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TELEGRAPH BOOKS OF THE YEAR and OBSERVER BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2014br>br>Limonov is not a fictional character, but he could have been. He''s lived a hundred lives. He was a hoodlum in Ukraine, an idol of the Soviet underground, punk-poet and valet to a billionaire in Manhattan, fashion writer in Paris, lost soldier in the Balkans, and now, in the chaos after the fall of communism a charismatic party leader of a gang of political desperados. Limonov sees himself as a hero, but he is also a bastard. Carrere suspends judgment. Carrere decided to write about Limonov because he thought "that his life, romantic and reckless, tells us something, not just about Limonov or Russia, but the story of all of us after the end of World War II.">
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'The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again: but already it was impossible to say which was which...' Halas & Bachelor studio's classic and controversial 1954 animation of Animal Farm , George Orwell's chilling fable of idealism betrayed, was the first ever British animated feature film. This landmark illustrated edition of Orwell's novel was first published alongside it, and features the original line drawings by the film's animators, Joy Batchelor and John Halas.
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Au lendemain de la Deuxième Guerre mondiale, Laurent Newman est un New-Yorkais bon teint, descendant d'une famille anglaise dont les racines remontent au XIXe siècle. Il est cadre à la direction du personnel dans la même société depuis une quinzaine d'années. Un jour, il est réprimandé par son chef pour avoir engagé une secrétaire " à l'air juif ", erreur qu'il impute à la mauvaise vue de Newman. Laurent achète donc sa première paire de lunettes. Celles-ci font ressortir son nez. Tout d'un coup sa vie bascule... On le prend pour un juif. Pressions, brimades, agressions, la spirale de la haine se met en place, Newman perd son travail et échappe de peu à un lynchage. D'autant qu'une sorte de " front " antisémite sévit dans son voisinage. Gertrude, sa femme, le pousse à adhérer au " front ". Newman refuse. De fait, peu à peu, il s'identifie davantage aux victimes qu'aux agresseurs. En se concentrant sur la subjectivité, les doutes et les émotions contrastées de son personnage, Arthur Miller livre un premier roman fascinant sur la confusion des sentiments, de l'identité et sur l'expérience des préjugés, ceux dont on est victime et ceux qu'on abrite en soi. Il annonce également la tonalité de ses futurs chefs-doeuvre : veine humaniste et acuité psychologique.
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Tender Is the Night
Francis Scott Fitzgerald
- Adult pbs
- Modern Classics
- 26 Juillet 2010
- 9780141045214
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An official tie-in edition of Philip K. Dick's dazzling speculative novel to accompany the new TV series, executive produced by Ridley Scott. Philip K. Dick's acclaimed cult novel gives us a horrifying glimpse of an alternative world - one where the Allies have lost the Second World War. In this nightmare dystopia the Nazis have taken over New York, the Japanese control California and the African continent is virtually wiped out. In a neutral buffer zone in America that divides the world's new rival superpowers, lives the author of an underground bestseller. His book offers a new vision of reality - an alternative theory of world history in which the Axis powers were defeated - giving hope to the disenchanted. Does 'reality' lie with him, or is his world just one among many others? 'The most brilliant science fiction mind on any planet' Rolling Stone 'Dick's finest book, and one of the very best science fiction novels ever published' Eric Brown
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22 novembre 1963, assassinat du président kennedy. faute d'élucidation crédible, le mystère est resté total et le drame est entré dans la légende américaine. don delillo a puisé dans la vérité historique tous les éléments d'un fantastique roman policier - agents secrets, activistes de droite et de gauche, mafiosi, stripteaseuses, trafiquants de drogue, cia, fbi, kgb, fidel castro... et un coupable désigné nommé oswald, né sous le signe de la balance (libra, en anglais), meurtrier idéal assassiné à son tour devant les caméras du monde entier. de ce personnage mystérieux, delillo a fait l'antihéros d'un roman saisissant qui prouvera une fois de plus que l'intuition d'un grand romancier peut nous emmener plus loin sur le chemin de la vérité que bien des enquêtes. né à new york en 1936, écrivain reconnu dans le monde entier, don delillo a reçu les plus prestigieuses distinctions dont the national book award et the pen / faulkner award. il a également obtenu the jérusalem prize 1999 pour l'ensemble de son oeuvre ainsi que the howells medal of the american academy of arts and letters pour son roman, outre-monde. la plus grande partie de l'oeuvre de don delillo est publiée en france par actes sud.
