"La nouvelle coupe la nuit en deux. L'appel téléphonique fatal Que tout homme d'âge mûr Reçoit un jour Mon père vient de mourir." Le narrateur décide alors de revenir dans son pays natal, Haïti, dont il avait été...
Exiles
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Auteur:Laferrière, DanySommaire: - Auteur:Keneally, MegSommaire:
Jenny Gwyn has proven herself a survivor. Faced with destitution after the death of her father, she toughens her skin to become a highwaywoman in order to support her impoverished family. But one fatal mistake leads to her arrest, and...
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Auteur:Awumey, Edem, Lederhendler, LazerSommaire:Nominated for the Governor General's Literary Award: Translation and the ReLit Awards As a small child, Askia was forced, along with his family, to wander the African desert as if under a curse. First driven from their home by drought...
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Auteur:Wang, NingSommaire:Following Mao Zedong’s Anti-Rightist Campaign of 1957–58, Chinese intellectuals were subjected to “re-education” by the state. In Banished to the Great Northern Wilderness, Ning Wang draws on labour farm archives and other newly...
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Auteur:Chabot, JasonSommaire:Hokk is a criminal outcast who has been scavenging the bodies that fall from the sky to Below for meagre treasures to help him survive. Elia hails from the floating kingdoms in the skies of Above, where the islands' edges are borders no...
- Auteur:Allende, IsabelSommaire:
In the late 1930s, civil war grips Spain. When General Franco and his Fascists succeed in overthrowing the government, hundreds of thousands are forced to flee in a treacherous journey over the mountains to the French border. Among them...
- Auteur:Lemay, GenevièveSommaire:
À la manière des grands contes africains, voici l'histoire de trois destins chargés d'ambitions, qui se croiseront dans des villages isolés de la Guinée. Trois âmes perdues entre les traditions et la vie moderne. Trois adolescents qui...
- Auteur:Ravel, EdeetSommaire:
In this sequel to the award-winning A Boy Is Not a Bird, a boy is exiled to Siberia during World War II. Based on a true story. Torn from his home in Eastern Europe, with his father imprisoned in a Siberian gulag, twelve-year-old Natt...
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Auteur:Ravel, EdeetSommaire:In 1941, life in Natt’s small town of Zastavna is comfortable and familiar, even if the grownups are acting strange, and his parents treat him like a baby. Natt knows there’s a war on, of course, but he’s glad their family didn’t...
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