Title : Women's Dreams - A Childhood in the Harem - Fatima Mernissi - book Summary : I was born in 1940 in a harem in Fez, a 9th-century Moroccan city, located five thousand kilometers west of Mecca, and a thousand kilometers south of Madrid, one of the capitals of the ferocious Christians. " Thus begins Fatima Mernissi's story, a cascade of tales from a childhood where the marvelous and the everyday rub shoulders and become confused. Is Habiba, the illiterate girl who recites The Arabian Nights by heart , real or fictional? And Tamou, the Rif horsewoman who emerges from the North, decked out in weapons and jewels? And Charna, and Princess Boudour? Who knows? The writer herself is uncertain: "It's a story about borders; they move by definition!" The world she describes to us, in the Fes of the 1940s, this sensual and playful childhood is more real than life. Catherine Simon, Le Monde. EAN: 9782253145134 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Wooden Rooms - Anne Hébert - book Summary : After her mother's death, Catherine, a factory worker's daughter, runs the family home alone. Michel, a wealthy young man, asks her to marry him. Her long-awaited social advancement soon gives way to disillusionment. The diabolical couple formed by Michel and his sister harasses and suffocates her. On the verge of madness, she decides to regain her freedom... Poet and novelist, a jewel of Quebec literature, Anne Hébert (1916-2000) received numerous literary awards, including the Prix Femina for The Northern Gannets . His novels Kamouraska, The First Garden, The Child Laden with Dreams And Aurélien, Clara, Mademoiselle and the English Lieutenant are available in Points. “Let us salute the intensity of the writing of Anne Hébert, the author of the bestseller Kamouraska . » Read France-Canada Prize EAN: 9782020088053 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Childhood Treasures - Christian Signol - book Summary : Christian Signol never really left the land of his childhood, even though, at the age of eleven, he had to start high school in the city. Here, he rediscovers the paths that lead to the village of his childhood, in Quercy. He resurrects familiar family figures, seasons and days, games and learning, harvests and haymaking—the whole life of a French countryside before the upheavals of the "thirty glorious years"... EAN: 2724281632 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Love in the Time of Cholera. - Gabriel García Márquez - book Summary : See photos EAN: 9782724236590 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Holidays in the Caucasus - Maria Iordanidou - book Summary : One fine morning in July 1914, fifteen-year-old Anna left Constantinople, the family home and her dear grandmother, Loxandra, to spend a month's vacation in Stavropol, in the Caucasus. She would return five years later, after experiencing mobilization, war, the Russian Revolution and the Civil War... The holidays, in fact, didn't even have time to begin: in the general confusion, the teenager lost track of her aunt at the Batum train station, from where they were both supposed to leave. After two months of wandering, she finally found herself in Stavropol, became an English teacher even though she barely knew the basics, learned Russian and Slavic cuisine, adopted the habits of her new friends, even fell in love, and made a name for herself in the great History. Such adaptability, such mobility, such good humor too - which the verve and humor of the story underline - never fail to delight us, to surprise us, sometimes to amaze us, especially since this is... the story of Maria Iordanidou herself, who was herself the terrified and dazzled spectator that she portrays with this simplicity, and this form of unconsciousness that only true heroes display. EAN: 9782742708918 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : True Stories - Pierre Bellemare, Jacques Antoine - book Summary : See photos EAN: 9782863910306 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Night of the Seraglio - Michael of Greece - book Summary : See photos EAN: 2855651956 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : A Man, a Woman, a Child - Segal Erich - book Summary : See photos EAN: 2724209206 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : 37.2 Le Matin - Philippe Djian - book Summary : See photos EAN: 2724231694 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Story of O, preceded by - Happiness in Slavery by Jean Paulhan - Pauline Reage - book Summary : Published in 1954, The Story of O provoked one of the most resounding scandals in contemporary French literature. First banned, often seized, and then sold under the counter, this masterpiece of eroticism is the most widely read contemporary French book since Saint-Exupéry's The Little Prince. Without doubt, The Story of O is the fiercest love letter a man has ever received. Jean Paulhan. The paradox of O is that of the visionary who died not to die; it is the martyrdom where the executioner is the victim's accomplice. This book is the surpassing of the words within it, to the extent that, on its own, it tears itself apart, where it resolves the fascination of eroticism into the greatest fascination of the impossible. Georges Bataille, La Nouvelle Revue française. Pauline Réage's writing is incredibly decent in relation to the subjects covered. If it is not the greatest marvel of the book, it is not the least of it, this writing, chaste like the language of The Princess of Cleves, warm I will not say how, and of a simple density which supports, or provokes, the movement of the heart. André Pieyre de Mandiargues, Critique. EAN: 