Kitty Pouwels Livres

The second powerful and heart-rending novel, set in 80s Glasgow, from Douglas Stuart, Booker Prize- and British Book Award-winning author of Shuggie Bain.[Bokinfo].

Une journaliste parisienne découvre, soixante ans après, le drame du Vél d'Hiv, en 1942, lors de la rafle des Juifs, et poursuit son enquête sur une petite Sarah qui faisait partie du lot. [SDM]

Recounting the early life of arguably the most evil person who ever lived, Norman Mailer's account of Adolf Hitler's upbringing is appropriately narrated by someone who was there at his conception - one of Satan's devils.

Three German women are haunted by the past and their secrets, in the devastating aftermath of WWII. A mesmerising story of resistance, forgiveness and the complexity of the human heart.

In the year 2000, in the closest election in American history, Alice Blackwell's husband becomes president of the United States. Their time in the White House proves to be heady, tumultuous, and controversial. But it is Alice's own story - that of a kind, bookish, only child born in the 1940s Midwest who comes to inhabit a life of dizzying wealth and power - that is itself remarkable. Alice candidly describes her small-town upbringing, and the tragedy that shaped her identity; she recalls her early adulthood as a librarian, and her surprising courtship with the man who swept her off her feet; she tells of the crisis that almost ended their marriage; and she confides the privileges and difficulties of being first lady, a role that is uniquely cloistered and public, secretive and exposed. In Alice Blackwell, Curtis Sittenfeld has created her most dynamic and complex heroine yet. American Wife is not a novel about politics. It is a gorgeously written novel that weaves race, class, fate and wealth into a brilliant tapestry. It is a novel in which the unexpected becomes inevitable, and the pleasures and pain of intimacy and love are laid bare.

Howard Dawson, hoofdwetenschapper van de Amerikaanse basis op Antarctica, wordt vermoord. Net voor hij een rapport wilde opstellen over een onheilspellende gebeurtenis rondom de opwarming van de aarde die hij als ooggetuige in Antarctica meemaakte. Tomás Noronha, gespecialiseerd in cryptografie, wordt door Interpol gevraagd om de moord op te lossen. De moordenaar heeft een velletje papier naast zijn slachtoffer achtergelaten met daarop de cijfers '666' - het getal van het beest uit de Openbaring van Johannes. Het mysterie rond dit getal stort Tomás in een adembenemend avontuur dat hem dwingt het confronterendste moment van de mensheid te doorstaan: de Apocalyps.

Autobiografisch relaas van een alleenstaande Amerikaanse die onderzoekt of ze al dan niet moeder wil en kan worden.