Linguae blog

«L’humanité en péril»: En lanceuse d’alerte engagée, Fred Vargas traite de l’urgence climatique dans un style on ne peut plus direct.
« Mais bon sang, comment vais-je me sortir de cette tâche insensée ? De cette idée de m’entretenir avec vous de l’avenir du monde vivant ? Alors que je sais très […]

«Frankissstein»: what happens when homo sapiens is no longer the smartest bein on the planet? Intelligent, inventive and…very funny!
In Brexit Britain, a young transgender doctor called Ry is falling in love – against their better judgement – with Victor Stein. A celebrated professor leading the public debate around AI.

Meanwhile, Ron […]

«Le Lambeau»: récit d’une douceur bouleversante, dont la grâce littéraire et l’universalité ne cessent d’emporter le cœur des lecteurs.
Philippe Lançon, parce qu’il l’a vécue dans son corps et à la vue de celui de ses amis, victimes des balles terroristes, qu’il y met des mots, beaucoup de mots qui ne peuvent […]

«An American Marriage»: a story told with realistic dialogue, littered with metaphors and sprinked with wisdom.
Newlyweds Celestial and Roy are the embodiment of both the American Dream and the New South. He is a young executive, and she is an artist on the brink of an exciting career.

But as […]

«Where the crawdads sing»: a powerful novel with memorable characters and a memorable story.
For years, rumors of the “Marsh Girl” have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase Andrews is found dead, the locals immediately suspect Kya Clark. The […]

«Ask again, yes»: How much can a family forgive? By Mary Beth Keane
A profoundly moving novel about two neighboring families in a suburban town. The bond between their children, a tragedy that reverberates over four decades. The daily intimacies of marriage. And the power of forgiveness.

Francis Gleeson and Brian Stanhope, two […]

«Tous les hommes n’habitent pas le monde de la même façon». Histoire d’une vie, c’est un des plus beaux livres de Jean-Paul Dubois.
Cela fait deux ans que Paul Hansen purge sa peine dans la prison provinciale de Montréal. Où il partage une cellule avec Horton, un Hells Angel incarcéré pour […]

«Me»: A brilliant biography of someone we all kind of feel like we know. It is well written and it doesn’t pull any punches about what Elton John’s life has been like.
In his only official autobiography, music icon Elton John writes about his extraordinary life. Which is also the subject of […]

«Absolutely on Music: Conversations with Seiji Ozawa». Silence in not the absence of sound: there is a sound called silence.
A deeply personal, intimate conversation about music and writing between the internationally acclaimed, best-selling author and his close friend, the former conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra.

Haruki Murakami’s passion for music runs […]

«The Complete Novels of Jane Austen»: Complete and unabridged, this hardcover volume is magnificent, and a must-have for any «Janeite.»
Jane Austen revolutionized the literary romance. She uses it as a platform from which to address issues of gender politics and class consciousness among the British middle-class of the late eighteenth century. […]

Celebra amb nosaltres que estem de festa! Fa 4 anys que som aquí, 4 intensos i meravellosos anys, en els que vam aprendre i gaudir tant! Esteu tots convidats a la festa d’aniversari de Linguae, on podreu trobar activitats per petits i grans i gaudir de descomptes especials durant tot […]

Christmas storytelling and Happy Cooking! Un matí únic i divertit a la Llibreria Linguae per al nostre quart aniversari.
No et perdis la nostra festa d’aniversari! Hem preparat aquesta activitat divertida i única per gaudir d’un matí diferent!

