Joseph O'Connor
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.
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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.
Scrupules – Tome II
Billy est la reine de Beverly Hills. Elle est belle, riche, inventive. Elle a créé “Scrupules”, le magasin le plus somptueux que la terre ait jamais porté, le temple de l’élégance, du luxe et de la beauté. Aujourd’hui, elle se prépare avec délices à goûter les joies de la maternité. Mais, en quelques mois, son bonheur est réduit à néant Elle découvre que son mari a une liaison, perd l’enfant qu’elle attend et voit sa meilleure amie périr dans le mystérieux incendie qui ravage “Scrupules”. Effondrée, Billy s’envole pour Paris et tente de se construire une nouvelle vie. Mais, là encore, elle connaît de terribles désillusions. Serait-elle victime de la “malédiction” qui parfois pèse sur les femmes trop belles et trop riches ?
The virgin and the fool
En Anglais – Ukraine! The name of the country means on the edge! Living there has always been
hard. Now it’s highly dangerous too. When ex-university lecturer Tom Fielding goes on the run with Clive Ponsonby of MI6 – the man who put him in Longfield Open Prison for eight years – he has only hours in which to save several lives. Ponsonby’s former agent, Nosarenko, is now President of the the Ukraine. He is determined to silence Tom. Why? Because he was the sole witness of a gruesome murder in the 1980s which could destroy his political career.
Clive Ponsonby wants the half-million dollars that went missing during Tom’s mission in Russia.
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.