Vikram Seth Livres

Ce roman se déroule au pied du Golden Gate. Lieu : la Californie. Les années quatre-vingt. Quelques Américains, sous l'œil de Vikram Seth, cherchent le grand amour et bravent le destin. Cette épopée moderne, où satire et romance entraînent le lecteur au cœur d'une expérience Unique, est racontée en vers : sept cents sonnets à peu de choses près, où tour à tour paraît et disparaît l'espoir, où le futur auteur d'Un garçon convenable, autre roman épique, fait de San Francisco une cité mythique. Le rire y est fréquent, aussi bien que les pleurs. Savourez sa musique et oubliez l'exploit. Il est traduit ici pour la première fois.

Un visage aperçu à la fenêtre d'un bus, une lettre qui n'aurait jamais dû être lue, un musicien qui vit avec le secret espoir de retrouver son premier amour... Quatuor est le roman de l'amour pour une femme, perdue, retrouvée puis à nouveau perdue. Le roman de la musique ou comment la passion de la musique peut être la passion d'une vie. Le roman de Michael, de Julia et de l'amour qui les unit.

For the first time, the complete collected poems from the author of A SUITABLE BOY, 'The best writer of his generation' (THE TIMES)

Ten witty and enchanting animal fables in verse - in a beautifully illustrated new format

The three Chinese poets translated here are among the greatest literary figures of China, or indeed the world. Wang Wei with his quiet love of nature and Buddhist philosophy; Li Bai, the Taoist spirit, with his wild, flamboyant paeans to wine and the moon; and Du Fu, with his Confucian sense of sympathy with the suffering of others in a time of civil war and collapse. These three poets of a single generation, responding differently to their common times, crystallise the immense variety of China and the Chinese poetic tradition and, across a distance of twelve hundred years, move the reader as it is rare for even poetry to do.

Ten witty and enchanting animal fables in verse which, like a modern Aesop's Fables, can be enjoyed by young and old alike

The classic Number One bestseller from award-winning author Vikram Seth.

`The perfect travel book' New Statesman Hitch-hiking, walking, slogging through rivers and across leech-ridden hills, Vikram Seth travelled through Sinkiang and Tibet to Nepal: from Heaven Lake to the Himalayas. By breaking away from the reliable routes of organised travel, he transformed his journey into an unusual and intriguing exploration of one of the world's least known areas. 'Vikram Seth is already the best writer of his generation' Daniel Johnson, The Tmes

La couv. indique : "The Rivered Earth contains four libretti written by Vikram Seth to be set to music by Alec Roth - together with an account of the pleasures and pains of working with a composer. They take us all over the world - from Chinese and Indian poetry to the beauty and quietness of the Salisbury house where the poet George Herbert lived and died. Spanning centuries of creativity and humanity, these poems pulse with life, energy and inspired brilliance. They are accompanied by four pieces of calligraphy by the author."

A breathtaking new collection of poetry from Vikram Seth, author of A SUITABLE BOY and 'the best writer of his generation' (THE TIMES)