Silvia Pareschi Ordre des livres (chronologique)

"Crossroads is the first novel in Jonathan Franzen's A Key to All Mythologies. The trilogy tells the story of a Midwestern family across three generations, mirroring the preoccupations and dilemmas of the United States from the Vietnam War to the 2020s"

"In Silverview, John le Carré turns his focus to the world that occupied his writing for the past sixty years--the secret world itself. Julian Lawndsley has renounced his high-flying job in the city for a simpler life running a bookshop in a small English seaside town. But only a couple of months into his new career, Julian's evening is disrupted by a visitor. Edward, a Polish émigré living in Silverview, the big house on the edge of town, seems to know a lot about Julian's family and is rather too interested in the inner workings of his modest new enterprise. When a letter turns up at the door of a spy chief in London warning him of a dangerous leak, the investigations lead him to this quiet town by the sea . . . Silverview is the mesmerizing story of an encounter between innocence and experience and between public duty and private morals. In his inimitable voice John le Carré, the greatest chronicler of our age, seeks to answer the question of what we truly owe to the people we love."--

Il nuovo e attesissimo libro di Amy Hempel, una delle voci più celebri e originali della narrativa di oggi, si apre con un proverbio arabo: "Quando il pericolo si avvicina, cantagli una canzone". Queste quindici storie raffinate rivelano la parte più umana e vivace della leggendaria scrittrice, che ci presenta figure solitarie e alla deriva in cerca di una connessione. Le loro brevi vicende affrontano le nostre paure e i nostri desideri, costringendoci a compatirli. I personaggi di Amy Hempel, immediatamente vividi e memorabili, hanno cuori danneggiati e sono perseguitati dal dolore. Lottano per perdonare se stessi e gli altri. Ne La chicane l'incontro di una donna con un attore francese suscita un diluvio di ricordi legati a una zia suicida, incapace di trovare stabilità in amore e nella vita. In Un rifugio con tutti i servizi una volontaria di un ricovero per cani si prende cura con devozione degli animali da sopprimere. In Greed una moglie respinta esamina la relazione di suo marito con una donna affascinante e anziana. E in Cloudland, la storia più lunga della raccolta, una donna rimugina sulla scelta fatta da adolescente di rinunciare al suo bambino. Seducenti e inquietanti, tenere e cupamente divertenti, queste storie sono piene di rivelazioni inattese, narrate con lo stile singolare e inimitabile di Amy Hempel.

Dans la Floride ségrégationniste des années 1960, le jeune Elwood Curtis prend très à coeur le message de paix de Martin Luther King. Prêt à intégrer l'université pour y faire de brillantes études, il voit s'évanouir ses rêves d'avenir lorsque, à la suite d'une erreur judiciaire, on l'envoie à la Nickel Academy, une maison de correction qui s'engage à faire des délinquants des « hommes honnêtes et honorables ». Sauf qu'il s'agit en réalité d'un endroit cauchemardesque, où les pensionnaires sont soumis aux pires sévices. Elwood trouve toutefois un allié précieux en la personne de Turner, avec qui il se lie d'amitié. Mais l'idéalisme de l'un et le scepticisme de l'autre auront des conséquences déchirantes. Couronné en 2017 par le prix Pulitzer pour Underdground Railroad puis en 2020 pour Nickel Boys, Colson Whitehead s'inscrit dans la lignée des rares romanciers distingués à deux reprises par cette prestigieuse récompense, à l'instar de William Faulkner et John Updike. S'inspirant de faits réels, il continue d'explorer l'inguérissable blessure raciale de l'Amérique et donne avec ce nouveau roman saisissant une sépulture littéraire à des centaines d'innocents, victimes de l'injustice du fait de leur couleur de peau.

Heather, The Totality is superb. It gripped me at once. There was no question of turning away at any point. Weiner conveys the sense that beyond the brilliantly chosen details there was a wealth of similarly truthful social and psychological perception unstated. Then there was the ice-cold mercilessness, of a kind that reminded me (oddly, I suppose, but there it was) of Evelyn Waugh. This novel is something special PHILIP PULLMAN

A magnum opus for our morally complex times from the author ofFreedom. Purity Tyler, known to all as Pip, is an outspoken, forthright young woman struggling to make a life for herself. She sleeps in an rickety commune in Oakland. She's in love with an unavailable older man and is saddled with staggering college debt. She has a crazy mother and doesn't know who her father is. A chance encounter leads her to an internship in South America with the world-famous Sunlight Project, the president of which is Andreas Wolf, a charismatic genius who grew up privileged but disaffected in the German Democratic Republic. Like numerous women before her, she becomes obsessed with Andreas, and they have an intense, unsettling relationship. Eventually, he finds her work back in the United States. What lies underneath is a wild tale of hidden identities, secret wealth, neurotic fidelity, sociopathy, and murder. The truth of Pip's parentage lies at the centre of this maelstrom, but before it is resolved Franzen takes us from the rain-drenched forests of northern California, to paranoid East Berlin before the fall of the Wall, to the paradisiacal mountain valleys of Bolivia, exposing us to the vagaries of radical politics, the problematic seductions of the internet, and the no-holds-barred war between the sexes. Featuring an unforgettable cast of inimitable Franzenian characters, Purity is deeply troubling, richly moving, and hilarious.

