An odd face appears on Dave Murphy’s computer screen, informing him he’s been chosen to rescue the world. Dave (aka Jo-el) believes his computer has been hacked and it’s just a demand for money, but slowly he’s drawn into the bizarre requests from this strange individual and he embarks on a journey that changes him into the most powerful person on Earth. What is the catastrophe facing the planet? How will Dave convince the governments of the world to believe him? As he experiments with the staggering technology he’s given, he chooses a path that puts him at odds with the CIA and FBI and all the world’s most evil criminals. The computer system, sent to monitor Earth millions of years ago, communicates with Dave through a perfect, holographic image of a beautiful woman. She becomes jealous of his affairs and their relationship is strained to breaking point. Has our reluctant Superhero, Jo-el, made the right decisions to save planet Earth?

Promis à une brillante carrière militaire lorsqu’une grave maladie l’obligea à y renoncer en 1934, il est devenu un des auteurs les plus prolifiques de notre époque. Qui donc se mêle de bouleverser ainsi la vie du pasteur Alex Hergensheimer alors qu’il regagne son cher Kansas après un long voyage ? Dieu ou Satan ? Tout commence par un épisode de très païenne magie lors d’une escale en Polynésie… Et quand il se retrouve à bord, l’honorable pasteur découvre que tout a changé, y compris lui-même : pour ses compagnons, il est Alec Graham, homme d’affaires, et pour Margrethe, la jolie stewardess, un parfait amant ! Plus dangereux encore : il se retrouve à la tête d’un million de dollars fort mal acquis. Quant au temps historique, là, c’est le total chamboulement. Dans quel passé… ou quel futur est-il ? Sentant se perdre son identité et son âme, Alex s’affole, craint l’approche de quelque Armaguedon…

Acțiunea se petrece într-un viitor în care omenirea supraviețuise în urma a două invazii din partea gândacilor, niște extratereștri asemănători insectelor. Flota Internațională, o armată a Pământului, pregătește cei mai dotați copii pentru a fi comandanți militari în eventualitatea unei a treia invazii. Premiul Nebula 1985. Premiul Hugo 1986

A sparkling coming-of-age novel that has sold over 300,000 copies in Holland, in which the inhabitants of a sleepy rural town are awakened by the arrival of a kinetic young visionary, Joe Speedboat. After a farming accident plunges him into a coma for six months, Frankie Hermans wakes up to discover that he’s paralyzed and mute. Bound to a wheelchair, Frankie struggles to adjust to a life where he must rely on others to complete even the simplest tasks. The only body part he can control is his right arm, which he uses obsessively to record the details of daily life in his town. But when he meets Joe—a boy who blazed into town like a meteor while Frankie slept—everything changes. Joe is a centrifugal force, both magician and daredevil, and he alone sees potential strength in Frankie’s handicaps. With Joe’s help, Frankie’s arm will be used for more that just writing: as a champion arm-wrestler, Frankie will be powerful enough to win back his friends, and maybe even woo P. J., the girl who has them all in a tailspin. Alive with the profundities of adolescence, Joe Speedboat is the supersonic story of an unlikely alliance and a lightning-quick dash to

Johannes Cabal, necromancer of some little infamy, returns in this riotously clever and terrifically twisted tale of murder and international intrigue. In this genre-twisting novel, infamous necromancer Johannes Cabal, after beating the Devil and being reunited with his soul, leads us on another raucous journey in a little-known corner of the world. This time he's on the run from the local government. Stealing the identity of a minor bureaucrat, Cabal takes passage on the Princess Hortense, a passenger aeroship that is leaving the country. The deception seems perfect, and Cabal looks forward to a quiet trip and a clean escape, until he comes face-to-face with Leonie Barrow, an enemy from the old days who could blow his cover. But when a fellow passenger throws himself to his death, or at least that is how it appears, Cabal begins to investigate out of curiosity. His minor efforts result in a vicious attempt on his own life — and then the gloves come off. Cabal and Leonie — the only woman to ever match wits with him — reluctantly team up to discover the murderer. Before they are done, there will be more narrow escapes, involving sword fighting and newfangled flying machines. There will be massive destruction, not to mention resurrected dead. Steampunk meets the classic Sherlockian mystery in this rip-roaring adventure where anything could happen… and does