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McMurphy, a criminal who feigns insanity, is admitted to a mental hospital where he challenges the autocratic authority of the head nurse
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Set in the rich farmland of the Salinas Valley, California, this often brutal novel follows the intertwined destinies of two families - the Trasks and the Hamiltons - whose generations hopelessly re-enact the fall of Adam and Eve and the poisonous rivalry of Cain and Abel.
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Audacious, controversial and hilarious, The Monkey Wrench Gang is Edward Abbey's masterpiece - a big, boisterous and unforgettable novel about freedom and commitment that ignited the flames of environmental activism. Throughout the vast American West, nature is being vicitimized by a Big Government / Big Business conspiracy of bridges, dams and concrete. But a motley gang of individuals has decided that enough is enough. A burnt-out veteran, a mad doctor and a polygamist join forces in a noble cause: to dismantle the machinery of progress through peaceful means, or otherwise.
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Spy who came in from the cold, the
John Le Carré
- Adult pbs
- Modern Classics
- 7 Septembre 2017
- 9780241330920
In 1963 John le Carre published his third book, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold . Written over a period of about five weeks in response to the fear and ugliness of the Berlin Wall, its bitter, devastating story crystallised the doubts and moral dilemmas of the time. It altered irrevocably our understanding of the Cold War, the shape of the spy novel, and John le Carre's writing career, propelling him to international fame.
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Survivor, genius, perfumer, killer: this is Jean-Baptiste Grenouille. He is abandoned on the filthy streets of Paris as a child, but grows up to discover he has an extraordinary gift: a sense of smell more powerful than any other human's. Soon, he is creating the most sublime fragrances in all the city. Yet there is one odour he cannot capture.
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Shanghai, 1941. Une vieille famille crispée autour de sa douairière semble avoir pour seule ambition d'arrêter le temps. Quand Madame Hsü y introduit un riche héritier aux moeurs décadentes pour épouser la Septième Demoiselle, c'est bien davantage sa soeur, Pai Lio-su, la jeune et belle divorcée retournée vivre dans sa famille, qui intéresse Fan Liu-yuan. Devant l'hostilité montante du clan, Pai Lio-su quitte Shanghai pour Hongkong, sans savoir que Fan Liu-yuan l'y attend... Mais le séducteur cherche autre chose en Lio-su qu'une simple aventure. Et son jeu devient partie intégrante de l'amour qu'il lui porte, tandis que celle-ci, furieusement amoureuse, se refuse à lui avec défiance, orgueil, voire insolence. Mais la guerre enflamme Hongkong, les jetant dans l'oeil d'un cyclone qui les dépouille de tout vernis. Et c'est tout le décor dramatique et précieux de leur vie qui tombe avec Hongkong.
Il y a dans Love in a Fallen City un accent fitzgéraldien qui donne toute sa modernité à ce drame de la confrontation entre les moeurs traditionnelles chinoises et l'occidentalisation accélérée. L'art achevé d'Eileen Chang entretisse, avec un sens du détail et une émotion des couleurs tout picturaux, un jeu de métaphores aux délicatesses presque insaisissables de palimpsestes, portraits acerbes de personnages prisonniers de leur rôle social, tout cela dans la grâce saisie sur le vif du sentiment intime comme il naît, s'épanouit et s'étiole. Love in a Fallen City est ici suivi d'une nouvelle inédite Ah Hsiao est triste en automne.
