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I try to see him among a migrating flock—he will take the loneliness of my room on his long journey; each whistling note he makes will be a little of my sadness falling over the ocean, to be swallowed in the clash of waves and the commotion of many birds flying. “Tell me the truth,” demands fifteen-year-old Megumi Shimizu as her mother hurriedly packs. But her mother refuses to admit that she is leaving forever—leaving her husband to his mistress, her home to her silent, resentful mother-in-law, her daughter to survive, if she can.

Having given voice in previous novels to the extraordinary Kate Vaiden, Blue Calhoun, and Roxanna Slade, Reynolds Price — one of America's most respected men of letters — adds Noble Norfleet to his gallery of compelling portraits. A few days before Noble Norfleet's eighteenth birthday, his family suffers a violent catastrophe. The sole survivor, Noble throws himself into a reckless affair with his Spanish teacher, whose husband is fighting in Vietnam.

Leroy Dearman is twelve, and he lives on a llama farm in Mississippi. Life is perfect. It's true that his grandfather just died in the attic and that wild dogs kill a baby llama now and then, and it's true that one little sister curses him and the other one wets her pants. But up to the day Uncle Harris moves in, life looks like it's right out of a Walt Disney movie. No wonder the llamas greet each morning with a song. Uncle Harris arrives in a sports car, full of funny stories and new ideas.

Théâtre, paru en 1966. Henry-James et Felicity Chesterfield sont présentés à leur futur gendre, Hubert. Cette situation fait ressortir tous les travers familiaux. Une farce grinçante, très british.

Dans un château encerclé de neige, une famille excentrique reste prisonnière jusqu'au printemps, en compagnie d’un invité surprise. Entre vrais et faux cadavres, la châtelaine désœuvrée s’amuse à séduire un cousin transi de froid et d’amour, sous le regard complice de son mari bourru et de son frère incestueux.

Lark Summerville’s life has few surprises—and that’s just how she likes it. All she wants is to live out her angst-riddled life in her blue-collar Baltimore neighborhood, punctuated by weekly trips to her local parish, where Lark is organist, and telephone conversations with desperate souls who dial her hotline at 1-777-IPRAY4U. Then one night, Lark’s home is destroyed by a fire, forcing her out of her comfortable nest and back to the childhood home she has avoided for years.

Trois femmes, trois vies brisées, se retrouvent par hasard dans une maison isolée au cœur de l’Islande, loin de tout ce qu’elles ont connu. Léa, en fuite après un burnout destructeur, Sara, tentant d’échapper à un passé violent avec son jeune fils, et Yumi, une artiste en quête de renouveau, cherchent chacune à se reconstruire. Sous le regard bienveillant d’Anna, la propriétaire, elles vont peu à peu confronter leurs peurs, dévoiler leurs secrets et découvrir que la guérison peut naître même dans les lieux les plus reculés.

"The Emperor of Gladness is a poetic, dramatic and vivid story. Epic in its sweep, the novel also handles intimacy and love with delicacy and deep originality. Hai and Grazina are taken from the margins of American life by Ocean Vuong and, by dint of great sympathy and imaginative genius, placed at the very center of our world." - Colm Toibin, author of Long Island and Brooklyn. "A masterwork." - Bryan Washington, author of Palaver and Family Meal.

Bloomsbury presents The Village Trattoria by Annabelle Thorpe, read by Sara Alexander. Italy, 1943. The village trattoria, Casa Maria, is famed for its food and for Elena, the formidable matriarch who runs it. But now war has come to Umbria. Sophia di Luca cooks brilliantly and expects to take over the trattoria from Elena one day. But instead it is charismatic, unpredictable Giorgio Capaldi who has inherited it and now arrives from Rome to run it. While Sophia and Giorgio clash, the town falls under Nazi occupation.

À l'aube des années 1990 à Chicago, en pleine bohème artistique, un homme et une femme vivent l'un en face de l'autre et s'épient en cachette. Rien ne semble les relier — elle est étudiante en psychologie, lui photographe rebelle. Mais lorsqu'ils se rencontrent enfin, le charme opère et l'histoire d'amour démarre aussitôt entre Elizabeth et Jack. Ils ont la vie devant eux et, même si leurs rêves et leurs milieux divergent, ils sont convaincus que leur amour résistera à l'épreuve du temps. Mais qu'en est-il vingt ans plus tard ?