A charmingly gothic, fiendishly funny Faustian tale about a brilliant scientist who makes a deal with the Devil, twice. Johannes Cabal sold his soul years ago in order to learn the laws of necromancy. Now he wants it back. Amused and slightly bored, Satan proposes a little wager: Johannes has to persuade one hundred people to sign over their souls or he will be damned forever. This time for real. Accepting the bargain, Jonathan is given one calendar year and a traveling carnival to complete his task. With little time to waste, Johannes raises a motley crew from the dead and enlists his brother, Horst, a charismatic vampire to help him run his nefarious road show, resulting in mayhem at every turn

In the tradition of Jim Crace’s Quarantine and Anita Diamant’s The Red Tent, John is a stunning, lyrical reimagining of John the Apostle in the final years of his life, by the critically acclaimed and bestselling author of Four Letters of Love. At a time when Americans remain skeptical about religion but still thirst for spiritual fulfillment, Niall Williams’s extraordinary and masterful new novel reveals a universally appealing message of hope and love. In the years following the death of Jesus Christ, John the Apostle, now a frail, blind old man, lives in forced exile on the desolate island of Patmos with a small group of his disciples. Together, the group has endured their banishment, but after years awaiting Christ’s return, fissures form within their faith, and, inevitably, one of John’s followers disavows Christ’s divinity and breaks away from the community, threatening to change the course of Christianity. When the Roman emperor lifts the banishment of Christians, John and his followers are permitted to return to Ephesus, a chaotic world of competing religious sects where Christianity is in danger of vanishing. It is against this turbulent background — and inspired by Jesus’s radical message of love and forgiveness — that John comes to dictate his Gospel. Immensely impressive — and based on actual historical events—John is at once an ambitious and provocative reimagining of the last surviving apostle and a powerful look at faith and how it lives and dies in the hearts of men

John Browning was the most influential gun designer who ever lived. After building his first firearm at the age of thirteen, he went on to create a series of radical blueprints for pistols, rifles and machine guns that changed the way wars were fought and streets were policed. His fingerprints are still on every gun manufactured today. But who was the man behind the weapons? How did he manage to revolutionise the way guns worked? And what drove him to keep innovating right through his life. ‘John Browning: Man and Gunmaker’ by the best-selling military thriller writer James Barrington is a readable, concise history to the man and his legacy. It is a must-read for gun collectors, enthusiasts and anyone interested in the history of firearms. James Barrington is a trained military pilot and the author of worldwide best-sellers such as ‘Manhunt’, ‘Payback’ and ‘Overkill’

“Pile them up, a Marlon James character says repeatedly, and Marlon does just that. Pile them up: language, imagery, technique, imagination. All fresh, all exciting. This is a writer to watch out for.”—Chris Abani, author of GraceLand, winner of the Hemingway/PEN Award “This is the finest and most important first novel I’ve read in years. James’s writing brings to mind early Toni Morrison, Jessica Hagedorn, and Gabriel García Márquez.”—Kaylie Jones, author of Speak Now and A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries “Marlon James spins his magical web in this novel and we willingly suspend disbelief, rewarded by the window he opens to Jamaica (and a world) rarely portrayed in fiction.”—Elizabeth Nunez, author of Bruised Hibiscus, winner of the American Book Award This stunning debut novel tells the story of a biblical struggle in a remote Jamaican village in 1957. With language as taut as classic works by Cormac McCarthy, and a richness reminiscent of early Toni Morrison, Marlon James reveals his unique narrative command that will firmly establish his place as one of today's freshest, most talented young writers. In the village of Gibbeah-where certain women fly and certain men protect secrets with their lives-magic coexists with religion, and good and evil are never as they seem. In this town, a battle is fought between two men of God. The story begins when a drunkard named Hector Bligh (the "Rum Preacher") is dragged from his pulpit by a man calling himself "Apostle" York. Handsome and brash, York demands a fire-and-brimstone church, but sets in motion a phenomenal and deadly struggle for the soul of Gibbeah itself. John Crow's Devil is a novel about religious mania, redemption, sexual obsession, and the eternal struggle inside all of us between the righteous and the wicked

