Elliot Perlman Livres

Instituteur au chômage, Simon ne parvient pas à oublier Anna, qu'il aime sans retour depuis dix ans. Un après-midi, sans que rien ne laisse présager de son geste, il enlève le petit garçon de la jeune femme à la sortie de l'école.Crime d'un pervers masqué en héros romantique ? Acte désespéré d'un homme détruit par le chômage ? Ultime tentative d'un amoureux transi pour attirer l'attention de celle qu'il aime ? Sept personnages, tous impliqués à des degrés divers dans l'événement, tentent de trouver une explication à ce geste. Au travers de leurs témoignages, ils parlent aussi d'eux, de leur souffrance à vivre dans une société convertie au culte de l'argent, et de leur espoir qu'il y reste encore, malgré tout, une place pour la poésie et l'amour fou.«Un texte aussi dense que maîtrisé, aussi attachant, humain et ambigu que les êtres qui le peuplent. »Raphaëlle Leyris, Les Inrockuptibles

On the crowded streets of New York City there are even more stories than there are people passing each other every day... only some of these stories survive to become history. Lamont Williams, recently released from prison and working as a hospital janitor, strikes up an unlikely friendship with a patient, an elderly Jewish Holocaust survivor who starts to tell him of his extraordinary past. Meanwhile Adam Zignelik, the son of a prominent Jewish civil rights lawyer, is facing a personal crisis: almost 40-years-old, his long-term relationship is faltering and his academic career has stalled. It's only when one of his late father's closest friends, the civil rights activist William McCray, suggests a promising research topic that the possibility of some kind of redemption arises.Dealing with memory, racism and the human capacity for guilt, resilience, heroism, and unexpected kindness, The Street Sweeper spans over fifty years, and ranges from New York to Melbourne, Chicago, Warsaw and Auschwitz, as these two very different paths - Adam's and Lamont's - lead to one greater story.

In the bustling streets of New York City, countless stories unfold daily, but only a few endure to become part of history.

When a pampered cat has to share her home with a lost dog, sparks are set to fly. To her surprise, Catvinkle starts to like Ula. She even tells Ula her three secrets. But a cat and a dog can't be friends - can they? A tail-spin of a tale that will make you howl with laughter - and remind you that if you aren't open to adventure, you might never meet your best friend.

But this is the nineties, and the world values other things. Angry, yet full of unexpected humour, Three Dollars chronicles a modern breach in the social contract, and the legacy of Thatcherism and Reaganomics and its effect on people and relationships.