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"Depuis des années, je tourne autour de cet événement de ma vie.

« Quand j'écris le mot famille, allez savoir pourquoi, je mange le m - on lit faille. C'est depuis cette fêlure que j'ai écrit ce livre.

Travailleuse d'usine mexicaine, cultivateur de riz indien, ménagère ougandaise, fermière aymara: ces personnes ont en commun d'être nées dans des nations exploitées ou opprimées.

Racial tensions are delicately explored when a warm friendship evolves between an elderly Jewish woman and her Black chauffeur.

Longlisted for the 2024 National Book Award in Fiction - A New York Times Best Book of the Year.

"A heady, infectious celebration." -The New Yorker - "Shaughnessy's voice is smart, sexy, self-aware, hip... consistently wry, and ever savvy." -Harvard Review.

A New York Times bestseller!

#1 New York Times bestseller — The author of The Splendid and the Vile brings to life the pivotal five months between the election of Abraham Lincoln and the start of the Civil War in this "ri

National bestseller – One of The Economist's Best Books of the Year.

The sweetest song is one that speaks to the heart of universal human experience. – From the author of Nautilus Award winner & BCALA 2022 Honor Poetry Award winner I Am the Rage.

A noblewoman in the scandalous French court finds herself under the dangerous and watchful eye of the Parisian royalty when she falls in love with the handsome king who is betrothed to her former l

To the world, they were a scandal. To each other, an obsession. National Bestseller.

One of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of the Summer - A Best Book of the Year in Vogue - Vulture - Elle - Economist - A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice.

New York Times Bestseller – A Best Book of the Year: The New Yorker – The Atlantic – NPR – Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.

William Thornhill arrives in New South Wales a convict from the slums of London.