Janine van der Kooij Ordre des livres (chronologique)

Lange tijd werd het schrijven van en over muziek gedaan door mannen, voor mannen. Mannelijke dominantie en seksisme zitten stevig ingebed in de canons - in literatuur, film en muziek - en vrouwen hebben altijd moeten vechten tegen een hokjesmentaliteit, tegen buitenspel gezet worden wanneer zij hun eigen ruimte wilden creëren. Nu is het tijd voor vrouwen om zich uit te spreken, hun verhaal te vertellen. En harder te schreeuwen. This Woman's Work is een collectie essays over experimentalisten en genredoorbrekers, over vrouwen die muziek met activisme combineerden, over de geracialiseerde stijlfiguren van jazz en over hun eigen persoonlijke ervaringen. Met bijdragen van o.a. Anne Enright, Fatima Bhutto, Jenn Pelly, Leslie Jamison, Maggie Nelson, Juliana Huxtable, Yiyun Li, Ottessa Moshfegh, Margo Jefferson en Rachel Kushner. Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie.

Ainsi que les lecteurs de Gilead et de Chez nous s'en souviendront sans doute, Lila est la seconde épouse du révérend John Ames qui exerce son sacerdoce à Gilead, une petite ville de l'Iowa. C'est à ce personnage féminin, très discret dans les deux romans précédents, que Marilynne Robinson, remontant le temps de sa propre fiction, consacre ce troisième ouvrage, bouclant ainsi, à rebours, le cycle de ce qui apparaît désormais comme une trilogie romanesque. À la manière de certains écrivains dont toute l'?uvre semble hantée par un territoire unique, et comme si écrire s'apparentait pour elle à un geste d'ordre quasi généalogique, la romancière ne quitte donc pas les parages de Gilead, centre du monde en forme de champ magnétique où tout se joue pour les personnages, sur la terre comme au ciel ...

The shocking, yet intensely moving memoir of 37-year-old Tendo, who grew up the daughter of a yakuza boss, takes readers through her downward spiral with warmth and candor, and gives a moving and inspiring account of how she overcame a lifetime of discrimination and abuse.

"My name is Lisa di Antonio Gherardini Giocondo, though to acquaintances, I am known simply as Madonna Lisa. My story begins not with my birth but a murder, committed the year before I was born..." Florence, April 1478: The handsome Giuliano de' Medici is brutally assassinated in Florence's magnificent Duomo. The shock of the murder ripples throughout the great city, from the most renowned artists like Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo, to a wealthy wool merchant and his extraordinarily beautiful daughter, Madonna Lisa. More than a decade later, Florence falls under the dark spell of the preacher Savonarola, a fanatic who burns paintings and books as easily as he sends men to their deaths. Lisa, now grown into an alluring woman, captures the heart of Giuliano's nephew and namesake. But when Guiliano, her love, meets a tragic end, Lisa must gather all her courage and cunning to untangle a sinister web of illicit love, treachery, and dangerous secrets that threatens her life. Set against the drama of 15th Century Florence, I, Mona Lisa is painted in many layers of fact and fiction, with each intricately drawn twist told through the captivating voice of Mona Lisa herself.

Mary Higgins Clark et sa fille Carol vous accueillent à bord du « Royal Mermaid ». Comme Alvirah Meehan et Regan Reilly, leurs héroïnes préférées, vous ne risquez pas d'oublier cette croisière de Noël. Disparitions, menaces, détournements... le voyage s'annonce mouvementé ! Sens de l'intrigue, rebondissements inattendus, humour... les deux reines du suspense vous souhaitent un Noël plein de frissons...

Eithne is the keeper of secrets in her family. When her sister Beatrice disappeared from her home in the dark woods of Co. Meath, it was thirteen-year-old Eithne who uncovered the forlorn evidence of her life: a string of pearls, a pink beret, a compact and her beloved sketchbook. Their mother, Sarah, was so grief-stricken that she did not speak for five years, and her father Joe, sank further into drink-filled rage. Now, as an adult, Eithne is an artist, and tries to remember her sister in her sketches of the dark wooded bogs behind her house. For there was something else about Beatrice that was rarely spoken of in the household, a dark, guilty secret that her disappearance only made worse. And now, almost twenty years later, all could be revealed when a stranger appears. Framed by Eithnes journey to discover the truth about her sister, with the magic and beauty of art running through it, this is a richly compelling, haunting story of family secrets, passion and ultimately redemption.