Title : We Never Really Do What We Want - Christine Arnothy - book Summary : The Author: French-language writer Christine Arnothy was born in Budapest (Hungary). She has been known to millions of readers since I'm Fifteen and I Don't Want to Die, her autobiography, which has been translated worldwide. She is the author of more than twenty novels. In this new novel, Christine Arnothy explores the impulses that awaken hatred and jealousy. For the possession of a child who is no longer an object of love, but a symbol of power. For victory over the other, would a couple be capable of killing each other? Yet, the entire story is permeated by humor sparked by unusual situations and, unexpectedly, happiness will eventually emerge and prevail... In these difficult and troubled times, Christine Arnothy's new novel takes us away, carries us away, fascinates us, and even makes us smile. EAN: 9782213611501 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Calf followed by The Long Distance Runner - Mo Yan - book Summary : NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE 2012 Blending memories and overflowing imagination, these two short stories, linked by Mo Yan's attachment to childhood, his native province, and the animal world, describe a rural China where resourcefulness allows one to face harsh reality. Mo Yan himself reveals himself as never before, as a boisterous and talkative teenager grappling with the calf's suffering, poverty, and the infinite cunning of men, or as a ten-year-old observer, candid and curious, of the long-distance race organized by the school. With each lap of the track, there is surprise, the suspense grows as the child paints a colorful picture of life in his canton in the sixties. Mo Yan delightfully lets the mischief and energy of childhood explode, the good nature, courage, and savage humor of the peasant world subjected to the absurd laws of the Maoist era. Mo Yan, born in Shangdong in 1955, is now a universally recognized writer. Some fifteen of his novels and short stories have been translated into French and published by Seuil, including Beautiful breasts, beautiful buttocks (2004), The Master has more and more humor (2005), The Torture of Sandalwood (2006), Forty-one gunshots (2008), The Harsh Law of Karma (2009) and Frogs (2011). EAN: 9782021024012 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Wild Hazelnuts - Robert Sabatier - book Summary : LIVIER, the little boy from Swedish Matches and Three Mint Lollipops , arrives in Saugues, the gateway to Gévaudan. There, he joins his family: the "pépé", a blacksmith who has added the conquests of knowledge to his noble profession; the "mémé", a former little girl hired out from the age of six; their son Victor, a young village hercules, who takes the child under his protection. In this magnificent country, every moment for Olivier brings him a discovery, a wonder. Gestures like shoeing, milking, and farm work, seen through his eyes, take on a new and intense meaning. Who are these fierce peasants, these diligent craftsmen, these shepherds full of mysterious knowledge? Olivier discovers them in their real lives: whether it be Chadès the hairdresser, Anglade the pastry chef, Sister Clémentine, the cousins ​​in flowery dresses, or the entire population of an astonishing village. And there are the originals, the innocents, the merry pranksters. And above all, the grandfather: the slightest object for him becomes a pretext for memories, tales, evocations. In this land of the Beast of Gévaudan, with its dark legends, its processions of Penitents, its vigils, the imagination of little Poulbot runs wild and it is all of childhood that appears through him. He goes to the crayfish, follows the band, attends the pig slaughter, looks after the cows, helps shoe, learns lou patouès , participates in the tribe, in the festival. Scenes like the last bourrée of the disabled grandfather, the walks with Papa-Gâteau who brings the Gallic epic back to life and a hundred others, constantly move, amuse and charm. EAN: 9782226000125 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Sheltered from Nothing - Olivier Adam - book Summary : Eugène Dabit Prize 2007 - France Télévisions Novel Prize 2007 Marie feels lost. Her husband and children are the last thread that connects her to life. This fragile balance is upset the day she meets the "Kosovars", these refugees who no one cares about and who wander, abandoned, on the outskirts of the city. Neglecting her family, Marie decides to help them. And giving them everything: food, clothes, time, money, she keeps nothing for herself. Driven by an irresistible force, she exposes herself to all dangers, including that of losing her skin. With this novel, Olivier Adam reminds us that the violence that strikes the weakest is everyone's business. And paints the unforgettable portrait of a woman overwhelmed by the strength of her feelings. EAN: 9782879295848 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Summer Crossing - Truman Capote - book Summary : A summer love story between Grady, a young woman from high society who decides not to accompany her wealthy parents to Europe, and Clyde, a young Jewish mechanic, set against the backdrop of the Upper East Side and a heatwave. Once the parents have left, the two young people spend weeks of love in the apartment, overlooking Central Park. During a visit to Clyde's