Anneke Bok Ordre des livres (chronologique)

Anappara creates an endearing and highly engaging narrator to navigate us through the dark underbelly of modern India' Observer We children are not just stories. We live. Come and see. Nine-year-old Jai watches too many reality cop shows, thinks he's smarter than his friend Pari (even though she always gets top marks) and considers himself to be a better boss than Faiz (even though Faiz is the one with a job). When a boy at school goes missing, Jai decides to use the crime-solving skills he has picked up from episodes of Police Patrol to find him. With Pari and Faiz by his side, Jai ventures into some of the most dangerous parts of the sprawling Indian city; the bazaar at night, and even the railway station at the end of the Purple Line. But kids continue to vanish, and the trio must confront terrified parents, an indifferent police force and soul-snatching djinns in order to uncover the truth.

"Young Pip Tyler doesn't know who she is. She knows that her real name is Purity, that she's saddled with $130,000 in student debt, that she's squatting with anarchists in Oakland, and that her relationship with her mother -- her only family -- is hazardous. But she doesn't have a clue who her father is, why her mother chose to live as a recluse with an invented name, or how she'll ever have a normal life. Enter the Germans. A glancing encounter with a German peace activist leads Pip to an internship in South America with The Sunlight Project, an organization that traffics in all the secrets of the world -- including, Pip hopes, the secret of her origins. TSP is the brainchild of Andreas Wolf, a charismatic provocateur who rose to fame in the chaos following the fall of the Berlin Wall. Now on the lam in Bolivia, Andreas is drawn to Pip for reasons she doesn't understand, and the intensity of her response to him upends her conventional ideas of right and wrong."--Book jacket (hardcover edition).

Een ontroerend verhaal over twee families die elk op hun eigen wijze proberen om te gaan met een groot verlies. Zomerse fuga laat ons zien dat rouw met alleen diepe wonden slaat, maar ook kan leiden tot onverwachte schoonheid.

Samson Greene wanders into the Nevada desert, unaware of how he reached there, oblivious even to his own identity, and with a tumour pressing against his brain. When he is picked up and taken to the hospital, there is some possibility that his life could be saved, but whether his mind could be saved, his memories be retained is not clear. Anna, his wife of ten years, is by his side when he undergoes the surgery and comes out alive, but without twenty four years of his memory. He cannot recognise his wife, his beautiful house, and the rows of books that he had lovingly collected and read. It is a difficult situation for Samson, who feels like a stranger in his own life, and for Anna to see her husband separated from her by the chasm of oblivion. As Samson and Anna try to come to terms with their new life, some of their questions are answered, the others are left unresolved. To understand his new self, to find a meaning for his new life Samson has to go to the desert again.

Set in the harsh environment of the South Island beaches of New Zealand, this masterful story brings together three singular people in a trinity that reflects their country's varied heritage. Winner of the 1985 Booker-McConnell prize for fiction.

Richard est un routard d'aujourd'hui, en quête de solitude et de sensations fortes, fasciné par l'Asie. A Bangkok, dans une guesthouse minable, il entend parler d'une île interdite aux touristes, bordée par une plage paradisiaque où l'on peut vivre de riz, de poisson et de marijuana. Parvenu en ce lieu mystérieux en compagnie d'un couple de Français, il s'assimile aisément à la petite communauté " baba cool " qui y mène une existence rêveuse de soleil, de couleurs et de drogue. Mais ce bonheur est trompeur et le groupe va se trouver peu à peu confronté à l'horreur et à la violence. Ce premier roman d'un jeune écrivain anglais a été salué comme le portrait magistral d'une génération. Cette chronique d'un cauchemar annoncé se dévore comme un véritable thriller sous les tropiques. Bernard Géniès, Le Nouvel Observateur