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Norman MacLean is a living legend in the Gaelic world. Based in the Uists in the Outer Hebrides, with side trips to Glasgow, Hamburg and Amsterdam, this dotty adventure embraces frustrated sex, drugs, eight some reels and a memorable cast of oddball characters: three inept would-be criminals, a demented care-home resident, an ex-communicant of the Free Church of Scotland who moonlights as an enforcer, a pair of Russian weight-lifters who raise ostriches...
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This gritty tale of two men's ill-conceived quest for a better life via the deserts of the Middle East and the cities of Europe is pure storytelling
Two Bedouin men from Egypt's Western Desert seek to escape poverty through different routes. One-the intellectual, terminally self-doubting, and avowedly autobiographical Hamdi-gets no further than southern Libya's fly-blown oasis of Sabha, while his cousin-the dashing, irrepressible Phantom Raider-makes...
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After coming into unexpected money, Ingrid Kristiansen decides to leave the frigid plains of the Upper Midwest for the surreal beauty of Kauai. Unfortunately, upon arrival, she learns that her idyllic paradise has one serious flaw: the goddamn chickens. Those bastards are everywhere, pecking at the ground, pecking at each other, pecking at people's patience. They ruin paradise. Deciding that the island would be better off without such clucking monstrosities,...
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Un fonctionnaire oublié aspirait au farniente et aux rêves d'une retraite pleine. Il devra pourtant composer avec une promotion inespérée et les nouvelles exigences qui en découlent. Suivez-le durant ses premières vingt-quatre heures au sein d'une équipe haute en couleur o les peurs et les maux de notre époque (pression des résultats, individualisme, sexisme au travail, retraite...) aboutissent à des situations inattendues et des plus ubuesques....
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Bawdy, joyous, messy, hysterically funny, and guaranteed to offend regardless of religion, race, national origin, sexual orientation, or profession Between the Bridge and the River is the debut novel by Craig Ferguson, host of CBS's The Late Late Show. Two childhood friends from Scotland and two illegitimate half-brothers from the American South suffer and enjoy all manner of bizarre experiences which, as it turns out, are somehow interconnected and,...
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Mo Yan, China's most critically acclaimed author, has changed the face of his country's contemporary literature with such daring and masterly novels as Red Sorghum, The Garlic Ballads, and The Republic of Wine. In this collection of eight astonishing stories-the title story of which has been adapted to film by the award-winning director of Red Sorghum Zhang Yimou-Mo Yan shows why he is also China's leading writer of short fiction.
His passion for...
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Découvrez l'histoire d'un petit bonhomme qui s'emploie à observer la société qui l'entoure et à donner la parole à ceux qu'on n'écoute pas et qui voient leurs rêves partir en fumée...
Je ne vous raconterai pas une histoire qui va vous faire rêver.
Je n'en ai pas l'envie.
Ce n'est pas parce que je n'aime pas ça, c'est juste que je n'ai pas toujours le cœur en version troubadour.
En effet, il y a parfois des lunes qui font naître chez...
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In this hypnotic epic novel, Mo Yan, the most critically acclaimed Chinese writer of this generation, takes us on a journey to a conjured province of contemporary China known as the Republic of Wine-a corrupt and hallucinatory world filled with superstitions, gargantuan appetites, and surrealistic events. When rumors reach the authorities that strange and excessive gourmandise is being practiced in the city of Liquorland (so named for the staggering...
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Devils TearsCharles Brown, a socially awkward, heavy metal loving cat owner and Atheist can find anything, except shawarma at four in the morning. But when tasked to recover stolen religious artifacts, he must seek expert help, which lands him at the church door of Reverend Victoria Fox. She's an intelligent, charismatic, feisty mother, lover of fig newtons and red wine, who is as gregarious as he is introverted.Quickly they find themselves enlisted...
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A brief but extraordinarily powerful novel by the author of Dreams of My Russian Summers and Requiem for a Lost Empire, Music of a Life is set in the period just before, and two decades after, World War II.
Alexeï Berg's father is a well-known dramatist, his mother a famous opera singer. But during Stalin's reign of terror in the 1930s they, like millions of other Russians, come under attack for their presumed lack of political purity. Harassed...
11) Native believer
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"As M.'s life gradually fragments around him, he spins out into the pulsating underbelly of Philadelphia, where he encounters others grappling with fallout from the War on Terror."--
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Et si on comparait les dessins animés dessins avec les oeuvres originales dont ils sont tirés ?
Et si Walt (de là-haut) avait décidé de passer en revue ses longs métrages inspirés de contes et de les comparer aux oeuvres originales... Serait-il obligé de conclure que les contes cruels écrits à l'origine pour préparer les enfants à un monde difficile sont devenus, sous son regard, des contes de fées pour endormir nos enfants ? Dans les...
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At the dawn of the twentieth century, a young Lebanese explorer leaves the Levant for the wilds of Africa, encountering an eccentric English colonel in Sudan and enlisting in his service. In this lush chronicle of far-flung adventure, the military recruit crosses paths with a compatriot who has dismantled a sumptuous palace in Tripoli and is transporting it across the continent on a camel caravan. The protagonist soon takes charge of this hoard of...
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Des personnages ordinaires aux prises avec le passé.
Avec une grande liberté formelle, Tavares nous entraîne dans un voyage o nous suivons d'abord Martha, une jeune fille borderline, au fil de ses errements dans Berlin, pour assister ensuite au transport d'une statue monumentale de Lénine, de Bucarest jusqu'à Budapest, tandis qu'un violoniste rapatrie dans le trajet inverse le corps putréfié de sa mère...
Un diptyque qui nous expose sans...
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