Résultats pour "A" dans Animaux

Ça y est, nous y voilà. Après toute une vie d’impatience et d’ingurgitation. D’espérance obstinée. Bon sang, je suis si excitée que j’en ai la chair de poule... enfin Noël, le vrai Noël ! Évidemment, vous ne pouvez pas vous en rendre compte vous, vous avez certainement pris l’habitude : le tohu-bohu des marchés couverts, le fumet des marrons chauds si délicat, les bavardages mielleux et le froissement jubilatoire du papier kraft.

A frightened dog bolts from an airport into the roar of city streets, driven by one stubborn instinct: get back home. He survives by nose and nerve—dodging crowds, slipping through alleys, and scavenging whatever he can. Each new stop offers a brief chapter of kindness: a stranger kneels with food, a clinic patches him up, families in Missouri and Indiana give him a name, a bed, and the hope of “forever.” But the pull inside him is louder than comfort, and he slips away again and again, following an invisible compass only he can feel.

Officer Kate Marino has a complicated relationship with her hometown. But there’s one thing that could bring her back: Her seventeen-year-old niece Alice disappeared two days ago. And she’s not the only woman who’s gone missing. With police dogs Nero and Bella (now retired) in tow, Kate returns to her childhood home and the ghosts that inhabit it. It’s not just the looming presence of her father, however, that hinders Kate’s investigation. Something even more sinister awaits her there.

Winner of the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize Winner of Colombia’s National Novel Award This prizewinning novel interweaves four animal odysseys in a gripping, adventurous meditation on migration and displacement in the inextricable human and natural worlds. In Only a Little While Here...