"Funny, touching, observant, philosophical, sad, world-weary, artful and wonderful are the stories that pepper this book. There has never been a cab driver like Dmitry Samarov and, since he's given up for keeps late-night for-hire...
Taxicab drivers
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Auteur:Le Maner, MoniqueSommaire:Une voyante qui ne voit plus grand-chose, une recluse qui décide de voir du pays, un enfant qui n’est plus tout à fait un enfant et un chauffeur de taxi énigmatique aux yeux beaucoup trop bleus. Ils s’appellent Yolande, Mathilde, Léo et...
- Auteur:Péan, StanleySommaire:
Stanley Péan's Taximan is the trace, the record of exile from Haiti. It is also a portrait of urban North America through its displaced people who, despite their native sadness, turn up the music and drive.
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Auteur:López, Andrés G.Sommaire:In 1981, unsuspecting NYC cabby Gabriel Brosa comes face to face with a mystery from his past. The revelation about his grade-school crush, Mandy, upends his life and sets him on a journey of self-discovery. Caught up in the choices he...
- Auteur:Davis, Tom Arthur, Grammy, TaraSommaire:
Mahmoud is an exuberant, if overwhelmingly passionate, Iranian engineer-cum-taxi driver who relishes the chance to regale his passengers with his love of Persian culture. Emanuelos, a fabulously gay Spanish perfume salesman, can talk a...
- Auteur:Nyyssonen, Erika, Bulckaert, JaySommaire:
Living in different worlds and separated by an ocean, a father and son try to stay connected through the power of imagination as their distanced lives pull them further apart. Awale takes a job as a cab driver in Canada's remote...
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Auteur:Ndibe, OkeySommaire:Ike, a New York-based Nigerian cab driver, is desperate. Despite having a degree in economics, his strong accent has barred him from the corporate world. With gambling debt mounting, he travels back to Nigeria to steal the statue of an...
- Auteur:Di Cintio, MarcelloSommaire:
In conversations with drivers ranging from veterans of foreign wars to Indigenous women protecting one another, Di Cintio explores the borderland of the North American taxi. "The taxi," writes Marcello Di Cintio, "is a border."...
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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...
- Auteur:Blackstock, TerriSommaire:
The first Christmas story from New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author Terri Blackstock. "The feel-good Christmas book of the year. Blackstock's tale of love and redemption wrapped in a holiday bow will leave you smiling. Don't...
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Auteur:Hage, RawiSommaire:Winner of the Quebec Writers' Federation Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction and shortlisted for the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize. In the Carnival city there are two types of taxi drivers -- the spiders and the flies. The spiders...
- Auteur:Hage, RawiSommaire:
In the Carnival city, Fly is a taxi driver who roams the streets, looking for the raised hands of passengers among life's perpetual flux. From his taxi we see the world in all its carnivalesque beauty and ugliness, meeting...
- Auteur:Barnes, LindaSommaire:
As she looks for a missing taxi driver, Carlotta's investigation sends her traveling the pub route with a bunch of blarney-loving geezers whose devotion to the Emerald Isle has gotten them involved in a deadly mix of Boston-Irish...
