Conçu durant l’hiver 1942–1943, révélé en 1966, Trouble dans les Andains, premier roman de Boris Vian, n’est ni l’ébauche ni la version primitive de quelqu’une de ses autres œuvres. C’est un récit d’inspiration originale, pleinement achevé, conduit avec allégresse et que rien ne bride puisqu’il est mû tout entier par la dynamique des mots. Exemple le plus direct du langage-univers de Boris Vian, cette aventure où se mêlent la terreur (drolatique), l’enquête policière (cocasse) et l’espionnage-bouffe, ce sont les mots en effet qui la mènent et la tissent, l’embrouillent et la dénouent, y rebondissent et cabriolent, et nous font trembler à force de rire de leurs galipettes. Boris Vian s’y dédouble, s’y multiplie en dix personnages qui se poursuivent d’Auteuil à Bornéo, nagent dans des flots de sang de crapaud et s’entretuent joyeusement en se disputant un mystérieux engin, le barbarin fourchu. Une histoire que Boris Vian s’était racontée à lui-même faute de pouvoir la lire dans le livre d’un autre. Oui, une histoire totalement inventée, une histoire pour le plaisir, pour s’amuser, on en a bien le droit, non ?Texte intégral

"A deeply observed, excruciatingly blunt novel."-The New Yorker"The raging, tormented voice of the author is something rare."-The New York TimesFollowing her mother's untimely and mysterious death, Delia embarks on a voyage of discovery through the streets of her native Naples searching for the truth about her family. A series of mysterious telephone calls leads her to compelling and disturbing revelations about her mother's final days.This stylish fiction from the author of The Days of Abandonment is set in a beguiling but often hostile Naples, whose chaotic, suffocating streets become one of the book's central motifs. A story about mothers and daughters and the complicated knot of lies and emotions that binds them.

«Le directeur a été très gentil avec moi le jour de mon embauche. J'ai eu la permission de gérer ma parfumerie toute seule. Ça marchait bien. Seulement, quand les premiers symptômes sont apparus, j'ai dû quitter la parfumerie. Ce n'était pas une histoire de décence ni rien; c'est juste que tout devenait trop compliqué. Heureusement, j'ai rencontré Edgar, et Edgar, comme vous le savez, est devenu président de la République. C'était moi, l'égérie d'Edgar. Mais personne ne m'a reconnue. J'avais trop changé. Est-ce que j'avais raté la chance de ma vie? En tout cas, je ne comprenais toujours pas très bien ce qui m'arrivait. C'était surtout ce bleu sous le sein droit qui m'inquiétait…»Premier roman de Marie Darrieussecq. Truismes a connu un grand succès. Il a été traduit dans plus de quarante pays.

On le sait, chaque automne depuis cent ans, le Goncourt est attribué au livre le plus insignifiant de la rentrée. Si l'utilité de ce prix repoussoir n'est plus à prouver - il montre à nos jeunes écrivains les voies littéraires sans avenir -, il ne faut pas oublier trop vite les goncourables, ces malheureux qui passent deux mois dans une grande détresse morale à attendre le verdict. Ils sont chair et tripes, ces gens-là, et ils ont mal à l'amour-propre. Peu de supplices sont comparables a ceux d'un pauvre bougre en sursis du Goncourt !

On a hot midsummer morning, after sixteen years of marriage, Jane saw her husband fifty feet away and did not recognise him. Alan has changed because he's injured his back. Pain has altered his appearance, but he has also changed in other ways: he has become glum and demanding. Jane has to do everything for him - fetching, carrying, shopping, cooking, even dressing and undressing him. When she longs for escape, her mother accuses her of selfishness - of course she can't abandon a man so handicapped and needy - Meanwhile Henry cares in a different way for his self-centred wife, Delia, a writer and researcher specialising in fairytales, who in her own estimation is a 'Great Artist'. He tends the flame, making certain Delia gets everything she desires including spectacular doses of adulation. Can sexy Delia, with her trailing scarves and lacy shirts, coax Alan out of his grumpiness? Can Henry stop Jane feeling guilty? Can the couples swap roles?

„Atskleiskite man tiesą“ – prašymas paprastas, bet esminis. Atskleiskite man tiesą, – meldžia jaunas žurnalistas mįslingosios rašytojos Vidos Vinter. Pastaruosius šešis dešimtmečius ji rašė apie išgalvotus gyvenimus, atnešusius jai šlovę ir turtus, o tragišką ir neįtikėtiną savo praeitį kaip įmanydama slėpė. Tačiau jaunojo žurnalisto prašymo ji neužmiršo – ir galiausiai ryžtasi samdyti biografę, kuriai iš tikrųjų atskleis tiesą.

«Uno no lo desea, pero prefiere siempre que muera el que está a su lado, en una misión o una batalla, en una escuadrilla aérea o bajo un bombardeo o en la trinchera cuando las había, en un asalto callejero o en un atraco a una tienda o en un secuestro de turistas, en un terremoto, una explosión, un atentado, un incendio, da lo mismo: el compañero, el hermano, el padre o incluso el hijo, aunque sea niño. Y también la amada, también la amada, antes que uno mismo.»Así arranca `Veneno y sombra y adiós`, el tercer y último volumen de `Tu rostro mañana`, la grandiosa novela de Javier Marías que, por fin completa, y como ya ha anticipado la crítica extranjera, se revela como una de las cumbres literarias de nuestro tiempo. El narrador y protagonista, Jacques o Jaime o Jacobo Deza, acaba por conocer aquí los inesperados rostros de quienes lo rodean y también el suyo propio, y descubre que, bajo el mundo más o menos apaciguado en que vivimos los occidentales, siempre late una necesidad de traición y violencia que se nos inocula como un veneno. Con sus nuevos y cruciales episodios en Londres, Madrid y Oxford, con su desenlace sobrecogedor, se cierra aquí una historia que es mucho más que una historia apasionante, contada con la maestría de uno de los mejores novelistas contemporáneos, y tal vez el más profundo y arriesgado.

Los tuareg constituyen un pueblo altivo cuyo código moral difiere del de los árabes. Auténticos hijos del desierto, los tuareg no tienen rival en cuanto a sobrevivir en las condiciones más adversas. El noble inmouchar Gacel Sayah, protagonista de esta novela, es amo absoluto de una infinita extensión de desierto. Cierto día llegan al campamento dos fugitivos procedentes del norte, y el inmouchar, fiel a las multiseculares y sagradas leyes de la hospitalidad, los acoge. Sin embargo, Gacel ignora que esas mismas leyes le arrastrarán a una aventura mortal… Una apasionante epopeya que es a la vez un canto a uno de los pueblos más singulares del mundo.

Früher waren die Tuareg, die »Söhne des Windes«, die Herren der westlichen Sahara. Einer dieser letzten Nomaden ist Gacel Sayah. Unbeirrbar hält er an der archaischen Lebensweise seiner Vorfahren fest, stolz verteidigt er die Überlieferungen seines Volkes gegen ihre Bedrohungen durch die Zivilisation. Als in seinem Zelt eines der heiligen Gesetze der Wüste, die Gastfreundschaft, brutal gebrochen wird, kann Gacel gar nicht anders, als an den Rechtsbrechern Rache zu nehmen. Doch diese Rache bedeutet zuletzt den Zerfall seiner Familie und seinen eigenen Tod.

The Tuaregs are the true sons of the desert. They can survive in the harshest of conditions like nobody else. The noble inmouchar Gacel Sayah, is the master of a large extension of the desert. One day, two fugitives arrive from the north and Gacel, following his ancient and sacred hospitality laws, gives them shelter. However, Gacel doesn't realise that his act of kindness will lead him towards a deadly adventure.

“In one sentence, Ms. Prentiss captures a sense of intoxication and possibility that six seasons of voice-overs from Sarah Jessica Parker never could…Ms. Prentiss concludes her novel on a note that’s both ethereal and brutally realistic. She cauterizes wounds, but they’re still visible and bare. But for her characters — for this promising author — it’s enough.” —The New York Times“An intoxicating Manhattan fairy tale…As affecting as it is absorbing. A thrilling debut.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)“A vital, sensuous, edgy, and suspenseful tale of longing, rage, fear, compulsion, and love.” —Booklist (starred review)An intoxicating and transcendent debut novel that follows a critic, an artist, and a desirous, determined young woman as they find their way — and ultimately collide — amid the ever-evolving New York City art scene of the 1980s.Welcome to SoHo at the onset of the eighties: a gritty, not-yet-gentrified playground for artists and writers looking to make it in the big city. Among them: James Bennett, a synesthetic art critic for The New York Times whose unlikely condition enables him to describe art in profound, magical ways, and Raul Engales, an exiled Argentinian painter running from his past and the Dirty War that has enveloped his country. As the two men ascend in the downtown arts scene, dual tragedies strike, and each is faced with a loss that acutely affects his relationship to life and to art. It is not until they are inadvertently brought together by Lucy Olliason — a small town beauty and Raul’s muse — and a young orphan boy sent mysteriously from Buenos Aires, that James and Raul are able to rediscover some semblance of what they’ve lost.As inventive as Jennifer Egan's A Visit From The Goon Squad and as sweeping as Meg Wolitzer's The Interestings, Tuesday Nights in 1980 boldly renders a complex moment when the meaning and nature of art is being all but upended, and New York City as a whole is reinventing itself. In risk-taking prose that is as powerful as it is playful, Molly Prentiss deftly explores the need for beauty, community, creation, and love in an ever-changing urban landscape.

Maybe it was a grandparent, or a teacher. Someone older who understood you when you were young and searching, who helped you see the world as a more profound place, and gave you advice to help you make your way through it. For Mitch Albom, that person was Morrie Schwartz, his college professor from nearly twenty years ago.Maybe, like Mitch, you lost track of your mentor as you made your way, and the insights faded, and the world seemed colder. Wouldn’t you like to see that person again, ask the bigger questions that still haunt you?Mitch Albom had that second chance. He rediscovered Morrie in the last months of the older man’s life. Knowing he was dying, Morrie visited with Mitch in his study every Tuesday, just as they used to back in college. Tuesdays With Morrie is a magical chronicle of their time together, through which Mitch shares Morrie’s lasting gift to the world.

As fast-paced and hard-edged as the Harlem streets it portrays, Tuff shows off all of the amazing skill that Paul Beatty showed off in his first novel, The White Boy Shuffle.Weighing in at 320 pounds, Winston “Tuffy” Foshay, is an East Harlem denizen who breaks jaws and shoots dogs and dreams of millions from his idea Cap’n Crunch: The Movie, starring Danny DeVito. His best friend is a disabled Muslim who wants to rob banks, his guiding light is an ex-hippie Asian woman who worked for Malcolm X, and his wife, Yolanda, he married from jail over the phone. Shrewdly comical as this dazzling novel is, it turns acerbically sublime when the frustrated Tuffy agrees to run for City Council. Smartly irreverent and edgily fierce, Tuff is a bona fide original.

More than a thousand years ago, an extraordinary trove of early Buddhist sutras and other scriptures was secreted away in caves near the Silk Road city of Tun-huang. But who hid this magnificent treasure and why? In Tun-huang, the great modern Japanese novelist Yasushi Inoue tells the story of Chao Hsing-te, a young Chinese man whose accidental failure to take the all-important exam that will qualify him as a high government official leads to a chance encounter that draws him farther and farther into the wild and contested lands west of the Chinese Empire. Here he finds love, distinguishes himself in battle, and ultimately devotes himself to the strange task of depositing the scrolls in the caves where, many centuries later, they will be rediscovered. A book of magically vivid scenes, fierce passions, and astonishing adventures, Tun-huang is also a profound and stirring meditation on the mystery of history and the hidden presence of the past.

Everyone wants to escape their boring, stagnant lives full of inertia and regret. But so few people actually have the bravery to run, run away from everything and selflessly seek out personal fulfillment on the other side of the world where they don't understand anything and won't be expected to. The world is full of cowards. Tim Anderson was pushing thirty and working a string of dead-end jobs when he made the spontaneous decision to pack his bags and move to Japan,?where my status as a U.S. passport holder and card-carrying?American English? speaker was an asset rather than a liability.? It was a gutsy move, especially for a tall, white, gay Southerner who didn?t speak a lick of Japanese. But his life desperately needed a shot of adrenaline, and what better way to get one than to leave behind everything he had ever known to move to?a tiny, overcrowded island heaving with clever, sensibly proportioned people that make him look fat In Tokyo, Tim became a?gaijin,? an outsider whose stumbling progression through Japanese culture is minutely chronicled in these sixteen howlingly funny stories. Yet despite the steep learning curve and the seemingly constant humiliation, the gaijin from North Carolina gradually begins to find his way. Whether playing drums on the fly in an otherwise all-Japanese noise band or attempting to keep his English classroom clean when it's invaded by an older female student with a dirty mind, Tim comes to realize that living a meaningful life is about expecting the unexpected?right when he least expects it.

**In Danielle Steel's powerful new novel, four trauma doctors --the best and brightest in their field--confront exciting new challenges, both personally and professionally, when given a rare opportunity.**

Bill Browning heads the trauma unit at San Francisco's busiest emergency room, SF General. With his ex-wife and daughters in London, he immerses himself in his work and lives for his rare visits with his children. A rising star at her teaching hospital, UCSF at Mission Bay, Stephanie Lawrence has two young sons, a frustrated stay-at-home husband, and not enough time for any of them. Harvard-educated Wendy Jones is a dedicated trauma doctor at Stanford, trapped in a dead-end relationship with a married cardiac surgeon. And Tom Wylie's popularity with women rivals the superb medical skills he employs at his Oakland medical center, but he refuses to let anyone get too close, determined to remain unattached forever.

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The turtles in London Zoo become the mutual obsession of two lonely strangers who dream of setting free the turtles and themselves. Detail by detail their diaries record a world in which thought leads to action and action brings William G. and Neaera H. to their own open sea.

Un corazón dibujado con rouge, cruzado por un "te quiero" y firmado "Tuya" le revela a Inés que su marido la engaña.Lo que sigue a continuación no sólo es un policial vertiginoso y atrapante, sino un retrato implacable de la vida familiar de la clase media.Claudia Piñeiro capta con genialidad los tonos de las voces de la sociedad argentina.Y entre ellas la de un ama de casa dispuesta a todo con tal de conservar su matrimonio y las buenas apariencias."Claudia Piñeiro arrancó con una perla rara, Tuya, un policial negro duro, pero de mujer, que usa con acelerador los elementos del género: la violencia, el engaño, los cruces complicados." Elvio E. Gandolfo"Tuya es un policial magníficamente armado, con vueltas de tuerca sorpresivas que van apareciendo en la trama, y con un cierre perfecto."

Впервые на русском — новый сборник рассказов самого знаменитого мастера современной японской литературы. Герои этих историй слушают воду в человеческом теле и бегают во сне от зомби. А то и вовсе отвыкают спать и страшатся превращения в телелюдей — которые почти как настоящие, разве что слегка отмасштабированы и распространяются подобно вирусу.