LANGUAGE: FRENCH
Auteur: Stieg Larsson
Editeur: Actes Sud
Date de parution: Juin 2006
Collection: Actes Noirs
ISBN: 2742761578
Illustration: Pas d'illustrations
Ancien rédacteur de Millénium, revue d'investigations sociales et économiques, Mikael Blomkvist est contacté par un gros industriel pour relancer une enquête abandonnée depuis ...more
Old Goriot has raised his two daughters to be selfish, vain, and greedy; when as adults they treat him badly, repaying his indulgence of their whims with indifference and cruelty, Goriot realizes that they are only behaving as they have been trained to. In this brilliant but bleak novel, virtually every character has been corrupted in some way by m...more
The tragic death of their best friend has a profound influence on the passionate relationship between Toru, a serious young college student in Tokyo, and Naoko, an introspective, beauty, as Toru finds himself drawn to an independent, sexually liberated young woman.
It's hard not to become ensnared by words beginning with the letter B, when attempting to describe Cloud Atlas, David Mitchell's third novel. It's a big book, for start, bold in scope and execution--a bravura literary performance, possibly. (Let's steer clear of breathtaking for now.) Then, of course, Mitchell was among Granta's Best of Young Briti...more
Tragic tale of a retarded man and the friend who loves and tries to protect him. With illustrations from the movie starring John Malkovich and Gary Sinise.