Title : Life on a Tight Wire - Georges Charpak, Dominique Saudinos - book Summary : One man: Georges Charpak, physicist, Nobel Prize winner in 1992. And two adventures, both exceptional: first, reconstructed by Dominique Saudinos, the adventure of Grisha, the young Polish Jew born in 1924, who immigrated to pre-war France, participated in the Resistance and suffered deportation; then, after the war, recounted by the physicist himself, the scientific adventure which, from encounters to discoveries, led him to the Collège de France, the CNRS, the European Center for Nuclear Research in Geneva, and finally to world recognition in Stockholm, in 1992, for his work on detectors. A moving historical account, and a fascinating journey into today's science: these are the two parts of this two-part book written with Dominique Saudinos, criminologist, specialist in children with difficulties EAN : 9782253135722 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Rain - Kirsty Gunn - book Summary : Left to their own devices, Janey and Jim spend their afternoons near a lake, a magical playground and exploration ground. The two children often take refuge on their parents' sailboat. They imagine all the destinations they could reach by sailing the rivers. One day, running along the water's edge, Jim strays from his big sister's protective gaze, unaware of the danger... Born in New Zealand in 1963, Kirsty Gunn was educated at Victoria University and Oxford. She lived in New York before moving to London in 1987. Her novels Featherstone And The Boy and the Sea are available in Points. “Kirsty Gunn describes the fragility of childhood and creates a thrilling novel.” Christine Ferniot, Télérama EAN : 9782020618472 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Sergeant in the Snow - Mario Rigoni Stern - book Summary : The retreat from Russia—that of the great "European" army launched by Hitler against the USSR. No grand battle narratives; no political theses, but a few Italian soldiers lost in this adventure, who march and suffer, who are hungry, cold, and struggling—which is the hardest part—not to lose all human feeling forever. The voice of a witness that never speaks out but will be heard by everyone. This classic of post-war Italian literature was unanimously praised by Vittorini, Calvino, and Primo Levi, who wrote of the author: "The fact that Rigoni Stern exists is miraculous in itself. Miraculous, first of all, his own survival: that of a man who always stood at the antipodes of violence and whom fate forced to participate in all the wars of his time. Miraculous, finally, is the fact that Rigoni has managed to maintain his authenticity in our crazy age." EAN : 9782264020802 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Heart of Margaret - Vassilis Alexakis - book Summary : Marguerite isn't always there. She has two children and a husband. While he's truly in love with her, the narrator sometimes regrets the dead-end romances he had before meeting her. He wonders about the meaning of this story, and the novel that could tell it. Fascinated by an old German writer named Eckermann, he manages to get to know him and share his unfinished manuscript with him. "How many characters do you have?" the writer asks him. "Three," he replies: "Marguerite, me, and you." Why do we write? Why are we in love? These questions will find their answers at the end of an inner odyssey that the novelist of The Mother Tongue, winner of the 1995 Médicis Prize, has turned into a true, beautiful love story. EAN : 9782253153221 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Consolation of Wide Open Spaces - Gretel Ehrlich - book Summary : Following a bereavement, Hollywood screenwriter Gretel Ehrlich sets out in search of a place to shelter her pain. It turns out to be Wyoming. From this existence in the heart of an almost untouched nature, in the company of shepherds and cowboys with whom she will give meaning to her life, was born The Consolation of the Great Outdoors . In the manner of Thoreau's Walden or Life in the Woods or Annie Dillard's Pilgrimage to Tinker Creek, this painting of an unsuspected America is also the story of an essential experience, of a moving rebirth, lived in the invigorating breath of virgin spaces where the author finally discovers the feeling of being part of a whole. EAN : 9782264041500 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Lovers of Avignon - Elsa Triolet - book Summary : And here is Juliette Noël, typist, on a train again. A crowded train, like all trains. She is sitting on her small suitcase, in the corridor cluttered with suitcases and people, and yet four compartments of this carriage are empty and locked. At each stop, the new arrivals rattle these doors, on which one can read: Nur für