Stefano Viviani Livres

Cicero is consul, Caesar his ruthless young rival, Pompey the republic's greatest general, Crassus its richest man, Cato a political fanatic, Catilina a psychopath, Clodius an ambitious playboy.

Rutherfurd celebrates America's greatest city in a rich, engrossing saga that showcases his extraordinary ability to combine impeccable historical research and storytelling flair. As in his earlier, bestselling novels, he illuminates cultural, social, and political upheavals through the lives of a remarkably diverse set of families. As he recounts the intertwining fates of characters rich and poor, black and white, native-born and immigrant, Rutherfurd brings to life the momentous events that shaped New York and America and Britain's unique place in the city's history: the Revolutionary War, the emergence of the city as a great trading and financial centre, the excesses of Gilded Age, the horror of the Civil War, the explosion of immigration in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the trials of World War II, the near-demise of New York in the 1970s and its roaring rebirth in the 90s, and the attacks on the World Trade Centre.

Written by a mountaineer who in 1993, after a terrifying and disastrous attempt to climb K2, drifted cold and dehydrated, into an impoverished Pakistan village in the Karakoram Mountains. It tells how moved by the inhabitants' kindness, he promised to return and build a school. It tells the story of that promise and its outcome.

Terreur sur la bourse. En étudiant les effets de la peur sur les marchés, le scientifique et financier Alex Hoffmann a découvert la brèche. Le gros lot. Son algorithme pourrait rapporter des millions de dollars... Au prix du chaos et de la destruction. Échappant bientôt à son maître, la créature à faire de l'argent s'emballe. Paranoïa, spéculation folle et intelligence artificielle : l'espèce humaine, désormais, se joue à la baisse...

Come si fa a diventare buoni? E soprattutto, che cosa significa essere buoni? Katie Karr non se l'è mai chiesto: una donna che ha scelto di diventare medico per aiutare gli altri e che ha cresciuto i figli ai valori morali più profondi non ha nemmeno bisogno di chiederselo. Finché quella donna non tradisce il marito. E allora il marito, David, decide di dare una svolta alla sua vita. Abbandona le arguzie sarcastiche con le quali non risparmiava nessuno, nemmeno la moglie e i figli, e rinuncia a versare veleno su tutto e tutti nella rubrica che firmava regolarmente su un quotidiano locale; insomma smette diessere "l'uomo più arrabbiato di Holloway" per diventare buono. Ma buono sul serio, facendo perdere a Katie ogni punto di riferimento.

La quarantaine passée, fatiguée par son métier harassant de médecin et un mariage qui a perdu toute saveur, Kate décide de demander le divorce. Dans l'espoir de la retenir, David, son mari, va alors changer radicalement : renouant avec ses idéaux de jeunesse, l'homme irascible devient un modèle de bonté, prêchant la redistribution des richesses et recueillant des SDF. Déstabilisée par ce changement soudain et ces initiatives aussi généreuses que maladroites, Kate se retrouve face à une situation inédite et explosive... A partir de quand est-on quelqu'un de bon et jusqu'où peut-on aller pour le rester ? Dans cette comédie aux mille facettes, Nick Hornby tacle le politiquement correct et interroge ce qui fait la solidité d'un couple.