Isabelle Maillet Libros

La famille Lucas vit dans le nord du Wisconsin, belle terre oubliée peuplée d'ouvriers européens immigrés et d'Indiens ojibwés. En 1967, le père, John Lucas, miné par l'alcool, laisse leur ferme se délabrer et s'acharne violemment contre sa femme et ses deux fils ; l'aîné, James, fuit les coups en écoutant Elvis et s'engage dans les marines. Il est dirigé vers les jungles de guerre vietnamiennes. Bill, le cadet, reste pour protéger sa mère, guidé seulement par l'esprit de son frère. Heureusement, dans la ferme voisine, les Morriseau veillent sur lui et le soutiennent pendant le périlleux passage de l'enfance à l'âge d'homme. Les enfants ont un tel instinct de survie, nous dit Mary Relindes Ellis dans ses descriptions magnifiques des paysages du Midwest américain, qu'ils trouvent dans la nature ce que leur environnement familial leur dénie. Et comme les anciens Ojibwés le savent depuis longtemps, ils y trouvent aussi la sagesse et la clairvoyance. Mary Relindes Ellis signe ici un premier roman étonnant, obsédant, lyrique et rédempteur dans la lignée d'un Sherwood Anderson ou d'un Russell Banks.

A brilliant historical crime novel of Georgian London from the author of The Devil in the Marshalsea.

Boston private investigators Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro's relationship has hit the skids - their long-standing professional commitment and growing romance have disintegrated due to seemingly irreparable personal differences. But despite these problems, IPrayers for Rain/I brings them together again to close down a predator whose Imodus operandi/I seems to put him beyond the law. This killer's insidious murder weapon is within his victims' minds: no smoking gun, no bloody knife, just merciless manipulation until despair drives his targets to kill themselves. As Patrick and Angie attempt to identify and save his next victim, this sinister force turns on them and thus begins a dangerous battle of wits: a tormenting, life-threatening game of psychological warfare in which simple survival seems a mixed blessing - because not even the winner will emerge unscathed.

"الجزيرة المغلقة" هي رواية متميزة للكاتب الأميركي "دينيس ليهان"، الذي يُعتبر من أبرز الروائيين في القرن العشرين. تدور أحداث القصة عام 1954، حيث يقوم المارشال الأميركي "تيدي كابريو" وشريكه "تشاك" بالتحقيق في اختفاء مريضة من مستشفى للأمراض العقلية يقع على جزيرة نائية تُعد من أسوأ الأماكن في العالم. مع تقدم التحقيق، يكتشف المحققان أن القضية أكثر تعقيداً مما يبدو، حيث يواجهان صعوبات في الوصول إلى المعلومات بسبب عدم تعاون مدير المستشفى. تتعقد الأمور أكثر عندما يختفي أحد رجال الشرطة في ظروف غامضة خلال عاصفة بحرية، مما يزيد من مخاوف شريكه. تتضمن الرواية مجموعة من الشخصيات المعقدة، من القتلة والمغتصبين، وتعرض قدرة "ليهان" على استكشاف الجوانب المظلمة للنفس البشرية من خلال حوارات عميقة ومؤثرة. يخلق الكاتب جواً من التشويق والغموض، مما يجعل القارئ مشدوداً حتى النهاية. تتناول الرواية أيضاً تساؤلات حول الأخلاقيات في العلوم، حيث يُظهر الطبيب أن التجارب على البشر قد تكون جزءًا من محاولة المساعدة، مما يثير قضايا حول الحضارة والعنف الكامن في النفس البشرية. تحمل الرواية مفاجآت عديدة وتكشف عن تناقضات المجتمع المتحضر، مما يجعلها تجربة قراءة مثيرة ومؤثرة.

Struggling through another Edinburgh winter Rebus finds himself sucked into a web of intrigue that throws up more questions than answers. city councillor shredding documents that should have been waste paper years ago? And why on earth is Rebus invited to a clay pigeon shoot at the home of the Scottish Office's Permanent Secretary? that some of his enemies may be beyond justice...

