Title : Leviathan - Paul Auster - Book Summary : Prix ​​Médicis - Foreign Novel 1993 How and why did Benjamin Sachs, a talented young writer from the Reagan years, become the bomber who blows up one after the other the many Statues of Liberty adorning American cities? This is the question that his friend Peter Aaron seeks to answer in this story treated in the manner of a biography, an anticipated response to the FBI investigators, to the media legend that has already taken hold of Sachs. And the novelist of Anna Blume's Journey to give us, in the wake of prophetic writers such as Whitman and Thoreau, the portrait of a disoriented America, which has denied its founding values ​​without even realizing it. A story of rigorous clarity, with characters - particularly female ones - of remarkable truth. EAN: 9782253139072 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Amazing Hat Mystery - PG Wodehouse - English book Summary : See photos EAN: 9781787460126 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Amish Society - John A. Hostetler - Book in English Summary : See photos EAN: Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Bedside Notes - Sei Shônagon - Book Summary : In an extremely elegant translation by André Beaujard, we present to the French reader one of the most beautiful books of Japanese literature, the Bedside Notes of Sei Shônagon. Composed in the early years of the 11th century, at the height of the Heian civilization, when Kyôto was called Heiankyô, that is to say "Capital of Peace", by a lady-in-waiting, Sei Shônagon, attached to Princess Sadako, who died in the year 1000, the Bedside Notes belong to the sôshi genre, that is to say "intimate writings". Along with The Idle Hours of Urabe Kenkô and Notes from My Monk's Cabin by Kamo no Chômei, the Bedside Notes of Sei Shônagon offer, in the form of paintings, portraits, stories, and narratives, an illustration of Japan under the Fujiwara. Along with the author of The Romance of Genji, Noble Lady Murasaki, Sei Shônagon is one of the most illustrious of Japan's great female writers. While the author of The Romance of Genji is constantly compared in her country to the immaculate, white, and somewhat cold plum blossom, Sei Shônagon is equaled to the more moving pink blossom of the cherry tree. Those who read the Bedside Notes, many of whom we hope will be, are assured of discovering one of the most beautiful books ever written in the Japanese language, and an introduction and notes will allow them to appreciate it in the most intimate detail, including all the subtle plays on words. EAN: 9782070705337 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Excursions into the Inner Zone - Paul Auster - Book Summary : After revisiting his past in "Winter Chronicle" from the perspective of the body and sensation, Paul Auster here explores the mental landscape of his childhood, populated by objects endowed with life, eclectic novel heroes, cinematic creatures, prodigious baseball players, and sometimes haunted by a frequently angry and always guilty God. From illuminations to uncertainties, from long reveries to moments of exaltation, a young boy is initiated into the world while his adult identity is shaped under the dual sign of the imagination and the sociocultural environment of the United States in the second half of the 20th century, of which more than one hundred illustrations selected by the writer come, at the end of the volume, to embody tutelary figures and highlights. In addition to the "a posteriori" reconstruction of an intellectual itinerary and the unique paths that a writer's vocation traces on the map of the world, a time capsule containing the letters once addressed by Paul Auster to his future first wife - the novelist Lydia Davis - gives voice in all its harmonics to this solitary and stubborn young man who, having never ceased to obey the imperative injunctions of creation, built the exceptional literary work that established him as one of the most remarkable writers of his generation. EAN: 9782330031923 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Salt of Life - Françoise Héritier - Book Summary : There is a kind of lightness and grace in the simple fact of existing, beyond occupations, beyond strong feelings, beyond commitments, and that is what I wanted to reflect. That little extra that is given to all of us: the salt of life," FH In this intimate and sensual meditation, anthropologist Françoise Héritier tracks down those pleasant things to which our innermost being aspires, those images and emotions, those moments imbued with memories that give flavor to our existence, that make it richer, more interesting than we often believe and from which nothing, ever, can be taken away from each of us. Author of The Two Sisters and Their Mother and Masculin/Féminin, Françoise Héritier is an honorary professor at the Collège de France where she directed the Social Anthropology Laboratory. She was director of studies at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales and president of the National AIDS Council. EAN: 9782738127549 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Intimate Hostages - Jeanne Benameur - Book Summary : This is the story of Etienne, a war photographer, taken hostage in some distant city engulfed in bloodshed. It's the story of a confinement and a liberation—not necessarily the ones you might think. With an eminently contemporary theme, Jeanne Benameur's new novel opens like an action film, only to transform into an authentic book of wisdom. With the delicacy of soul and profound sincerity for which he is known, the author of Les Demeurées