Summertime by J.M Coetzee: compelling, funny, moving and full of life!
«Summertime» és una novel·la publicada a l’any 2009 per l’autor J.M Coetzee, Premi Nobel de Literatura. És la tercera d’una sèrie de memòries novel·lades per l’autor. Detalla la vida d’un noi des de la perspectiva de cinc persones que l’han conegut.
La novel·la és ambientada a […]
“En attendant Bojangles» : Un petit bijou de désespoir caché au coeur d’un écrin d’amour
On ne choisit pas sa famille mais le petit garçon de cette histoire en possède une vraiment particulière! Une mère fantasque et extravagante. Un père qui lui donne autant de prénoms qu’elle possède de personnages. Un oiseau exotique sauvé en Afrique et […]
The Summer without Men by Siri Hustvedt: discover one of our favourite summer book!
Mia Fredrickson, the tragicomic poet narrator of The Summer Without Men, has been forced to reexamine her own life. One day, out of the blue, after thirty years of marriage, Mia’s husband, a renowned neuroscientist, asks her for a “pause.” This abrupt […]
Maman à l’école: Un album désopilant et tendre, qui dédramatise un rite de passage incontournable pour tous les enfants. La rentrée des classes!
Ce petit album est vraiment très bien pour aborder la question de la rentrée avec son enfant. On peut lui expliquer qu’on s’amuse toujours mieux sans avoir sa maman dans les pattes. Ici, la […]
Discover the Elmer’s world at Linguae Bookshop in Girona!
«Who is 18 but still a delightful toddler? Elmer, the big-hearted patchwork elephant, first appeared in 1989 but is still a firm favourite with the pre-school generation.»
Elmer and the other elephants are waiting for the storm to end so they can see the beautiful, colorful rainbow. But […]
Forget passive simpering princesses and damsels in distress – the heroines of Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls are famed for their real-life achievements.
New bedtime reading for a generation that will shape the future.
We need some new fairy tale endings. What if the princess didn’t marry Prince Charming but instead went on to be an […]
Rien ne s’oppose à la nuit: le roman qui intrigue, hypnotise, bouleverse. Il interroge, aussi.
Ma famille incarne ce que la joie a de plus bruyant, de plus spectaculaire, l’écho inlassable des morts, et le retentissement du désastre. Aujourd’hui je sais aussi qu’elle illustre, comme tant d’autres familles, le pouvoir de destruction du verbe, et celui du silence
C’est […]
An intelligent, beautiful and healing read: «Homegoing» by Yaa Gyasi at Linguae Bookshop in Girona.
“Homegoing”—the title is taken from an old African-American belief that death allowed an enslaved person’s spirit to travel back to Africa. It is rooted, like the Bible, in original sin.
A novel of breathtaking sweep and emotional power that traces three hundred […]
«The Sea, The Sea», was Iris Murdoch’s 19th novel. It was also her fourth to make the Booker shortlist.
Naturally, the fact that Murdoch was so often nominated and only triumphant later in her career has been the cause of plenty of speculation. But it’s easy to understand why she so often fell at the last […]
The dazzling new novel from bestselling, award-winning author Maggie O’Fareel. «This must be the place» crosses time zones and continents to reveal an extraordinary portrait of a marriage.
Meet Daniel Sullivan, a man with a complicated life. A New Yorker living in the wilds of Ireland, he has children he never sees in California, a father […]
