912, Jeanne Galzy was struck down by Pott's disease, a bone tuberculosis that forced her to remain bedridden, immobilized by a plaster cast. This tragedy inspired her to write Les couchés, which received the Prix Femina in 1923. The novel opens and closes in the spring, in a sanatorium in Berck, the Maison des Sables. Throughout the pages, the narrator evokes her long stay alongside the "lying ones," suffering like her from an illness that keeps them isolated from life. With stunning lucidity, the heroine describes these friendships formed through the ordeal. Accurate and poetic, Jeanne Galzy's writing offers us a timeless reflection on pain, the body, and the price of existence. What if these "half-lives" taught us to better grasp the poetry of the ephemeral? EAN: 9782073027092 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Djem - Roderick Conway Morris - book Summary : This novel is based on historical facts that have fascinated mankind since the 15th century. Djem, the younger son of Mehmet II, the conqueror of Constantinople, really did exist. This prince, gifted in the arts, open to both Christianity and Islam, and curious about everything that came from the West, was at the center of a fierce succession dispute upon his father's death. Defeated by his brother, taken in by the Knights of Rhodes in 1482, then received as a "guest" in France and hidden to escape assassination attempts, he would later be at the heart of particularly devious political and religious intrigues. Some dream of a new crusade, others of a hidden treasure... Between the Borgias, the Pope, the kings, and the dissatisfied master of a vast Ottoman Empire, Djem, in order to survive, could not indefinitely retreat into proud distress. EAN: 9782752906038 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Devourer - Lorenza Ghinelli - book Summary : If you see it, you believe it. If you believe it, it eats you. Pietro is an autistic child who can only communicate through his drawings. A favorite target of the teenagers in his neighborhood, he is one day violently attacked by three of them. Traumatized, he draws the attack. Alice, his teacher, immediately spots a detail: in the background, a disturbing-looking old man is watching the scene. The next day, the leader of the gang that attacked Pietro disappears. His clothes are found scattered on the floor as if he had vanished into thin air... Could the old man be involved? Now that Pietro has drawn him, will he be his next victim? Childhood terrors are embodied in this spine-chilling thriller that effectively revisits the bogeyman theme. EAN: 9782258090507 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Not a Passerby in Sight - Barbara d'Amato - book Summary : A stranger sneaks into your home, takes over your attic, slips into your sheets, inspects your drawers, spies on your family, and is dying to get to know the teenage girls who live under your roof better... Suze Figueroa, a police officer, has always imagined her home as a sanctuary, safe from the crimes, darkness, and tragedies she encounters every day in the course of her work. Absorbed by an investigation that leads her in the footsteps of a serial killer, she doesn't realize that there, under the eaves, the happiness and survival of her loved ones are at stake... EAN: 9782840988212 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Littoral - Wajdi Mouawad - book Summary : Upon learning of his unknown father's death, the orphan Wilfrid decides to give him a burial in his native country. But this corner of the world is devastated by the horrors of war, its cemeteries are full, and the man's relatives reject his remains. Through the painful encounters he will have on this occasion, Wilfrid sets out to rediscover the very foundations of his existence and his identity. Born in Lebanon, Wajdi Mouawad lived in Paris, then for a long time in Montreal before returning to France. "Littoral" is the first part of his tetralogy "The Blood of Promises," a cycle of tragic theater in major mode, widely acclaimed at the dawn of the 21st century. EAN: 9782742783373 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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