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Cette édition au format poche rassemble Politique de l'extrême centre, en plus de La médiocratie et « Gouvernance », deux opus d'Alain Deneault qui traitent de la révolution anesthésiante à laquelle nous poussent les théories du management et la propension aux petits arrangements institutionnels qui caractérisent les dernières décennies.

One of the New York Times 100 Best Books of the 21st Century. Philip Roth's bestselling alternate history—the chilling story of what happens to one family when America elects a charismatic, isolationist president. In an extraordinary feat of narrative invention, Philip Roth imagines an alternate history where Franklin D. Roosevelt loses the 1940 presidential election to heroic aviator and rabid isolationist Charles A. Lindbergh.

Sebastián lived a childhood of privilege in Mexico City. Now in his twenties, he has a degree from Yale, an American girlfriend, and a slot in the University of Iowa's MFA program. But Sebastián's life is shaken by the Trump administration's restrictions on immigrants, his mother's terminal cancer, the cracks in his relationship, and his father's forced resignation at the hands of Mexico's new president.

"Avant d'y arriver, je savais que ma présence au bord du Jourdain, sur les bases palestiniennes, ne serait jamais clairement dite : j'avais accueilli cette révolte de la même façon qu'une oreille musicienne reconnaît la note juste. Souvent hors de la tente, je dormais sous les arbres, et je regardais la Voie lactée très proche derrière les branches. En se déplaçant la nuit, sur l'herbe et sur les feuilles, les sentinelles en armes ne faisaient aucun bruit. Leurs silhouettes voulaient se confondre avec les troncs d'arbres. Elles écoutaient.

"Le pouvoir est comme le soleil et la mort, il ne peut se regarder en face. Surtout en Russie." On l'appelait le mage du Kremlin. L'énigmatique Vadim Baranov fut metteur en scène puis producteur d'émissions de télé-réalité avant de devenir l'éminence grise de Poutine. Après sa démission du poste de conseiller politique, les légendes sur son compte se multiplient, sans que nul puisse démêler le faux du vrai. Jusqu'à ce que, une nuit, il confie son histoire au narrateur de ce livre...

In this novel, the so-called sequel to Things Fall Apart, Achebe creates a classic story of both personal and moral struggle, and turbulent social conflict. Written before Achebe was thirty, No Longer at Ease tells the story of Obi Okonkwo, a man whose foreign education has separated him from his African roots and made him a part of a ruling elite whose corruption he finds repugnant. The agony of choosing between traditional values and the demands of a changing world is dramatized with unequaled clarity and poignancy.

The most widely read book in modern African literature, presented here in stunning hardcover, tells two overlapping, intertwining stories, both of which center around a fearless Igbo warrior in Nigeria in the late 1800s, before and after the European colonization of the continent. “African literature is incomplete and unthinkable without the works of Chinua Achebe.” —Toni Morrison Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read.

From the New York Times bestselling author of Every Day, this is a queer love story set against the backdrop of the 2024 presidential election, in a reimagining of David Levithan’s 2004 novel Wide Awake. When David Levithan published Wide Awake in 2004, he set it in an imagined 2024, where a gay Jewish man had just been elected president of the United States, until a governor decides that some election results in his state are invalid, awarding crucial votes to the other candidate and his fellow party member.

A landmark of postcolonial African literature, Wizard of the Crow is an ambitious, magisterial, comic novel from the acclaimed Kenyan novelist, playwright, poet, and critic. Set in the fictional Free Republic of Aburiria, Wizard of the Crow dramatizes with corrosive humor and keenness of observation a battle for the souls of the Aburirian people, between a megalomaniac dictator and an unemployed young man who embraces the mantle of a magician.

A propulsive novel about class, power, politics, and desire by the celebrated author of The Golden State. The year is 1998, the End of History. The Soviet Union is dissolved, the Cold War is over, and Bunny Glenn is an American teenager in Azerbaijan with her Foreign Service family. Through Bunny's eyes we watch global interests flock to the former Soviet Union during the rush for Caspian oil and pipeline access, hear rumbles of the expansion of the American security state and the buildup to the War on Terror.