Marion, fresh out of medical school, flees Ethiopia and makes his way to America, finding refuge in his work as an intern at an underfunded, overcrowded New York City hospital. When the past catches up to him--nearly destroying him--Marion must entrust his life to the two men he thought he trusted least in the world: the surgeon father who abandoned him and the brother who betrayed him.
Dans la Floride ségrégationniste des années 1960, le jeune Elwood Curtis prend très à coeur le message de paix de Martin Luther King. Prêt à intégrer l'université pour y faire de brillantes études, il voit s'évanouir ses rêves d'avenir lorsque, à la suite d'une erreur judiciaire, on l'envoie à la Nickel Academy, une maison de correction qui s'engage à faire des délinquants des « hommes honnêtes et honorables ». Sauf qu'il s'agit en réalité d'un endroit cauchemardesque, où les pensionnaires sont soumis aux pires sévices. Elwood trouve toutefois un allié précieux en la personne de Turner, avec qui il se lie d'amitié. Mais l'idéalisme de l'un et le scepticisme de l'autre auront des conséquences déchirantes. Couronné en 2017 par le prix Pulitzer pour Underdground Railroad puis en 2020 pour Nickel Boys, Colson Whitehead s'inscrit dans la lignée des rares romanciers distingués à deux reprises par cette prestigieuse récompense, à l'instar de William Faulkner et John Updike. S'inspirant de faits réels, il continue d'explorer l'inguérissable blessure raciale de l'Amérique et donne avec ce nouveau roman saisissant une sépulture littéraire à des centaines d'innocents, victimes de l'injustice du fait de leur couleur de peau.
"Crossroads is the first novel in Jonathan Franzen's A Key to All Mythologies. The trilogy tells the story of a Midwestern family across three generations, mirroring the preoccupations and dilemmas of the United States from the Vietnam War to the 2020s"
Ces Japonaises ont tout abandonné au début du XXe siècle pour épouser aux Etats-Unis, sur la foi d'un portrait, un inconnu. Celui dont elles ont tant rêvé, qui va tant les décevoir. Choeur vibrant, leurs voix s'élèvent pour raconter l'exil : la nuit de noces, les journées aux champs, la langue revêche, l'humiliation, les joies aussi. Puis le silence de la guerre. Et l'oubli.
Things have never been easy for Oscar. A ghetto nerd living with his Dominican family in New Jersey, he's sweet but disastrously overweight. He dreams of becoming the next J. R. R. Tolkien and he keeps falling hopelessly in love. With dazzling energy and insight, Díaz immerses us in the tumultuous lives of Oscar and his family and their attempts to find love and belonging. Rendered with uncommon warmth and humour, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao is an exciting and completely original first novel from Junot Diaz.
Patty a décidé une fois pour toutes d’être la femme idéale. Mère parfaite, épouse aimante et dévouée, cette ex-basketteuse ayant un faible pour les bad boys a fait, en l’épousant, le bonheur de Walter Berglund, de St. Paul (Minnesota). A eux deux, ils forment le couple « bobo » par excellence. En devenant madame Berglund, Patty a renoncé à bien des choses, et d’abord à son amour de jeunesse, Richard Katz, un rocker dylanien qui se trouve être aussi le meilleur ami de Walter. Freedom raconte l’histoire de ce trio, et capture le climat émotionnel, politique et moral des Etats-Unis de ces 30 dernières années, dans une tragi-comédie d’une incroyable virtuosité. Comment vivre ? Comment s’orienter dans une époque qui semble devenue folle ? Jonathan Franzen relève le défi et tente de répondre à cette question, avec cette histoire d’un mariage d’une implacable cruauté. Freedom a bénéficié dès sa sortie d’une rumeur très favorable, et même avant, lorsque le magazine TIME daté du 23 août a consacré sa couverture à Jonathan Franzen (cela faisait tout juste 10 ans qu’un écrivain avait connu une telle visibilité). La presse a tout de suite embrayé, avec des comptes-rendus enthousiastes, notamment Michiko Kakutani, la redoutée critique du New York Times. Et Oprah Winfrey a (finalement!) invité l’auteur à son show, qui est l’émission la plus regardée aux U.S.A.
