Saskia van der Lingen Livres

Analyzes the most important people, places, and concepts of the early Renaissance period, whose explosion of creativity was to spread throughout Europe in the 16th century. In this book, important facts are called out in the margins of each entry, and key elements are pointed out on each illustration.

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.

For Pip, swimming is a necessity. With a hopeless mother, a drug-addled sister and a best friend more interested in her own love-life than in friendship, swimming provides a welcome escape. Swimming is a novel about growing up, about talent, and about having what it takes to survive.

Après le fabuleux succès de Slumdog millionaire, retrouvez tout le génie, et l'humour de Vikas Swarup dans un roman encore plus original, encore plus foisonnant, encore plus palpitant. Une aventure pleine de suspense et d'émotion au coeur de l'Inde d'aujourd'hui. Playboy millionnaire, l'ignoble Vivek " Vicky " Rai est tué lors de sa propre garden-party. Six convives sont suspectés : un bureaucrate possédé par l'esprit de Gandhi ; l'actrice la plus glamour de Bollywood, fan de Nietzsche ; un tout petit aborigène très doué pour l'effraction ; un gamin des rues voleur de portables au physique de jeune premier ; un Monsieur catastrophe texan sous protection judiciaire ; et le must du politicien corrompu, le propre père de la victime. Des palaces de Delhi aux bidonvilles de Mehrauli, des repaires terroristes du Cachemire aux cabanes des îles Andaman, des berges du Gange aux tapis rouges des premières de Bombay, entre soif de justice, vengeances, manigances politiques, quête d'un totem perdu ou d'une fiancée par correspondance, tous les chemins semblent mener au jardin du crime. Mais qui a tué Vicky ?

From the internationally bestselling author of Exit West, a story of love, loss, and rediscovery in a time of unsettling change. One morning, a man wakes up to find himself transformed. Overnight, Anders's skin has turned dark, and the reflection in the mirror seems a stranger to him. At first he shares his secret only with Oona, an old friend turned new lover. Soon, reports of similar events begin to surface. Across the land, people are awakening in new incarnations, uncertain how their neighbours, friends, and family will greet them. Some see the transformations as the long-dreaded overturning of the established order that must be resisted to a bitter end. In many, like Anders's father and Oona's mother, a sense of profound loss and unease wars with profound love. As the bond between Anders and Oona deepens, change takes on a different shading- a chance at a kind of rebirth - an opportunity to see ourselves, face to face, anew. The Last White Man uplifts our capacity for empathy and the transcendence it allows, a migration of consciousness powerfully enacted by the novel itself.