Mark Behr
The smell of apples
En Anglais – – Set in the bitter twilight of apartheid in South Africa in the 1970s, The Smell of Apples is a haunting story narrated by eleven-year-old Marnus Erasmus, who records the social turmoil and racial oppression that are destroying his own land. Using his family as a microcosm of the corroding society at large, Marnus tells a troubling tale of a childhood corrupted, of unexpected sexual defilements, and of an innocence gone astray.
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The new italians
En Anglais – Italy has seduced generations with its sunshine, landscapes, art treasures and the warmth and vitality of its people, devoted to style, sensuality and the pleasures of life. The reality is less rosy. Italy is as exasperating as it is enchanting. Appalling public services, a rotten political class, the creeping tentacles of the Mafia, the all-forgiving Mother Church and infinitely indulgent ‘mamma’ have long prevented Italians facing up to their collective failings. In ‘The New Italians’, journalist Charles Richards paints a compelling group portrait of the country and people, spanning football to Freemansonry, kickbacks to kidnappings. He concludes that however much things change, the Italians will remain essentially the same, and pull through with their customary ‘brio’.
Le fils de Klara H.
Au début de ce siècle, un jeune psychiatre juif, Max Ellner, décela la folie d'un inconnu qui s'appelait Hitler. Il ne put l'oublier et, plus tard, rédigea un témoignage avant de disparaître dans les camps de la mort. A Paris, de nos jours, un médecin du nom de Patrick Laurent anime un trafic clandestin d'organes et de médicaments périmés. Son père, le Pr louis laurent, fut autrefois un propagandiste de l'euthanasie hitlérienne. Et il correspondait avec Max Ellner… Quelle relation entre ces faits et la disparition suspecte de judith Ellner et de sa fille Sandra ?