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Dans ce volet du cycle À la recherche du temps perdu, le narrateur s’avance à l’ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs: regards croisés, rencontres fugaces, promesses d’un amour à peine esquissé. Tandis qu’il traverse salons et promenades et s’éveille à l’appel de l’art, chaque sensation se fait souvenir en train de naître, chaque instant un paysage intérieur.

À la fin du siècle, une figure du Décadentisme invoque un démon sans visage: l’absurde. Dans ce roman où le réel se lézarde, les certitudes vacillent, les élans et les répulsions se heurtent, et la condition humaine affleure, mise à nu. Fidèle à une esthétique anti-réaliste, la narration glisse entre clairvoyance et vertige, mêlant trouble, ironie sombre et élégance vénéneuse, pour sonder ce qui nous meut quand toute logique se défait.

Newly arrived in America, Yana spends her days in a series of dead-end service jobs and her nights meeting other immigrants. Working as a doctor in Sofia, Yana's beautiful mother Lily believes she has escaped the dark horrors of her childhood, until she finds herself trapped once more in a violent marriage. And Lily's own mother, Eva, is slowly losing herself in the embroidery of her memories.

Este libro es una invitación a descubrir cómo los valores pueden transformar la vida cotidiana y fortalecer los lazos familiares. Sonia Martha López Villarreal utiliza el poder del cuento como herramienta educativa, ofreciendo relatos que no solo entretienen, sino que también transmiten enseñanzas profundas sobre gratitud, respeto, solidaridad y esperanza. Cada historia abre la puerta al diálogo, permitiendo que los pequeños comprendan la importancia de vivir con valores y que aprendan a aplicarlos en su entorno escolar y social.

À Sainte-Hélène, territoire britannique perdu dans l'Atlantique Sud, c'est la consternation. Le consul qui administre l'enclave française de Longwood, où est mort Napoléon, a disparu. Comment peut-on se volatiliser sur une île reliée à l'Afrique du Sud par un avion chaque semaine et où tout le monde se connaît? C'est ce qu'Aurel va être chargé de découvrir. Il va vite comprendre que représenter la France à Sainte-Hélène n'est pas de tout repos. Car Napoléon rend fou. Son souvenir déchaîne encore des passions violentes.

Everyone saw the murder happen. Now they want to know why. Nineteen-year-old Odette and eighty-year-old Amos were already famous. Their unlikely, heartwarming friendship captured the hearts of thousands of fans online. But when Amos is brutally murdered during a livestream and Odette is filmed...

Pen und Alice aus Toronto sind seit ihrer Kindheit unzertrennlich. Jetzt beginnen sie gemeinsam ihr Studium in Edinburgh – voller Erwartungen, Sehnsucht und dem leisen Gefühl, dass dieser Sommer alles verändern wird. Pen ist überzeugt: Die Antwort liegt hier – bei Lord Lennox, dem berühmten Schriftsteller und alten Freund ihres Vaters. Als sie eingeladen wird, ein Wochenende auf seinem jahrhundertealten Anwesen in den Highlands zu verbringen, öffnet sich eine Welt voller Charisma, familiärer Verstrickungen und lange gehüteter Wahrheiten.

Discover Caroline Blackwood's darkly brilliant debut - a perfect rediscovered classic for fans of Shirley Jackson and Ottessa Moshfegh 'A bracingly nasty book . . . Splendid, dark, often very funny' MEGAN NOLAN, Telegraph A lavish Upper West Side apartment is the site of a familial cold war...

From the National Book Award-winning author of The Friend, one of the most celebrated novelists of her generation, the story of a woman's experiences of war and an unusual friendship 'Resonant and provocative' VOGUE 'One of my favourite authors' NATALIE PORTMAN I did not remember a Rouenna...

Tolstoy’un en sarsıcı eserlerinden biri. Saygın bir yargıcın hayatı, ölümün sessizce yaklaşmasıyla paramparça olur. İvan İlyiç, ilk kez kendi hayatına dışarıdan bakar: Aldatıcı başarılar, sahte ilişkiler ve kaçırılmış bir ömür… “Doğru yaşadım mı?” Bu soru, romanın her satırında yankılanır.

Adam Pearce, publicitaire, a toujours eu deux vies. Une en Californie où ses projets de carrière et sa vie de couple comblaient la majorité de son temps. L'autre, plus lointaine dans le Maine, où il avait laissé tant sa famille que ses souvenirs d'enfance. Rongé par l'amertume et le regret, il ne veut plus en entendre parler. Pourtant, alors qu'il prend un taxi pour rentrer chez lui, deux jours avant le réveillon, il fait la connaissance de Nicolas. Un vieil homme un peu étrange qui semble particulièrement préoccupé par ses peines de cœur.

Hannah is miserable. Her love life is in ruins, her contract demands a sequel to her bestselling crime debut – and she's out of ideas. When a night out ends in murder, Hannah finds herself at the centre of a murder investigation … again. Soon Hannah is chasing suspects, fleeing crime scenes, and doing whatever it takes to avoid becoming the next victim. She came to write a crime novel. Now she's trapped inside one.

Brought to you by Penguin. There were conjugal visits in the slave camps of the USSR. Valiant women would travel continental distances, over weeks and months, in the hope of spending a night, with their particular enemy of the people, in the House of Meetings. The consequences of these liaisons...

Brought to you by Penguin. Charles Highway is every mother's worst nightmare. Precociously intelligent, mercilessly manipulative and highly sexed, Charles devotes the last of his teenage years to bedding girls and evading the half-arsed overtures of his distant parents. That is, until, he meets...

Brought to you by Penguin. THE NOVEL THAT INSPIRED THE OSCAR WINNING FILM Amidst the horrors of Auschwitz, German officer, Angelus Thomsen, has found love. But unfortunately for Thomsen, the object of his affection is already married to his camp commandant, Paul Doll. As Thomsen and Doll’s...

Brought to you by Penguin. Tod. T. Friendly is living his life backwards. Doctor Friendly has just died, but after weeks of improving in the hospital, he is sent home to his affable, melting-pot, primary-colour existence in suburban America. From the fresh-cut lawns of his retirement to the...

Brought to you by Penguin. Smooth-talking, sensual and self-deluded, Gregory Riding leads an existence of formidable foppishness, his days and nights a series of effortless, titillating conquests and tireless sex - sister, employers, acquaintances are but co-stars among a cast of thousands to...

Brought to you by Penguin. John Self is a consumer extraordinaire. Rolling between London and New York he closes movie deals and spends feverishly, all the while grabbing everything he can to sate his massive appetites: alcohol, tobacco, pills, pornography and mountains of junk food. But John's...

Brought to you by Penguin. An intoxicating comedy about youth, the 1970s, the sexual revolution and its aftermath. Summer, 1970. Sex is very much on everyone's mind. Keith Nearing - a bookish twenty-year-old, in that much disputed territory between five foot six and five foot seven - is on...

Brought to you by Penguin. When 'dream husband' Xan Meo is vengefully assaulted in the garden of a London pub, he suffers head-injury, and personality-change. Like a spiritual convert, the familial paragon becomes an anti-husband, an anti-father. He submits to an alien moral system - one among...