Patrick Leigh Fermor
- 448pages
- 16 heures de lecture
The authorized biography shortlisted for Waterstones Book of the Year, the National Book Awards and the Costa Biography Award
Artemis Cooper Ordre des livres (chronologique)
Cette autrice explore des relations humaines complexes avec une profonde perspicacité psychologique. Son style se caractérise par une observation aiguë et une prose élégante mais accessible. À travers son œuvre, elle réfléchit souvent sur des thèmes tels que l'identité, la mémoire et la recherche de sa place dans le monde. Son écriture invite les lecteurs à contempler leurs propres expériences et le monde qui les entoure.
In this brilliant synthesis of social, political, and cultural history, Antony Beevor and Artemis Cooper present a vivid and compelling portrayal of the City of Lights after its liberation. Paris became the diplomatic battleground in the opening stages of the Cold War. Against this volatile political backdrop, every aspect of life is portrayed: scores were settled in a rough and uneven justice, black marketers grew rich on the misery of the population, and a growing number of intellectual luminaries and artists including Hemingway, Beckett, Camus, Sartre, de Beauvoir, Cocteau, and Picassocontributed new ideas and a renewed vitality to this extraordinary moment in time.
This is an account of life, attitudes and events in Cairo during World War II. It describes the historical background of the events of the Desert War, as well as stories and descriptions of personalities gleaned from the Ambassador's diaries and those of her grandparents, Duff and Diana Cooper.