Con il racconto inedito la ricerca come felicità - Nuova ediz.
A magnum opus for our morally complex times from the author of FREEDOM and THE CORRECTIONS
The author presents his 1996 work, "The Harper's Essay," offering additional writings that consider a central theme of the erosion of civic life and private dignity and the increasing persistence of loneliness in postmodern American.
The lives of Skip Sands, a spy-in-training engaged in psychological operations against the Vietcong, and brothers Bill and James Houston, young men who drift out of the Arizona desert into a war, intertwine in a novel of America during the Vietnam War
Louis Holland arrives in Boston in a spring of ecological upheaval (a rash of earthquakes on the North Shore) and odd luck: the first one kills his grandmother. Louis tries to maintain his independence, but falls in love with a Harvard seismologist whose discoveries about the earthquakes' cause complicate everything.
Julian Lawndsley has renounced his high-flying job in the City for a simpler life running a bookshop in a small English seaside town. But only a couple of months into his new career, Julian's evening is disrupted by a visitor. Edward, a Polish emigre living in Silverview, the big house on the edge of town, seems to know a lot about Julian's family and is rather too interested in the inner workings of his modest new enterprise. When a letter turns up at the door of a spy chief in London warning him of a dangerous leak, the investigations lead him to this quiet town by the sea . . . Silverview is the mesmerising story of an encounter between innocence and experience and between public duty and private morals. In this last complete masterwork from the greatest chronicler of our age, John le Carre asks what you owe to your country when you no longer recognise it.
Il nuovo e attesissimo libro di Amy Hempel, una delle voci più celebri e originali della narrativa di oggi, si apre con un proverbio arabo: "Quando il pericolo si avvicina, cantagli una canzone". Queste quindici storie raffinate rivelano la parte più umana e vivace della leggendaria scrittrice, che ci presenta figure solitarie e alla deriva in cerca di una connessione. Le loro brevi vicende affrontano le nostre paure e i nostri desideri, costringendoci a compatirli. I personaggi di Amy Hempel, immediatamente vividi e memorabili, hanno cuori danneggiati e sono perseguitati dal dolore. Lottano per perdonare se stessi e gli altri. Ne La chicane l'incontro di una donna con un attore francese suscita un diluvio di ricordi legati a una zia suicida, incapace di trovare stabilità in amore e nella vita. In Un rifugio con tutti i servizi una volontaria di un ricovero per cani si prende cura con devozione degli animali da sopprimere. In Greed una moglie respinta esamina la relazione di suo marito con una donna affascinante e anziana. E in Cloudland, la storia più lunga della raccolta, una donna rimugina sulla scelta fatta da adolescente di rinunciare al suo bambino. Seducenti e inquietanti, tenere e cupamente divertenti, queste storie sono piene di rivelazioni inattese, narrate con lo stile singolare e inimitabile di Amy Hempel.
Heather, The Totality is superb. It gripped me at once. There was no question of turning away at any point. Weiner conveys the sense that beyond the brilliantly chosen details there was a wealth of similarly truthful social and psychological perception unstated. Then there was the ice-cold mercilessness, of a kind that reminded me (oddly, I suppose, but there it was) of Evelyn Waugh. This novel is something special PHILIP PULLMAN
Eric Packer is a twenty-eight-year-old multi-billionaire asset manager. He lives in Manhattan. We join him on what will become a particularly eventful day in his life. When he woke up, he didn’t know what he wanted. Then he knew. He wanted to get a haircut. As his stretch limousine moves across town, his world begins to fall apart. But more worrying than the loss of his fortune is the realization that his life may be under threat. ‘A brilliant excursion into the decadence of contemporary culture’ Sunday Times ‘One of America’s smartest and most disturbing writers’ The Times
Follows three friends and their overlapping social and family circles through their day-to-day lives, their perceived struggles and successes and their constant search for meaning and authenticity. This work is a portrait of a particular place at a particular moment and an illustration how the events of a single day can change everything for ever.
