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New York, 1949 : deux frères, Franz et Oskar Wertheimer, se rendent à La Havane pour un concert du légendaire Vladimir Horowitz. Franz se destine à une carrière de pianiste, Oskar se prépare à devenir médecin. À Cuba, leur route croise celle de Vladi ...

Les manuscrits mis au jour en 2021 ont confirmé l’importance aux yeux de Céline de sa "légende gaélique… mi-rime mi-prose", récit de la guerre menée par le Roi Krogold contre le prince félon Gwendor, du meurtre du procureur Morvan par le trouvère Thi ...

The Covenant of Water is the long-awaited new novel from Abraham Verghese, the author of the widely acclaimed and beloved book Cutting for Stone, published in 2009. Cutting for Stone sold over 1.5 million copies in the United States alone and spent 1 ...

A fast-paced literary thriller that peels back the layers of small-town police corruption, drugs, and teen disillusionment to expose unlikely heroes and unexpected villains When two teens, Dallan and Hannah, attend the opening night of the infamous S ...

Dans ce texte puissant à l’écriture incarnée, dont la première publication remonte à 1976, Emma Santos décrit avec force son désir d’enfant irréalisable et la violence de l’internement en asile psychiatrique. Dans un style incandescent, elle revient ...

Wuthering Heights is an 1847 novel by Emily Brontë, published under the pseudonym Ellis Bell. It concerns two families of the landed gentry living on the West Yorkshire moors, the Earnshaws and the Lintons, and their turbulent relationships with Earn ...

A Study in Scarlet is an 1887 detective novel written by Arthur Conan Doyle. The story marks the first appearance of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, who would become the most famous detective duo in popular fiction. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's A St ...

The Valley of Fear by Arthur Conan Doyle is one of many stories about Doyle’s famous detective, Sherlock Holmes. At the beginning of this novel, Holmes gets a message from one of Professor Moriarty’s agents—Fred Porlock. From time to time, Porlock se ...

With no introduction needed for the iconic and one of the most loved authors, Dickens; the book comes as a realization of one's own deeds that are done in ignorance, ambition, anger or outright selfishness. It is through the catharsis of the main cha ...

One of the most celebrated and important modernist novels in English, Mrs Dalloway (1925) is perhaps Virginia Woolf’s best novel. Originally titled ‘The Hours’, a title that Michael Cunningham would retrieve and use for his 1998 novel based on Mrs Da ...