Loredana habite dans un orphelinat depuis qu'elle s'est réveillée de son long coma, après un accident avec la cuisinière familiale. À cette époque, juste avant la révolution roumaine de 1989, les pensionnaires, petits...
Autobiographical fiction
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Author:Fisher, MarcSummary: - Author:Tobon, OrlandoSummary:
El padrino de Jackson Heights hace mucho mAs que arreglos de viajes desde su diminuta agencia escondida en un rincOn del sector de Queens conocido como la PequeNa Colombia de Nueva York. Con frecuencia Fernando PadrOn es la Unica mano...
- Author:Renaud BouretSummary:
Les Chinoises est un roman autobiographique situé en Chine, dans la région de bas-Yangze, à la fin des années 1990, une époque où le pays, en pleine transformation, doute encore de son avenir. Le héros conduira le lecteur à...
- Author:Wilder, Laura IngallsSummary:
The book that started it all! Little House in the Big Woods is the first book in Laura Ingalls Wilder's treasured Little House series, which is based on her life growing up as an American pioneer. Told from four-year-old Laura...
- Author:Alcott, Louisa MaySummary:
Based loosely on Louisa May Alcott's own upbringing, Little Women follows the lives of four sisters - Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy March. Each girl has a vision of what their ideal future will bring, though ultimately experiencing, as most...
- Author:Wolfe, ThomasSummary:
The works of Thomas Wolfe cemented his legacy as one of the very best of the American Southern writers. Wolfe's largely autobiographical novel features Eugene Gant, who pines for a more expansive life after being born to a father whose...
- Author:Goldberg, ÉléonoreSummary:
Dans ce livre exploratoire de la mémoire où s'entrecroisent fiction et souvenirs, Macha, début trentaine, raconte les lieux qu'elle a habités et traversés depuis son enfance : des grandes maisons de Vineuil et de Kinshasa, en...
- Author:Hemon, Louis, Blake, W.H., Gnarowski, MichaelSummary:
Maria Chapdelaine, the quintessential novel of the rugged life of early French-Canadian colonists, is based on the author’s experiences as a hired hand in the Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean area. A young woman living with her family on the...
- Author:London, JackSummary:
London tells the story of Martin Eden, a young sailor who, through self-education and determination, rises out of poverty to passionately pursue a dream of literary and intellectual achievement. But soon he discovers a life of success...
- Author:Taillefer, Jean-MarieSummary:
Ce roman, inspiré de l’enfance de l’auteur, vous transportera inévitablement au coeur du village francophone manitobain de La Broquerie, affectueusement surnommé« La Brise », reflétant le quotidien et présentant des pans d’histoire...
- Author:Knausgaard, Karl OveSummary:
My Struggle introduces American readers to the audacious, addictive, and profoundly surprising international literary sensation that is the provocative and brilliant six-volume autobiographical novel by Karl Ove Knausgaard. It has...
- Author:Knausgaard, Karl OveSummary:
My Struggle: Book One introduces American readers to the audacious, addictive, and profoundly surprising international literary sensation that is the provocative and brilliant six-volume autobiographical novel by Karl Ove Knausgaard. It...
- Author:Bezmozgis, DavidSummary:
- Author:Maugham, W. SomersetSummary:
The author of The Razor's Edge explores the longing for love and freedom in this coming-of-age story-"a novel of the utmost importance" (Theodore Dreiser). Born with a clubfoot and orphaned at an early age, Philip Carey has long felt...
- Author:Kerouac, JackSummary:
Follows the counterculture escapades of members of the Beat generation as they seek pleasure and meaning while traveling coast to coast.
- Author:Gagnon, SuzanneSummary:
Un roman sensible, qui nous transporte dans l’Algérie des années 1970 et nous propose un regard encore très actuel sur la condition des femmes dans des pays de confession musulmane. Alger, 1978. Dès sa descente d’avion, Anna subit un...
- Author:Burroughs, William S.Summary:
Set in Mexico City during the early fifities, the story follows William Lee from bar to bar in the American expatriate scene as he pursues a young man named Allerton.
- Author:Louis, ÉdouardSummary:
Ce texte bref est d'une extrême intensité, due à la violence des sentiments exprimés, plus aimants que haineux. La haine, si haine il y a, est adressée aux "dominants", aux responsables politiques et économiques de...
- Author:Farah, Alain, Lederhendler, LazerSummary:
The writer Alain Farah is living in two time periods, and he feels out of place in both. At the opening of his story, we find ourselves at McGill in 1962 and 2012. But the real problem lies elsewhere: on campus, a psychiatrist is...
- Author:Thúy, KimSummary:
Écrit sur un ton féminin, sensible et très original, Ru dénote un grand talent dans l'art de raconter, où le souvenir devient prétexte tantôt au jeu, tantôt au recueillement. L'ouvrage est composé de très courts...
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