Gisela Stege Livres

Eine repräsentative Auswahl namhafter Fotografen, die die Hollywood-Legende ablichteten

Terre, début du XXIe siècle. Un signal musical d'origine inconnue a été capté par une station de scientifiques. Commanditée par les jésuites, une mission dirigée par le jeune Emilio Sandoz, tout à la fois prêtre et linguiste de haut niveau, part dans l'espace à la recherche des extraterrestres. Tous se préparent à affronter la mort et la solitude, mais la catastrophe qui les attend va bien au-delà de ce qu'ils redoutaient. Rome, 2059. Enfin de retour sur Terre, Emilio Sandoz - unique survivant de l'expédition - est traduit devant un tribunal chargé de sonder son âme et de le punir pour les horribles crimes dont on l'accuse. Cet homme, transformé par son expérience, aurait-il été abandonné par Dieu ? Tout à la fois roman d'aventure, conte moral, parabole religieuse, épopée futuriste, histoire d'amour et tragédie, " Le moineau de Dieu " mêle passion, émotion et érudition. Un livre d'une maîtrise rare, retenu aux Etats-Unis comme " l'un des dix meilleurs livres de l'année 1996 ".

A westerner raised in Japan, he survived the destruction of Hiroshima to emerge as the world's most artful lover and its most accomplished assassin. His greatest desire is to attain a state of effortless perfection . . . shibumi. But he is about to face his most sinister and corrupt enemy -- a supermonolith of espionage and monopoly bent on destroying him. . . . From the Paperback edition.

One of the very best must-read SF novels of all time.

Michael Corleone's exile in Sicily is ending, but on the instructions of his father, The Godfather, he must bring back to him the young man known as Salvatore Giuliano - if he can find him. At sea amid the treacheries of a brutal and unfamiliar land, Mich

Haroun's father is the greatest of all storyletters. His magical stories bring laughter to the sad city of Alifbay. But one day something goes wrong and his father runs out of stories to tell. Haroun is determined to return the storyteller's gift to his father. So he flies off on the back of the Hoopie bird to the Sea of Stories - and a fantastic adventure begins.

In these nine stories, Salman Rushdie looks at what happens when East meets West, at the forces that pull his characters first in one direction, then the other. Fantasy and realism collide as a rickshaw driver writes letters describing his film star career in Bombay; a mispronunciation leads to romance and an unusual courtship in sixties London; two childhood friends turned diplomats live out in a violent world fantasies hatched by "Star Trek"; and Christopher Columbus dreams of consummating his relationship with Queen Isabella. The stories in "East, West" show the extraordinary range and power of Salman Rushdie's writing.