Eugène Dabekaussen Orden de los libros (cronológico)

Robert Merivel, medecin renomme et ami du roi Charles II d'Angleterre, n'est desormais plus un jeune homme en age de batifoler a sa guise. Desespere a cette idee, il se rend en France pour tenter de se faire une place a la cour du Roi-Soleil.Mais Versailles - aux decors si brillants et aux realites parfois si sordides - n'est qu'un monde d'illusions. Heureusement, la rencontre fortuite avec Madame de Flamanville, une botaniste experimentee va l'entrainer sur les sentiers de l'amour erotique. Dechire entre le bonheur des plaisirs retrouves et le desir de donner un sens a sa vie, Merivel se lance dans les sciences et notamment dans l'etude originale de l'ame des animaux, s'il s'efforce d'etre assidu, il se laisse souvent aller a la paresse et au rire. Car Merivel reste avant tout un epicurien, qui peut concevoir la vie sans amour ni sans joie."Traduit de l'anglais par Edith Soonckindt""

At the heart of this story is an interracial couple, Steven and Jabulile, living in a 'free' South Africa. He is a university lecturer and she is a lawyer, both comrades in the Struggle and now parents of children born in freedom.

Set among the hills and gorges of the Cevennes, the dark and beautiful heartland of southern France, 'Trespass' is a novel about disputed territory, sibling love and devastating revenge.

Ian Buruma's epic novel is the richly imagined story of one woman's struggle to survive in the face of war and occupation in the Far East during the Second World War. It should appeal to anyone who loved Memoirs of a Geisha. 'Spare, elegant... Buruma's writing is wonderful... So beautifully executed that the reader is swept along.' Vanora Bennett, The Times

One of the most popular and influential painters to emerge from turn-of-the-century Vienna finds expression here with a full catalog of the artist's work, as well as a full accounting of his life, including his early childhood, his shaky encounters with the upper classes, his sexual adventures, and his arrest on a morals charge.10,000 first printing.

Nominee for the 1992 Booker Prize for Fiction Sacred Hunger is a stunning and engrossing exploration of power, domination, and greed. Filled with the "sacred hunger" to expand its empire and its profits, England entered full into the slave trade and spread the trade throughout its colonies. In this Booker Prize-winning work, Barry Unsworth follows the failing fortunes of William Kemp, a merchant pinning his last chance to a slave ship; his son who needs a fortune because he is in love with an upper-class woman; and his nephew who sails on the ship as its doctor because he has lost all he has loved. The voyage meets its demise when disease spreads among the slaves and the captain's drastic response provokes a mutiny. Joining together, the sailors and the slaves set up a secret, utopian society in the wilderness of Florida, only to await the vengeance of the single-minded, young Kemp. From Publishers Weekly Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Saludada por la crítica como la mejor obra de su autor hasta la fecha, El último suspiro del Moro crea, a partir del caos cultural de Bombay, una metáfora universal sobre la decadencia del mundo contemporáneo. Pero también un himno al amor y a la belleza del mundo. Y un alegato contra las fronteras que separan a los países y a los individuos...Utilizando de manera personalísima los recursos del realismo mágico esta saga familiar que recorre todo el siglo XX, combina genialmente lo cómico y lo fantástico, la invención y la narración histórica, y crea, con todo ello, un conjunto desbordante de vitalidad.

Bloemlezing van artikelen en verhalen met verbindend commentaar op het raakvlak van wijsgerige psychologie, computerkunde en hersenwetenschappen.

Restoration is a dazzling romp through 17th-century England. The main character Robert Merivel not only embodies the contradictions of his era, but ours as well. He is trapped between the longing for wealth and power and the realization that the pursuit of these trappings can leave one's life rather empty.

Durante más de cincuenta años Winnie y Helen ocultaron sus peores secretos. Pero, cuando Helen está a punto de morir, Winnie decide contarle todo a su hija Pearl, incluso la terrible verdad que ignora la propia Helen. Así despega esta fabulosa historia que nos conduce desde Shanghai en los años veinte, a través de una China envuelta en guerras, hasta Estados Unidos, adonde llega Winnie en 1949.

Aan de hand van een analyse van het mesmerisme (een vroege voorloper van de psycho-therapie), wordt een beeld gegeven van het geestesleven in Frankrijk aan de vooravond van de Revolutie.

Examines seventeenth-century Dutch life, history, and culture.