The Swank Hotel
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Édition

The Swank Hotel (2022)

Sortie : 9 août 2022 (États-Unis). Roman, Version originale

livre de Lucy Corin

Résumé · A stunningly ambitious, prescient novel about madness, generational trauma, and cultural breakdown At the outset of the 2008 financial crisis, Em has a dependable, dull marketing job generating reports of vague utility while she anxiously waits to hear news of her sister, Ad, who has gone... Voir plus

If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English
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Édition

If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English (2022)

Sortie : 12 avril 2022 (États-Unis). Roman

livre de Noor Naga

Résumé · In the aftermath of the Arab Spring, an Egyptian American woman and a man from the village of Shobrakheit meet at a café in Cairo. He was a photographer of the revolution, but now finds himself unemployed and addicted to cocaine, living in a rooftop shack. She is a nostalgic daughter of immigrants... Voir plus

Dans la maison rêvée
8.2

Édition

Dans la maison rêvée (2019)

In the Dream House

Sortie : août 2021 (France). Roman, Autobiographie & mémoires

livre de Carmen Maria Machado

Résumé · L'écrivaine a vécu avec une femme une intense histoire d'amour qui s'est peu à peu muée en une relation fait d'emprise et de violence. En de courts chapitres jouant chacun sur les codes d'un genre littéraire particulier, elle relate les faits de son expérience singulière, interrogeant la force des... Voir plus

Machine
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Édition

Machine (2019)

A Novel

Sortie : 20 août 2019 (États-Unis). Roman

livre de Susan Steinberg

Résumé · Susan Steinberg’s first novel, Machine, is a dazzling and innovative leap forward for a writer whose most recent book, Spectacle, gained her a rapturous following. Machine revolves around a group of teenagers—both locals and wealthy out-of-towners—during a single summer at the shore. Steinberg... Voir plus

The Collected Schizophrenias
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Édition

The Collected Schizophrenias (2019)

Sortie : 5 février 2019. Essai

livre de Esmé Weijun Wang

Résumé · An intimate, moving book written with the immediacy and directness of one who still struggles with the effects of mental and chronic illness, The Collected Schizophrenias cuts right to the core. Schizophrenia is not a single unifying diagnosis, and Esmé Weijun Wang writes not just to her fellow... Voir plus

She Would Be King
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Édition

She Would Be King (2018)

Sortie : 11 septembre 2018. Roman

livre de Wayétu Moore

Résumé · A novel of exhilarating range, magical realism, and history―a dazzling retelling of Liberia’s formation

This Mournable Body
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Édition

This Mournable Body (2018)

Sortie : 7 août 2018. Roman, Version originale

livre de Tsitsi Dangarembga

Résumé · Anxious about her prospects after leaving a stagnant job, Tambudzai finds herself living in a run-down youth hostel in downtown Harare. For reasons that include her grim financial prospects and her age, she moves to a widow's boarding house and eventually finds work as a biology teacher. But at... Voir plus

Wait Till You See Me Dance
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Édition

Wait Till You See Me Dance (2017)

Sortie : 21 mars 2017. Recueil de nouvelles

livre de Deb Olin Unferth

Cities I've Never Lived In
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Édition

Cities I've Never Lived In

Stories

Sortie : 16 février 2016 (France).

livre de Sara Majka

Almost Everything Very Fast
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Édition

Almost Everything Very Fast

A Novel

Sortie : 2 février 2016 (France).

livre de Christopher Kloeble

The Pinch
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Édition

The Pinch

A Novel

Sortie : 2 juin 2015 (France).

livre de Steve Stern

All Who Go Do Not Return
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Édition

All Who Go Do Not Return

A Memoir

Sortie : 24 mars 2015 (France).

livre de Shulem Deen

Ongoingness
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Édition

Ongoingness (2015)

Sortie : 3 mars 2015. Récit

livre de Sarah Manguso

Résumé · In her third book, which continues to define the contours of the contemporary essay, Sarah Manguso confronts a meticulous diary that she has kept for twenty-five years. “I wanted to end each day with a record of everything that had ever happened,” she explains. But this simple statement belies a... Voir plus

Tesla: A Portrait with Masks
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Édition

Tesla: A Portrait with Masks

A Novel

Sortie : 6 janvier 2015 (France).

livre de Vladimir Pistalo

The Argonauts
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Édition

The Argonauts (2015)

Sortie : 2018 (France). Roman, Version originale

livre de Maggie Nelson

Résumé · Maggie Nelson's The Argonauts is a genre-bending memoir, a work of autotheory offering fresh, fierce, and timely thinking about desire, identity, and the limitations and possibilities of love and language. It binds an account of Nelson's relationship with her partner and a journey to and through a... Voir plus

On Immunity
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Édition

On Immunity (2014)

An Inoculation

Sortie : 30 septembre 2014. Roman

livre de Eula Biss