Durant una hora i mitja llegirem i explicarem un conte de Nadal i després… […]

«The Atlas Cookbook»: A food adventure that explores four seasons across twenty countries and eighty recipes by Charlie Carrington. Easy, vibrant, creative and inspiring.
Across the world, each established cuisine has an underlying backbone. Vietnamese food without fish sauce? Israeli cuisine without tahini? No chance. And yet so many dishes and ingredients cross […]

«Greta’s Story»: The Schoolgirl who went on strike to save the planet. A story about hope, courage and determination. You are never too young to make a difference.
It’s 20 August 2018, late summer in Stockholm, and it feels incredibly hot in the city. The TV news reports rising temperatures, and […]

«The Art of Tatto»: A Tattoo Artist’s Inspirations, Design and Hard-Won Advice by artist Megan Massacre. A celebration of the modern art and lifestyle of creative tattooing.
attoo artist Megan Massacre presents a beautiful collection of her best work. With instructive how-to and inspiration for both professional tattoo artists as well […]

«Doctor Sleep»: Stephen King returns to the characters and territory of one of his most popular novels ever. The Shining.
Dan Torrance (the boy protagonist of The Shining) must save a very special 12-year-old girl from a tribe of murderous paranormals.

On highways across America, a tribe of people called The True Knot travel in search of sustenance. They look harmless – mostly old, lots of polyester. And married to their RVs. But as Dan Torrance knows, and spunky 12-year-old Abra Stone learns, The True Knot are quasi-immortal. Living off the «steam» that children with the «shining» produce when they are slowly tortured to death.

Haunted by the inhabitants of the Overlook Hotel where he spent one horrific childhood year, Dan has been drifting for decades. Desperate to shed his father’s legacy of despair, alcoholism, and violence. Finally, he settles in a New Hampshire town, an AA community that sustains him. And a job at a nursing home where his remnant «shining» power provides the crucial final comfort to the dying.
Aided by a prescient cat, he becomes «Doctor Sleep.»
Then Dan meets the evanescent Abra Stone. And it is her spectacular gift, the brightest shining ever seen, that reignites Dan’s own demons. And summons him to a battle for Abra’s soul and survival. This is an epic war between good and evil, a gory, glorious story that will thrill the millions of hyper-devoted fans of The Shining. And it wildly satisfy anyone new to the territory of this icon in the King canon.

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«Olive, Again». How do you write a sequel to a Pulitzer Prize winning novel? It may never have even happened before. But Elizabeth Strout takes on the challenge and is triumphant.
#1 New York Times bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Strout continues the life of her beloved Olive Kitteridge. A character who […]

«Quand nos souvenirs viendront danser». Petit bonbon plein de douceur qui fait du bien. Ce nouveau titre de Virginie Grimaldi ne fait pas défaut à ses prédécesseurs.
«Lorsque nous avons emménagé impasse des Colibris, nous avions vingt ans. Ça sentait la peinture fraîche et les projets, nous nous prêtions main-forte entre voisins en traversant […]

«The Doll Factory»: Complex characters in a slow-burning historical thriller. Grim, creepy, and atmospheric.
The Doll Factory, the debut novel by Elizabeth Macneal, is an intoxicating story of art, obsession and possession.

London. 1850. The Great Exhibition is being erected in Hyde Park and among the crowd watching the spectacle two people meet. For […]

«Journal d’un amour perdu». Dans un livre formidablement indiscret, Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt raconte son immense chagrin. Après le décès brutal de sa mère.
« Maman est morte ce matin et c’est la première fois qu’elle me fait de la peine. »

Pendant deux ans, Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt tente d’apprivoiser l’inacceptable. La disparition de la femme […]

«Nous étions nés pour être heureux». Un roman sensible sur la force des liens familiaux et celle, cathartique, de l’écriture.
Depuis trente ans, Paul a fait de son histoire familiale, et du désastre que fut son enfance, la matière même de ses romans. Une démarche que ses frères et soeurs n’ont […]

«L’Arte dell’aperitivo»: xerrada gratuïta en italià a la biblioteca Carles Rahola a càrrec de la llibreria Linguae.
Tant a Itàlia com a l’estranger, hi ha una paraula que durant les últimes dècades s’ha tornat sinònim de relax i bon gust.

La paraula “APERITIVO” (aperitiu), de fet, té la característica de portar en […]

«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 […]

«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 […]

«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 […]

«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 […]

«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 […]

«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 […]

«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 […]

«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 […]

«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 […]

«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 […]