It's a drug that promises an out-of-body experience with each hit. On the street they call it Soy Sauce, and users drift across time and dimensions. But some who come back are no longer human. Suddenly, a silent otherworldly invasion is underway, and mankind needs a hero. What it gets instead is John and David, a pair of college dropouts who can barely hold down jobs. Can these two stop the oncoming horror in time to save humanity? No. No, they can't. John Dies at the End has been described as a 'Horrortacular', an epic of 'spectacular' horror that combines the laugh out loud humor of the best R-rated comedy, with the darkest terror of H.P. Lovecraft. Hilarious, terrifying, engaging and wrench ing, John Dies at the End takes us for a wild ride with two slackers from the Midwest who really have better things to do with their time than prevent the apocalypse

Colson Whitehead’s eagerly awaited and triumphantly acclaimed new novel is on one level a multifaceted retelling of the story of John Henry, the black steel-driver who died outracing a machine designed to replace him. On another level it’s the story of a disaffected, middle-aged black journalist on a mission to set a record for junketeering who attends the annual John Henry Days festival. It is also a high-velocity thrill ride through the tunnel where American legend gives way to American pop culture, replete with p. r. flacks, stamp collectors, blues men, and turn-of-the-century song pluggers. John Henry Days is an acrobatic, intellectually dazzling, and laugh-out-loud funny book that will be read and talked about for years to come

A convention-defying novel by bestselling writer Walter Mosley, John Woman recounts the transformation of an unassuming boy named Cornelius Jones into John Woman, an unconventional history professor — while the legacy of a hideous crime lurks in the shadows. At twelve years old, Cornelius, the son of an Italian-American woman and an older black man from Mississippi named Herman, secretly takes over his father’s job at a silent film theater in New York’s East Village. Five years later, as Herman lives out his last days, he shares his wisdom with his son, explaining that the person who controls the narrative of history controls their own fate. After his father dies and his mother disappears, Cornelius sets about reinventing himself — as Professor John Woman, a man who will spread Herman’s teachings into the classrooms of his unorthodox southwestern university and beyond. But there are other individuals who are attempting to influence the narrative of John Woman, and who might know something about the facts of his hidden past. Engaging with some of the most provocative ideas of recent intellectual history, John Woman is a compulsively readable, deliciously unexpected novel about the way we tell stories, and whether the stories we tell have the power to change the world

A satirical fable of small-town America centers on a builder's wife and the erotic power she exerts over her neighbors, transforming before their eyes and changing forever their notions of right and wrong

Trzeci tom cyklu o Johnnym Maxwellu, dwunastolatku, któremu przytrafiają się sytuacje dla innych zupełnie nie do pomyślenia. Tym razem zaczęło się od tego, że wraz z przyjaciółmi znalazł w zaułku nieprzytomną panią Tachyon. Wprawdzie nie należała ona do osób, w których towarzystwie chętnie się przebywa, ale skoro już się ją znalazło w takim stanie, trzeba udzielić pomocy, choćby metodą usta-usta. A potem się okazało, że pani Tachyon to nie stara wariatka, lecz ktoś, kto ma klucz do przeszłości, a ściślej — do przeszłości Blackbury z roku 1941. Roku, w którym miasto zostało zbombardowane

Johnny widzi zmarłych ludzi. Dlatego jego przyjaciele zaczynają go podejrzewać o chorobę umysłową. Okazuje się że Johnny widzi zmarłych którzy proszą go o pomoc w misji ratowania cmentarza, który już niedługo ma zostać rozebrany. W tej sytuacji Johnny robi wszystko, by jego martwi przyjaciele nie stracili swojego domu