272020031X Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Agenda of Pleasures - Abha Dawesar - book Summary : When desire becomes obsession Like Babyji, a coming-of-age novel with erotic and subversive overtones, The Pleasure Diary, far from traditional stereotypes, bears witness to the emergence of a new Indian literature. André Bernard, the masculine side of the little Indian Lolita, experiences here a voluptuousness as yet unexplored. Ever since Nathan Williams, one of his superiors, took him to a striptease bar and made advances towards him, he has been questioning everything. Could he be homosexual? Could this adventure accelerate his career advancement? As the two men's relationship turns addictive, André meets Nathan's wife... A love triangle then begins, at the heart of which André plays with fire and juggles his desires and ambitions. Abha Dawesar has written her first novel, a joyful and breathtaking read. With a deliciously impertinent tone, she immerses us in a world that transgresses conventions and preconceived ideas, where desire becomes obsession. EAN: 9782350871639 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Song of the World - Jean Giono - book Summary : "The morning blossomed like an elderberry. Antonio was fresh and larger than life, a new youth swelled him with foliage. - Now he has passed the green period, he said to himself. He heard in his hand the trout dying. Without knowing exactly, he saw himself on his island, standing, raising his arms, his fists lit up with joys attached to the world, snapping and golden like captive trout. Clara, sitting at his feet, held his legs in her tender arms. EAN: 9782070368723 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : How Green Was My Valley - Richard Llewellyn - book Summary : See photos EAN: Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Cry of the Owl - Hervé Bazin - book Summary : See photos EAN: Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : La chamade - Françoise Sagan - book Summary : During a dinner party, Lucile meets Antoine, a young Parisian publisher. Their bond quickly turns into a fiery passion. Now, Lucile is living with Charles, an elegant and wealthy fifty-year-old who surrounds her with selfless love. Despite her deep affection for him, when Antoine asks her to choose, she decides to leave Charles. "You'll come back to me. I just have to wait." Charles has no doubt about it. Because he loves this child-woman for herself, not for himself. Because he knows that one day Antoine will reproach her for her weaknesses and faults. Because he also knows that love without money doesn't bring happiness. He can already hear the "chamade," that drum roll that announces defeat... EAN: 9782266190015 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : A Season of Light - Deirdre Purcell - book Summary : See photos EAN: 9782266074643 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Beware of the sweetness of things - Rafaële Billetdoux - book Summary : A cascade of heartaches and writing joys. "François Nourissier" a universe of contained magic where the magical and diabolical moments of life are taken literally and seriously. "Jean-Marc Roberts" Reading this book is like listening to one of those pieces of music that aims to entertain and makes you cry. "Catherine David" A festival, a carnival for all the senses. "André Stil. EAN: 9782020086875 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Maritime Prison - Michel Mohrt - book Summary : Grand Prix novel of the French Academy 1962 "Hold on!" shouted the captain, appearing at the door of the cabin where he had gone to join Lady Cecilia, and he added these words which noted with stupor the accident of which we had just been victims and whose consequences could have been serious: "We've gybed!" - "We've gybed," said Augustus. - "We've gybed," repeated the captain, and he burst into a laugh which dominated the din of the storm and with which he freed himself from his fear, defied the sea and showed his ship the confidence he had in it." EAN: 9782070364084 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Hope - André Malraux - book Summary : "Malraux's book faithfully reflects the disarray, the promiscuities and the atrocities of a revolution; but it also expresses its conscience, its meaning, its subterranean movement. And it is because it hides nothing of the horrors and the silliness of civil war that it charges its title with a singular value. Here are the faults, here are the fools, the mercenaries, the warriors, here is the doubt that takes hold of the most resolute when, at the moment of dying, he feels that his body was beautiful; but here is this expectation, this call, this search, one does not know exactly for what, for something that erases the past, for a more intimate communion in danger, struggle, suffering, for a homeland, for a gestation, for a justification through sacrifice; - hope." EAN: 9782070360208 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Maria, daughter of Flanders - Maxence Van Der Meersch - book Summary : See photos EAN: Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Funny Game - Roger Vailland - book Summary : See photos EAN: Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Malataverne - Bernard Clavel - book Summary : See photos EAN: Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Singular Loves - Somerset Maugham - book Summary : See photos EAN: Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Witches of Salem - Seen from the Port - Arthur Miller - book Summary : See photos EAN: Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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