family, Grady learns that his recently deceased sister had never been to school because she had a weak heart and preferred to frequent the neighborhood garages and exercise her surprising talents as a mechanic. There the novel takes a turn. Grady, caught up in the vertigo of love, disregarding the consequences, rebels like a spoiled little girl and marries Clyde. Confronted by her family... The author hurls our protagonists with an impatient burst of the accelerator from the top of the Queensborough Bridge in a convertible... "It's a naturalistic story, like, basically, all good novels. Like those of Fitzgerald. I wonder if, in this young girl from New York high society marrying a parking attendant by provocation, it is not the Fitzgeraldian motif, the feeling arising from the social, which made Capote reject her. Until then, in him, and again in The Grass Harp, the social has no importance relative to the feeling, a madwoman from the southern home who rambles with a genius more comparable to that of Tennessee Williams. And then, in Fitzgerald, the women are intelligent, or wicked, or destructive, but determined, while the men are timid, or cheats, in any case cracked; the opposite of Capote. » Charles Dantzig EAN: 9782246703013 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Last of the Camondos - Pierre Assouline - book Summary : Coming from an illustrious and extremely wealthy family of Levantine bankers who settled in France at the end of the Second Empire, Count Moïse de Camondo (1860-1935) was a man of a milieu, that of the Parisian Jewish aristocracy, where the Rothschilds and the Pereires, the Foulds and the Cahens of Antwerp rubbed shoulders, a whole society escaped from the pages of Proust who found themselves in the hunts, the clubs and the boards of directors, competing in the magnificence of their castles, mansions and collections. The Camondo saga, from the Spanish Inquisition to the Nazi genocide by way of the Venice ghetto and the palaces of Constantinople, is not only a historical account retracing the epic of these great Sephardic lords. It is also a meditation on the solitude of a man abandoned by his wife, inconsolable by the death of his son, who devoted his life and fortune to reconstructing an 18th-century aristocratic residence in the heart of the Monceau plain, leaving France the most striking testimony to a vanished world and, despite everything, transmitting the name of his family to posterity. Did he have the intuition that he would be the last representative of his dynasty? That was his mystery and his secret. He left its mark on his house. EAN: 9782070745548 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Where are we going, Dad? - Jean-Louis Fournier - book Summary : Dear Mathieu, dear Thomas, When you were little, I was sometimes tempted, at Christmas, to give you a book, a Tintin book for example. We could have talked about it together afterward. I know Tintin well; I've read them all several times. I never did. It was no use, you didn't know how to read. You'll never know how to read. Until the end, your Christmas presents will be blocks or little cars... Until this day, I have never spoken about my two boys. Why? Was I ashamed? Afraid people would feel sorry for me? It was all a bit mixed up. I think, above all, it was to escape the terrible question: "What are they doing?" Now that time is running out, the end of the world is near, and I am becoming more and more biodegradable, I have decided to write them a book. So that they are not forgotten, so that all that remains of them is not just a photo on a disability card. Perhaps to express my remorse. I was not a very good father. Often, I could not stand them. With them, you had to have the patience of an angel, and I am not an angel. When we talk about children with disabilities, we adopt an air of circumstance, like when we talk about a catastrophe. For once, I would like to try to talk about them with a smile. They made me laugh with their silliness, and not always unintentionally. Thanks to them, I had advantages over parents of normal children. I didn't have to worry about their studies or career paths. We didn't have to hesitate between science and literature. We didn't have to worry about what they would do later; we quickly knew it would be: nothing. And most importantly, for many years I benefited from a free car sticker. Thanks to them, I was able to drive big American cars. Jean-Louis Fournier EAN: 9782234061170 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Passage to the enemy - Lydie Salvayre - book Summary : Inspector Arjona, appointed by General Intelligence to infiltrate a group of delinquents, is forced to write reports secrets to his supervisory minister. But two inopportune elements disrupt the writing of his writings: the abuse of hashish to which his bad habits force him acquaintances, and the overwhelming presence, in the observed group, of a young person named Dulcinea. And we will see, insidiously, the implacable and martial tone of the first reports soften, waver, become more friendly and disordered, until he completely turns around. And our inflexible agent of RG, to be won over, insidiously, to the delinquent cause, and more still to the love cause. This ironic metamorphosis gives Lydie Salvayre the opportunity to castigate with cheerful ferocity the supporters of a reinforced Order against those