Delphine de Vigan Libros

"Una bellísima novela sobre la gratitud, sobre lo importante que es poder dar las gracias a aquellos que nos han ayudado en la vida." -- publisher summary

Después de encontrar a Lucile, su madre, muerta en misteriosas circunstancias, Delphine de Vigan se convierte en una sagaz detective dispuesta a reconstruir la vida de la desaparecida. Los cientos de fotografías tomadas durante años, la crónica de George, abuelo de Delphine, registrada en cintas de casete, las vacaciones de la familia filmadas en super ocho, o las conversaciones mantenidas por la escritora con sus hermanos, son los materiales de los que se nutre la memoria de los Poirier. Nos hallamos ante una espléndida, sobrecogedora crónica familiar en el París de los años cincuenta, sesenta y setenta, pero también ante una reflexión en el tiempo presente sobre la «verdad» de la escritura. En el transcurso del viaje de la cronista al pasado de su familia y a su propia infancia, irán aflorando los secretos más oscuros. Para la autora, escribir sobre su madre es cerrar heridas abiertas muchos años atrás, y recuperar la novela familiar es emprender un camino de catarsis y de superación del duelo, a la manera de Roland Barthes en sus escritos póstumos. Pero es también un ejercicio de alto riesgo, puesto que en el curso de esta investigación expone ante los miembros de su familia, como si ellos no fueran más que lectores anónimos en la multitud, su propio secreto más terrible.

In this moving autobiographical novel, the narrator's mother, Lucile, raises her two daughters largely alone. A former child model from a large Bohemian family, Lucile is younger and more glamorous than the other mothers: always in lipstick and stylishly dressed, wayward and wonderful. But as the years pass her occasional sadness gives way to overwhelming despair and delusion. This is a story of luminous beauty and rambunctious joy, of dark secrets and silences, revelations and, ultimately, the unknowability of even those closest to us. And in the face of the unknowable, personal history becomes fiction. Nothing Holds Back the Night is universally recognisable and singularly heartbreaking.

A cautionary tale for a world in which social media has shattered the boundaries of intimacy

'A wonderful literary trompe l'oeil: a book about friendship, writing and the boundary between reality and fantasy ... Dark, smart, strange, compelling' Harriet Lane, bestselling author of Her Overwhelmed by the huge success of her latest novel, exhausted and suffering from a crippling inability to write, Delphine meets L. L. embodies everything Delphine admires; sophisticated and unusually intuitive, she slowly but deliberately carves herself a niche in the writer's life. However, as she makes herself indispensable to Delphine, the intensity of this unexpected friendship manifests itself in increasingly sinister ways. And as their lives become further entwined, L. begins to threaten Delphine's identity and her safety.

Everyday Mathilde takes the Metro, then the commuter train to the office of a large multi-national where she works in the marketing department. Every day, the same routine, the same trains. But something happened a while ago - she dared to voice a different opinion from her moody boss, Jacques. Bit by bit she finds herself frozen out of everything, with no work to do. Thibault is a paramedic. Every day he drives to the addresses he receives from his controller. The city spares him no grief: traffic jams, elusive parking spaces, delivery trucks blocking his route. He is well aware that he may be the only human being many of the people he visits will see for the entire day and is well acquainted with the symptomatic illnesses, the major disasters, the hustle and bustle and, of course, the immense, pervading loneliness of the city. Before one day in May, Mathilde and Thibault had never met. They were just two anonymous figures in a crowd, pushed and shoved and pressured continuously by the loveless, urban world. Underground Time is a novel of quiet violence - the violence of office-bullying, the violence of the brutality of the city - in which our two characters move towards an inevitable meeting. 'Two solitary existences cross paths in this poignant chronicle, a new testimony to de Vigan's superb eloquence' Lire

What happens when adults are as lost as the children they're supposed to be protecting? From the author of the Richard and Judy Book Club Pick No and Me 'Packs a hefty emotional punch. It reminded me of Leila Slimani's terrific Lullaby' Bookseller 'Narrated with punch and pace. You're kept reading helplessly to the desperate cliffhanger finish' Daily Mail Thirteen-year-old Théo and his friend Mathis have a secret. Their teacher, Hélène, suspects something is not right with Théo and becomes obsessed with rescuing him, casting aside her professionalism to the point of no return. Cécile, mother of Mathis, discovers something horrifying on her husband's computer that makes her question whether she has ever truly known him. Respectable facades are peeled away as the four stories wind tighter and tighter together, pulling into a lean and darkly gripping novel of loneliness, lies and loyalties.

Lou Bertignac has an IQ of 160 and a good friend in class rebel Lucas. At home her father puts a brave face on things but cries in secret in the bathroom, while her mother rarely speaks and hardly ever leaves the house. To escape this desolate world, Lou goes often to Gare d'Austerlitz to see the big emotions in the smiles and tears of arrival and departure. But there she also sees the homeless, meets a girl called No, only a few years older than herself, and decides to make homelessness the topic of her class presentation. Bit by bit, Lou and No become friends until, the project over, No disappears. Heartbroken, Lou asks her parents the unaskable question and her parents say- Yes, No can come to live with them. So Lou goes down into the underworld of Paris's street people to bring her friend up to the light of a home and family life, she thinks.

Der 12-jährige Théo ist ein stiller, aber guter Schüler. Dennoch glaubt seine Lehrerin Hélène, besorgniserregende Veränderungen an ihm festzustellen. Doch keiner will das hören. Théos Eltern sind geschieden und mit sich selbst beschäftigt. Der Junge funktioniert und kümmert sich um die unglückliche Mutter und den vereinsamten Vater. In ihren Augen ist also so weit alles gut. Doch Théo trinkt heimlich, und nur sein Freund Mathis weiß davon. Der Alkohol wärmt und schützt ihn vor der Welt. Eines Tages wird ihn der Alkohol ganz aufsaugen, das weiß Théo. Doch wer sollte ihm helfen? Hélène, seine Lehrerin, würde es tun, doch wie soll das gehen, ohne dass er die Eltern verrät? Mathis beobachtet das alles voller Angst. Zu gerne würde er sich seiner Mutter anvertrauen, aber Théo ist sein einziger Freund. Und einen Freund verrät man nicht. Außerdem würde er damit auch demjenigen in den Rücken fallen, der den Minderjährigen den Alkohol besorgt. Und der ist es, der das gefährliche Spiel in dem schneebedeckten Park vorschlägt, bei dem Théo bewusst den eigenen Tod in Kauf nimmt.

L'oeuvre intégrale annotée : Enfant précoce, Lou Bertignac a treize ans et deux classes d'avance. En décalage avec les lycéens qui l'entourent, elle s'évade par des lectures, des expériences fantaisistes, et rêve d'une grande amitié. C'est alors que sa route croise celle de Nolwenn, une jeune fille à peine plus âgée qu'elle mais sans abri. Cette rencontre va changer sa vie. Dossier thématique : la rencontre par Renaud Pezon - Biographie de l'auteur, histoire de l'oeuvre - La rencontre et la découverte de l'amitié - La rencontre des milieux sociaux - La rencontre, un nouvel espoir qui se dessine ? Prolongements Interdisciplinaires : - Histoire des arts - Enseignement moral et civique - Cinéma. Le + pour l'oral : en partenariat avec Audiolib des extraits de l'oeuvre lus par des comédiens et accessibles grâce à des flashcodes. Vocabulaire, exercices écrits et oraux, groupements de textes et lecture d'images autour de l'oeuvre