Sergio Trasatti
Vatican Kremlin – Les secrets d’un face-à-face
L'histoire diplomatique et secrète des relations et des conflits entre les papes (de Benoît XV à Jean-Paul II) et les chefs du Kremlin ainsi que les apparatchiks des anciennes démocraties populaires.
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Le 8 décembre 1991, Paula, une jeune femme de vingt-neuf ans, atteinte d'une grave maladie, sombre dans le coma. Elle mourra un an plus tard. Pendant les jours de détresse consacrés à la veiller, sa mère – Isabel Allende – entreprend de lui adresser par écrit un long récit : l'histoire des siens. Au gré des souvenirs revit le Chili du président Allende, en état de quasi-guerre civile jusqu'à la tragédie de 1973. Puis vient le temps de l'exil et de la création littéraire. Mais à travers le témoignage, l'histoire, la confidence, ce livre nous conte avant tout la lutte désespérée, bouleversante, d'une mère contre le temps qui passe et emporte chaque jour un peu plus son enfant.
Once were warriors
En Anglais – The Hekes are a family in turmoil. A tyrannical, alcoholic, violent patriarch, an alcoholic, ever-trying-to-reform mother, and three degenerate children. Can the draw Maori ritual and tradition pull them back from the brink?
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’.
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.