The Cheffe - format ePub

Maria «l'Antillaise » pose, le regard lointain, pour le photographe Nadar dans les années 1860. Maria Martinez, «la Malibran noire », artiste originaire de La Havane, connaît le succès sur la scène parisienne...

"Toutes ses facultés d’aimer, de se donner, de souffrir, d’espérer, la cuisine s’en était emparée bien avant que je la rencontre, et le peu de ces ressources d’amour qui parvenait à se détourner de la...

Trois récits, trois femmes qui disent non. Elles s'appellent Norah, Fanta, Khady Demba. Chacune se bat pour préserver sa dignité contre les humiliations que la vie lui inflige avec une obstination méthodique...

Le chien tendit vers elle sa grosse tête au poil crasseux. Elle retint sa main par crainte de la vermine. Elle noya son regard dans le regard calmement éploré, calmement suppliant, et toute l'humanité...

Marie NDiaye et Dominique Zehrfuss ont composé ensemble un livre rare et réjouissant, Vingt-huit bêtes : un chant d'amour, constitué du long poème écrit par la première et d'un bestiaire de 28 peintures...

Les quatre auteurs - femmes et écrivains - dont les romans font l'objet de cette étude abordent la question du sujet narratif, opérant, chacune à sa façon sur un mode théorique différent. Dans l'�uvre...

"Marie NDiaye is so intelligent, so composed, so good, that any description of her work feels like an understatement" - Madeleine Schwartz, New York Review of Books"Rich, meandering . . . NDiaye excels...

Forty-year-old Norah leaves Paris, her family and her career as a lawyer to visit her father in Dakar. It is an uncomfortable reunion - she is asked to use her skills as a lawyer to get her brother out...

Longlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2016Clarisse Rivière's life is shaped by a refusal to admit to her husband Richard and to her daughter Ladivine that her mother is a poor black housekeeper....

*A GUARDIAN BEST TRANSLATED NOVEL OF 2023**A NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDS 2023 FINALIST**A WORDS WITHOUT BORDERS BEST TRANSLATED BOOK OF 2023*"A powerful story of mothers and daughters" Guardian"A...

Elle entendait la voix égale et limpide du garçon, ni lion ni souffle n’en altérait la placide assurance. Il semblait, lui, aussi, ce Denis, pareil aux petites feuilles du lilas, se consumer sans brûler....

"Khady enjamba les corps de ses belles-sœurs étendues sur un second matelas, et bien qu’elle ne souhaitât pas entendre leurs voix railleuses et dures ni voir briller dans l’aube grisâtre leurs yeux sans...

Trois récits, trois femmes qui disent non. Elles s'appellent Norah, Fanta, Khady Demba. Chacune se bat pour préserver sa dignité contre les humiliations que la vie lui inflige avec une obstination méthodique...

Me Susane, quarante-deux ans, avocate récemment installée à Bordeaux, reçoit la visite de Gilles Principaux. Elle croit reconnaître en cet homme celui qu’elle a rencontré quand elle avait dix ans, et...

User du bon sens pour trouver la vérité en toute chose et agir pour relever les défis du développement est le leitmotiv de cette contribution. Une invitation à l'engagement au niveau individuel et dans...

Délivrance : Un exilé écrit à sa femme. Ses lettres se succèdent, dans lesquelles il la supplie d'aller voir ses vieux parents, réclame des nouvelles d'elle et de leur enfant... Berlin mon garçon :...

Nadia, la narratrice, est institutrice à Bordeaux dans la même école que son mari, Ange. Ils vivent leur profession comme un apostolat et en tirent une authentique félicité. Mais depuis quelque temps...

Gabrielle est professeure de français à Royan. Elle s’adresse aux parents de Daniella. Dans son monologue vindicatif plane le sentiment d’une faute inexpiable dont la narratrice se sent à la fois accablée...

«J'avais décidé de ne pas en parler. Je me disais : si tu commences, on verra que tu as peur et tu seras bien obligée d'avouer que tu as peur. Tant que je n'en parlais pas, ce n'était qu'un songe un...

Maria «l'Antillaise » pose, le regard lointain, pour le photographe Nadar dans les années 1860. Maria Martinez, «la Malibran noire », artiste originaire de La Havane, connaît le succès sur la scène parisienne...

The story of Oliver Twist - orphaned, and set upon by evil and adversity from his first breath - shocked readers when it was published. After running away from the workhouse and pompous beadle Mr Bumble,...

