Title : The Alliance, Volume 2 - James Albert Michener - Book Summary : From the Boer War, which pitted the descendants of the first European settlers against the British Empire, to apartheid, which legitimized segregation between Blacks and Whites, James A. Michener continues the great saga of South Africa through the destiny of three families, the Dutch Van Doorn, the English Saltwood, and the Black Nxumalo. Through the grace of this story, both historical and romantic, woven with personal adventures and national dramas, the reader witnesses and participates in the painful genesis of a country whose most contemporary events can never again leave him indifferent. EAN: 9782020253758 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Pilgrim - Timothy Findley - Book Summary : April 17, 1912: Two nights after the sinking of the Titanic, a man named Pilgrim, author of a famous book on Leonardo da Vinci, hanged himself in his London garden. He was found the next day, and the certificate of his death was signed by two doctors. Five hours later, his heart began beating again. Death had refused Pilgrim. Refugeed in silence, Pilgrim was admitted to the Burghölzli psychiatric clinic in Zurich, where one of the doctors, Carl Gustav Jung, was immediately fascinated by this extraordinary case. Is Pilgrim, who claims to have lived several lives, spent time with Leonardo da Vinci, Saint Teresa of Avila, and participated in the construction of Chartres Cathedral, a mythomaniac, a dreaming genius, or the victim of a strange curse? An ambitious, fantastic, metaphysical novel, in which Henry James, Oscar Wilde, Mona Lisa appear... A novel of brilliant and bold construction, with jubilant writing. EAN: 9782070419678 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Serious Opera - Régine Detambel - Book Summary : Daughter of composer Janácek's favorite tenor, Elina Marsch, born in 1926 into a Jewish family, grew up in the company of her father's mistresses, famous singers from whom she learned the art of seduction and a whole repertoire of arias of madness and death before experiencing the vicissitudes of war and fleeing to America. A novel of the divine voice that fascinates, soothes, or terrifies, "Serious Opera" makes the very song of the distant Sirens heard. EAN: 9782330030674 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Lisbon - Fernando Pessoa - Book Summary : An iconoclastic author little known to the general public, Fernando Pessoa was an unconditional lover of his country, Portugal, and even more so of its capital. In Lisbon , this eternal flâneur takes us through the alleys of Chiado, the shaded squares of Bairo Alto or the arteries of Belem... A delightful stroll. After Kafka's Prague and Joyce's Dublin, Lisbon makes its entrance into literature, and its "integral passer-by", Fernando Pessoa, is its elusive and melancholic ghost. EAN: 9782264026422 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Paola Affair - An Investigation by Commissioner Brunetti - Donna Léon - Book Summary : Commissioner Guido Brunetti is in the hot seat: his own wife, Paola, is arrested after smashing the window of a travel agency she suspects of promoting sex tourism. Brunetti is temporarily relieved of his duties. But the case escalates with the murder of the agency's owner. As a clue, a letter is found next to the body accusing the deceased of being a "pornographer." EAN: 9782020555296 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Last Day of a Condemned Man - Victor Hugo - Book Summary : Edition enriched by Roger Borderie including a preface and a file on the novel. Victor Hugo was twenty-six years old when he wrote, in two and a half months, The Last Day of a Condemned Man, a novel that undoubtedly constitutes the most vehement indictment ever made against the death penalty. We will not know who the Condemned Man is, we will know nothing of the crime he committed. For the author's purpose is not to enter into a debate but to expose the horror and absurdity of the situation in which any man finds himself whose neck is going to be slit in a few hours. This novel - with its often strangely modern overtones - has such a power of suggestion that the reader ends up identifying with the narrator, whose anguish and vain hopes he shares in turn. Until the very last lines of the book, Victor Hugo's genius makes us participate in a frightened anticipation: that of the grating sound of the blade rushing into the rails of the guillotine. Anyone who has read this book will never forget this striking lesson in writing and humanity. EAN: 9782070413102 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Billy Straight - Jonathan Kellerman - Book Summary : Billy, a 13-year-old boy who preferred the streets of Los Angeles to the beatings he received at home, saw, at 1 a.m., a young woman stabbed in Griffith Park by a man who then fled in a car with the license plate PLYR 1. The anonymity in which the child found his safety no longer existed because the murderer saw him. Quickly alerted by the park rangers, Detective Petra Connor discovers the identity of the victim, Lisa Ramsey, the ex-wife of a famous television actor. Petra immediately suspects the latter and, more seriously for Billy, realizes that someone saw the crime. Shortly after, in a villa that is falling into ruin, an old lady begins to read the newspaper with an assiduity that greatly surprises her companion... EAN: 9782020486262 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Night Terrors - Jonathan Kellerman - Book Summary : In Los Angeles, the capital of neurosis and violence, the worlds of