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Norman Gobetti

    Gun Island
    The Land of Decoration
    Indignation
    Exit West
    The World Without Us
    River of Smoke
    • River of Smoke

      • 580pages
      • 21 heures de lecture

      The sequel to the bestselling, Booker-shortlisted, Sea of Poppies.

      River of Smoke
      3,9
    • Take us off the Earth and what traces of us would linger? Weisman writes about which objects from today would vanish without us; how our pipes, wires, and cables would be pulverized into a line of red rock, and why some museums and churches might be the last human creations left standing.

      The World Without Us
      3,9
    • In a country teetering on the brink of civil war, two young people meet--sensual, fiercely independent Nadia and gentle, restrained Saeed. They embark on a furtive love affair, thrust into premature intimacy by the unrest roiling their city. When it explodes, turning familiar streets into a patchwork of checkpoints and bomb blasts, they begin to hear whispers about doors--doors that can whisk people far away, if perilously and for a price. As violence and the threat of violence escalate, Nadia and Saeed decide that they no longer have a choice. Leaving their homeland and their old lives behind, they find a door and step through.

      Exit West
      3,8
    • Indignation

      • 237pages
      • 9 heures de lecture

      En 1951, pendant la guerre de Corée, Marcus Messner, 19 ans et d'origine juive, étudie au Winesburg College dans l'Ohio pour fuir la paranoïa de son père. Ce roman d'apprentissage explore son parcours intellectuel et sexuel.

      Indignation
      3,7
    • Ten-year-old Judith McPherson sees the world with the clear eyes of faith. Other students persecute her for her differences. To escape, Judith builds a Land of Decoration, a model in miniature of the Promised Land. When her father's factory job is threated by a strike and the taunting of school slips into dangerous territory, they threaten the very foundations of Judith's world

      The Land of Decoration
      3,6
    • Gun Island

      • 313pages
      • 11 heures de lecture

      A spellbinding, globe-trotting novel by the bestselling author of the Ibis trilogy

      Gun Island
      3,5