From New York Times bestselling author Dennis Lehane comes this epic, unflinching tale of the making and unmaking of a gangster in the Prohibition Era of the Roaring Twenties—now a Warner Bros. movie starring Ben Affleck, Elle Fanning, Zoe Saldana, and Sienna Miller. Meticulously researched and artfully told, Live by Night is the riveting story of one man’s rise from Boston petty thief to the Gulf Coast’s most successful rum runner, and it proves again that the accolades New York Times bestseller Lehane consistently receives are well deserved. He is indeed, “a master” (Philadelphia Inquirer) whose “true literary forefathers include John Steinbeck as well as Raymond Chandler” (Baltimore Sun). And, “Boy, does he know how to write” (Elmore Leonard).

Antes de que la adaptación cinematográfica de Mystic River lo lanzara a la fama, Dennis Lehane ya era un autor destacado del género negro gracias a los detectives bostonianos Patrick Kenzie y Angela Gennaro. En la última década, su talento para crear historias de gran tensión y complejidad psicológica le ha valido numerosos premios y ha inspirado a Hollywood, consolidándose con series como «The Wire» y «Boardwalk Empire». Actualmente, no hay escritor que retrate con mayor verosimilitud el mundo de los gángsters en Estados Unidos durante la primera mitad del siglo XX. Esta electrizante novela, que cierra la trilogía de Cualquier otro día y Vivir de noche, es un claro ejemplo. Joe Coughlin, padre de un niño de diez años al que adora, ha logrado distanciarse de su turbulento pasado, aunque aún actúa como consejero del clan mafioso de los Bartolo. Su vida tranquila se ve interrumpida por la aparición del fantasma de un chico familiar y, más alarmante, la noticia de que alguien ha puesto precio a su cabeza y planea matarlo durante el Miércoles de Ceniza. Entre su mediación entre clanes mafiosos en conflicto y la búsqueda de su atacante, Joe se verá arrastrado a un pasado lleno de traiciones y venganzas, donde cada día podría ser el último. Tal vez ha llegado el momento de pagar por sus pecados.

Amanda McCready was four years old when she vanished from her blue-collar Boston neighborhood. Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro risked everything to find her—only to orchestrate her return to a neglectful mother and broken home. Twelve years later, Amanda, now sixteen, is gone again. The disappearance of little Amanda was the case that troubled Kenzie and Gennaro more than any other. Still haunted by their consciences, they must now revisit the nightmare that once tore them apart—following the trail of a lost teenager into a world of identity thieves, methamphetamine dealers, and Russian gangsters, right up to the doorstep of a dangerously unstable crime boss and his demented wife. Once again Patrick and Angie will be putting everything that matters to them on the line in pursuit of the answer to the burning question: Is it possible to do the right thing and still be dead wrong?

On a remote Scottish Island, a grieving mother and her surviving young daughter find themselves isolated and vulnerable...

A cutting-edge international debut thriller set in the world of hackers, techno-thieves and inside traders, for fans of John Grisham. Henrietta 'Harry' Martinez lost her investment banker father, Sal, at a young age. He taught her everything he knew - about taking risks and calculating odds. But Sal made a bad gamble when he went into business with 'The Prophet', an anonymous trader who claims Harry owes him, now her father's jailed for fraud. It's twelve million euros. Or her life. With no money and little time, Harry must track down Sal's crooked partners and escape the people on her trail - journalists, police and hired killers. But Harry has her own skills, honed by her father, skills her enemies haven't anticipated. Now, from the London Stock Exchange to the casinos of the Bahamas, the chase is on. The stakes are high. And the bets are off...

Pilgrim, is the story of a man who cannot die. Ageless, sexless, deathless and timeless, Pilgrim has inhabited endless lives and times. On April 15, 1912 - ironically, the date of the sinking of the Titanic - Pilgrim fails, once again, to commit suicide, his heart miraculously beginning again, five hours after he is found hanging from a tree. Admitted to the Burgholzi Psychiatric Clinic in Zurich, by his dear friend Lady Sybil Quartermaine, Pilgrim - at first, stubbornly mute - begins a battle of psyche and soul with Carl Jung, self-professed mystical scientist of the unconscious and slave to his own sexual appetites. Poring over Pilgrim's journals in his quest to penetrate his patient's armour of silence, Jung is both confounded and shaken by the extraordinary revelations of other existences. Pilgrim is a richly-layered story of a man's search for his own destiny - superbly crafted, breathtaking in scope and brilliantly imagined.

'Who ends up in the kitchen, Gabe?''Misfits,' he said, 'psychos, exiles, culinary artists, and people who just need a job.'In The Kitchen is Monica Ali's stunning follow up to Brick Lane. It opens with a mysterious d