Dr. Freud and Raymond Chandler have always gone hand in hand. Alex Delaware, Hollywood's most perceptive shrink, knows all about it. It's been ten years since he last saw Melissa Dickinson, the rich little girl who came to confide in him about her childhood terrors and the ordeal of her mother, Gina, who was attacked by a jealous lover and has since suffered from extreme agoraphobia. But these are no longer nightmares: the criminal is out of prison, and Melissa is scared to death once again. To protect her from a horrific plot, Alex reverts to his inner private eye. What the shrink can't solve, the detective might be able to. EAN: 9782266072151 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : After the War - Herve Le Corre - Book Summary : Bordeaux in the 1950s. The Second World War is still fresh in everyone's memory, yet a new, unnamed conflict has already begun: young conscripts are leaving for Algeria. It is in this context that a series of violent events unfold. Commissioner Darlac, who compromised himself during the Occupation, is himself soon caught up in this spiral of violence... EAN: 9782743631550 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Sad Tropics - Claude Lévi-Strauss - Book Summary : The founding book of contemporary ethnology that revolutionized 20th-century thinking. Why and how does one become an ethnologist? How do the adventures of the explorer and the research of the scholar integrate and form the experience specific to the ethnologist? These are the questions that the author, a philosopher and moralist as much as an ethnographer, has tried to answer by comparing his sometimes ancient memories, and relating to both Asia and America. Claude Lévi-Strauss thus wishes to reconnect with the tradition of the philosophical journey illustrated by literature from the 16th century to the middle of the 19th century, that is to say before a poorly understood scientific austerity on the one hand, and the shameless taste for the sensational on the other, made us forget that we travel the world, first and foremost, in search of ourselves. EAN: 9782266026123 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Rose of Jericho - Slaughter - Book Summary : See photos EAN: Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Novel of Sophie Trébuchet - Geneviève Dormann - Book Summary : See photos EAN: 2724216865 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Executioner's Song - Norman Mailer - Book Summary : See photos EAN: 2724209702 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Blue Bicycle - Régine DEFORGES - Book Summary : See photos EAN: 2724216733 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Kuragin House - Contance Heaven - Book Summary : See photos EAN: Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Nights of Time - Norman Mailer - Book Summary : See photos EAN: 2724220919 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Lost Childhood. Followed by Olivier's Diary - Marie-Paul Armand - Book Summary : See photos EAN: 2744134554 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Operation Outbreak - FG Slaughter - Book Summary : See photos EAN: Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Medici Saga - Volume 1 Contessina - Sarah Frydman - Book Summary : Corruption, assassination, power, passion. These are the key words that have shaped the legendary story of one man, Cosimo de' Medici, and that of his descendants. It is also the story of the Republic of Florence, of its artistic, political, industrial and commercial evolution. A Republic that dominated all of Europe in the 14th and 15th centuries. But beyond the intrigues, alliances with the declining aristocracy, political manipulations, Contessina is also and above all a love story, that of Cosimo de Medici and Contessina de Bardi, the first of these extraordinary women who played an essential role in the destiny of the Medici. Passionate about history and music, Sarah Frydman, after studying music, gave up a career as a singer to write. She has already published The Symphony of Destiny and The Lions' Den . EAN: 9782226031303 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Last Wagon - Chaigneau Jean-François - Book Summary : See photos EAN: 2724212959 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Conversations and Interviews - Primo Levi - Book Summary : "It is up to the reader to gather, behind the words of these transcriptions, the truth that vibrates in Levi's words and which manifests itself in the double aspect of an unexpected optimism and a lucid pessimism." Marco Belpoliti. When If it is a man it seems , in 1947, he went unnoticed. It would take more than ten years before a new edition revealed Primo Levi not only as a major witness to the Nazi concentration camp universe, but also as a great writer. Primo Levi, who said he owed his literary vocation to Auschwitz, constantly returned to what he had written in his masterpiece. He became a guardian of memory, an interlocutor always ready to illuminate our vision of the camps, of Nazism and anti-Semitism, and to warn against the return of this evil in the same form or in others. In this collection of interviews broadcast on the radio or published in the written press, he delves further into – with his genius for precision, his irony and his lofty perspective – these questions that are at the heart of his work. An opportunity to hear again, one hundred years after his birth, the voice of an author for whom speech was an extension of writing. EAN: 9782221086339 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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