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Viaje de novios by Patrick Modiano ES
Description:
Milán en pleno agosto. La ciudad está casi desierta, todas las tiendas están cerradas y el calor es insoportable. El narrador, Jean B., director de documentales, se refugia en su hotel y escucha al barman contándole a otro cliente que hace unos días se suicidó allí una mujer francesa. Más tarde le pregunta al barman por esa mujer y éste le cuenta algunas cosas: que venía de París, que iba a reunirse con unos amigos en Capri, que era muy guapa... Ya en la estación, antes de partir, el narrador compra el Corriere della Sera y lee un suelto sobre ese suicidio. La información allí contenida, pese ... continue
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Victoire : My Mother's Mother by Maryse Condé EN
Description:
The critically acclaimed, award-winning author of the classic historical novel Segu, Maryse Condé has pieced together the life of her maternal grandmother to create a moving and profound novel. Maryse Condé's personal journey of discovery and revelation becomes ours as we learn of Victoire, her white-skinned mestiza grandmother who worked as a cook for the Walbergs, a family of white Creoles, in the French Antilles. Using her formidable skills as a storyteller, Condé describes her grandmother as having "Australian whiteness for the color of her skin...She jarred with my world of women in Itali... continue
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Villa Triste by Patrick Modiano ES
Description:
Principios de los años sesenta. Un joven de dieciocho años, bajo la identidad de conde Victor Chmara, se oculta del horror de la guerra franco-argelina en una ciudad de provincias. Chmara conoce a Yvonne, una joven actriz con la que iniciará una historia de amor, y a su mano derecha, René Meinthe, un médico homosexual. Y con ellos Victor se introduce en ese círculo de gente mundana que se reúne en la estación termal y que vive de espaldas a la Francia poscolonial de los años sesenta... Pero las cosas no son lo que parecen. Descubrimos que la mirada del narrador salta entre el presente y un pas... continue
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Vingt-quatre heures de la vie d'une femme by Stefan Zweig FR
AustriaDescription:
Scandale dans une pension de famille " comme il faut ", sur la Côte d'Azur du début du siècle : Mme Henriette, la femme d'un des clients, s'est enfuie avec un jeune homme qui pourtant n'avait passé là qu'une journée... Seul le narrateur tente de comprendre cette " créature sans moralité ", avec l'aide inattendue d'une vieille dame anglaise très distinguée, qui lui expliquera quels feux mal éteints cette aventure a ranimé chez la fugitive. Ce récit d'une passion foudroyante, bref et aigu comme les affectionnait l'auteur d'Amok et du Joueur d'échecs, est une de ses incontestables réussites.... continue
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Where Dogs Bark with Their Tails : A Novel by Estelle-Sarah Bulle EN
Description:
The tales of one family and their larger-than-many-lives sister, Antoine, weaves together the vibrant, epic story of Guadaloupe and its diaspora. A young woman born in the suburbs of Paris--whose skin color and memories of occasional childhood visits alone connect her to her father's native Guadeloupe--yearns to understand her lineage and her métis identity. Upon her request, her old aunt Antoine, the eccentric and indomitable family matriarch, unveils the history of the Ezechiel clan, and with it, that of the island over the course of the twentieth century. In a spirited account, punctuated b... continue
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Who Killed My Father by Édouard Louis EN
Description:
Who Killed My Father is the story of a tough guy - the story of the little boy I never was. The story of my father. 'What a beautiful book' MAX PORTER In Who Killed My Father, douard Louis explores key moments in his father's life, and the tenderness and disconnects in their relationship. Told with the fire of a writer determined on social justice, and with the compassion of a loving son, the book urgently and brilliantly engages with issues surrounding masculinity, class, homophobia, shame and social poverty. It unflinchingly takes aim at systems that disadvantage those they seek to exclude -... continue
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