It’s the summer of 1973. Disco is King and the New York mob is at the peak of its power. John Albano, an out of work construction worker with child support and rent payments he can’t keep up with, is driving for a local car service when his quick hands and honorable nature place him in the middle of a perfect storm of danger. He’s just trying to make ends meet with a weekend stint counting heads and collecting the take at illegal screenings of the recently banned porno film, Deep Throat, for Mafioso Eddie Vento. But a devious ex-wife, her more devious ex-husband, the wiseguys behind the film (including one obnoxious wannabe with a frenzied beef for Albano), the Fleetwood Eldorado used in the opening scene of the porno film and a host of cops (both good and bad including the deranged one Albano punched out) snowball into an often humorous, sometimes violent, action packed trip back to the year Willie Mays hit his last home run. This is the world of Johnny Porno

LONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2019 A brilliant collection of fictions in the vein of Roald Dahl, Etgar Keret and Amy Hempel. These are stories of what the world looks like from a child’s pure but sometimes vengeful or muddled perspective. These are stories of life in a war zone, life peppered by surreal mistakes, tragic accidents and painful encounters. These are stories of fantasist matadors, lost limbs and perplexed voyeurs. This is a collection about sex, death and the all-important skill of making life into a joke. These are unexpected stories by a very fresh voice. These stories are unforgettable

Petrs Dirgēla Joldijas jūra. Baltijas triloģijas otrā grāmata. Otrā daļa Lietuviešu mūsdienu rakstnieka Petra Dirģēlas (1947) "Baltijas triloģijā" — romānos "Slēptais brasls", "Joldijas jūra. Pirmā daļa", "Joldijas jūra. Otrā daļa" un "Ancilus ezers" tiek skatīta visa 15.—17. gs. Baltijas vēsture visplašākajā tā laika Eiropas vēstures kontekstā. Kā cūkas pie siles dižie lielvaru kungi grūstās un plēšas, lai valdītu Baltijas ūdeņos, — cilvēku likteņi viņiem nav no svara. Tvirbuta dēli un Ieva joprojām gaida Kiprijonu atgriežamies, — vai mīlestība būs pietiekams pretspēks alkatības apmātajiem valdniekiem? No lietuvju valodas tulkojis Talrids Rullis Noskannējis grāmatu un FB2 failu izveidojis Imants Ločmelis Vai jūs jau esat redzējusi jūru? Palūdziet mātei, lai viņa jūs aizved pie jūras — ari es to viņai esmu lūdzis. Ielūkojieties jūrā paši savām acīm. Vēlāk, cauri mežam uz mājām braucot, paceliet snipīti uz augšu, ielūkojieties koku galotnēs un debesīs. Jūs ieraudzīsiet daudz putnu: košu un pelēku, spīdīgu un noplukušu, lielu un mazu, spēcīgu un vāju — vai putni cits citam lūdz pacelties no zemes? vai tie plūcas debesu dēļ un par atļauju lidošanai debesu zilgmē? Petr, Povil un Jon, nenolādiet ne debesis, ne jūru, ne tēvzemi pie jūras! Mīliet māti! Mīliet brīvo vēju! Mīliet lietu un sniegu, kas cērtas sejā! Un aizskrien laiks. Un kādreiz, varbūt tikai tad, kad ne noraudāties vairs nevarēsiet — izsīks arī asaras, izsīks! — jūs pieredzēsiet, ka jums ir dvēsele, visu prieku un posta avots: tajā dievišķā balss mūžīgo dziesmu dzied, tajā izsalkušais cilvēkēdājs zobus griež! Redaktore Velta Duka Korektore Selga Freimane Mākslinieks Jānis Esītis Gundegas Kārkliņas makets  "Dienas Grāmata", 2010

