Pasjonująca autobiografia łączy w sobie brutalny realizm z ciepłem i poezją.Ujawnia prawdziwe oblicze chińskiego socjalistycznego dobrobytu i pokazuje, że człowiek o rozbudzonej świadomości może odmienić własny...
Booker Prize-winning author John Berger brings us this tender and bittersweet novel is a book of dreams: dreams of freedom and romance, dreams that intoxicate and redeem, dreams that have the power to exalt their dreamers or dash them against hard...
The scientist Roithamer has dedicated the last six years of his life to “the Cone”, an edifice of mathematically exact construction that he has erected in the center of his family’s estate in honor of his beloved sister. Not long after its...
Depuis Hygiène de l'assassin, elle est fidèle au poste! Amélie Nothomb fait donc sa rentrée avec Cosmétique de l'ennemi. Au rythme – soutenu – d'un roman par an, on se demande bien comment elle peut encore nous surprendre. N'ayez crainte,...
Sandeep Sanghavi, the mixed-race son of an Indian businesswoman and a famous American astronomer lives a nomadic albeit mundane life traveling the country with his mother's hotel consulting firm. His life becomes more interesting when various lost...
The comfort food of cottage life books ― satisfying, unforgettable, and inevitably nostalgic.
Cottage Daze celebrates life at the cottage where the cottage is the main character, and family, friends, pets, and fellow cottagers are the supporting...
Février 1927. Le Tout-Paris assiste aux obsèques de Marcel Péricourt. Sa fille, Madeleine, doit prendre la tête de l’empire financier dont elle est l’héritière, mais le destin en décide autrement. Son fils, Paul, d’un geste inattendu et...
Conjuring slavery and witchcraft, and with bewitching powers all its own, Counternarratives continually spins history — and storytelling — on its head.
Ranging from the 17th century to the present and crossing multiple continents,...
Out at sea, in a sudden storm, a man is struck by lightning. When he wakes, injured and adrift on a kayak, his memory of who he is and how he came to be there is all but shattered. Now he must pit himself against the pain and rely on his instincts...