and Profane It stretches a straight line between the head and the heart, a path towards upright beings. EAN: 9782330053116 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Tocaia Grande - Jorge Amado - Book Summary : Tocaïa Grande is first and foremost a place-name, in the region of large cocoa plantations, in the south of the State of Bahia, where there is a stopover lodge frequented by muleteers traveling between the neighboring fazendas, which does not fail to attract a certain number of prostitutes. From there, the grocery store-bar of Fadul is built and soon the blacksmith shop of Castor, known as "Tison". Tocaia Grande is also the "great ambush", set up by Natario de Fonseca, bodyguard and trusted man of a rich and powerful landowner, "Colonel" Andrade, to politically liquidate his only rival in the district and remain sole master of the entire region. Finally, in Tocaia Grande, the traveling merchant Fadul Abdala stops for a night, looking for a suitable place to set up business. These diverse and colorful characters share the desire to be and remain free, which will not always be easy as Tocaia Grande gradually becomes a village, then an increasingly large town. Through a succession of colorful episodes, Jorge Amado superbly tells us the hidden side of the birth of a city and the drama of a community of marginalized people that the law wants to one day reclaim. Tocaia Grande is Jorge Amado's first novel in five years and, upon its publication, has enjoyed unprecedented success in Brazil: 400,000 copies sold in three months. It evokes, in this language that is always so rich and colorful, the love of Brazil, a warm brotherhood towards the humble and this deep knowledge of men that permeates all his work. Jorge Amado, born in 1912, is the undisputed master of the Brazilian novel. His works are published in thirty languages. Editions Stock has published eleven of his books, including The Shepherds of the Night, Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon, Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands, Tieta d'Agreste, The Miracle Shop, Cocoa, etc. EAN: 9782234018174 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Tutankhamun Affair - Christian Jacq - Book Summary : A young, penniless animal painter who becomes an archaeologist at eighteen; a billionaire lord, fond of travel and adventure. Carter the archaeologist and Carnarvon the patron will fall in love with Egypt and the Valley, rescue Tutankhamun from oblivion, despite the war, despite the jealousies, despite the envious. It is "The Tutankhamun Affair," an affair that falls somewhere between a detective novel, an adventure novel, and a novel of morals. Tutankhamun, however, is not content with a resurrection that owes everything to Carter and Carnarvon. Surrounded by a curse, he becomes the big star of the news. The Tutankhamun Affair: half a century of drama and madness, the dimension of an epic legend. Christian Jacq treats this unique story with the rigor of a historian and the inspiration of a great novelist. EAN: 9782246451518 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Fountain of Gérémoy - Gilles Laporte - Book Summary : The tumultuous destiny of Marie-Amélie and her daughter, from 1854 to 1944, in the Vosges, Paris and Berry. Faced with paternal tyranny, Malie chooses to be a free woman and to flout conventions. Proud and solitary, she passionately lives her work at the famous Vittel spa resort, recently created by Louis Bouloumié. Until her affair with the irresistible, cultured but married Dr. Darriaud, who will impose terrible blackmail on her when he announces her pregnancy. Malie will then have to find the energy and courage to shape her own destiny. And so that one day, little Julie will take up the torch... In the majestic setting of Vittel, for a century, from the Second Empire to the Liberation, the intertwined destinies of two exceptional heroines, Malie and Julie, unfolded, lives of passion, struggle, and freedom. A superb tribute to women. EAN: 9782258082717 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Nabob - Irène Frain - Book Summary : A remarkable power of evocation and a wealth of content... Irène Frain has so immersed herself in the countries, the art, the customs, the superstitions of India, that she superbly introduces us to the heart of this other world whose prestige she has experienced." Jacqueline Piatier, Le Monde. His name was René Madec. He wanted wealth because he was poor, and ambition drove him because he was beggarly. This little cabin boy, originally from Quimper, had, in the 18th century, an incredible destiny, such as no buccaneer, no condottiere dared to dream of. As a teenager, he arrived in rags on the docks of Pondicherry and became, in less than twenty years, a lord of the country. A nabob. This is the story of his loves and the passion that united him with the Princess of Godh in palaces and caravanserais. Here are armies raised, raided campaigns, royal elephants, sepoys and cannons. But also here is the much-coveted India, spices, pearls and bazaars, refined rajahs, harems and amorous rites, hookah, betel and gods by the thousands. Every page, every scene of this extraordinary novel brilliantly illuminates this piece of our history, the epic of French India led at breakneck speed by the man whom Breton songs still call "the man from afar". EAN: 9782709601047 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The City of Whispers - Victor Jean-Christophe - Book Summary : See photos EAN: 9782709602570 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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