Girl, Woman, Other
ISBN : 9780241984994
This is Britain as you've never read it. This is Britain as it has never been told. From the top of the country to the bottom, across more than a century of change and growth and struggle and life, Girl, Woman, Other follows twelve very different characters on an entwined journey of discovery. It is future, it is past. It is fiction, it is history. It is a novel about who we are now.
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Que sur toi se lamente le Tigre
ISBN : 9789973581228
Dans l'Irak rural d'aujourd'hui, sur les rives du Tigre, une jeune fille franchit l'interdit absolu : hors mariage, une relation amoureuse, comme un élan de vie. Le garçon meurt sous les bombes, la jeune fille est enceinte : son destin est scellé. Alors que la mécanique implacable s'ébranle, les membres de la famille se déploient en une ronde d'ombres muettes sous le regard tutélaire de Gilgamesh, héros mésopotamien porteur de la mémoire du pays et des hommes. Inspirée par les réalités complexes de l'Irak qu'elle connaît bien, Emilienne Malfatto nous fait pénétrer avec subtilité dans une société fermée, régentée par l'autorité masculine et le code de l'honneur.
Seize the Day
ISBN : 9780141184852
Fading charmer Tommy Wilhelm has reached his day of reckoning and is scared. In his forties, lie still retains a boyish impetuousness that has brought him to the brink of chaos : he is separated from his wife and children, at odds with his vain, successful father, failed in his acting career (a Hollywood agent once placed him as "the type that loses the girl") and in a financial mess. In the course of one climactic day lie reviews his past mistakes and spiritual malaise, until a mysterious, philosophizing con man grants him a glorious, illuminating moment of truth and understanding, and offers him one last hope... "Saul Bellow is one of the grants of the twentieth-century novel. Read Seize the Day and see why" Irish Times
Late in the Day
ISBN : 9781784709235
Alex and Christine and Zach and Lydia have been inseparable since their twenties. From student house shares and grubby pubs to proper homes and grown-up careers, the two couples' lives have been interlinked for decades. Then one evening, Alex and Christine receive a call from a distraught Lydia. Zach is dead. Inconsolable, Lydia moves in with Alex and Christine. But instead of their loss bringing them closer, the three of them find that love and sorrow give way to anger and bitterness as old entanglements and resentments rise from the past.
Civilization and its discontents
ISBN : 9780141182360
In his final years, Freud devoted most of his energies to a series of highly ambitious works on the broadest issues of religion and society. As early as 1908, he produced a powerful paper on the repressive hypocrisy of " civilized sexual morality ", and its role in " modern nervous illness ". Deepening this analysis in Civilization and Its Discontents, he argues that civilized values - and the impossible ideals of Christianity-inevitably distort our natural aggression and impose a terrible burden of guilt. It is also here that Freud developed his last great theoretical innovation: the strange and haunting notion of an innate death drive, locked in a constant struggle with the forces of Eros.