Hemingway's memories of his life as an unknown writer living in Paris in the twenties are deeply personal, warmly affectionate, and full of wit. Looking back not only at his own much younger self, but…
"A Tale of Passion," as its subtitle declares, The Good Soldier relates the complex social and sexual relationships between two couples, one English, one American, and the growing awareness by the Ame…
Inspired by a true story, Hans Fallada's Alone in Berlin is the gripping tale of an ordinary man's determination to defy the tyranny of Nazi rule. This Penguin Classics edition contains an afterword b…
Echappée à sa famille, à son île et à son passé, Lucy, une jeune Antillaise de dix-neuf ans, devient fille au pair dans un foyer bourgeois de New York. Avec une froideur quasi clinique, elle observe e…
Life: A User's Manual is an unclassified masterpiece, a sprawling compendium as encyclopedic as Dante's Commedia and Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and, in its break with tradition, as inspiring as Joyce'…
Que reste-t-il de la vie d'un homme ? Une photo, au fond d'une boîte ou d'un tiroir, des papiers administratifs, quelquefois une fiche de police ou un nom dans un Bottin. Et aussi les souvenirs de ceu…
Rennie Wilford is a freelance journalist who takes an assignment in the Caribbean in the hopes of recuperating from her recently shattered life. On the tiny island of St. Antoine, she tumbles into a c…
In an era in which journalists will stop at nothing to break a big story, Henrich Böll's The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum has taken on heightened relevance.
Signé Ajar, ce roman reçut le prix Goncourt en 1975. Histoire d'amour d'un petit garçon arabe pour une très vieille femme juive : Momo se débat contre les six étages que Madame Rosa ne veut plus monte…
Part detective novel, part psychological thriller, Surfacing is the story of a talented woman artist who goes in search of her missing father on a remote island in northern Quebec. Setting out with he…