Petrs Dirgēla Joldijas jūra Baltijas triloģijas otrā grāmata Pirmā daļa lietuviešu mūsdienu rakstnieka Petra Dirģēlas (1947) "Baltijas triloģija" — romāni "Slēptais brasls", "Joldijas jūra" un "Ancilus ezers" — nebūt nav naiva tīksmināšanās par Lietuvas dižo pagātni. Šajos romānos tiek skatīta visa 15.—17. gs. Baltijas vēsture. Katrs triloģijas romāns ir lasāms ari kā patstāvīgs vēstījums, un visu triloģijas grāmatu kopums dod lasītājam papildu dimensiju aizraujošā vēstures "izdzīvošanā". Darbība triloģijas otrās grāmatas "Joldijas jūra" pirmajā daļā risinās 16. gadsimtā Latvijā, Līvzeme — "skaistā lībieša" zemē. Pār Livonijas ordeni savelkas arvien tumšāki nedienu mākoņi. Starptautiskās politiskās intrigas — Dānijas, Zviedrijas, Somijas hercogistes, Krievijas, Itālijas un Anglijas savstarpējā politiskā, tirgošanās un krāpšanās — "Joldijas jūras" galveno varoni Tvirbutu padara par viru bez savas zemes, ģimenes un pat vārda, tomēr Tvirbuts izrādās pārāk sīksts, lai, pasludināts par mirušu, arī ļautos tāds palikt… "Visskaistākais personāžs — lībietis, izzudis, bet ļoti skaists cilvēks. Aprakstīju, kā viņš piebraucis laivu krastā, izkāpa, nogrima un pazuda vēstures ūdeņos, atstājis par sevi ļoti skaistas atminas. Par mīlestību-nemīlestību, dzīvi-nedzīvi lasiet "Joldijas jūrā .  No lietuvju valodas tulkojis Talrids Rullis Noskannējis grāmatu un FB2 failu izveidojis Imants Ločmelis Dienas Grāmata Petrs Dirģēla Redaktore Velta Duka Korektore Selga Freimane Mākslinieks Jānis Esītis Gundegas Kārkliņas makets vāka mākslinieciskais noformējums, 2010 © SIA "Dienas Grāmata", 2010

Three men are present when Amanda Boudreau is raped and murdered and small time hustler Tee Bobby Hulin's prints are found at the crime scene. Dave Robicheaux reckons he's innocent, and Tee Bobby pleads so, then attempts suicide in his holding cell. Why? Tee Bobby is released on bail and soon after there is a second murder. When lawyer Perry LaSalle takes on the defence of Tee Bobby, Dave knows his motives are fuelled by guilt. For Tee Bobby's grandmother was seduced by Perry's grandfather, and Amanda Boudreau's death is related to events that happened long before Tee Bobby was born…

Bound by Duty Army Major Jonah Hunter has spent his lifetime answering the call of duty, but when he returns to the Connecticut village where he was raised to be at his dying father's bedside, he faces his biggest challenge yet; finding a bride. Jonah's father's dying wish is to see his oldest son married and settled down, and although Jonah has no desire to do either, he is duty bound to honor his father's wish. While all of the village's marriage-aged women are throwing themselves his way, Jonah is drawn to the one woman who wants nothing to do with him; the sharp-tongued, spinster Tessa Bradford. As the village healer, Tessa has spent many days and nights in the Hunter home caring for the Jonah's ailing father and watching as local women throw themselves at the Army hero. Labeled as harsh and severe, Tessa knows there is no way the village's most eligible bachelor will be interested in her. But sparks fly between the unlikely couple. When Jonah proposes to Tessa, she must decide whether his offer was made out of love or simply because his father needs a nursemaid. Unwilling to be stuck in a loveless marriage, Tessa must decide if there is more than passion drawing her and Jonah together and if the feelings she has for him can ever be returned by the war-hardened soldier

Jonathan Livingston Seagull is no ordinary bird. He believes it is every gull’s right to fly, to reach the ultimate freedom of challenge and discovery, finding his greatest reward in teaching younger gulls the joy of flight and the power of dreams

