Danseur
ISBN : 9782264040671
Des forêts de l'Oural aux clubs de l'underground new-yorkais en passant par Leningrad et les hauts lieux de la jet-set internationale, un roman flamboyant porté par une écriture âpre et riche où se dessine une somptueuse histoire d'amour, d'art et d'exil. En 1944, dans un hôpital soviétique, Rudik, six ans, danse pour son premier public : aucun des soldats mutilés n'oubliera cet instant éblouissant... Dès lors, ce fils de paysan sait. Il sait qu'il ne reculera devant rien : mentir à sa mère, braver la colère du père, endurer brimades et humiliations. Pour danser comme il le doit, il ira jusqu'à s'exiler à jamais. Travailleur acharné, obsédé de beauté et de perfection, Rudik fascinera tous ceux qui croiseront sa route, leur
PORTNOY''S COMPLAINT
ISBN : 9780099399018
A story that tells about the confession of Alexander Portnoy who is thrust through life by his unappeasable sexuality, yet held back at the same time by the iron grip of his unforgettable childhood.
Atonement
ISBN : 9780099429791
On the hottest day of the summer of 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Talfis sees her sister Cecilia strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country house. Watching her too is Robbie Turner who, like Cecilia, has recently come down from Cambridge. By the end of that day, the lives of all three will have been changed for ever, as Briony commits a crime for which she will spend the rest of her life trying to atone.
THE CIDER HOUSE RULES
ISBN : 9780552992046
Set among the apple orchards of rural Maine, it is a peverse world in which Homer Wells' odyssey begins. As the oldest unadopted offspring at St Cloud's orphanage, he learns about the skills which, one way or another, help young and not-so-young women, from Wilbur Larch, the orphanage's founder -- a man of rare compassion and an addiction to ether.
26a
ISBN : 9780099479048
Identical twins Georgia and Bessi live in the loft of 26 Waifer Avenue. It is a place of beanbags, nectarines and secrets, and visitors must always knock before entering. Down below there is not such harmony. Their Nigerian mother puts cayenne pepper on her Yorkshire pudding and ahs mysterious ways of dealing with homesickness; their father angrily roams the streets of Neasden, prey to the demons of his Derbyshire upbringing. Forced to create their own identities, the Hunter children build a separate universe. Older sister Bel discovers sex, high heels and organic hairdressing, the twins prepare for a flapjack empire, and baby sister Kemy learns to moonwalk for Michael Jackson. It is when reality comes knocking that the fantasies of childhood start to give way. How will Georgia and Bessi cope in a world of them will be stronger?
