Norman Gobetti Livres

1839 : l'empereur de Chine décrète le blocus de l'importation d'opium. Les entrepôts des négociants anglais, indiens et américains sont fermés et leurs stocks brûlés. La flotte britannique s'arme, quitte l'Inde et fait voile vers Canton. Dans le tourbillon soulevé par la guerre, Zachary, Noir américain qui se fait passer pour un Blanc, Catherine, grande bourgeoise frustrée, Kesri, soldat indien, et Shireen, veuve parsie, voient leurs secrets trahis et leurs certitudes bouleversées. Mais tous découvrent ce qu'ils veulent vraiment et s'inventent un avenir. Et tous sont touchés par le drame qui se prépare : la victoire de l'empire britannique qui scellera l'effondrement de leur monde.

In September 1838, a storm blows up on the Indian Ocean and the Ibis, a ship carrying a consignment of convicts and indentured laborers from Calcutta to Mauritius, is caught up in the whirlwind. River of Smoke follows its storm-tossed characters to the crowded harbors of China. There, despite efforts of the emperor to stop them, ships from Europe and India exchange their cargoes of opium for boxes tea, silk, porcelain and silver. Among them are Bahram Modi, a wealthy Parsi opium merchant out of Bombay, his estranged half-Chinese son Ah Fatt, the orphaned Paulette and a motley collection of others whose pursuit of romance, riches and a legendary rare flower have thrown together. All struggle to cope with their losses—and for some, unimaginable freedoms—in the alleys and crowded waterways of 19th-century Canton.

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.

Dans les "Ténèbres", vaste région au coeur d'une Inde miséreuse et violente, chacun sait que la Shining India ne brille pas pour tous! Balram Halwai, surnommé le Tigre Blanc pour son intelligence hors norme, est pourtant décidé à conquérir sa place au soleil. Immoral et cynique, il ne reculera devant aucun moyen, quitte à y perdre son âme... Un premier roman couronné parle Booker Prize en 2008.

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.

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.

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

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