Roma meets A Gentleman in Moscowin this vivid portrait of the twentieth century, witnessed by one boy from his self-imposed refuge in Mexico City.Galo has not left his home on Amsterdam Street, not since the day in 1938 when a shocking...
Literary
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Auteur:Schmucler, SergioSommaire: - Auteur:Leith, LindaSommaire:
Vivid stories from a Canadian literary icon, who shares a life spread across continents and immersed in books. It’s the life that many dream of: education in some of Europe’s most beautiful cities before becoming a novelist, essayist,...
- Auteur:Ravn, OlgaSommaire:
Shortlisted for the 2021 International Booker Prize, The Employees reshuffles a sci-fi voyage into a riotously original existential nightmare. Funny and doom-drenched, The Employees chronicles the fate of the Six-Thousand Ship. The...
- Auteur:Bennett, JonathanSommaire:
A lyrical, heartbreaking story of ardour and devastationIn this powerful novel of love and family, a doctor named Paris follows a nurse to a country on the brink of civil war. When a confrontation does break out, they are swept up by...
- Auteur:Ramqvist, KarolinaSommaire:
Feminist autofiction from one of Sweden's blazing talents. Blending autofiction and essay, The Bear Woman is a journey of feminism and literary detective work spanning centuries and continents. In the 1540s, a young French noblewoman,...
- Auteur:Anton, BernardSommaire:
Basées sur des faits réels et peignant des archétypes humains fascinants, ces nouvelles décrivent l'univers intimiste de personnages qui se débattent avec les ennuis et surprises de chaque jour. Leur courage de vivre ou de survivre...
- Auteur:Ross, OaklandSommaire:
An unlikely friendship between a Canadian teenager and a South African girl sparks a journey to untangle an unsolved murder. Eighteen-year-old Hilary Anson's startling good looks and wanton ways scandalize the denizens of sleepy Kelso...
- Auteur:Brewer, NicSommaire:
To make her films, Eva must take out her eyes and use them as batteries. To make her art, Finn must cut open her chest and remove her lungs and heart. To write her novels, Grace must use her blood to power the word processor. Suture...
- Auteur:King, AndreaSommaire:
Marian lives in a world of spectres. She is devoted to her research on ghosts in Québécois literature to the exclusion of nearly everything else, including her husband. When an after-hours encounter at a conference sparks an...
- Auteur:Blais, Marie-ClaireSommaire:
In the penultimate installment of the magnificent and ambitious Soifs cycle, widely regarded as one of the most original and ambitious endeavors ever to be undertaken in contemporary literature, renowned novelist Marie-Claire Blais once...
- Auteur:Fatima, CatherineSommaire:
In a kind of 'Catherine Millet meets Roland Barthes baring of life with hints of the work of Chris Kraus', Sludge Utopia by Catherine Fatima is an auto-fictional novel about sex, depression, family, shaky ethics, ideal forms of life,...
- Auteur:Shraya, VivekSommaire:
A "Globe 100" Best Book of the Year (The Globe and Mail) Lambda Literary Award finalist In the beginning, there is no he. There is no she. Two cells make up one cell. This is the mathematics behind creation. One plus one makes one. Life...
- Auteur:Vallée, DanièleSommaire:
Clarisse, une couturière en apparence sans histoire, mène une existence bien tranquille quand Éva, une ambitieuse jeune comédienne, lui commande une robe extravagante pour un premier rôle dans une pièce très attendue, Sept nuits dans la...
- Auteur:Woods, JaneSommaire:
Set in a small town in Quebec, Running Downhill Like Water is made up of four interconnected stories spanning fifty years of the lives of four people whose prospects have been violently shattered. Lucy, a perennial misfit, is thwarted...
- Auteur:Saint-Éloi, RodneySommaire:
Dans ce récit admirablement écrit, l'auteur rend hommage à sa mère, Bertha. Cette grande dame noire à l'énergie et à la générosité exemplaires, «amoureuse de l'amour», vient de mourir. Rodney, son fils aîné, raconte l...
- Auteur:Walsh, HelenSommaire:
'Part Real Housewives, part grown-up Nancy Drew.' — Missy Marston, author of Bad Ideas When Jane's partner goes missing she needs to find out if he's in danger while also contending with the politics of a large international film...
- Auteur:Kobayashi, TamaiSommaire:
Not every story has a happy ending.Since her brother's death, eight-year-old Egg Murakami has been living day-to-day on the family ostrich farm near Bittercreek, discovering life to be an ever-perplexing condition. Mama Murakami has...
- Auteur:Veilleux, MaudeSommaire:
Winter blankets Montreal, while a bookseller and her lover dream of Prague. As the narrator's open marriage becomes the subject of a novel, reality blurs with fiction, and she tries to reconcile the need to create with the desire for...
- Auteur:Boulerice, SimonSommaire:
Pourquoi Simon sourit-il autant? Et que cache-t-il derrière ce sourire? Que camouflent les costumes de mascotte qu'il emprunte ou les masques qu'il revêt? D'où lui viennent cette légèreté, cette juvénilité? C'est à...
- Auteur:Battigelli, Rosanna MicelottaSommaire:
The characters in Pigeon Soup & Other Stories are navigating relationships and grappling with issues of translocation, language and identity, religion and culture, and food. These tales portray the dark places they inhabit...
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