Résultats pour "Adam" dans Littérature du monde

"Adamas maître du jeu" raconte l'effondrement d'une démocratie qui ressemble à la nôtre. Il s'inscrit dans la lignée des romans populaires du XIXe siècle. L'époque où Jules Verne inventait la science-fiction et où "Les Mystères de Paris" déclenchaient des révolutions. Travail, liberté, mérite, démocratie sont des valeurs revisitées par ce roman d'aventures sans précédent, qui dépasse largement le simple divertissement. Adamas, un homme d'affaire mystérieux et controversé, rachète une entreprise au bord de la faillite.

The Sound Inside follows Bella Baird, an accomplished English professor at an Ivy League university who prizes her solitude. But when she faces a challenge she cannot tackle alone, she allies herself with a brilliant and mysterious student, Christopher.

There is no adama without dam. In 1946, a young Ruth begins building a new life in Palestine, haunted by the death of her family in Europe and driven by youthful ideals in a land hostile to her presence. Her sister, Shoshana, survives in the Displaced Persons camps of Germany and joins her in...

Un poderoso empresario decide llevar adelante su propia lucha contra el tráfico de droga y los narcos, y ganarles la partida con su mismo juego, siendo más criminal que ellos. En esta novela de Carlos Fuentes, como a veces en la realidad, todo se derrumba.

Longlisted for the 2025 Dublin Literary Award “Profoundly anti-carceral, abundantly queer, and weird as f*ck, Audition will lead you to spine-tingling places if you are willing to navigate its corridors.” —Casey Lucas, bad apple The spaceship Audition is hurtling through the cosmos towards...

Adam had a fine life. He had all the food he wanted, a fine garden to live in, and miles and miles of peace and quiet. Until one day, a woman entered his life. And amongst her other garrulous qualities, she says that his beautiful garden doesn't really look like a garden at all. She thinks it looks more like a park.

George Eliot's first full-length novel Adam Bede is a profound rendering of 19th century English pastoral life. This timeless story of seduction and betrayal follows the virtuous carpenter Adam Bede, whose world is soon disrupted when the all-too-beautiful Hetty betrays him for another villager. Her actions precipitate a turmoil of tragic events that shake the very foundations of their serene rural community.

The is the heart-rending tale of carpenter Adam Bede's love for pretty, superficial Hetty Sorrel, her trial for the murder of her ilegitimate child, the plight of her seducer, and Adam's growing affection for Dinah Morris, a Methodist preacher. Eliot's comments on pastoral life and the wisdom and candor of Mrs. Poyser add zest and humor.

In this timely, devastating comic novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Golem of Brooklyn, the millennia-old monster grapples with the occupation of Palestine, Zionism both Jewish and Christian, and what it means to save a people. “Perhaps only a novel this dark and absurd...

An “urgent and significant book [that] speaks to our times” (The New York Times Book Review) from the bestselling, Man Booker Prize–winning author of The White Tiger and Selection Day about a young illegal immigrant who must decide whether to report crucial information about a murder—and...

TRY TO BURY THE PAST,AND THE PAST BURIES YOU. When floodwaters unearth human bones beneath a long-abandoned orphanage, newly-elected Sheriff Hondo Velazquez is forced to confront a chilling discovery: his own initials carved into a bone. As Hondo digs into the orphanage’s dark history, his new wife, forensic anthropologist Magnolia Moss, urges him to focus on their future and their plans for adoption. But when a present-day killer begins hunting those who ran the orphanage, Hondo realizes this isn't just a cold case —it's a white-hot killing spree. Someone survived. Someone remembers.

Adam Bede (1859), George Eliot's first full-length novel, marked the emergence of an artist to rank with Scott and Dickens. Set in the English Midlands of farmers and village craftsmen at the turn of the 18th century, the book relates a story of seduction issuing in 'the inward suffering which is the worst form of Nemesis'. But it is also a rich and pioneering record - drawing on intimate knowledge and affectionate memory - of a rural world that we have lost.

For generations, the women of Camille U. Adams's family have left their daughters. Some follow the siren call of rum, the centuries-old vice which alighted on Trinidad's shores from European ships. Others flee the behind-closed-doors beatings of husbands, fathers, and brothers, rushing into any arms that offer refuge. Some simply disappear, their passage marked by unkept promises and open wounds.

Alice Adamsfollows the day-to-day life of a young woman who dreams of climbing the social ladder and escaping from her middle-class background. She struggles with the constant tension between her parents and her older brother. When a wealthy young man becomes interested in her, she weaves a...

First there is Adam Weinberger's long childhood, in a world that has no idea yet what is in store for it. The childhood of a lover of illusions, who dreams of changing the world and of freeing his family from the burden of a tradition that he finds unbearable. The adolescence of a young boy who is unable to express his love for Esther, his admiration for his uncle, his tenderness toward his mother.The helplessness of a young man who sees that dreams and fiction are unable to halt the destruction of this world and of its inhabitants.

Roaming India in 1939 and the early 1940s, two flawed but extraordinary men latch onto each other with shocking consequences as each follows an ill-fated quest for “enlightenment.” Moses, a Polish Jew, is fleeing both the Nazis and his own failed marriage; Sahadeva, an itinerant Hindu monk, is trying to resolve his crisis of religious belief. Both men find themselves embroiled in hardship, shame, and chaos, stumbling into scandal and ultimately tragedy.

Esirlikten kurtulan ama hürriyetin tadına varamayan Cengiz Dağcı'yı anlatır. "Yurdunu kaybeden adam için hürriyetin bile bir manası kalmadığını şimdi anlıyorum. İçinde doğduğum, gülüp oynadığım yerlerde benim dilim konuşulmuyor artık. Bir zamanlar, o topraklarda dilimi konuşan insanların ne olduklarını da bilmiyorum. Son fırtına, ağacı devirdi. Bizler, uçurduğu birkaç yaprak, boşlukta yolunu şaşırmış, ümitsiz ve şaşkın, meçhul bir geleceğe doğru, yalpa vurup duruyoruz.

From the award-winning author of Bubblegum and The Instructions, a daring new novel about the absurdity, the humor, and the tragedy of survivorship. "Adam Levin is one of our wildest writers and our funniest." –George Saunders, bestselling, award-winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo A...

A collection of the year’s best science fiction and fantasy short fiction selected by New York Times bestselling author of the Silo series Hugh Howey and series editor John Joseph Adams. “These are dangerous stories. The kind that warp reality and threaten to change the world” warns guest...

In President Me, Carolla shares his vision for a different, better America free from big issues like big government down to small problems like hotel alarm clock placement. Running on an anti-narcissism platform, President Carolla calls for a return to the values of an earlier time when stew and casserole were on every dinner table and there were no “service dogs” on airplanes. President Me hits right at the heart of what makes our country really annoying, and offers a plan to make all of our lives, but mostly Adam’s, much better.