Londres, en l'an 1021. Orphelin, Rob J. Cole, neuf ans, est recueilli par un barbier-chirurgien et devient son apprenti. Ensemble, ils sillonnent l'Angleterre. C'est une époque où l'on brûle les sorcières, où la vie est dure...
From international bestselling author, Alessandro Baricco, comes a scintillating and sensual novel about a young woman’s ingress into a fantastically strange family.
The hand of the young woman in question has been promised to the scion of...
Paul Theroux is a vocal proponent of rail travel over air travel, which he likens to traveling by submarine for all that goes unseen and not experienced by its adherents. The Great Railway Bazaar, his 1975 account of a four month railroad journey...
SHORTLISTED 2014 — Scotiabank Giller Prize.
Miriam Toews is beloved for her irresistible voice, for mingling laughter and heartwrenching poignancy like no other writer. In her most passionate novel yet, she brings us the riveting story of two...
Set in the future — a world where the past is a dangerous country, not to be talked about or visited — J is a love story of incomparable strangeness, both tender and terrifying.
Two people fall in love, not yet knowing where they have...