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Silvia Piraccini

    Une place à prendre
    The Rug Merchant
    Not a Star
    Villages
    L'atlas d'émeraude
    The Boy Who Could See Demons
    • An innovative and richly imaginative new novel from the internationally acclaimed Carolyn Jess-Cooke, for anyone who loved The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time and Room.

      The Boy Who Could See Demons
    • Par une froide nuit de Noël, trois enfants sont chassés de chez eux par des forces maléfiques. Dix ans plus tard, Kate, Michael et Emma sont envoyés dans un mystérieux orphelinat où les attend un atlas enchanté. S'ils veulent sauver leur famille, les enfants devront d'abord sauver le monde

      L'atlas d'émeraude
    • Villages

      • 336pages
      • 12 heures de lecture
      3,5(69)Évaluer

      Owen Mackenzie�s life story abounds with sin and seduction, domesticity and debauchery. His marriage to his college sweetheart is quickly followed by his first betrayal and he embarks upon a series of affairs. His pursuit of happiness, in a succession of small towns from Pennsylvania to Massachusetts, brings him to the edge of chaos, from which he is saved by a rescue that carries its own fatal price.

      Villages
    • A sparkling debut novel about an unlikely romance between an Iranian immigrant and an American college student.Isolated and far from his native Iran, Ushman Khan has worked hard to build a wealthy, reliable clientele for his wares: exquisite hand-woven rugs from his home city of Tabriz.With perfect rectitude, he caters to clients like New York’s Upper East Side grand dame Mrs. Roberts, who plies him for stories about his exotic origins and culture to feed her own imagination. But like many immigrants, he’s living only half a life. He dreams of the day his beloved wife, Farak, will be able to join him in New York and complete his vision of the American dream. But when she tells him that she is leaving him for another man, Ushman is shattered. He begins to wander aimlessly through the terminals of JFK Airport, imagining a now-impossible reunion with Farak. Unexpectedly, he meets Stella, a Barnard College student who has just bade farewell to her parents en route for an Italian vacation. After Stella, isolated in her own way, finds herself at Ushman’s Manhattan store, they embark on an improbable and powerful romance. Together this American girl from the Deep South and the Iranian aesthete form a tender bond that awakens them both to the possibility of joy in a world full of tragedy.

      The Rug Merchant
    • Bienvenue à Pagford, petite bourgade en apparence idyllique. Un notable meurt. Sa place est à prendre ... Comédie de moeurs, tragédie teintée d'humour noir, satire féroce de nos hypocrisies sociales et intimes, ce formidable roman confirme le talent d'un écrivain prodige [Source : 4e de couv.]

      Une place à prendre
    • Slam

      • 298pages
      • 11 heures de lecture
      3,2(818)Évaluer

      Vous savez ce que c'est, un slam ? En langage de skateboarder ça veut dire qu'on se casse la gueule. Et moi, le skate et les filles, c'est tout ce qui m'intéresse. Je m'appelle Sam, j'ai 15 ans, je vis avec ma mère qui en a 31. Vous avez pigé : elle m'a eu quand elle avait 16 ans, du coup elle me dit toujours de faire attention avec ma copine. Parce que c'est comme avec le skate : un accident est vite arrivé...

      Slam
    • Sam vive a North London; sedici anni, gli ormoni impazziti e una passione grande, come tutti i suoi coetanei: lo skateboard. E l'Eroe, il suo Eroe, è Tony Hawk, il più grande skater del mondo. Lui lo adora, ha il suo poster in camera, gli parla, si confronta con lui. E a chi se non al proprio eroe si possono raccontare le paure, le ansie, i problemi? Forse a una mamma come quella di Sam, giovane, carina, comprensiva, che ha conquistato anche gli amici del figlio. Del resto lei è una mamma davvero particolare e molto vicina al figlio, visto che lo ha avuto a sedici anni. E proprio a quella stessa età Sam conosce Alicia, con la quale è amore a prima vista, passione totalizzante e simbiotica come può esserlo solo a quell'età. Ma poi purtroppo, proprio quando - come succede solo a quell'età - il rapporto si sta ormai sfilacciando, Alicia scopre di essere incinta. Terrorizzato dal dover annunciare ai rispettivi genitori la drammatica verità e distrutto dalla visione terribile di un futuro fatto di pannolini e incomprensioni matrimoniali - prospettatagli dal suo idolo che tra le altre mille qualità ha anche quella di farlo "viaggiare" nel futuro - , Sam sceglie la fuga ad Hastings. Ma la sua fuga avrà breve durata.

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