Benito Gómez Ibáñez Livres

An anthology of short stories both fiction and non-fiction and conversations. Capote is a master at creating settings and conjuring up personalities. The central story, a novella entitled Handcarved Coffins, follows the same guidelines as In Cold Blood yet is even more terrifying and haunting.

Six months after losing his wife and two young sons, Vermont professor David Zimmer spends his waking hours mired in a blur of alcoholic grief and self-pity. One night, he stumbles upon a clip from a lost film by silent comedian Hector Mann. His interest is piqued, and he soon finds himself embarking on a journey around the world to research a book on this mysterious figure, who vanished from sight in 1929. When the book is published the following year, a letter turns up in Zimmer's mailbox bearing a return address from a small town in New Mexico inviting him to meet Hector. Zimmer hesitates, until one night a strange woman appears on his doorstep and makes the decision for him, changing his life forever.

Baumgartner's life has been defined by his deep, abiding love for his wife, Anna. But now Anna is gone, and Baumgartner is embarking on his seventies whilst trying to live with her absence. Rich with compassion, wit and Auster's keen eye for beauty in the smallest, most transient episodes of ordinary life, 'Baumgartner' is a tender late masterpiece of the ache of memory. It asks: why do we find such meaning in certain moments, and forget others?

Parce qu'il s'est toujours senti coupable de la mort accidentelle de son demi-frère, Miles s'est banni de sa propre histoire. Il a quitté sa famille, abandonné ses études, et travaille, en Floride, à débarrasser les maisons désertées par les victimes des subprimes. Amoureux d'une fille trop jeune, passible de détournement de mineure, Miles fait bientôt l'objet d'un chantage et est obligé — encore une fois — de partir. Il trouve alors refuge à Brooklyn où son fidèle ami Bing Nathan squatte une maison délabrée, en compagnie de deux jeunes femmes, elles aussi condamnées à la marge par l'impossibilité d'exprimer ou de faire valoir leurs talents respectifs. Désormais Miles se trouve géographiquement plus proche de son père, éditeur indépendant qui tente de traverser la crise financière, de sauver sa maison d'édition et de préserver son couple. Confronté à l'écroulement des certitudes de toute une génération, il n'attend qu'une occasion pour renouer avec son fils afin de panser des blessures dont il ignore qu'elles sont inguérissables... Avec ce roman, Paul Auster rend hommage à une humanité blessée en quête de sa place dans un monde interdit de mémoire et qui a substitué la violence à l'espoir.

From Victorian lndia to near-future New York, The Calcutta Chromosome takes readers on a wondrous journey through time as a computer programmer trapped in a mind-numbing job hits upon a curious item that will forever change his life. When Antar discovers the battered ID card of a long-lost acquaintance, he is suddenly drawn into a spellbinding adventure across centuries and around the globe, into the strange life of L. Murugan, a man obsessed with the medical history of malaria, and into a magnificently complex world where conspiracy hangs in the air like mosquitoes on a summer night.