Title : Lialia's House and Other Stories - Ludmila Ulitskaya - book Summary : In post-war Soviet Moscow, daily life can seem gray and miserable. But that's without taking into account the unshakeable optimism of Russians, for whom neither madness nor death are subjects of tragedy... With an accuracy and acuity that make her a worthy heir to Chekhov, Ludmila Ulitskaya describes Muscovite life in small touches. EAN : 9782070314577 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

Read more less

Title : The Delicate Paths - Holder Eric - book Summary : Eric Holder, a writer of muted violence, a stylist with a caressing power, always with the same sharp gaze, this benevolent humanity. Let us read these stories as if he had sent us a letter. EAN : 9782842630973 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

Read more less

Title : The last round - Patrice Franceschi - book Summary : One day in 1937, in a remote village in the depths of the Amazon, three men at the end of their rope: Kerloff, the Russian adventurer who has failed at everything; Vernaud, the old doctor, haunted by a cowardice committed in the past; and finally, Maugin, who seeks to regain the trust of the man he betrayed. They don't know each other, but fate leads all three of them aboard a poor boat, the Vaya con Dios, on an unknown river. They have accepted a banal mission in this jungle: transporting a load of gold. But everything is an illusion, and this gold becomes the instrument of their true destiny. Caught in a fatal spiral, they are thrown into the heart of danger. Then their odyssey along the river transforms into a twilight adventure where everything is intertwined: the struggle for life, the fight against the most incredible enemies, the confrontation with dark forces. A great adventure novel marked by a tragic force where inevitable death becomes for the three men the instrument of a luminous end which redeems their lost lives. Writer, aviator, and sailor Patrice Franceschi is the author of some twenty books: novels, poems, essays, adventure stories, and albums. La Dernière Manche is his third novel, originally published by Ramsay in 1997 under the title Tout l'or du fleuve. He is currently captain of the three-masted exploration ship La Boudeuse. EAN : 9782710330684 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

Read more less

Title : Harvest - Jim Crace - book Summary : In a matter of days, power changes hands in the village. Good and evil are reversed, to the point of merging. Walter Thirsk must decipher the rules to try to save his skin. Violence rages, creating an endless struggle between survival instinct and morality. With this gripping novel of universal appeal, Jim Crace establishes himself as one of the great writers of our time, in the tradition of Cormac McCarthy and JM Coetzee. Born in 1946, Jim Crace grew up in London. He is the author of around ten books that have been translated worldwide. A finalist for the Booker Prize, he received the prestigious Impac Dublin Literary Award for Lifetime Achievement in 2015. career. EAN : 9782743636623 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

Read more less

Title : Lorenzaccio - Alfred de Musset - book Summary : Lorenzo de Medici, the eponymous hero, lacks neither grandeur nor complexity. A notorious debauchee and purveyor of pleasure to Alexander, the perverse tyrant who rules Florence, the young man gradually reveals another side of himself. No, he is not entirely contaminated by the surrounding evil, but he has retained a true purity deep within him, to the point of killing Alexander in the name of a personal and political ideal. If Lorenzaccio takes place in 16th century Italy century, this drama nevertheless finds an echo in the political news of the years after 1830, when the power of Louis-Philippe, which had raised great hopes, hardened and harshly repressed republican initiatives. And if it is one of the most performed romantic dramas, it is because it presents the individual facing himself and society, essential and timeless problems. EAN : 9782040160647 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

Read more less

Title : The Charcoal Burner's Faith - Marguerite Gentzbittel - book Summary : The woman whom all of France calls "Madame le Proviseur" is no longer a principal. Marguerite Gentzbittel promised to leave the Lycée Fénelon the year she turned sixty. She kept her word, believing that young people needed a more youthful leadership team. So here she is, "free." Free to speak without violating the civil servant's obligation of confidentiality and without betraying a secular conviction that has never wavered. Free to evoke the "driving force behind her actions and her life": her Catholic faith. She is a strange parishioner, Marguerite Gentzbittel. The daughter of an anticlerical father and a very pious (but very critical) mother, she claims her dual origins. With her well-known verve, she says here what she believes, refutes the sectarian spirit, and combats proselytism. She speaks of her attachment to a certain convent where she almost entered and never left. She speaks of her gospel, her paradise; she speaks, above all, of her love of freedom and her hatred of the Crusades. Believers will find this book disturbing and unexpected pages, while non-believers will find a stimulating introduction to what religious experience can be. Marguerite Gentzbittel proclaims herself obedient but not submissive, Catholic but not Vatican, charitable but immoral. Lukewarm readers will be disappointed. EAN : 9782020309028 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

Read more less

Title : Chronicle of the Guayaki Indians - Pierre Clastres - book Summary : They are called Guayaki, "Fierce Rats." They call themselves Aché, "the People." Silent and invisible, these nomads roam the tropical forest in eastern Paraguay. This is what has allowed them to escape for so long the fate of their sedentary neighbors: slavery, death, disappearance. The author spent a year in their intimacy... The incidents and funny or tragic anecdotes gradually draw the portrait of these Guayaki, bawdy when they can, serious when necessary: ​​honey festivals, love festivals, conflict within the gangs, murders, sacrifices, cannibalism (they free themselves from their dead by eating them). Gentleness is followed by cruelty. This vanished culture is based on the loyalty of the Indians to their ancient rites, and, beyond that, to the myths of their origin and their destiny, which arouse strange echoes in us. This book is a chronicle that does not shy away from any of the problems posed to ethnology by this Indian population. From the very particular ecology of a society of hunters to the most secret logic of their thought, it is the entirety of an unknown cultural universe that is revealed here, under the gaze of one of the great French ethnologists. EAN : 9782266111669 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

Read more less

Title : Her Former Name - Hélène Lenoir - book Summary : When she sees him for the first time, it's on a bus: his merciless gaze entering her, just before he gets off; a few more seconds with the window between them. And then nothing. The circumstances in which they meet again by chance twenty years later don't allow them to get close to each other, and they would probably stay there if it were up to her, who has since become the wife of a notable and the mother of three children. But now he wants something. "Her former name is a magnificent reflection on the engulfment of the soul by the passage of time. What can be said about Britt, the main character? Married, she is less loved. As a mother, she is less surrounded. Rich, she is less free. The years that have passed have made her existence a mountain of sand ready to collapse at the slightest gust of wind. So, it is in what she has been that she will discover what she wants. » (Marie-Laure Delorme, Le Journal du Dimanche) « Hélène Lenoir is one of our best novelists today. Both strong and subtle. Her first three novels demonstrated the breadth of her register, the originality of her novelistic research, her power of analysis and emotion. In Son nom d'avant these literary qualities are combined with a perfect simplicity of expression. As if the choice of words, the rhythm of the sentence, the back and forth of the dialogues had effortlessly found their rightful place, their exact design. » (Pierre Lepape, Le Monde) EAN : 9782707317698 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

Read more less

Title : Moments of History - From the National Federation of Chemical Industries CGT - book Summary : See photos EAN : Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

Read more less

Title : The Zero Hunter - Pascale Roze - book Summary : French First Novel Prize 1996 - Prix Goncourt 1996 A noise. Harassing. To the point of madness. The noise of the kamikaze plane that, one day in April 1945, sowed death on the aircraft carrier Maryland, in Okinawa. Laura Carlson suffers from this noise just as she suffers from not having known her father. The roar of Hunter Zero pursues her day and night. Her brilliant studies, Bruno's love, nothing soothes her. Hunter Zero never lets go of his prey... Orphaned by a mythical stranger, young Laura will get to the bottom of the secret that changed her life. EAN : 9782226087089 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

Read more less

Title : The Master of Peacocks - Jean-Pierre Milovanoff - book Summary : In the early sixties, I knew a man in the south of France who painted peacocks. Nothing but peacocks. When people asked him why he didn't change his subject, he said that the bodies of young girls offer less diversity than the peacock displaying its tail. I don't know if this argument is valid or if the painter, irritated by a question that kept coming up, got rid of it with a pirouette. What is certain is that nothing interested him more than competing, brush in hand, with the insane shimmer of Creation. Thus he brought the art of painting peacocks to a degree of perfection that had not been achieved before him. Now that he is dead, he is said to have been the first peacock painter in the world and a place is being prepared for him in museums. He is called the Master of the Peacocks. EAN : 9782260014447 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

Read more less

Title : The Abandoned Volume 1 - Biscarrosse - Jean Claude Blondin - book Summary : The town of Biscarrosse learns that it will be receiving Syrian emigrants for the winter of 2016. The prefecture then houses them in the sailing club's facilities, on the shores of the lake. A meeting takes place between the Syrian children and a couple from Biscarrosse. Sympathy and friendship develop between them, and a mysterious project is born in Jean-Claude's head. He submits it to the Syrian family, who, after some thought, accept it: they will try to live in a completely abandoned village in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence. This village once had up to 370 inhabitants. You will discover this adventure, which could perhaps represent a real solution for emigrants. EAN : 9782414372089 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

Read more less

Title : A Brief History of the Future - Jacques Attali - book Summary : Jacques Attali tells the incredible story of the next fifty years, as we can imagine them based on everything we know about history and science. He reveals how relationships between nations will evolve and how demographic upheavals, population movements, changes in work, new forms of the market, terrorism, violence, climate change, and the growing influence of religion will disrupt our daily lives. It also reveals how astonishing technological advances will revolutionize work, leisure, education, health, cultures and political systems; how walls today considered scandalous will one day be accepted. Finally, it shows that it would be possible to move towards abundance, to eliminate poverty, to allow everyone to benefit equally from the advantages of technology and the commercial imagination, to preserve freedom from one's own excesses as well as from one's enemies, to leave future generations a better protected environment, to give birth, from all the wisdom of the world, to new ways of living and creating together. EAN : 9782213631301 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

Read more less

Title : Universal History 1 From the Origins to Prehistory - Hachette Figaro - book Summary : See photos EAN : 235091044X Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

