PREMIO NOBEL DE LITERATURA 2004
ESTA NOVELA, QUE PROVOCÓ UN NOTABLE ESCÁNDALO EN SU PAÍS EN EL MOMENTO DE SU PUBLICACIÓN, SUPONE UN PRODIGIOSO EJERCICIO NARRATIVO TANTO DESDE EL PUNTO DE VISTA DEL ESTILO COMO DEL ESTRUCTURAL. EL...
La toute jeune Lalla a pour ancêtres les « hommes bleus », guerriers du désert saharien. Elle vit dans un bidonville, mais ne peut les oublier. La puissance de la nature et des légendes, son amour pour le Hartani, un jeune berger muet, une...
The Swedish Academy, in awarding J.M.G. Le Clézio the 2008 Nobel Prize in Literature, praised Desert as Le Clézio's "definitive breakthrough as a novelist." Published in France in 1980, Desert received the Grand Prix Paul Morand from...
A VIVID AND ASSURED WORK OF FICTION FROM A MAJOR NEW VOICE FOLLOWING THE LIFE OF A YOUNG MAN GROWING UP, LEAVING HOME, AND COMING BACK AGAIN, MARKED BY THE STARK BEAUTY OF CALIFORNIA'S MOJAVE DESERT AND THE VARIOUS FATES OF THOSE WHO LEAVE AND THOSE...
A los cincuenta y dos años, David Lurie tiene poco de lo que enorgullecerse. Con dos divorcios a sus espaldas, apaciguar el deseo es su única aspiración, sus clases en la universidad son un mero trámite para él y para los...
Desire Provoked is an amusing look at modern living, while also a meditation on fatherhood, marriage and ambition. The cartographer protagonist of the novel, Sam Adams, can’t seem to map out his own life while he maps everything else for a...
Yaël ne vit que pour son travail. Brillante interprète pour une agence de renom, elle enchaîne les réunions et les dîners d’affaires sans jamais se laisser le temps de respirer. Les vacances, très peu pour elle, l’adrénaline est son...
Winner of the Cervantes Prize
Carlos Fuentes, one of the world's most acclaimed authors, is at the height of his powers in this stunning new novel – a magnificent epic of passion, magic, and desire in modern Mexico, a rich and...
Antonio Martens is a torturer for the secret police of a recently defunct dictatorship. Now imprisoned, he begins to recount his involvement in the surveillance, torture and assassination of Federigo and Enrique Salinas, a prominent father and son...