376 pages d'émotion pure...50 ans qu'il vit ici, sur ce caillou, dans son vaisseau de granit. Bateau immobile qui ne l'emmène nulle part et qui ne rejoindra jamais aucun port... Et pourquoi quitter ce lieu alors que le monde au-delà de cette satanée ligne d'horizon fait si peur ? Où s'évader lorsqu'on n’a nulle part où aller ? Comment combattre la solitude et empêcher que ce si...(展开全部)

376 pages d'émotion pure...50 ans qu'il vit ici, sur ce caillou, dans son vaisseau de granit. Bateau immobile qui ne l'emmène nulle part et qui ne rejoindra jamais aucun port... Et pourquoi quitter ce lieu alors que le monde au-delà de cette satanée ligne d'horizon fait si peur ? Où s'évader lorsqu'on n’a nulle part où aller ? Comment combattre la solitude et empêcher que ce si...(展开全部)

Années 1950, La Nouvelle-Orléans, où la fête de Mardi gras bat son plein. Grâce à Weekly, un producteur de jazz dénommé Faust fait la connaissance de Blacksad. Faust demande à ce dernier de s occuper d une affaire : un de ses musiciens, le pianiste Sebastian, a disparu. Il n a pas donné signe de vie depuis des mois, mettant en péril le label musical privé d une star. Faust crai...(展开全部)

"Silence I regard as a masterpiece, a lucid and elegant drama". Irving Howe. -- The New York Review of Books

"Silence I regard as a masterpiece, a lucid and elegant drama". Irving Howe. -- The New York Review of Books

What if everything you set yourself up to be was wrong? Frances has always been a study machine with one goal, elite university. Nothing will stand in her way; not friends, not a guilty secret – not even the person she is on the inside. But when Frances meets Aled, the shy genius behind her favourite podcast, she discovers a new freedom. He unlocks the door to Real Frances and ...(展开全部)

It is 2071, and Mars is being slowly terraformed by many nations often cooperating in an uneasy truce that reflects tensions back on Earth. The water of the polar ice cap, the most important resource for all the Mars colonies, is jointly controlled by the US, China, Japan and Russia, and doled out to the second-tier colonizing groups (Europe, Canada, Australia, India) only grud...(展开全部)

As a successor to his Booker-nominated novel, Paradise, Abdulrazak Gurnah's fifth book, Admiring Silence, presents the despair of being torn from one's roots. Gurnah's unnamed narrator flees to England as a teenager to escape the violent political rule of his native island in Zanzibar. There he lives for nearly twenty years in suburban comfort with an Englishwoman and holds a r...(展开全部)

From one of the most dazzling and essential voices in American fiction, a timely and compelling novel set in the near future about five people gathered together in a Manhattan apartment, in the midst of a catastrophic event. Don DeLillo completed this novel just weeks before the advent of Covid-19. The Silence is the story of a different catastrophic event. Its resonances offer...(展开全部)

It is Super Bowl Sunday in the year 2022. Five people are due to have dinner in an apartment on the east side of Manhattan. The hosts are a retired physics professor and her husband; they are joined by one of her former students and await the arrival of another couple, delayed by what becomes a dramatic flight from Paris. In the apartment, talk ranges widely. The opening kickof...(展开全部)