A burned-out pop star stranded in small-town Kentucky can't help falling for her unlikely knight in shining armour - the notoriously grumpy owner of the local pie shop - in this charming slice of romance...

“At once a scholar’s homage to The Iliad and startlingly original work of art by an incredibly talented new novelist….A book I could not put down.”—Ann Patchett“Mary Renault lives again!” declares Emma...

Can the perfect village save the perfect wedding? INCLUDES EXCLUSIVE EXTRACT FROM A POSTCARD FROM ITALY Cher, the landlady of the Duck & Puddle...

What The Lord of the Rings is to fantasy, Dune is to science fiction. Presenting Dune Messiah, the sequel to one of the most influential works of all time, which has inspired countless other stories for...

Now a movie starring Lucy Hale and Austin Stowell, USA Today bestselling author Sally Thorne’s hilarious and sexy workplace comedy all about that thin, fine line between hate and love.Nemesis (n.) 1)...

An enchanting collection containing books four, five, and six of #1 New York Times bestselling author Julia Quinn’s beloved Regency-set Bridgerton novels—Romancing Mister Bridgerton; To Sir Phillip, with...

THE INSPIRATION FOR HBO AND SKY TV’S EMMY NOMINATED HOUSE OF THE DRAGON. Centuries before A Game of Thrones, an even greater game began, one that set the skies alight with dragon...

When the owner of the local flower shop in Rome, Kentucky, makes a questionable agreement with a tattooed bad boy, a delightful friends-to-lovers romance begins to bloom - from the author of When in Rome...

My plan was perfect. My friend needed a date, and my brother's best friend was single. Problem solved.Until I saw Jaeger for the first time in years, and sparks flew in the wrong direction.Jaeger has...

'SMART, EMOTIONAL, INTRIGUING AND COMPELLING - I LOVED IT!' JILL MANSELLDannie Kohan has held true to her meticulously crafted 5-year plan since she understood the concept. On the day that she nails the...

A forbidden, secret affair proves that all's fair in love and science - from Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling author Ali Hazelwood. Rue Siebert might not have it all, but she has enough: a...

Brimming with characters you can't help but fall for and off-the-charts chemistry, this is TikTok sensation Emily Henry doing what she does best!-----Two exes. One pact.Could this holiday change everything?Harriet...

Sethe is now miles away from Sweet Home, the farm where she was kept as a slave.Unable to forget the unspeakable horrors that took place there, she is haunted by the violent spectre of her dead child,...

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What The Lord of the Rings is to fantasy, Dune is to science fiction. Presenting one of the most influential works of all time, which has inspired countless other stories for more than half a century,...

An enchanting collection containing the first three novels in New York Times bestselling author Julia Quinn’s beloved Bridgerton series set in Regency England—The Duke and I, The Viscount Who Loved Me,...

Pre-order Beth's epic new novel, SWEPT AWAY, now! 'Beth O'Leary is that rare, one-in-a-million talent who can make you laugh, swoon, cry and ache all in the same book' EMILY HENRYTiffy and Leon share...

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"One of the strangest and most wonderful books in the world." —D. H. Lawrence "‘Moby-Dick’ is the book which I put down with the unqualified thought, 'I wish I had written that'…" —William Faulkner "What...

BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU Newspeak, Doublethink, Big Brother, the Thought Police - the language of 1984 has passed into the English language as a symbol of the horrors of totalitarianism. George Orwell's...

A spellbinding epic tale of ambition, anarchy and absolute power set against the sprawling medieval canvas of twelfth-century England, The Pillars of the Earth is Ken Follett's classic historical masterpiece.A...

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WINNER OF THE HUGO AWARD FOR BEST ALL-TIME SERIES The Foundation series is Isaac Asimov’s iconic masterpiece. Unfolding against the backdrop of a crumbling Galactic Empire,...

‘Addictive. A first-class page-turner.’ Lisa Hall, author of Between You and Me Can the past ever be forgotten? As soon as nurse Maura Lyle sets foot inside the foreboding Essen Grange,...

Is it ever too late to leave the friend zone? Friends-to-lovers TikTok sensation, The Cheat Sheet, is the rom-com that has readers laughing and rooting for these lovable best friends from the first page!...

THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP BESTSELLER#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZELONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE'An utterly mesmerising novel..I absolutely loved this book' Bernardine Evaristo,...

The hauntingly prophetic classic novel. Over 1 million copies sold in the UK. Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to burn books, which are forbidden, being...

OVER 12 MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDENOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTUREA NUMBER ONE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFor years, rumours of the 'Marsh Girl' have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina...