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Gisela Stege

    Haroun and the Sea of Stories
    The Sicilian
    The Stars My Destination
    Shibumi
    Le moineau de Dieu
    Marilyn Monroe
    • Eine repräsentative Auswahl namhafter Fotografen, die die Hollywood-Legende ablichteten

      Marilyn Monroe
    • Le moineau de Dieu

      • 574pages
      • 21 heures de lecture
      4,2(69086)Évaluer

      Terre, début du XXIe siècle. Un signal musical d'origine inconnue a été capté par une station de scientifiques. Commanditée par les jésuites, une mission dirigée par le jeune Emilio Sandoz, tout à la fois prêtre et linguiste de haut niveau, part dans l'espace à la recherche des extraterrestres. Tous se préparent à affronter la mort et la solitude, mais la catastrophe qui les attend va bien au-delà de ce qu'ils redoutaient. Rome, 2059. Enfin de retour sur Terre, Emilio Sandoz - unique survivant de l'expédition - est traduit devant un tribunal chargé de sonder son âme et de le punir pour les horribles crimes dont on l'accuse. Cet homme, transformé par son expérience, aurait-il été abandonné par Dieu ? Tout à la fois roman d'aventure, conte moral, parabole religieuse, épopée futuriste, histoire d'amour et tragédie, " Le moineau de Dieu " mêle passion, émotion et érudition. Un livre d'une maîtrise rare, retenu aux Etats-Unis comme " l'un des dix meilleurs livres de l'année 1996 ".

      Le moineau de Dieu
    • Shibumi

      • 440pages
      • 16 heures de lecture
      4,2(12677)Évaluer

      A westerner raised in Japan, he survived the destruction of Hiroshima to emerge as the world's most artful lover and its most accomplished assassin. His greatest desire is to attain a state of effortless perfection . . . shibumi. But he is about to face his most sinister and corrupt enemy -- a supermonolith of espionage and monopoly bent on destroying him. . . . From the Paperback edition.

      Shibumi
    • The Sicilian

      • 410pages
      • 15 heures de lecture
      4,0(22038)Évaluer

      Michael Corleone's exile in Sicily is ending, but on the instructions of his father, The Godfather, he must bring back to him the young man known as Salvatore Giuliano - if he can find him. At sea amid the treacheries of a brutal and unfamiliar land, Mich

      The Sicilian
    • Haroun and the Sea of Stories

      • 216pages
      • 8 heures de lecture
      4,0(2683)Évaluer

      A captivating fantasy novel for readers of all ages, by the author of Midnight’s Children and The Satanic Verses “This is, simply put, a book for anyone who loves a good story. It’s also a work of literary genius.” —Stephen King Set in an exotic Eastern landscape peopled by magicians and fantastic talking animals, Haroun and the Sea of Stories inhabits the same imaginative space as The Lord of the Rings, The Alchemist, The Arabian Nights, and The Wizard of Oz. Twelve-year-old Haroun sets out on an adventure to restore his father’s gift of storytelling by reviving the poisoned Sea of Stories. On the way, he encounters many foes, all intent on draining the sea of all its storytelling powers. In this wondrously delightful story, Salman Rushdie gives us an imaginative work of extraordinary power and endearing humor that is, at its heart, an illumination of the necessity of storytelling in our lives.

      Haroun and the Sea of Stories
    • East, West

      • 192pages
      • 7 heures de lecture
      3,6(6010)Évaluer

      From the Booker Prize-winning author of The Satanic Verses comes nine stories that reveal the oceanic distances and the unexpected intimacies between East and West. Daring, extravagant, comical and humane, this book renews Rushdie's stature as a storyteller who can enthrall and instruct us with the same sentence.

      East, West