1806 : dans une Angleterre usée par les guerres napoléoniennes, un magicien à la mode ancienne, un certain Mr Norrell, offre ses services pour empêcher l’avance de la flotte française. En quelques tours, il redonne l’avantage aux Anglais. Norrell devient la coqueluche du pays. Voguant sur sa gloire, il fait la connaissance d’un jeune et brillant magicien qu’il prend sous son aile, Jonathan Strange. Ensemble, les deux hommes vont éblouir l’Angleterre par leurs prouesses. Jusqu’à ce que l’audacieux Strange, attiré par les aspects les plus sombres de la magie, provoque la colère de Mr Norrell. L’association tourne à la rivalité, causant bientôt des ravages insoupçonnables

Anglia, początek XIX wieku. Tajemniczy pan Norrell jest jednym z nielicznych, którzy zajmują się jeszcze czarami. Ale to właśnie dzięki niemu i jego młodemu przyjacielowi — Jonathanowi Strange’owi, Anglia stanie się na powrót krainą tajemnej sztuki. Dwaj bohaterowie posiądą niezwykłą władzę, a sam rząd poprosi ich o pomoc w walce z Napoleonem. Lecz magia ma swoją cenę…

A fictional re-imagining of the real-life ritual mass suicide orchestrated by Reverend Jim Jones in the remote Guyana forest in 1978

Les «Mémoires d'un médecin» est une suite romanesque qui a pour cadre la Révolution Française et qui comprend «Joseph Balsamo», «le Collier de la reine», «Ange Pitou» et la «Comtesse de Charny». Cette grande fresque, très intéressante sur le plan historique, captivante par son récit, a une grande force inventive et une portée symbolique certaine. «Joseph Balsamo» s'ouvre en 1770 sur un Prologue ésotérique: sur le mont Tonnerre sont réunis les chefs de la franc-maçonnerie universelle. Un inconnu qui se présente comme le nouveau Messie, l'homme-Dieu – «Je suis celui qui est» -, prophétise la Révolution universelle, qui sera lancée par la France, où il se charge de devenir l'agent de la Providence. Cet inconnu s'appelle Joseph Balsamo, alias Cagliostro. Trois trames vont s'entremêler tout au long du roman: La lutte pour le pouvoir entre le parti de la dauphine, Marie-Antoinette, et celui de la Du Barry. L'amour malheureux de Gilbert, petit paysan ambitieux, pour la belle Andrée de Taverney, et le roman d'apprentissage de Gilbert qui, ayant suivi Andrée à Paris, devient d'abord le jouet de la Du Barry, puis est adopté par son père spirituel, le philosophe Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Enfin, le drame qui se joue entre Balsamo, Lorenza – médium qui assure, grâce à son don de double vue, la puissance de Balsamo, qui le hait lorsqu'elle est éveillée et l'adore lorsqu'elle est endormie – et Althotas – qui cherche l'élixir de longue vie, pour lequel il lui faut le sang d'une vierge…

Les «Mémoires d'un médecin» est une suite romanesque qui a pour cadre la Révolution Française et qui comprend «Joseph Balsamo», «le Collier de la reine», «Ange Pitou» et la «Comtesse de Charny». Cette grande fresque, très intéressante sur le plan historique, captivante par son récit, a une grande force inventive et une portée symbolique certaine. «Joseph Balsamo» s'ouvre en 1770 sur un Prologue ésotérique: sur le mont Tonnerre sont réunis les chefs de la franc-maçonnerie universelle. Un inconnu qui se présente comme le nouveau Messie, l'homme-Dieu – «Je suis celui qui est» -, prophétise la Révolution universelle, qui sera lancée par la France, où il se charge de devenir l'agent de la Providence. Cet inconnu s'appelle Joseph Balsamo, alias Cagliostro. Trois trames vont s'entremêler tout au long du roman: La lutte pour le pouvoir entre le parti de la dauphine, Marie-Antoinette, et celui de la Du Barry. L'amour malheureux de Gilbert, petit paysan ambitieux, pour la belle Andrée de Taverney, et le roman d'apprentissage de Gilbert qui, ayant suivi Andrée à Paris, devient d'abord le jouet de la Du Barry, puis est adopté par son père spirituel, le philosophe Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Enfin, le drame qui se joue entre Balsamo, Lorenza – médium qui assure, grâce à son don de double vue, la puissance de Balsamo, qui le hait lorsqu'elle est éveillée et l'adore lorsqu'elle est endormie – et Althotas – qui cherche l'élixir de longue vie, pour lequel il lui faut le sang d'une vierge…