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Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literaturebr>br>''Absolutely essential and heartbreaking reading. There''s a reason Ms. Alexievich won a Nobel Prize'' - Craig Mazin, creator of the HBO / Sky TV series Chernobylbr>br>br>- A new translation of Voices from Chernobyl based on the revised text -br>br>In April 1986 a series of explosions shook the Chernobyl nuclear reactor. Flames lit up the sky and radiation escaped to contaminate the land and poison the people for years to come. While officials tried to hush up the accident, Svetlana Alexievich spent years collecting testimonies from survivors - clean-up workers, residents, firefighters, resettlers, widows, orphans - crafting their voices into a haunting oral history of fear, anger and uncertainty, but also dark humour and love. br>br>A chronicle of the past and a warning for our nuclear future, Chernobyl Prayer shows what it is like to bear witness, and remember in a world that wants you to forget.br>br>''Beautifully written. . . heart-breaking'' - Arundhati Roy, Elle br>br>''One of the most humane and terrifying books I''ve ever read'' - Helen Simpson, Observer>
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THE UNWOMANLY FACE OF WAR
Svetlana Alexievich
- Adult pbs
- Modern Classics
- 12 Juillet 2017
- 9780141983523
THE TIMES, TELEGRAPH, GUARDIAN, OBSERVER and ECONOMIST BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2017 'A must read' - Margaret Atwood 'Extraordinary. . . it would be hard to find a book that feels more important or original' - Viv Groskop, Observer The long-awaited translation of the classic oral history of Soviet women's experiences in the Second World War - from the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature "Why, having stood up for and held their own place in a once absolutely male world, have women not stood up for their history? Their words and feelings? A whole world is hidden from us. Their war remains unknown... I want to write the history of that war. A women's history." In the late 1970s, Svetlana Alexievich set out to write her first book, The Unwomanly Face of War , when she realized that she grew up surrounded by women who had fought in the Second World War but whose stories were absent from official narratives. Travelling thousands of miles, she spent years interviewing hundreds of Soviet women - captains, tank drivers, snipers, pilots, nurses and doctors - who had experienced the war on the front lines, on the home front and in occupied territories. As it brings to light their most harrowing memories, this symphony of voices reveals a different side of war, a new range of feelings, smells and colours. After completing the manuscript in 1983, Alexievich was not allowed to publish it because it went against the state-sanctioned history of the war. With the dawn of Perestroika, a heavily censored edition came out in 1985 and it became a huge bestseller in the Soviet Union - the first in five books that have established her as the conscience of the twentieth century.
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'Few novelists match the intensity of her vision' J. G. Ballard No one knows why the ice has come, and no one can stop it. Every day it creeps further across the earth, covering the land in snow and freezing everything in its path. Through this bleached, devastated world, one man pursues the sylph-like, silver-haired girl he loves, as she keeps running - away from her husband; away from the sinister 'warden' who seeks to control her; away from him. 'A raw, brutal tale set in a frozen post-nuclear dystopia ... addictive and extremely entertaining' Guardian 'There is nothing else quite like Ice' Doris Lessing 'She is De Quincey's heir and Kafka's sister' Brian Aldiss
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Haunting stories from the Soviet-Afghan War from the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature br>br>- A new translation of Zinky Boys based on the revised text - br>br>From 1979 to 1989 Soviet troops engaged in a devastating war in Afghanistan that claimed thousands of casualties on both sides. While the Soviet Union talked about a ''peace-keeping'' mission, the dead were shipped back in sealed zinc coffins. Boys in Zinc presents the honest testimonies of soldiers, doctors and nurses, mothers, wives and siblings who describe the lasting effects of war. br>br>Weaving together their stories, Svetlana Alexievich shows us the truth of the Soviet-Afghan conflict: the killing and the beauty of small everyday moments, the shame of returned veterans, the worries of all those left behind. When it was first published in the USSR in 1991, Boys in Zinc sparked huge controversy for its unflinching, harrowing insight into the realities of war.>
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Every Thursday morning in a living room in Iran, over tea and pastries, eight women meet in secret to discuss forbidden works of Western literature. As they lose themselves in the worlds of Lolita, The Great Gatsby and Pride and Prejudice, gradually they come to share their own stories, dreams and hopes with each other, and, for a few hours, taste freedom. Azar Nafisi''s bestselling memoir is a moving, passionate testament to the transformative power of books, the magic of words and the search for beauty in life''s darkest moments.>