who, in a small way, threaten him. This is the opportunity also for her to write, because she has a heart, a love story silent and nocturnal. EAN: 9782020358828 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Lily the Tiger - Alona Kimhi - book Summary : Young Lily, "112 kilograms of a woman," has been living alone since her fiancé—frightened by her weight—called off their wedding at the last minute. She combats her loneliness and anxiety with bubble baths and sips of port, and especially by spending her evenings with Ninouch, her only friend. Since they met in the clinic where Lily works as a dental hygienist, the two women have been inseparable. At least, as much as Léon, Ninouch's violent and jealous partner, allows. Because Léon, who became rich thanks to the invention of an electric anti-cellulite panty, protects and coddles the fragile Ninouch, whom he rescued from prostitution, using sometimes heavy-handed methods. But one evening, when Léon once again refuses to let Ninouch out, Lily decides to go to the circus alone by taxi. Stuck in a traffic jam, she arrives after the show has ended, all the more disappointed when she discovers on the program that the lion tamer was none other than Taro, her first lover, the young Japanese man who made her lose her virginity in the toilets of a Boeing 737 over the Atlantic! Helped by the ineffable Mikhaëla, the taxi driver, Lily finds Taro who gives her a baby tiger before returning to Japan. A gift that then gives her life an unexpected turn... Dazzlingly funny and imaginative, this second novel definitively establishes Alona Kimhi on the international literary scene as one of the most original writers of her generation. EAN: 9782070772858 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : La Chaloupe - Volume 1 - The Talisman - Janine Boissard - book Summary : Julie, Zabelle, Bobine, and Brune: four single women in their thirties who are all waiting, more or less admitting it to themselves, for their soulmate. Does she exist? Yes, says Julie, who believes she has finally met her. These four inseparable friends needed a place to share everything: they bought the house of their most beautiful teenage days on the banks of the Loire, which miraculously happened to be for sale. They called it "the Rowboat." But their happiness was suddenly tinged with anxiety. Who was breaking into the house while they were away? Who had placed a rock crystal sun engraved with mysterious inscriptions on the mantelpiece? Who was trying to chase them away? So witchcraft still exists? United, like the musketeers, they will face the ghosts of the Chaloupe. To continue living, loving, hoping. EAN: 9782221099353 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Madame... de Saint-Sulpice - Alphonse Boudard - book Summary : In the shadow of the high towers of the Saint-Sulpice church, Madame reigns. Strict suit, white blouse, brooch adorned with small diamonds... she almost looks like she's just come from eleven o'clock mass. Like a mother superior, she watches over her flock. An education at the Couvent des Oiseaux helps when running one of the most curious "houses" in Paris. Especially when Monseigneur comes specially to hear a confession of a particular kind, or to receive a just punishment. Madame Blandine runs the Abbey, as her establishment is called, with the iron fist of an outstanding "abbess." And she wrote, Madame Blandine, after the houses closed in 1946, when she retired to the Coast. She recounted everything, in her chaste way of a model resident. Entire notebooks of memories that she left to a curator of the Mondaine... EAN: 9782268023274 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Adventures of Tim and Gruk, II - Gruk and the Pelotti Gang - Josh Lacey - book Summary : Panic in Rio de Janeiro! The terrible Pelotti brothers, arrested long ago by Gabriel Raffifi, have escaped from prison and are robbing the city's banks one by one. As members of the Raffifi family, Natacha and Max know what they have to do... For Tim, there's no way he's letting his friends go to Brazil alone. Accompanied by his dog Gruk, he'll hunt down the gangsters with them, even in the jungle if necessary. EAN: 9782070612307 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : A Portrait of a Lady - Henry James - book Summary : See photos EAN: 9782234047358 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Eleazar or The Source and the Bush - Michel Tournier - book Summary : In 1845, Pastor Eleazar left his native Ireland with his wife and two children to emigrate to America, like thousands of his compatriots driven out by the Great Famine. Landing in Virginia, he began crossing the continent to reach California, which many people considered the Promised Land. Arriving in the Colorado Desert, it seemed as if a veil had been lifted before his eyes and he was reading the Bible for the first time. His own personal adventure was illuminated by the grandiose destiny of Moses. He understood that Moses' tragedy was his torn between the Burning Bush, symbol of the sacred, of the voice of Yahweh, and the springs that the Hebrews constantly demanded from him for their wives, their children, their livestock, and their crops. A tragic choice was forced between the Source and the Bush. EAN: 9782070746927 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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