“Milkman”: Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2018. Brilliant! Entertaining and thought-provoking and-yes, funny!
In this unnamed city, to be interesting is dangerous. Middle sister, our protagonist, is busy attempting to keep her mother from discovering her maybe-boyfriend and to keep everyone in the dark about her encounter with Milkman.
But when first brother-in-law sniffs out her […]
“La grande escapade”. Un roman qui sait faire ressentir ” une époque charnière ” , post – soixante- huitarde .Un bon témoignage qui devrait plaire à beaucoup .
On rit. C’est étonnant parce que, pris séparément, aucun d’entre eux ne pensait que la situation les pousserait à l’hilarité. Or, de façon tout à fait inattendue, ils […]
“Une bête au paradis”: Un roman empli d’un souffle puissant, profond, hypnotique, à l’empreinte singulière.
Dans sa ferme isolée au bout d’un chemin de terre, appelée le Paradis, Emilienne élève seule ses deux petits-enfants, Blanche et Gabriel. Devenue adolescente, Blanche rencontre Alexandre, son premier amour. Mais, arrivé à l’âge adulte, le couple se déchire lorsqu’Alexandre, dévoré par […]
“Paroles d’honneur”: un ouvrage qui expose de manière claire un sujet qui fâche. Une initiative à saluer car beaucoup de ses victimes n’ont pas forcément la possibilité ou la force de s’exprimer.
Rabat, été 2015. Suite à la parution de son livre “Dans le jardin de l’ogre”, un roman cru et audacieux qui aborde la thématique de […]
“Year of the Monkey”: A beautiful meditation by Patti on the year she turned 70. A little treasure of a book.
From the National Book Award-winning author of Just Kids and M Train. A profound, beautifully realized memoir in which dreams and reality are vividly woven into a tapestry of one transformative year.
Following a run of New Year’s concerts at San […]
“The Fate of Fausto”: A poingnant modern-day fable about greed and hubris.
There was once a man who believed he owned everything and set out to survey what was his.
“You are mine,” Fausto said to the flower, the sheep and the mountain, and they bowed before him. But they were not enough for Fausto, so he conquered […]
“Les victorieuses”: Des femmes en difficulté, des 4 coins du monde. Leur courage et leur solidarité qui apportent un supplément d’humanité à notre terre, avec les couleurs de l’espoir!
A 40 ans, Solène a tout sacrifié à sa carrière d’avocate : ses rêves, ses amis, ses amours. Un jour, elle craque, s’effondre. C’est la dépression, le burn-out. Tandis […]
“Girl”. Edna O’Brien’s hotly anticipated new novel, envisages the lives of the Boko Haram girls in a masterpiece of violence and tenderness.
I was a girl once, but not anymore.
So begins Girl, Edna O’Brien’s harrowing portrayal of the young women abducted by Boko Haram.
Set in the deep countryside of northeast Nigeria, this is a brutal story of […]
“The Testaments”. In this brilliant sequel to “THE HANDMAID’S TALE”, Margaret Atwood answers the questions that have tantalized readers for decades.
More than fifteen years after the events of The Handmaid’s Tale, the theocratic regime of the Republic of Gilead maintains its grip on power. But there are signs it is beginning to rot from within. At […]
“Quichotte” by Salman Rushdie. Brilliant, beautiful, an absolutely thrilling journey. A layered book about reality/unreality, filled with literary and modern references, love and heroic road trip, among many other concepts.
In a tour-de-force that is both an homage to an immortal work of literature and a modern masterpiece about the quest for love and family, Booker Prize-winning, internationally […]
