Jean-Pierre Carasso Książki

Life of Pi meets Aesop's Fables - a modern-day fable for adults

Nine-year-old Oskar Schell is an inventor, amateur entomologist, Francophile, letter writer, pacifist, natural historian, percussionist, romantic, Great Explorer, jeweller, detective, vegan, and collector of butterflies. When his father is killed in the September 11th attacks on the World Trade Centre, Oskar sets out to solve the mystery of a key he discovers in his father's closet. It is a search which leads him into the lives of strangers, through the five boroughs of New York, into history, to the bombings of Dresden and Hiroshima, and on an inward journey which brings him ever closer to some kind of peace.

Wszystkie bohaterki nagrodzonego prestiżową Man Booker Prize tomu opowiadań noblistki to uciekinierki, badające granice swojej wolności, a raczej klatki, jaką stało się ich życie. Szukają wyzwolenia i wydaje się, że zrobiły wszystko, by być gdzie indziej, spr�bować czegoś innego, p�jść za swoimi pragnieniami, uwolnić się od samotności i znaleźć szczęście, kt�re wydaje się na wyciągnięcie ręki, lecz nigdy dostatecznie blisko, by je posmakować. Z pozornie prostych epizod�w, buduje Munro nastroje pełne ulotnego dramatyzmu, kt�ry powoli przechodzi w melancholię i cichą zadumę nad możliwością i niemożliwością zmiany oraz stopnia, w jakim można wpłynąć na własny los.

The decadence and violence of the urban streets is graphically portrayed in this novel set in a post-WWII Brooklyn slum.

When Ditto challenges Morgan to prove that literature is crap he triggers off a chain of events to alter his outlook of life forever. Ditto faces a series of charges from Morgan against literature: that all fiction is Done. Finished. Dead; a sham and a pretence. He undertakes faithfully to record a life in the week of Ditto - with all the chaos of reality thrown in - and his literary creation reveals more about himself tha he originally bargained for.

This collection of stories capture the essence of life. Moments of change, chance encounters, the twist of fate that leads a person to a new way of thinking or being. A portrait of how dangerous and strange ordinary life can be.

Dans un camp de concentration, Rosa cache Magda, son bébé, dans les plis d'un châle. Mais une jeune fille de quatorze ans, rongée par le froid, s'empare du châle qui dissimule l'enfant. Alors survient l'innommable: un nazi découvre le bébé et le jette contre les barbelés électrifiés du camp. Trente ans plus tard, on retrouve Rosa à Miami. Sa fureur et sa mémoire sont intactes. Jusqu'au jour où un paquet arrive par la poste. C'est le châle. La sobriété de ce récit et son souffle font du souvenir de Rosa un hymne à l'amour au cœur de l'enfer. Le châle, qui a gardé " le goût d'amande et de cannelle de la salive de Magda ", est un rempart contre l'oubli, un appel adressé à chacun de nous pour que demeurent vivantes nos mémoires.

Ancient Evenings, a dazzlingly rich, deeply evocative novel, recreates the long-lost civilisation of Ancient Egypt. Mailer breathes life into the figures of that era; the eighteenth dynasty Pharaoh Rameses and his wife, Queen Nefertiti; Menenhetet, their creature, lover and victim; and the gods and mortals that surround them in intimate and telepathic communion. His hero, three times reincarnated during the novel, moves in the bright sunlight of white temples, in the exquisite gardens of the royal harem, along the majestic flow of the Nile and in the terrifying clash of battle. An outstanding work of creative imagination, Ancient Evenings displays Mailer's obsession with magic, violence and eroticism and lives on in the mind long after the last page has been turned. [Taken from Amazon.com]

Dimensions; Fiction; Wenlock Edge; Deep-Holes; Free radicals; Face; Some Women; Child's Play; Wood; Too Much Happiness