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Neuf hommes, âgés de 17 à 73 ans, tous à une étape différente de leur vie et dispersés aux quatre coins de l'Europe, essayent de comprendre ce que signifie être vivant. Tels sont les personnages mis en scène par David Szalay à la façon d'un arc de cercle chronologique illustrant tous les âges de la vie. En juxtaposant ces existences singulières au cours d'une seule et même année, l'auteur montre les hommes tels qu'ils sont : tantôt incapables d'exprimer leurs émotions, provocateurs ou méprisables, tantôt hilarants, touchants, riches d'envies et de désirs face au temps qui...

The sparkling debut novel of Maria Semple, author of the WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION-shortlisted WHERE'D YOU GO, BERNADETTE, including reading group notes. Violet Parry is living the quintessential life of luxury in the Hollywood Hills with David, her rock-and-roll manager husband, and her darling toddler, Dot. She has the perfect life - but she's deeply unhappy. David expects the world of Violet but gives little of himself in return. When she meets Teddy, a roguish small-time bass player, Violet comes alive, and soon she's risking everything for the chance to find herself again. Also in the...

Novela de terror atrapante, llena de tensión y suspenso, que va subiendo de tono hasta dejar al lector sin aliento. Un pecado antiguo. Un juramento olvidado hace mucho tiempo. Un pueblo con un secreto mortal. Algo siniestro sucede en Hyde River, aislado y viejo poblado minero de las montañas del noroeste del Pacífico. Algo diabólico. Bajo el manto de oscuridad ataca el depredador sin aviso cobrando vidas de la manera más escalofriante y salvaje. La comunidad de Hyde River observa aterrorizada mientras residentes desaparecen repentinamente. Pero por más que se investigue entre los...

Leal recounts his experiences as a "child of the Mexican Revolution, " recalling the entrance of Villa and Zapata into Mexico City. He describes his life in Chicago from 1927 to 1943 and then in the Philippines as a member of the American armed forces. He also discusses his academic career and his contributions to Chicano literary criticism. The unusual format of a conversation between two friends gives readers a taste of the "tertulias" that Don Luis hosts, at which colleagues, friends, and students discuss literature, life, and art, thus reviving the Hispanic tradition of the "literary...