Title : Léone and her family - Claude Roy - book Summary New York, one summer in the 1950s. Near Queensboro Bridge and the docks, Léone nonchalantly reigns over a precarious republic of displaced people. The pleasure of living with Léone makes them forget their homesickness. Sweet and secretive, perhaps indifferent, giving of herself easily but revealing little, Léone asks nothing of anyone. Until the day Pierre arrives... EAN : 9782070377954 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Culottes - Françoise Dorin - book Summary See photos EAN : 9782290306970 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Tieta d'Agreste - Goat Girl or the Return of the Prodigal Daughter, a melodramatic soap opera in five sensational episodes and a surprising epilogue - Jorge Amado - book Summary As a teenager, the carnal goatherd Tieta fled the hills of Agreste under public opprobrium and the vindictive stick of her father, old Esteves. Thirty years later, as an influential woman from São Paulo, she returns to the lost paradise of her native town in the province of Bahia. The inhabitants of Agreste then seem determined to wipe the slate clean to welcome her properly and consecrate her as the tutelary figure of the small community. But what will become of this fascination when they discover that behind a facade of cheerful respectability hides a brothel owner who, far from having stifled her sensuality, deludes her chaste nephew every night, promised to the seminary? EAN : 9782290108000 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Men Who Move Away - François Taillandier - book Summary In the Saint-Lazare district, between the train station, offices, and department stores, three friends regularly meet for a drink. In their forties, Manu the cop, Jean the history teacher, and Xeni the advertising executive feel marginalized in a society they believe is given over to televised conformity and the omnipresence of Merchandise. But what, for the former, is merely an amused or melancholic skepticism, gradually turns, for Xeni, into an obsessive denunciation of common values, to the point of praising terrorists, drug dealers, or neo-Nazis. Manu, Jean, and also Gina, the woman who loves him, will helplessly watch the drift of the man they knew to be intelligent and generous. Why this divorce of an individual from his world? What demon is at work, making rupture and violence desirable? This is what this novel, which earned the author of Les Clandestins an enthusiastic critical reception, attempts to understand - or rather, no. EAN : 9782253147220 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Tea Master - Yasushi Inoue - book Summary It's 1591, in the midst of the feudal revolution. The Taiko, the emperor's advisors, are working to unify Japan. The tea men, their mentors, are preparing ceremonies to help them find Zen peace. Rikyu, the tea ceremony master attached to the governor, commits hara-kiri. Six years after his death, the monk Honkakubo recalls the memory of his master. Rikyu had invented "simple" tea, stripped of luxury. Why did he kill himself? Who ordered it? In his journal, Honkakubo recalls his encounters with great tea masters and notes imaginary conversations with Rikyu beyond death. The dream that concludes the book finally provides an answer to the questions he has been asking himself for thirty years. In sixteenth-century Japan, the Way of Tea became a ritual. Tea ceremony masters were important figures, alternately protected and rejected by those in power. Inoue wrote this book based on recovered manuscripts, and it suggests that these ceremonies were the site of secret negotiations. He meticulously and poetically details each gesture and each utensil, introducing us to an increasingly pure ritual. EAN : 9782234049222 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Syngué sabour - Stone of patience - Atiq Rahimi - book Summary "This stone that you place before you... before which you lament all your misfortunes, all your miseries... to which you confide everything that is on your heart and that you dare not reveal to others... You speak to it, you speak to it. And the stone listens to you, soaks up all your words, your secrets, until one fine day it bursts. It falls to pieces. And that day, you are freed from all your suffering, from all your sorrows... What do they call this stone?" In Afghanistan perhaps or elsewhere, a woman watches over her wounded husband. Deep down, they do not know each other. Hours and days pass as the war approaches. And the woman's tongue loosens, weaving the story of a life of humiliation, in the hope of possible redemption. EAN : 9782070416738 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Bay of Biscay - Bertrand Poirot-Delpech - book Summary A port in the Cotentin Peninsula. After the turmoil of May 1968, history and spirits are enjoying the respite of the ebbing seas. A young teacher, Isabelle, and her friend Christopher, a sailor, are preparing to set sail on an old sailboat: heading for the antipodes and mad love. In the countryside, an older woman, Victoire, repairs the church towers in danger, until the day when a dizzying, mutual passion binds her to the departing couple. Will she, too, embark? EAN : 9782070384112 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Suor - Jorge Amado - book Summary In the heart of old Bahia, an old colonial building, seemingly like any other, at number 68 Montée-du-Pelourinho. Four floors. A dark staircase. Fernandes's bistro at the front. In the one hundred and sixteen rooms, more than six hundred people, not counting the rats. Isaac, Dona Risoleta, the sweet Linda, the black Henrique, Artur, whose machine crushed both arms, who begs and scares the children, the agitator Alvaro Lima... it is a whole world supposedly without hygiene and morals that Jorge Amado stages in this single place that evokes the arena of the ancient theater and where the pillory for slaves once stood. A sick, rebellious, miserable world, sweating with the sweat of the oppressed, giving off the smell of a dead man's room, but which loves and remains vitality itself, and will perhaps one day be able to upset its condition, even though it is the most desperate. EAN : 9782070384266 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Angel - Elizabeth Taylor - book Summary "Here is a novel whose subject is the gift of a lifetime to writing, and it is told in such a romantic way that we are caught in a sort of circular and dramatic whirlwind. The extravagant child who is the heroine, Angel, who is anything but angelic, immediately appears to us to be restive, despising the grocery store where her mother works, absent from everyday life, deliberately blind to reality." (Excerpt from the preface by Diane de Margerie) EAN : 9782869304468 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Mr. & Mrs. Bridge - Evan Shelby Connell - book Summary Mr. Bridge is a serious man. A lawyer, he spends twelve hours a day immersed in his files. Mrs. Bridge is a decent woman who never goes out without a hat. Yes, a model couple: a bourgeois house, gleaming silverware, a black housekeeper, three beautiful children. Not a single escapade, not an argument, barely one or two misunderstandings and a few domestic worries. Life is a long river... Side by side, they will drift on these calm waters, crossing without batting an eyelid the crisis of 1929, the rise of Nazism in Europe... A bittersweet chronicle of an America deeper than nature, sewn with certainties and frozen in its good conscience. As Mrs. Bridge reminds us: "We don't say cleaning lady but cleaning woman, my dear. Ladies are Mama's friends." EAN : 9782277230410 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Bees & the Wasp - François Maspero - book Summary François Maspero invites us to a journey through "human landscapes." Past and present weave the threads, between revolt and combat: the death of his loved ones in the Resistance, his own commitments as a publisher, then as a writer. A constant questioning of the meaning of all these "bee stings"... or wasp stings? François Maspero is the author, among others, of Cat's smile and Passengers of the Roissy-Express, and the translator of around sixty books. "Let historians examine these pages. They will see at work an exemplary work - modest, honest, rigorous - to bring forth from the mists of memory the solid foundation of past events. A history lesson, certainly, but for every reader, for each of us, in our relationship to the past and to ourselves, a lesson pure and simple." Jean-Pierre Vernant, Crossing Borders EAN : 9782020617086 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Invention of Paris - There Are No Lost Steps - Eric Hazan - book Summary An expert in erudite strolls, Éric Hazan reveals the thousand and one secrets of the capital. Here, we stroll through Doisneau's sets. There, we rail against Haussmann, the murderer of old Paris. Elsewhere, we dream in the company of Zola in the shadow of Le Bonheur des dames. And pleasure is self-evident. There's no doubt about it: walking is an art... Editor and writer, Éric Hazan directs La Fabrique publishing house, founded in 1998. He is notably the author of Chronicle of the Civil War, LQR, Daily Propaganda. “Do you want to be happy? Buy this book and take a walk.” Les Inrockuptibles EAN : 9782020685351 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Coastal Navigation - Jorge Amado - book Summary Caught up in the hubbub of ideas and illusions of this century, Jorge Amado, a Bahian attached to his "country of cocoa," has never stopped traveling the world. He has seen a lot, remembered a lot about countries and people. Back at the port, Amado considers his commitments without regret or denial. For this book of a life is above all that of a man's zest for life. Jorge Amado's prodigious vitality, his passion for friendship, his bursts of joy, laughter, love, and eroticism continually enliven these pages. These are not the daily notes of a diary, not memoirs, but a work without precedent: a book made of "news" where the great of this world, his familiars and many unknowns have become the characters of a novel where we find in the eighty-year-old writer, master of his art, the qualities that have earned him his success in the East as in the West, according to the poles of this Personal History. A story in which death is not absent. Jorge Amado says it simply: "I only want to tell a few stories, some funny, others melancholic, like life. Life, ah, this brief coastal navigation!" EAN : 9782070404735 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : First Line - Jean-Marie Laclavetine - book Summary 1999 Goncourt High School Students' Prize "You write? Don't say no. I have a good eye. Nothing to be ashamed of. Me too, you know, I have a problem with writing. Are you in pain, are you unwell? Are you addicted to drugs? Do you think there's nothing you can do about addiction? You're wrong. Stop writing, it's possible, as long as you're understood and supported. Come join us at the club one of these evenings. We're meeting in the back room of the Caminito, rue des Cinq-Diamants. Come. You're not alone anymore." Jean-Marie Laclavetine. EAN : 9782070417124 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Happy End - Julie Wolkenstein - book Summary In a few years, when the ocean level rises, the sea is nibbling away at a stretch of the Normandy coast, soon engulfing the few villas perched on the cliff. That day, Éliane, the sole survivor of the three families of vacationers who have spent all their summers there, wants to see the last wave. Back on this beach, she clings to her home, to her memories. To those who have died, she lends her voice, relives each one's final moments. To delay the disappearance of this familiar setting and her own, she makes her memory a dike, a barrier: what will remain of these second homes, the taste of brown shrimp, the bourgeois prejudices, the midnight swims, the real and imaginary lives, at the very end? EAN : 9782070336630 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Françoise - Laure Adler - book Summary What if Françoise Giroud were even greater than her legend? Richer, more complex, more interesting than the popular image of the talented young woman who became the leading journalist of her time? We know the trajectory: hired by Hélène Lazareff at the creation of Elle , then co-founder of L'Express , and finally columnist at Nouvel Observateur , the former script-girl of Jean Renoir had a way with killer phrases: the mark under the charming smile. Companion and accomplice of Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, fierce opponent of the Algerian War, faithful friend of Mendès France and Mitterrand, the one who "invented" the New Wave and drove a convertible was a great lover, loving pleasure as much as duty. A politician, this daughter of Turkish immigrants never passed her baccalaureate, but became Secretary of State for the Status of Women under Giscard d'Estaing. A hard worker, devilishly elegant, in love with freedom, she was a visionary, who embodied the birth of the modern woman. But here we discover that this passionate temperament also has its dark sides - the experience of betrayal, a fit of passionate madness, a suicide attempt, the death of a son... What if a sentence from his mother, on her deathbed, had determined his trajectory and his destiny? Through the portrait of an exceptional woman, Laure Adler brings back to life a fiery era: a time, not so long ago, when people still knew how to fight for ideals. EAN : 9782246759218 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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