Ces Japonaises ont tout abandonné au début du XXe siècle pour épouser aux Etats-Unis, sur la foi d'un portrait, un inconnu. Celui dont elles ont tant rêvé, qui va tant les décevoir. Choeur vibrant, leurs voix s'élèvent pour raconter l'exil : la nuit de noces, les journées aux champs, la langue revêche, l'humiliation, les joies aussi. Puis le silence de la guerre. Et l'oubli.

Patty a décidé une fois pour toutes d’être la femme idéale. Mère parfaite, épouse aimante et dévouée, cette ex-basketteuse ayant un faible pour les bad boys a fait, en l’épousant, le bonheur de Walter Berglund, de St. Paul (Minnesota). A eux deux, ils forment le couple « bobo » par excellence. En devenant madame Berglund, Patty a renoncé à bien des choses, et d’abord à son amour de jeunesse, Richard Katz, un rocker dylanien qui se trouve être aussi le meilleur ami de Walter. Freedom raconte l’histoire de ce trio, et capture le climat émotionnel, politique et moral des Etats-Unis de ces 30 dernières années, dans une tragi-comédie d’une incroyable virtuosité. Comment vivre ? Comment s’orienter dans une époque qui semble devenue folle ? Jonathan Franzen relève le défi et tente de répondre à cette question, avec cette histoire d’un mariage d’une implacable cruauté. Freedom a bénéficié dès sa sortie d’une rumeur très favorable, et même avant, lorsque le magazine TIME daté du 23 août a consacré sa couverture à Jonathan Franzen (cela faisait tout juste 10 ans qu’un écrivain avait connu une telle visibilité). La presse a tout de suite embrayé, avec des comptes-rendus enthousiastes, notamment Michiko Kakutani, la redoutée critique du New York Times. Et Oprah Winfrey a (finalement!) invité l’auteur à son show, qui est l’émission la plus regardée aux U.S.A.

Marion, fresh out of medical school, flees Ethiopia and makes his way to America, finding refuge in his work as an intern at an underfunded, overcrowded New York City hospital. When the past catches up to him--nearly destroying him--Marion must entrust his life to the two men he thought he trusted least in the world: the surgeon father who abandoned him and the brother who betrayed him.

The lives of Skip Sands, a spy-in-training engaged in psychological operations against the Vietcong, and brothers Bill and James Houston, young men who drift out of the Arizona desert into a war, intertwine in a novel of America during the Vietnam War

Winner of: The Pulitzer Prize The National Book Critics Circle Award The Anisfield-Wolf Book Award The Jon Sargent, Sr. First Novel Prize A Time Magazine #1 Fiction Book of the Year One of the best books of 2007 according to: The New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, New York Magazine, Entertainment Weekly, The Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, People, The Village Voice, Time Out New York, Salon, Baltimore City Paper, The Christian Science Monitor, Booklist, Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, New York Public Library, and many more... Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read Oscar is a sweet but disastrously overweight ghetto nerd who—from the New Jersey home he shares with his old world mother and rebellious sister—dreams of becoming the Dominican J.R.R. Tolkien and, most of all, finding love. But Oscar may never get what he wants. Blame the fukú—a curse that has haunted Oscar’s family for generations, following them on their epic journey from Santo Domingo to the USA. Encapsulating Dominican-American history, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao opens our eyes to an astonishing vision of the contemporary American experience and explores the endless human capacity to persevere—and risk it all—in the name of love.

Follows three friends and their overlapping social and family circles through their day-to-day lives, their perceived struggles and successes and their constant search for meaning and authenticity. This work is a portrait of a particular place at a particular moment and an illustration how the events of a single day can change everything for ever.

Un giovanissimo miliardario vive in un attico su tre piani, colleziona quadri e squali, ha una moglie di prestigio e patrimonio adeguati. Una splendida mattina, spinto da una strana inquietudine, sale in limousine e dice all'autista di portarlo dall'altra parte di Manhattan, nel West Side per "tagliarsi i capelli". Inizia così un viaggio che è una metafora, un attraversamento da est a ovest del cuore del mondo in una sola giornata, un percorso alla ricerca della proprie radici e della morte.

Louis Holland arrives in Boston in a spring of ecological upheaval (a rash of earthquakes on the North Shore) and odd luck: the first one kills his grandmother. Louis tries to maintain his independence, but falls in love with a Harvard seismologist whose discoveries about the earthquakes' cause complicate everything.

The author presents his 1996 work, "The Harper's Essay," offering additional writings that consider a central theme of the erosion of civic life and private dignity and the increasing persistence of loneliness in postmodern American.