Que peut faire quelqu'un d'une douleur aggravée d'un sentiment de culpabilité ? Que peut faire quelqu'un d'une douleur qu'il ne peut partager ? Alistair Crown, psychiatre, sait tout sur la culpabilité jusqu'à ce qu'il en soit victime lui-même. Alors il ne sait plus comment l'aborder. Mais il est expert en griffonnages et, à travers ses dessins, il se débat et finit par trouver une forme de solution... La construction romanesque est brillante, le style mordant. C'est drôle, ironique et finalement assez poignant.
Bernice Rubens Livres
Bernice Rubens était une auteure britannique dont les œuvres exploraient souvent des dynamiques familiales complexes et les luttes intérieures de ses personnages. Son écriture se distingue par un aperçu aigu de la psychologie humaine et sa capacité à créer des figures profondément résonnantes. Par sa voix distinctive et ses préoccupations thématiques, Rubens s'est taillé une place importante dans la littérature, ses récits explorant des questions d'identité, de culpabilité et la quête de sens. Ses romans sont salués pour leur profondeur émotionnelle et leur maîtrise littéraire.






Brothers
- 512pages
- 18 heures de lecture
BROTHERS is a heart-breaking record of persecution and inhumanity; it is also a testament to human endurance, faith and love.
As Bronwen Davis looks back over her life she is forced to deal with her killing of a man who tried to rape her when she was little more than a child. By the author of Àutobiopsy'.
Madame Sousatzka
- 228pages
- 8 heures de lecture
In this touching and entertaining novel, Madame Sousatzka is a dedicated piano teacher who emphasizes teaching her students not just music, but also life lessons. The story connects to an upcoming television movie featuring Shirley MacLaine.
I Sent a Letter to My Love
- 214pages
- 8 heures de lecture
Tells the story of Amy Evans' bold play for happiness, and her dangerous success.
Pick his brains - you know it makes sense. Well, what would you do? Your mentor and best friend, herald as the 'greatest novelist of our time', suddenly expires, and you find yourself bereft of a cherished companion's wit and wisdom. Your twelve-year stretch of writer's block, too, now seems like a life sentence. For Martin Peabody, the answer is simple. You remove your dead friend's brain, syphon off his thoughts, and use them as inspiration to revive your career and write a fitting testament to a great man - an autobiopsy, if you like. This superbly sharp and funny novel shows Booker-winner Bernice Rubens at her best.
The Elected Member
- 240pages
- 9 heures de lecture
To celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of The Elected Member winning the Booker Prize, Abacus is reissuing Bernice Rubens's classic novel with a bold new cover.
Resting in a hospice for the terminally ill, Annie is dying. Supported by her oldest friend, Clemmie, who listens and sympathises, she looks back over her life. Each woman has had a disappointing marriage: Clemmie to a man who turned out to be gay; Annie to a man who left her under tragic circumstances. Gradually Annie reveals her story. At 18 a GI whom she never sees again impregnates her in the back of a truck. Living alone with her mother, she brings up her daughter to believe the child's father is a dead war hero. After a few years Annie marries Eric, a charming man. However when Mary, her daughter, discovers the truth she is horrified and goes to the US - to Milwaukee - to try and locate her genuine father. She returns with a man who claims to be him, but Annie is highly suspicious. Is Mary trying to get her revenge on the mother - and subsequently Eric - whom she feels betrayed her by lying about her true parentage?
Het koninkrijk kome
- 368pages
- 13 heures de lecture
Levensgeschiedenis van de zoon van een joodse poelier in het Turkije van de zeventiende eeuw, die vanaf zijn geboorte werd beschouwd als de messias.