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.

Nine-year-old Oskar Schell is an inventor, amateur entomologist, Francophile, letter writer, pacifist, natural historian, percussionist, romantic, Great Explorer, jeweller, detective, vegan, and collector of butterflies. When his father is killed in the September 11th attacks on the World Trade Centre, Oskar sets out to solve the mystery of a key he discovers in his father's closet. It is a search which leads him into the lives of strangers, through the five boroughs of New York, into history, to the bombings of Dresden and Hiroshima, and on an inward journey which brings him ever closer to some kind of peace.

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]