One of the most popular and influential painters to emerge from turn-of-the-century Vienna finds expression here with a full catalog of the artist's work, as well as a full accounting of his life, including his early childhood, his shaky encounters with the upper classes, his sexual adventures, and his arrest on a morals charge.10,000 first printing.
Nominee for the 1992 Booker Prize for Fiction Sacred Hunger is a stunning and engrossing exploration of power, domination, and greed. Filled with the "sacred hunger" to expand its empire and its profits, England entered full into the slave trade and spread the trade throughout its colonies. In this Booker Prize-winning work, Barry Unsworth follows the failing fortunes of William Kemp, a merchant pinning his last chance to a slave ship; his son who needs a fortune because he is in love with an upper-class woman; and his nephew who sails on the ship as its doctor because he has lost all he has loved. The voyage meets its demise when disease spreads among the slaves and the captain's drastic response provokes a mutiny. Joining together, the sailors and the slaves set up a secret, utopian society in the wilderness of Florida, only to await the vengeance of the single-minded, young Kemp. From Publishers Weekly Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Examines seventeenth-century Dutch life, history, and culture.
Winnie and Helen have kept each other's worst secrets for more than fifty years. Now, because she believes she is dying, Helen wants to expose everything. And Winnie angrily determines that she must be the one to tell her daughter, Pearl, about the past—including the terrible truth even Helen does not know. And so begins Winnie's story of her life on a small island outside Shanghai in the 1920s, and other places in China during World War II, and traces the happy and desperate events that led to Winnie's coming to America in 1949.
Court physician Robert Merivel has a middle age crisis and sets off for Versailles where he meets Madame de Flamanville, a Swiss botanist, and rescues a captive bear to take back to Bidnold Manor.
La disparition de l'arrière-grand-père Francisco, englouti par un lagon sur la côte sud de l'Inde, marque le début d'une série de drames au sein de la famille Gama-Zogoiby, dont le narrateur Moraes, surnommé Le Maure, est issu. Fils unique et difforme de la séduisante Aurora, qui a charmé l'humble Abraham, Moraes se retrouve rapidement entraîné dans des situations cocasses et périlleuses, allant des bas-fonds de Bombay aux milieux corrompus de la haute finance. Entre comédie, farce, épopée et merveilleux, ce récit devient une allégorie des désordres du monde. L'auteur, Salman Rushdie, renoue avec le style picaresque des Enfants de Minuit et, grâce à son écriture savoureuse et évocatrice, se positionne parmi les plus grands écrivains contemporains. Né en 1947 à Bombay et vivant en Grande-Bretagne depuis 1961, Rushdie a reçu de nombreux prix littéraires et ses œuvres sont traduites en vingt-cinq langues. Les critiques saluent son travail : Doris Lessing le qualifie de délice, Nadine Gordimer le considère comme l'écrivain le plus original de notre époque, et Peter Kemp le décrit comme absolument fabuleux. Un triomphe selon Norman Rush, du New York Times Book Review.
Le titre original "Restauration" convient bien à ce roman d'époque sous Charles II autour du grand incendie et de la grande peste à Londres en 1666. C'est la restauration de la gaîté après la période austère de Cromwell, celle de la vie après celle de la mort due aux deux catastrophes précitées enfin, c'est la restauration d'un homme, le héros du roman, bouffon du roi et médecin. Personnage attachant qui ressemble à Falstaff et à Don Quichotte.
At the heart of this story is an interracial couple, Steven and Jabulile, living in a 'free' South Africa. He is a university lecturer and she is a lawyer, both comrades in the Struggle and now parents of children born in freedom.
Set among the hills and gorges of the Cevennes, the dark and beautiful heartland of southern France, 'Trespass' is a novel about disputed territory, sibling love and devastating revenge.
Ian Buruma's epic novel is the richly imagined story of one woman's struggle to survive in the face of war and occupation in the Far East during the Second World War. It should appeal to anyone who loved Memoirs of a Geisha. 'Spare, elegant... Buruma's writing is wonderful... So beautifully executed that the reader is swept along.' Vanora Bennett, The Times
