Kathy Reichs
Déjà dead
En anglais – Her life is devoted to justice—even for those she never knew. In the year since Temperance Brennan left behind a shaky marriage in North Carolina, work has often preempted her weekend plans to explore Quebec. When a female corpse is discovered meticulously dismembered and stashed in trash bags, Temperance detects an alarming pattern—and she plunges into a harrowing search for a killer. But her investigation is about to place those closest to her—her best friend and her own daughter—in mortal danger…
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Au cours d’une nuit pluvieuse, Mundo Morales, shérif-adjoint d’une petite ville de Californie, pense être victime d’une hallucination en voyant le corps d’Attis McCurtain, son meilleur ami, flotter à la Surface de la rivière Salinas. Ce dernier, de retour du Vietnam où ils ont combattu ensemble, n’est-il pas interné pour démence ?
Pour Morales l’enquête ne fait que commencer tandis qu’à des kilomètres de là, au cœur des marécages du Mississipi, un vieil Indien, grand-oncle d’Attis, a pressenti le drame. C’est auprès de celui-ci que Cole McCurtain, le frère cadet d’Attis voulant fuir l’incorporation, est parti trouver refuge. Il ignore encore que le vieil homme l’attend afin de lui confier une bien étrange mission…
Mundo Morales et Cole McCurtain, tous deux guidés par leurs traditions – mexicaine et indienne – Vont vivre une aventure qui changera le cours de leur existence.
A travers ce roman lyrique où la nature et la spiritualité jouent un rôle majeur, Louis Owens, Choctaw et Cherokee, professeur de littérature à l’université du Nouveau-Mexique, s’affirme comme l’une des nouvelles voix de la littérature indienne contemporaine.
Angela’s ashes, a memoir of a childhood
En Anglais – “When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I managed to survive at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood.” So begins the Pulitzer Prize winning memoir of Frank McCourt, born in Depression-era Brooklyn to recent Irish immigrants and raised in the slums of Limerick, Ireland. Frank’s mother, Angela, has no money to feed the children since Frank’s father, Malachy, rarely works, and when he does he drinks his wages. Yet Malachy– exasperating, irresponsible and beguiling– does nurture in Frank an appetite for the one thing he can provide: a story. Frank lives for his father’s tales of Cuchulain, who saved Ireland, and of the Angel on the Seventh Step, who brings his mother babies ….
Biographie des regrets éternels
Empereurs, courtisanes, assassins, portefaix, jardiniers, amoureuses ou poètes sont les héros de ces vies romancées écrites en Chine depuis les premiers siècles de notre ère.
La biographie y était un genre littéraire qui ne semble pas avoir son équivalent en Europe, à quelques exceptions près comme les Vies des hommes illustres de Plutarque, les Vies imaginaires de Schwob ou les Excentriques anglais de Sitwell.
Au total, vingt-six biographies : vies exemplaires, portraits émouvants ou anecdotes célèbres qui animent pour nous l’histoire de la Chine avec la saveur poétique et le raffinement d’écriture des plus belles Fictions de Borges.
Reading in the Dark
En Anglais – Hugely acclaimed in Great Britain, where it was awarded the Guardian Fiction Prize and short-listed for the Booker, Seamus Deane’s first novel is a mesmerizing story of childhood set against the violence of Northern Ireland in the 1940s and 1950s. The boy narrator grows up haunted by a truth he both wants and does not want to discover. The matter: a deadly betrayal, unspoken and unspeakable, born of political enmity. As the boy listens through the silence that surrounds him, the truth spreads like a stain until it engulfs him and his family. And as he listens, and watches, the world of legend–the stone fort of Grianan, home of the warrior Fianna; the Field of the Disappeared, over which no gulls fly–reveals its transfixing reality. Meanwhile the real world of adulthood unfolds its secrets like a collection of folktales: the dead sister walking again; the lost uncle, Eddie, present on every page; the family house “as cunning and articulate as a labyrinth, closely designed, with someone sobbing at the heart of it.” Seamus Deane has created a luminous tale about how childhood fear turns into fantasy and fantasy turns into fact. Breathtakingly sad but vibrant and unforgettable, Reading in the Dark is one of the finest books about growing up–in Ireland or anywhere–that has ever been written.