Title : The Economy of Japan - Maurice Moreau - book Summary : Some have suggested that the 21st century would be the century of Japan (H. Kahn), a convincing result of the Japanese challenge (H. Hedberg) and the Japanese miracle (H. Brochier). To explain the rise of the third great (R. Guillain), we must reconsider the modern history of this disconcerting country. "Copyright Electre" EAN : 9782130391838 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Mao Zedong - Michel Garder - book Summary : The example of the Russian Revolution and Lenin's theories made this former assistant librarian at Peking University a fierce fighter and a prodigious man of action. Having become, after a quarter of a century of revolutionary war, the absolute master of an empire of six hundred million inhabitants, Mao Zedong nonetheless continued the fight both within his country, where he strove to build a new order, and abroad, where he participated alongside the USSR in the propagation of the communist ideal. From the "Long March" to the "Great Leap Forward," he never ceased to be the protagonist of one of the most impressive epics of modern times. EAN : 9782710319269 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Exhibition - Nathalie Léger - book Summary : You can display anything: a few trinkets from the Second Empire, a collection of photographs, a boudoir from beyond the grave, a heroine famous for her beauty, her conceit, and her lamentable end. You can display anything: a woman in place of another, the fear of one's own body, a way of entering the scene, the intoxication of seduction, an abandonment, objects that reassure, a ruin. EAN : 9782846822664 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Clerk - Bernard Malamud - book Summary : For Morris, a Brooklyn grocer, life revolves around his shop. He fled Russia at a young age: at almost sixty, what remains of his great hopes? One evening, he is robbed and emerges deeply affected. Misfortune seems to leave him at peace when Frank, an Italian, offers his help. A moving fable, Malamud's second novel is, according to Time magazine, one of the "100 Books of the 20th Century." Malamud achieves a feat: transforming a neighborhood grocery store into a place of intense drama, where we question destiny and redemption. Bernard Malamud (1914-1986) is one of the masters of the American novel. He is notably the author of "The Man from kyiv," a masterpiece awarded the Pulitzer Prize and successfully republished by Éditions Rivages. EAN : 9782743643102 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : La Petite Fadette - George Sand - book Summary : In the country, she was called Little Fadette, because she was the size of a leprechaun and had the powers of a fairy. Like her grandmother, she healed men and animals. Landry, one of the twins from the neighboring farm, falls in love with her. But the love of a witch is frowned upon in this family, and it makes Sylvinet, the other "besson," sick with jealousy. After La Mare au diable and François le Champi , this is George Sand's third country novel. In it, she expresses everything that life has taught her. The appearance of people doesn't matter; you have to pierce the shell. The wealth of girls doesn't make them happy, and love is difficult to build. Her unfulfilled desire is there, too, for a love that would last forever. Little Fadette illustrates George Sand's grand design: to teach respect for God, nature, wisdom, and love. EAN : 9782253003748 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Alexandria - Daniel Rondeau - book Summary : Alexandria is first and foremost a memory. That of the lighthouse, the Pharos, which tells us of a world-city drawn on the sands of Africa by Alexander, before he entered Asia like a cyclone with his escort of scholars and magi. The lighthouse tells us of a flame that shone between heaven and earth, of men and their navigations, of war, politics, knowledge and literature, of the disappearance of all things, that is to say, of destiny. More than two thousand years after Alexander, two passing novelists, Durrell and Forster, and a Greek poet who lived above a brothel, Constantin Cavafy, restored to this drifting city its imaginary grandeur. Daniel Rondeau paints a portrait of this capital of memory and knowledge, the hinge of the world between East and West, but which is also this spiritual city where men have always asked themselves the question of knowing if there was something or someone between them and the Most High. EAN : 9782070407491 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Black Boy - Richard Wright - book Summary : What's in him, Daddy? I asked. "A little white, a little red, and a little black." "Indian, white, and Negro?" "Yes." "Then what am I?" "When you grow up, they'll call you a colored man," she replied. Then, turning to me with a mocking smile, she asked, "Don't you mind, Mr. Wright?" EAN : 9782070369652 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Great Fire - Shirley Hazzard - book Summary : 1947: Peace has a strange taste. England is in ruins, China awaits Mao's victory, Japan is haunted by its war crimes and by Hiroshima. Between these three countries navigates Aldred Leith, sinologist, son of a famous novelist, hero wounded in combat. Like all his contemporaries, he oscillates between euphoria and disillusionment, thirst for life and fear of the void. And he asks himself a nagging question: what meaning can he give to this existence he almost lost? How can he justify having survived? And then, in the world of ambitions and intrigues of the occupying troops, he believes he has rediscovered a lost innocence, embodied by two cultured and fervent adolescents: a young man doomed to an imminent death and his sister, straight out of a fairy tale. Can this be enough to rebuild a world? Perhaps never before has the post-war climate been evoked with such precision, such carnal intensity. But Shirley Hazzard excels just as much at carving out the intimate against a backdrop of collective turmoil, giving these destinies a timeless and universal scope. With this unforgettable work combining poetic richness and accuracy of tone, subtle classical perfection and flashes of style, she establishes herself more than ever as a major novelist of our time, one we urgently need to discover. EAN : 9782070344536 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Beauty Annoys Me - Pierre Sansot - book Summary : What then is this so-called beauty before which so many of us kneel, while so many others strive to acquire it, even if it means torturing their bodies and withering their souls? Must one please at all costs to be loved, to increase the number of one's friends, to make a career in a company, in politics, to ensure, when one writes, the favors of the