Read more less

Title : Cursed Tennessee - Catherine Coulter - book Summary : See photos EAN : 9782749900650 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

Read more less

Title : The Unity of a Man - Interviews with Dominique Wolton - Jacques Delors - book Summary : I hope that through a journey marked, sometimes by modest and militant action, sometimes by significant participation in events, the reader will benefit from additional clarity on our common history. He will see, at least I hope so, that some of the innovations that I have proposed are still of burning relevance today and, for some, bearers of the future." JD EAN : 9782738102829 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

Read more less

Title : When the Child Disappears - Ginette Raimbault - book Summary : When a child dies, the parents first have the duty to learn how to live again. What conscious or unconscious paths will they take? How will they overcome the intolerable experience of losing a child? After analyzing, in a previous work, the experience of a child confronted with death, Ginette Raimbault wanted to explore the opposite aspect of the question and understand the psychological journey of parents, drawing on spontaneous testimonies from people who have resorted to writing: for example, Victor Hugo mourning Léopoldine. EAN : 9782738104090 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

Read more less

Title : Youth Delinquency - 13-19 Year Olds Tell Their Crimes - Sebastian Roché - book Summary : Sebastian Roché, a sociologist, has become our leading expert on the feeling of insecurity and the prevailing incivility. For years, he has been combating preconceived notions and partisan polemics to examine the facts. 50 to 80% of crimes are committed by 5% of offenders. And only 5% of these same crimes are prosecuted. This is what we must face. Neither the right nor the left are really doing this. Sebastian Roché offers us here an unprecedented book. Not only did he have access to archives and data concerning youth delinquency, but he also methodically collected the testimony of these young people. He explains why delinquency has become easy and precocious, and how this ease feeds the - false - idea of ​​legitimate violence. He shows us that this delinquency is by no means the preserve of disadvantaged adolescents: academic frustration, for example, is a more significant risk factor than social origin. He finally establishes a transparent correlation between the evolution of family structure and that of delinquency. The author is a strong opponent of political correctness. While he notes an "excessive delinquency" among young people of foreign origin, he maintains at the same time that delinquency is not a social struggle. The ease of committing crimes is an obstacle, he says, to the concern to collectively combat injustice. EAN : 9782020486668 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

Read more less

Title : The Butcher's Son - René Charnay - book Summary : See photos EAN : 9782268023052 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

Read more less

Title : The great history of the French under the occupation - Volume 9 - The settling of scores - Henri Amouroux - book Summary : See photos EAN : 9782221072509 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

Read more less

Title : Secret File of Algeria May 13, 58 April 28, 61 - Claude Paillat - book Summary : See photos EAN : Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

Read more less

Title : The Hazelnut Farm - Antonin Malroux - book Summary : See photos EAN : 9782738218179 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

Read more less

Title : Not tonight, I'm having dinner with my father - Marion Ruggieri - book Summary : "My father belongs to that generation which, under the pretext that it was born after the war and in full progress, decided that its lifelong fight would be not to die. Not to die, therefore not to grow old. To stop time. At first, I thought he was the only one affected. And then I saw other specimens, I sometimes rubbed shoulders with them: the false young. At first I thought the syndrome only affected men his age, the eternal "baby boomers", then I realized that the next generation was worse. Already false young at forty. That's the problem. People don't want to die anymore. So they steal their children's lives. They are ogres." The ogre here is a father so youthful and seductive that he prefers to court girls younger than his own. He presents her with renewable nymphets with platform heels, while Marion, alias "big" (her nickname!), readily plays the role of a fifty-year-old lover battered by life. Beyond the social issue - fathers and their daughters, Western man prey to an obsession with youthfulness - Marion Ruggieri, while mocking herself as a perpetual teenager, has succeeded in writing a novel that borders on the miraculous: making us laugh at our manly failings and making us cry at such an endearing connection with our father. How can we grow up when our father remains forever the impossible Mr. Baby? At once modest and realistic, tender and cruel, autobiographical but universal, this first novel on the confusion of ages should be a great success with all audiences. Because alas! we are all concerned by this sentence: "The problem with parents today is that they never die. Or that we love them too much." EAN : 9782246708315 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

Read more less

Title : The Unmade Bed - Sagan Françoise - book Summary : When Béatrice carelessly left Édouard five years earlier, she quickly replaced him. This boy, although attractive, was very young and lacked a future. But now he is a successful author, the darling of Parisian society, and still as crazy about her as ever. Béatrice, the magnificent and fierce boulevard actress, falls back into his arms, astonished to still remember him. The beautiful couple they form never fails to excite curiosity, everyone wondering how long it will last. And then, one day, Béatrice understands that she loves, for the first time. She loves Édouard. Françoise Sagan depicts romantic feelings with such acuity, such truth that one could believe she is describing the movements of her own heart. Sagan plays the apothecary, extracting the essence of suffering and letting passion settle. A delicate experiment with an unexpected result: love... Olivia Mauriac, Madame Figaro. EAN : 2080609246 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

Read more less