Jean-Pierre Carasso Orden de los libros (cronológico)

Life of Pi meets Aesop's Fables - a modern-day fable for adults

Presents three stories connected into one narrative about Juliet - who escapes from teaching at a girls' school and throws herself into a wild and passionate love match. This work is about the power and betrayals of love, about lost children, lost chances.

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close is Jonathan Safran Foer's heartrending New York novelIn a vase in a closet, a couple of years after his father died in 9/11, nine-year-old Oskar discovers a key . . .The key belonged to his father, he's sure of that. But which of New York's 162 million locks does it open?So begins a quest that takes Oskar - inventor, letter-writer and amateur detective - across New York's five boroughs and into the jumbled lives of friends, relatives and complete strangers. He gets heavy boots, he gives himself little bruises and he inches ever nearer to the heart of a family mystery that stretches back fifty years. But will it take him any closer to, or even further from, his lost father?Moving, literary and innovative, perfect for fans of Lorrie Moore and Nicole Krauss, Jonathan Safran Foer's Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close was made into a major film starring Tom Hanks and Sandra Bullock, released in 2012.Jonathan Safran Foer was born in 1977. He is the author of Everything is Illuminated, which won the National Jewish Book Award and the Guardian First Book award, and Eating Animals, and the editor of A Convergence of Birds.

Dans un camp de concentration, Rosa cache Magda, son bébé, dans les plis d'un châle. Mais une jeune fille de quatorze ans, rongée par le froid, s'empare du châle qui dissimule l'enfant. Alors survient l'innommable: un nazi découvre le bébé et le jette contre les barbelés électrifiés du camp. Trente ans plus tard, on retrouve Rosa à Miami. Sa fureur et sa mémoire sont intactes. Jusqu'au jour où un paquet arrive par la poste. C'est le châle. La sobriété de ce récit et son souffle font du souvenir de Rosa un hymne à l'amour au cœur de l'enfer. Le châle, qui a gardé " le goût d'amande et de cannelle de la salive de Magda ", est un rempart contre l'oubli, un appel adressé à chacun de nous pour que demeurent vivantes nos mémoires.

Ancient Evenings, a dazzlingly rich, deeply evocative novel, recreates the long-lost civilisation of Ancient Egypt. Mailer breathes life into the figures of that era; the eighteenth dynasty Pharaoh Rameses and his wife, Queen Nefertiti; Menenhetet, their creature, lover and victim; and the gods and mortals that surround them in intimate and telepathic communion. His hero, three times reincarnated during the novel, moves in the bright sunlight of white temples, in the exquisite gardens of the royal harem, along the majestic flow of the Nile and in the terrifying clash of battle. An outstanding work of creative imagination, Ancient Evenings displays Mailer's obsession with magic, violence and eroticism and lives on in the mind long after the last page has been turned. [Taken from Amazon.com]