public? From there, some colorful portraits concerning the extras of appearance: the dragger, the dandy, the libertine, the new libertine. Stop asking yourself if you are attractive. Be surprised instead that the world is so kind. It deserves better from us than vain strutting. It is appropriate to greet it differently, with lightness and some gravity. By showing ourselves too attentive to our image, we would forget its magnificence. EAN : 9782743615345 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Tierra del Fuego - Francisco Coloane - book Summary : Gauchos condemned to solitude, sailors tied to the service of derelict boats, insurgents on the run, smugglers, seal hunters, these are the characters who populate the grandiose and desolate landscapes of Tierra del Fuego. Francisco Coloane thus restores, in all its power and fragility, the condition of the Chilean man and his daily renewed struggle to tame the cruel nature of this end of the world. EAN : 9782020226530 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : When the World Turns White - Kamila Shamsie - book Summary : In 1945, in Nagasaki, the world turns white... A survivor of the nuclear apocalypse, Hiroko forever carries in her flesh the burns of a destroyed life. From Karachi to New York, to Afghanistan, in a feverish and serious half-century where good and evil relentlessly clash, she sets out in search of a new beginning. And through the conflicts, she creates a moving hymn to humanity. "A monument of the novel genre. The characters are innumerable, the language inexhaustible, the era immense." The Independent EAN : 9782264053480 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : How to earn an honest living - Jean Rouaud - book Summary : "A poetic life? Let's say a life whose guiding thread is poetry. We embark with a heritage (pious values, a dead father, a rainy childhood), with a desire to write, a dream of love, and then, with our meager baggage on our backs, we cross a territory marked by events, here the shock wave of May 68. Which forces us to answer the question: what did the era do to me? It made me think that at twenty, for example, it was not conceivable to think seriously about working - which went well with the poetic idea - and even less honestly when, in the marginal circles who left the city to settle in communities in the countryside, we lived mainly on schemes and plunder. It made me think that, in this just refusal of the reign of money and consumerist mirages, there remained only small jobs to survive. And what should have been a carefree, free and joyful life transformed, over the years, from an investigation into a gentian aperitif to the door-to-door sale of a medical encyclopedia, into a feeling of waste." Jean Rouaud. EAN : 9782070448432 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Zadig Memnon - Voltaire - book Summary : Young and rich, handsome and intelligent, courted and respected, learned and brave, Zadig embodied the fullness of human happiness in Babylon when the whims of fortune tested the strength of his character and the resources of his mind. Betrayed by the beautiful Semira, and the target of the fierce jealousy of King Moabdar, he was soon reduced to the miserable state of a vagabond. But is misfortune truly without remedy for someone who possesses, like Zadig, "the talent to unravel the truth that all men seek to obscure"? In Zadig, one can discern the meditation of a wise man on the unpredictable interplay of freedom and necessity. One can reread Newton, Leibniz, and Spinoza between his lines. One can also discover impertinent allusions to court life, a pleasant romanticized transposition of Voltaire's misadventures at Versailles and his sentimental disappointments in the years 1745-1747. Above all, one must allow oneself to be ravished by the charm of this pure narrative fantasy where the spirit of Ariosto rubs shoulders with that of the Arabian Nights . EAN : 9782040160937 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : And let the wide world go on its mad race - Colum McCann - book Summary : August 7, 1974, a tightrope walker soars between the Twin Towers, playing with the void. From this fleeting apparition, Colum McCann unfolds a panorama of a New York in full turmoil: the great ladies of Park Avenue, exhausted prostitutes, lost priests, junkies on the run, mothers mourning the "dirty war." A circle of characters whose voices intertwine like so many threads stretched across the course of the world. "[...] as always with McCann, the essential is there. This ease in showing humanity in its daily struggle with reality. This empathy for the most fragile, the least glorious!" Bruno Corty, Le Figaro littéraire EAN : 9782264052179 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Orient exiles - Annemarie Schwarzenbach - book Summary : In 1934-1935, Annemarie Schwarzenbach participated in archaeological digs in Syria and Persia. For her, it was a plunge into uncertainty and timelessness. The European colonies lost in the vast sandy expanses, the unreal landscapes, and the brutal climate inspired her "Death in Persia," as well as these short stories that depict characters adrift, Westerners who, like her, came to seek an impossible solution to their unhappiness in extreme places. EAN : 9782228897174 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Rabbit Is Rich - John Updike - book Summary : 1982 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Rabbit is Rich, the third part of the "Rabbit" triptych, or the ups and downs of Harry Angstrom and the American Dream. As in Hareheart (1960) and Rabbit Caught (1971), Harry, despite his forty-six years, persists in running, no longer after glory or the precarious certainties of love and pleasure, but after the ghosts of his vanished youth and his disappointed hopes. Sated and well-off, mired in his domestic problems, comfort and respectability, he has lost all spirit of rebellion and limits himself to fighting, with relative success, against boredom, the fear of old age and death. Along with his dreams, the dream of a strong America, faithful to the myths of its past and its traditional values, crumbles. EAN : 9782070387113 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : An Eye in the Night - Bernard Minier - book Summary : In the mountains, secluded from the world, a horror film director, Morbus Delacroix. Cult, misanthrope, madman. Among his fans is a film student. Fascinated, fearless, unaware. In Toulouse, a special effects ace is found dead, tied up in a hospital bed. What if this murder had its source in a cursed film? For Commander Martin Servaz, perhaps the greatest enigma of his career... EAN : 9782374484976 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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