die Wehrmacht." Of Russian origin, Elsa Triolet (1896-1970) is the author of numerous novels and translations. A resistance fighter during the Second World War, a faithful traveling companion of the Communist Party, she inspired a significant part of the poetic and novelistic work of Louis Aragon. EAN : 9782070344628 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Breakers - Claudie Gallay - book Summary : Elle Roman Readers' Prize 2009 "The first time I saw Lambert was the day of the great storm. The sky was black, very low, it was already pounding hard offshore. He arrived a little after me and sat down on the terrace, at a table in the open air. With the sun in his face, he grimaced, it was as if he were crying." It was in La Hague - a world away at the tip of the Cotentin - that the narrator came to take refuge. She walks the moors, observes the migratory birds... and Lambert, a mysterious and tormented man seen one stormy day and who has never ceased to arouse her curiosity since then. EAN : 9782290024874 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Balance of the World - Rohinton Mistry - book Summary : This is the great novel of contemporary India, realistic, abundant, inspired – permeated by the breath of a Hugo or a Dickens. The story takes place during the 1970s and 1980s. In the same neighborhood live characters from very diverse backgrounds: Ishvar and Omprakash, the two tailors – “untouchables” –; Dina, the young widow, who, to survive, starts tailoring at home; Maneck, who came down from his distant mountains to continue his studies; Shankar, the legless man, exploited by the master of beggars. Many others… Through the joys and sorrows of their lives, Rohinton Mistry, an English-speaking novelist born in Bombay, paints a fresco that is both the odyssey of a nation and a parable of the human condition. A sweeping novel that irresistibly carries us away. EAN : 9782253150862 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Fate of Mr. Crump - Ludwig Lewisohn - book Summary : Herbert Crump, born into a cultured family of German immigrants living in the southern United States, is a young musician destined for a brilliant career. When he leaves his parents to settle in New York, he meets Anne, about twenty years his senior. Although discreet and friendly, she turns out to be a clever manipulator determined to win over this man with a promising future. She succeeds, transforming Herbert's life into a living hell... EAN : 9782859405427 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Moving House - Jean-Loup Trassard - book Summary : In 1941 - therefore during the Occupation - a family of farmers, seven children, leaves their small farm for a large one hundred and ten kilometers away: preparations, travel on carts, installation... On a bocage scale, a sort of Rush to the West! Master of larger fields, Victor increases his own land under the gaze of other peasants and his family resembles that of the pioneers, without ever disturbing the understanding with Marguerite. We are then in the heart of a farm, a place rarely explored by literature, and the memorable bad weather mixes with the agricultural work, while all rural life in this troubled period quickly passes by, with many village or animal figures, then the events of the Liberation, and again the marriage of the daughters... In fact, this novel is only chatter, like around the table when the day is low, the stories of those we have known call to each other between cups. It would be endless if it weren't for - hey, the rain is stopping - getting up and going back to work. EAN : 9782070336395 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Man Who Grew Younger - Jerome Charyn - book Summary : The Bronx in the mid-1940s. The war is nearing its end, echoes of which reach the ears of street children. Scenes of daily misery in New York at the time, scenes nuanced with poetry, sometimes with nostalgia, scenes populated by unhappy characters, yearning for better days. Charyn describes a vanished universe. In a series of sequences, he captures images of his childhood: it is the kid raised in Crotona Park, the Jewish-Polish enclave, who shares his memories here. Five texts between reality and imagination, five stories full of tenderness and humor. EAN : 9782070429899 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Autobiography of my father - Pierre Pachet - book Summary : Why revive the man with whom one has spoken so little, one's own father, and of whom one quickly points out that he was "in no way a hero"? To settle scores? Certainly not. By choosing to write an autobiography of his father in the first person, the author takes a risky literary gamble that he masterfully wins. Dr. Simkha Opachevsky, a "Jew of his time," born in