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Little Brother
En Anglais – A state-of-the-art computerized killing machine bids to destroy world peace. Ed Howard discovers that he is confronting the world’s most effective mercenary force, the East German Stasi, with the team he led into and out of Iraq, augmented by a female Korean agent.
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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.
À travers le destin de Nicolas, jeune aristocrate idéaliste, Gilles Cosson nous fait partager le drame de la Révolution russe, de l’entre-deux guerres et de la montée du nazisme. Un roman d’apprentissage qui, en trois grandes étapes. Dans la tourmente rouge nous plonge dans la convulsion de l’Europe en proie aux dictatures. Gilles Cosson, non sans panache, prouve que la Révolution russe peut à nouveau donner lieu à de beaux dégagements romanesques, avec ce qui convient de larmes, de sang et d’amour, d’histoire bien documentée aussi.
The secret world of the Irish Male
En Anglais – – The author of Desperadoes and Cowboys and Indians directs his acid humour upon contemporary Irish life at home and abroad. The result is a headlong, love-struck, end-of-millenium, coast-to-coast tour of the frustrations, contraditions and giddying glories of being Irish in the 1990s.
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.