Au Hilton de Tel-Aviv, Nicole, romancière renommée, est d'humeur morose : tout ce qui avait constitué jusqu'à présent ses certitudes lui paraît s'effriter. Non loin de là, Jules Epstein, riche new-yorkais, espère reprendre goût à la vie sur la terre de ses ancêtres. Tous deux ne connaissent pas, ne ...
A new york, la jeune alma ne sait comment surmonter la mort de son père. Elle croit trouver la solution dans un livre que sa mère traduit de l'espagnol, et dont l'héroïne porte le même prénom qu'elle. non loin de là, un très vieil homme se remet à écrire, ressuscitant la pologne de sa jeunesse, so...
Un poète, Daniel Varsky, confie à Nadia un bureau très particulier : ce meuble imposant, qui aurait appartenu à Federico Garcia Lorca, semble posséder une âme et lie quatre destins qui semblent d'abord séparés. À Londres, Arthur Bender découvre que sa femme lui a caché toute une partie de sa vie. À ...
CHOSEN AS BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE OBSERVER , NEW YORKER , NEW YORK TIMES BOOKS REVIEW , TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT AND THE TIMES 'Lucid and exhilarating . A great gift' New York Review of Books 'Tantalizes and compels ... A welcome reminder of how a novel can be defiantly and brilliantly n...
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In this dazzling collection of short fiction, the National Book Award Finalist and New York Times bestselling author of The History of Love --"one of America's most important novelists and an international literary sensation" ( New York Times )--explores what it means to be in a couple, and to be...
Shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction 2006 and winner of the 2006 Prix du Meilleur Livre etranger, The History of Love explores the lasting power of the written word and the lasting power of love. Published as a Penguin Essential for the first time. 'When I was born my mother named me a...
During the winter of 1972, a woman spends a single night with a young Chilean poet before he departs New York, leaving her his desk. It is the only time they ever meet. Two years later, he is arrested by Pinochet's secret police and never seen again. Across the ocean, in the leafy suburbs of London,...
A luminous and unforgettable first novel by an astonishing new voice in fiction, hailed by Esquire magazine as yes'>#8220;one of Americayes'>#8217;s best young writers.yes'>#8221;Samson Greene, a young and popular professor at Columbia, is found wandering in the Nevada desert. When his wife, Anna, ...
During the winter of 1972, a woman spends a single night with a young Chilean poet before he departs New York, leaving her his desk. It is the only time they ever meet. Two years later, he is arrested by Pinochet's secret police and never seen again. Across the ocean, in the leafy suburbs of London,...
From the bestselling, twice Orange Prize-shortlisted, National Book Award-nominated author comes a vibrant tale of transformation: of a man in his later years and a woman novelist, each drawn to the Levant on a journey of self-discovery Jules Epstein has vanished from the world. He leaves no trace ...
Leo Gursky is a man who fell in love at the age of ten and has been in love ever since. These days, he is just about surviving life in America, tapping his radiator each evening to let his upstairs neighbour know he's still alive, drawing attention to himself at the milk counter of Starbucks. But li...
A luminous and unforgettable first novel by an astonishing new voice in fiction, hailed by Esquire magazine as yes'>#8220;one of Americayes'>#8217;s best young writers.yes'>#8221;Samson Greene, a young and popular professor at Columbia, is found wandering in the Nevada desert. When his wife, Anna, ...
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