Russia in 1905 and died in Vichy in 1965, was undoubtedly not the perfect father figure that everyone dreams of. But the novel of his life, influenced by exile, wars, and then, in France, the Nazi occupation, recounted with intense sobriety, gives voice to a man whose wealth is revealed like a treasure throughout the pages. It is this "voice," which remained internal until his own son gave it a voice here, which makes the magic of this book: familiar, authoritative, enigmatic. As Pierre Pachet says, "the words of my dead father demanded to speak through me as they had never spoken before, beyond our two combined forces." EAN : 9782253082873 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Martin Dressler or the Novel of an American Dreamer - Steven Millhauser - book Summary : 1997 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Awarded the Pulitzer Prize and, for its French translation, the Maurice-Edgar Coindreau Prize, Martin Dressler or the novel of an American dreamer is part of the continuity of the demanding and rare work of one of the greatest contemporary writers. The author of "The Too Short Life of Edwin Mullhouse, American Writer, 1943-1954, Told by Jeffrey Cartwright," winner of the Prix Médicis étranger in 1975, recounts here the mythical destiny of a self-made man in New York at the turn of the last century. This "dreamer" is Martin Dressler, the modest son of a cigar merchant, a pragmatic man and brilliant inventor, possessed by a visionary madness. This demiurge who listens to "his heart's desire" will experience a fortune that only dreams can make possible. Steven Millhauser plays this science of trompe-l'oeil like a virtuoso, keeping the reader on the narrow border between dream and life, fiction and reality, truth and its representation. A fabulous story indeed, that of Martin Dressler, the embodiment of the American dream but also of the myths and utopias that have shaped the Western imagination. With this extraordinary novel, Steven Millhauser establishes himself as the most European of current American authors. EAN : 9782253153092 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Good Use of Slowness - Pierre Sansot - book Summary : A certain form of wisdom is recognized by the desire not to rush time, not to let ourselves be jostled by it, to increase our capacity to welcome the event. We have called this availability of the individual slowness. It requires that we give time every chance and let our soul breathe through strolling, writing, listening, and rest. Pierre Sansot, the author of "Gens de peu", "La France sensible" and "Jardins publics", gives, in this essay, some advice concerning an urban policy, a certain use of culture, a certain use of the senses. EAN : 9782743606787 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Condottiere's Journey - Towards Venice, Fiorenza, Beloved Siena - André Suarès - book Summary : Although he summons the tutelary shadow of Stendhal, the Condottiere has shed all authority. His journey is unique in that it treats cities as characters: Rimini is "gloomy like a successful assassination attempt," Genoa is banal "like the thoughts of an American shopkeeper." Each city not only has its painting, its musical piece, its church, its great man, it also has its own face, its warts, its wrinkles, its bad breath, its smile (the ardent Siena is a "kiss in a mystical smile"). Each corner visited gives birth to a prose poem, where sometimes the vision of a couple united in beatitude emerges. Clare, the patrician of Assisi, seeing Saint Francis booed, reviled, wants no other fiancé than this "mad Little Poor." Catherine of Siena consoles a man condemned to death, promises him eternal marriage, leads him to the scaffold and receives his head in her hands. EAN : 9782253932598 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : A Thousand Suns - Dominique Lapierre - book Summary : By the co-author of "IS PARIS BURNING?" and the author of "THE CITY OF JOY," "A THOUSAND SUNS": 10 million readers. 16 international editions. 40,000 moving letters. "The characters in this book have piqued my curiosity, fueled my dreams, sparked my rebellion, and enriched my existence. Through their love of noble causes and their rage to win, they have taught me that there are always 'A Thousand Suns' on the other side of the clouds." Dominique Lapierre. "We leave this abundant book with a little more generosity, compassion, and hope." (Le Figaro - Paris). "This book, which can be read in one breath, is worth all the adventure novels." (El Pais - Madrid). "A diamond book." (Le Soir - Brussels). "A book that brings hope." (Corriere della Sera - Milan). EAN : 9782266089333 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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