Daphné du Maurier
Rebecca
En anglais – The novel begins in Monte Carlo, where our heroine is swept off her feet by the dashing widower Maxim de Winter and his sudden proposal of marriage. Orphaned and working as a lady’s maid, she can barely believe her luck. It is only when they arrive at his massive country estate that she realizes how large a shadow his late wife will cast over their lives–presenting her with a lingering evil that threatens to destroy their marriage from beyond the grave.
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Clothilde Santivas est de celles (l’unique ?) que la province n’émousse pas. Saucerre semble être la ville la plus rigide, la plus encrassée de traditions désuètes qui soit, et Clothilde, qui voit sur son joli minois sourdre les boutons de la puberté, songe de plus en plus à l’impossibilité d’y vivre. Elle quitte son richissime père et part à Paris. Elle flâne beaucoup, vole un peu, et se met à traduire des romans de l’espagnol. Mais Paris lui enseigne que la province est partout : c’est une façon de sentir. Or, Clothilde veut exister librement…
Neither here nor there
En Anglais – Bill Bryson’s first travel book, The Lost Continent, was unanimously acclaimed as one of the funniest books in years. In Neither Here nor There he brings his unique brand of humour to bear on Europe as he shoulders his backpack, keeps a tight hold on his wallet, and journeys from Hammerfest, the northernmost town on the continent, to Istanbul on the cusp of Asia. Fluent in, oh, at least one language, he retraces his travels as a student twenty years before…Whether braving the homicidal motorist of Paris, being robbed by gypsies in Florence, attempting not to order tripe and eyeballs in a German restaurant, window-shopping in the sex shops of the Reeperbahn or disputing his hotel bill in Copenhagen, Bryson takes in the sights, dissects the culture and illuminates each place and person with his hilariously caustic observations. He even goes to Liechtenstein…
The universal Ustinov
En anglais – In his lifetime, Sir Peter Ustinov has been an actor, writer, dramatist and humorist, an unwilling soldier, a goodwill ambassador and a famous raconteur. But for all his talents, Ustinov is till a man of many contradictions ; a theatrical knight who claims to “hate showbusiness”, a famous wit who often describes himself as “retiring” …
Le voyage
Automne 1942, la Pologne est sous le joug nazi. Katarzyna et Elzbieta, jeunes Juives polonaises, réussissent à fuir le ghetto pour échapper à la déportation. Un long périple les mène chez l’ennemi même, en Allemagne, où, elles s’inscrivent pour le travail volontaire. Comme le dit leur père, «plus les projets sont fous, plus ils réussissent». Mais le subterfuge, utilisé par de nombreux Juifs, est déjà connu de la Gestapo. Contraintes d’errer d’usines en fermes, de changer de noms et de rôles, les deux sœurs vivent dans la peur d’être démasquées et l’espoir de retrouver leur père et leur pays.