John E. Woods Livres

Au XVIIIe siècle vécut en France un homme qui compta parmi les personnages les plus géniaux et les plus horribles de son époque. Il s'appelait Jean-Baptiste Grenouille. Sa naissance, son enfance furent épouvantables et tout autre qui lui n'aurait pas survécu. Mais Grenouille n'avait besoin que d'un minimum de nourriture et de vêtements et son âme n'avait besoin de rien. Or, ce monstre de Grenouille, car il s'agissait bien d'un genre de monstre, avait un don, ou plutôt un nez unique au monde, et il entendait bien devenir, même par les moyens les plus atroces, le Dieu tout puissant de l'univers, car "qui maîtrisait les odeurs, maîtrisait le cœur des hommes". C'est son histoire, abominable... et drolatique qui nous est racontée dans Le Parfum, un roman qui, dès sa parution, eut un succès extraordinaire et est devenu très vite un best-seller mondial aujourd'hui porté à l'écran.

A collection of stories that weave themselves around the idea of love---love to seek and love to flee; love as desire, as guilt, as confusion or self-betrayal; love as habit, as affair, and as life-changing rebellion. From the internationally best-selling author of The Reader, here is a collection of stories that weave themselves around the idea of love---love to seek and love to flee; love as desire, as guilt, as confusion or self-betrayal; love as habit, as affair, and as life-changing rebellion. As his myriad fans know from The Reader, Bernhard Schlink's power as a storyteller resides in his cool compassion and in the intelligence that he wields like a laser to penetrate human motives and human behavior. Here his subject is not history but the heart itself, and with the forensic delicacy of a master he lays bare the essence of our feelings. Already an enormous success in the author's native Germany, Flights of Love is certain to be celebrated, discussed, read and re-read.

In the small French town of Rennes-le-Chateau in the 1890s, a parish priest started a rumour which has swelled to a legend that the treasure of the temple of Jerusalem and the Holy Grail were brought to France for safe-keeping. This title attempts to get to the bottom of the mystery.