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Emmanuel Carrère
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English
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The book V13 by Emmanuel Carrère recounts the extraordinary trial surrounding the 2015 terrorist attacks in Paris, focusing on the Bataclan and other sites. Taking place over ten months from September 2021 to June 2022, it was the most complex and expensive trial in French history, involving 20 defendants, over 300 lawyers, and thousands of victims. Carrère attended daily, documenting the courtroom dynamics and personal stories of lawyers, survivors,...
2) Yoga
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English
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"A raucous and brilliant anatomy of a breakdown by Emmanuel Carrère, one of our brightest and most surprising international writers"-- Provided by publisher.
"Emmanuel Carrère is a renowned writer. After decades of emotional upheaval, he has begun to live successfully--he is healthy; he works; he loves. He practices meditation, striving to observe the world without evaluating it. In this state of heightened awareness, he sets out for a ten-day...
6) The kingdom
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English
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"A sweeping fictional account of the early Christians, whose unlikely beliefs conquered the world. Gripped by the tale of a Messiah whose blood we drink and body we eat, the genre-defying author Emmanuel Carrère revisits the story of the early Church in his latest work. With an idiosyncratic and at times iconoclastic take on the charms and foibles of the Church fathers, Carrère ferries readers through his "doors" into the biblical narrative. Once...
9) Le royaume
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Français
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"À un moment de ma vie, j'ai été chrétien. Cela a duré trois ans. C'est passé. Affaire classée, alors? Il faut qu'elle ne le soit pas tout à fait pour que, vingt ans plus tard, j'aie éprouvé le besoin d'y revenir. Ces chemins du Nouveau Testament que j'ai autrefois parcourus en croyant, je les parcours aujourd'hui en romancier? en historien? Disons en enquêteur."--Page 4 of cover.
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Español
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"El debut literario de Carrère: una novela sobre sueños, aventuras, amores y un jaguar. Un sueño, una biblioteca, una mujer amada, una isla exótica, un jaguar... Victor sueña que protagoniza una historia que incluye una aventura amorosa y un misterio: conoce a Marguerite y entabla con ella una relación que tiene que dejar cuando viaja a Surabaya, en la isla de Java. Al regresar a Francia, retoma el romance y se siente acorralado por un jaguar...
14) Fuera de juego
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Colección compactos volume 762
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Español
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"Frédérique, mujer de clase media, profesora, separada y con un hijo, lleva una vida aburrida y banal, sin grandes alicientes. Hasta que un día descubre la ruleta y con ella la adrenalina del azar del juego y los caprichos del destino. La ruleta se convierte en una obsesión que la va despegando de su realidad cotidiana, conoce a otro jugador y con él emprende un periplo por todos los casinos de Francia...La escritura metódica de Emmanuel Carrère...
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Français
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Famed author Marianne Winckler goes undercover to investigate the exploitation of the working class in Northern France. She eventually lands a job as a cleaner on the cross-channel ferry and develops close connections with the other cleaning women, many of whom have extremely limited resources and income opportunities. As she learns more about the plight of these workers, Marianne struggles with her deception toward them and tries to rationalize that...
16) La moustache
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Français
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When a man shaves off his mustache, a trademark he's had for years, no one around him notices, instead insisting he's never even had one. Is he going insane, or is this some kind of strange conspiracy?
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Français
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Thomas is a troubled teenager who was given up for adoption as a toddler and is now obsessed with finding his birth mother. After searching for years, Thomas finally finds his mother single, with a young child, and living in a nearby suburb. Thomas starts a relationship with her which is part courtship and part obsessive and eventually drives him to an act of madness.
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Français
Description
Famed author Marianne Winckler goes undercover to investigate the exploitation of the working class in Northern France. She eventually lands a job as a cleaner on the cross-channel ferry and develops close connections with the other cleaning women, many of whom have extremely limited resources and income opportunities. As she learns more about the plight of these workers, Marianne struggles with her deception toward them and tries to rationalize that...