Les «Mémoires d'un médecin» est une suite romanesque qui a pour cadre la Révolution Française et qui comprend «Joseph Balsamo», «le Collier de la reine», «Ange Pitou» et la «Comtesse de Charny». Cette grande fresque, très intéressante sur le plan historique, captivante par son récit, a une grande force inventive et une portée symbolique certaine. «Joseph Balsamo» s'ouvre en 1770 sur un Prologue ésotérique: sur le mont Tonnerre sont réunis les chefs de la franc-maçonnerie universelle. Un inconnu qui se présente comme le nouveau Messie, l'homme-Dieu – «Je suis celui qui est» -, prophétise la Révolution universelle, qui sera lancée par la France, où il se charge de devenir l'agent de la Providence. Cet inconnu s'appelle Joseph Balsamo, alias Cagliostro. Trois trames vont s'entremêler tout au long du roman: La lutte pour le pouvoir entre le parti de la dauphine, Marie-Antoinette, et celui de la Du Barry. L'amour malheureux de Gilbert, petit paysan ambitieux, pour la belle Andrée de Taverney, et le roman d'apprentissage de Gilbert qui, ayant suivi Andrée à Paris, devient d'abord le jouet de la Du Barry, puis est adopté par son père spirituel, le philosophe Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Enfin, le drame qui se joue entre Balsamo, Lorenza – médium qui assure, grâce à son don de double vue, la puissance de Balsamo, qui le hait lorsqu'elle est éveillée et l'adore lorsqu'elle est endormie – et Althotas – qui cherche l'élixir de longue vie, pour lequel il lui faut le sang d'une vierge…

Les «Mémoires d'un médecin» est une suite romanesque qui a pour cadre la Révolution Française et qui comprend «Joseph Balsamo», «le Collier de la reine», «Ange Pitou» et la «Comtesse de Charny». Cette grande fresque, très intéressante sur le plan historique, captivante par son récit, a une grande force inventive et une portée symbolique certaine. «Joseph Balsamo» s'ouvre en 1770 sur un Prologue ésotérique: sur le mont Tonnerre sont réunis les chefs de la franc-maçonnerie universelle. Un inconnu qui se présente comme le nouveau Messie, l'homme-Dieu – «Je suis celui qui est» -, prophétise la Révolution universelle, qui sera lancée par la France, où il se charge de devenir l'agent de la Providence. Cet inconnu s'appelle Joseph Balsamo, alias Cagliostro. Trois trames vont s'entremêler tout au long du roman: La lutte pour le pouvoir entre le parti de la dauphine, Marie-Antoinette, et celui de la Du Barry. L'amour malheureux de Gilbert, petit paysan ambitieux, pour la belle Andrée de Taverney, et le roman d'apprentissage de Gilbert qui, ayant suivi Andrée à Paris, devient d'abord le jouet de la Du Barry, puis est adopté par son père spirituel, le philosophe Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Enfin, le drame qui se joue entre Balsamo, Lorenza – médium qui assure, grâce à son don de double vue, la puissance de Balsamo, qui le hait lorsqu'elle est éveillée et l'adore lorsqu'elle est endormie – et Althotas – qui cherche l'élixir de longue vie, pour lequel il lui faut le sang d'une vierge…

