114 Langues (s) étrangères (s) adulte (s)

Les contes sont des récits imaginaires qui appartiennent au patrimoine universel. Selon une tradition orientale, qui s’est transmise jusqu’à nous, c’est le soir qu’ils sont racontés, en particulier durant les longues veillées d’hiver qu’il faut meubler. Sous le doux manteau du conte, ce recueil, loin d'être dénué d'humour est une véritable source de sagesse. Nous retrouvons Djuha, Antar, les animaux de Kalila et Dimna, et diverses historiettes de la littérature orale.
Cette anthologie bilingue tente de répondre à l'attente des jeunes gens comme à celle des plus âgés, des arabophones comme à celle des francophones. Nous offrons donc une manière originale de perfectionnement de la langue, aussi bien française qu'arabe. Ces contes sont à partager, offrir et propager sans modération.

Winner of the 1999 Pulitzer and Pen/Faulkner prizes, THE HOURS is a daring and deeply affecting novel inspired by the life and work of Virginia Woolf. Now a major motion picture, directed by Stephen Daldry (BILLY ELLIOT) and starring Nicole Kidman, Meryl Streep, Julianne Moore, Clare Danes and Ed Harris. In 1920's London, Virginia Woolf is fighting against her rebellious spirit as she attempts to make a start on her new novel. A young wife and mother, broiling in a suburb of 1940's Los Angeles, yearns to escape and read her precious copy of Mrs Dalloway. And Clarissa Vaughan steps out of her smart Greenwich village apartment in 1990's New York to buy flowers for a party she is hosting for a dying friend. Moving effortlessly across the decades and between England and America, this exquisite novel intertwines the stories of three unforgettable women.

When Kathleen meets Joyce, each has come to a turning point in her life. Kathleen, whose sister died of breast cancer fifteen years earlier, has just been diagnosed
herself and finds her world abruptly thrown into terrifying turmoil. At the same time Joyce is struggling to cope with her awkward adolescent daughter and burgeoning career as a writer, and is growing increasingly distant from her husband. Neither woman realizes that their chance meeting will result in a life-altering friendship. With her trademark wisdom and humour, Anita Diamant explores the lives of modern women, who manage the precarious balance of marriage, career, motherhood and companionship. Good Harbor is at once a poignant and refreshingly honest novel.

Deeply funny, subversive and splendidly entertaining, The Autograph Man is a whirlwind tour of celebrity and our fame-obsessed times. Following one Alex-Li Tandem -a twenty-something, Chinese-Jewish autograph dealer turned on by sex, drugs and organized religion - it takes in London and New York, love and death, fathers and sons, as Alex tries to discover how a piece of paper can bring him closer to his heart's desire. Exposing our misconceptions about our idols - about ourselves - The Autograph Man is a brilliant, unforgettable tale about who we are and what we really want to be.

Set in New England mainly and London partly, On Beauty concerns a pair of feuding families - the Belseys and the Kippses - and a clutch of doomed affairs. It puts
low morals among high ideals and asks some searching questions about what life does to love. For the Belseys and the Kippses, the confusions - both personal and political - of our uncertain age are about to be brought close to home: right to the heart of family.

Katie Carr, doctor (and self-declared 'good person'), has just had an affair. It's really not her fault - she is, after all, married to David: angry, cynical, negative (though undeniably funny) and a real pain to live with. But then David meets DJ GoodNews, astonishingly effective faith healer and do-gooder of the unbearably smug kind. And now David is good. Too good, actually - 'a liberal's worst nightmare', he starts to put theory into practice, giving away their kids toys, reaching out to the hopeless and homeless in a very personal and, for Katie, disturbing way. It seems to her that if charity begins at home, it may be time to move .

This story is a rare and utterly engaging experience. It tells the extraordinary tale of a geisha - summoning up a quarter century, from 1929 to the post-war years of Japan's dramatic history, and opening a window onto a half-hidden world of eroticism and enchantment, exploitation and degradation.

To five-year-old Jack, Room is the entire world. It is where he was born and grew up; it's where he lives with his Ma as they learn and read and eat and sleep and play. At night, his Ma shuts him safely in the wardrobe, where he is meant to be asleep when Old Nick visits.

Room is home to Jack, but to Ma, it is the prison where Old Nick has held her captive for seven years. Through determination, ingenuity, and fierce motherly love, Ma has created a life for Jack. But she knows it's not enough...not for her or for him. She devises a bold escape plan, one that relies on her young son's bravery and a lot of luck. What she does not realize is just how unprepared she is for the plan to actually work.

Told entirely in the language of the energetic, pragmatic five-year-old Jack, Room is a celebration of resilience and the limitless bond between parent and child, a brilliantly executed novel about what it means to journey from one world to another.

Un libro misterioso. Un monaco assassinato. Un enigma senza tempoÈ il mercoledì delle ceneri dell’anno 1205 quando padre Vivïen de Narbonne è costretto a fuggire, braccato da un manipolo di cavalieri che indossano strane maschere. Il monaco possiede qualcosa di molto prezioso, che non è disposto a cedere ai suoi inseguitori.Sono passati tredici anni da quel terribile giorno, quando Ignazio da Toledo, un mercante di reliquie, riceve da un nobile veneziano l’incarico di mettersi sulle tracce di un libro rarissimo, l’Uter Ventorum. Si dice che contenga antichi precetti della cultura talismanica orientale, e permetta di evocare gli angeli e la loro divina sapienza. Inizia così l’avventuroso viaggio di Ignazio tra Italia, Francia e Spagna, sulle tracce di un manoscritto che qualcuno pare abbia smembrato in quattro parti e accuratamente nascosto. Solo chi è in grado di risolvere complicati enigmi, e di decifrare strani messaggi disseminati nel percorso che conduce al libro, potrà trovarlo e accedere ai suoi segreti. Ma Ignazio non è l’unico a volerlo. Ci sono personaggi loschi e ambigui che intendono entrarne in possesso, anche con l’inganno e con la forza. Chi riuscirà per primo a scoprire dove si trova? E cosa saranno pronti a rischiare, tutti coloro che lo inseguono, per svelare per primi i suoi arcani misteri?

Eine Einladung zur Neujahrsnacht 1990 führt sie nach Jahren wieder zusammen: David Bellino, Chef eines amerikanischen Industrie-Imperiums, vier seiner Freunde aus Jugendtagen und Laura, seine attraktive Geliebte. Doch nach Ferien ist keinem zumute. Sie sind gekommen, um mit David abzurechnen, dessen Ehrgeiz und skrupelloser Egoismus ihre Pläne nachhaltig zerstört hat. Doch noch bevor es zu der großen Auseinandersetzung kommt, liegt David erschossen in seinem Arbeitszimmer. In stundenlangen Verhören, in dramatischen Aussprachen untereinander, aus quälenden Erinnerungen entstehen wie in einem bizarren Kaleidoskop sechs Lebensbrüder, sechs Schicksale, die die Sehnsucht nach Liebe und Freundschaft verband - und zerstörte. Zwischen dem Berlin des Zweiten Weltkriegs, einem englischen Nobelinternat den Gossen und Prachtvierteln von New York und London und den romantischen Gassen Wiens spinnt Charlotte Link ein Netz fataler, romantischer und angstvoller Beziehungen. Mit Sensibilität und scharfem Instinkt zeigt sie die Emotionen, die hinter unserem Handeln liegen. So gelang ihr ein spannender Zeitroman, der nicht nur ein Verbrechen, sondere auch die verdrängten Ursachen dafür ans Licht bringt.