Who would have thought that seventy-three years after Joseph Roth’s lonely death in Paris, new editions of his translations would be appearing regularly? Roth, a transcendent novelist who also produced some of the most breathtakingly lyrical journalism ever written, is now being discovered by a new generation. Nine years in the making, this life through letters provides us with our most extensive portrait of Roth’s calamitous life — his father’s madness, his wife’s schizophrenia, his parade of mistresses (each more exotic than the next), and his classic westward journey from a virtual Hapsburg shtetl to Vienna, Berlin, Frankfurt, and finally Paris. Containing 457 newly translated letters, along with eloquent introductions that richly frame Roth’s life, this book brilliantly evokes the crumbling specters of the Weimar Republic and 1930s France. Displaying Roth’s ceaselessly inventive powers, it finally charts his descent into despair at a time when “the word had died, [and] men bark like dogs.”

Continuing Tavares’s award-winning “Kingdom” series (begun in Jerusalem, winner of the Saramago Prize), Joseph Walser’s Machine recounts a life of bizarre routines and patterns. Routine humiliation at a factory; routine maintenance of the world’s most esoteric collection; and the most important routine of all: the operation of a mysterious machine on a factory floor. Yet all of Joseph Walser’s routines are violently disrupted when his city is occupied by an invading army, leaving him faced with political intrigues, marital discord, and finally, one last, catastrophic confrontation with his beloved machine

Hailed as one of the most important portrayals of the dark years of Nazism, this powerful chronicle by the Romanian Jewish writer Mihail Sebastian aroused a furious response in Eastern Europe when it was first published. A profound and powerful literary achievement, it offers a lucid and finely shaded analysis of erotic and social life, a Jew s diary, a reader s notebook, a music-lover s journal. Above all, it is an account of the rhinocerization of major Romanian intellectuals whom Sebastian counted among his friends, including Mircea Eliade and E.M. Cioran, writers and thinkers who were mesmerized by the Nazi-fascist delirium of Europe s reactionary revolution. In poignant, unforgettable sequences, Sebastian follows the grinding progression of the machinery of brutalization and traces the historical context in which it developed. Despite the pressure of hatred and horror in the huge anti-Semitic factory that was Romania in the years of World War II, his writing maintains the grace of its perceptive and luminous intelligence. The legacy of a journalist, novelist, and playwright, Sebastian s Journal stands as one of the most important human and literary documents of the climate that preceded the Holocaust in Eastern Europe. Published in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum"

13 ans, 1 mois, 8 jours | Mercredi 18 novembre 1936 Je veux écrire le journal de mon corps parce que tout le monde parle d'autre chose. 50 ans et 3 mois | Jeudi 10 janvier 1974 Si je devais rendre ce journal public, je le destinerais d'abord aux femmes. En retour, j'aimerais lire le journal qu'une femme aurait tenu de son corps. Histoire de lever un coin du mystère. En quoi consiste le mystère ? En ceci par exemple qu'un homme ignore tout de ce que ressent une femme quant au volume et au poids de ses seins, et que les femmes ne savent rien de ce que ressentent les hommes quant à l'encombrement de leur sexe. 86 ans, 9 mois, 16 jours | Lundi 26 juillet 2010 Nous sommes jusqu'au bout l'enfant de notre corps. Un enfant déconcerté

"No one who has read it has failed to love it." — Nicholas Lezard, Guardian "Szerb belongs with the master novelists of the twentieth century." — Paul Bailey, Daily Telegraph ANXIOUS TO PLEASE his bourgeois father, Mihaly has joined the family firm in Budapest. Pursued by nostalgia for his bohemian youth, he seeks escape in marriage to Erzsi, not realising that she has chosen him as a means to her own rebellion. On their honeymoon in Italy Mihaly "loses" his bride at a provincial station and embarks on a chaotic and bizarre journey that leads him finally to Rome. There all the death-haunted and erotic elements of his past converge, and he, like Erzsi, has finally to choose

It seemed utterly senseless, that accident which made superfolk out of the folk on the bus — but was there a larger pattern behind it?