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When France's top chef, Marc Fraysse, summoned the world's press to make a shattering announcement, rumors abounded that he was about to lose one of his three coveted Michelin stars. Instead, on arrival at his remote restaurant on a volcanic plateau in central France, they were greeted with the news that the troubled genius had been murdered, and the message he intended to deliver was never made. Seven years on, the identity of his killer also remains an enigma. Enzo Macleod takes on his fifth cold case and delves into the big business and high stakes of French haute cuisine. As winter sets in, and snow gathers along a volcanic horizon, he retraces long cold footsteps across a remote hilltop. But unravelling the complex web of relationships that surrounded the brilliant and mercurial chef - a spurned lover, a jealous wife, an estranged brother, an embittered food critic--also leads to strange parallels with his own life. And in opening up this celebrated cold case, he finds himself reopening old wounds from his past.

Trente ans après sa parution, Les Buddenbrook figure au nombre des livres brûlés dans les autodafés. Les chemises brunes hurlent sous les fenêtres de Thomas Mann qu'une " famille allemande, une famille de la race élue ne peut jamais déchoir ". (...) Les Buddenbrook est le roman du déclin, le livre de l'essoufflement. Thomas Mann traque dans cette dynastie marchande les prodromes du désastre. L'observation de soi-même est le premier pas vers le déclin. Car s'observer, c'est s'empêcher d'agir, s'empêcher de vivre. Linda Lè. Les Buddenbrook, premier roman de Thomas Mann, devenu l'un des classiques de la littérature allemande,, retrace l'effondrement progressif d'une grande famille de la Hanse, de Johann, le solide fondateur de la dynastie, à Hanno, le frêle musicien qui s'éteint quarante ans plus tard dans un pavillon de banlieue. Le style, tout en nuances, où l'émotion se teinte de connivence et d'ironie, d'affinités et de détachement, traduit parfaitement la relation que l'auteur entretient avec la réalité et accentue subtilement la transcription du lent processus de décadence. Les Buddenbrook ou le grand livre de la dégénérescence.

After his parents are arrested and imprisoned for robbing a bank, fifteen-year-old Dell Parsons is taken in by Arthur Remlinger who, unbeknownst to Dell, is hiding a dark and violent nature that interferes with Dell's quest to find grace and peace on the prairie of Saskatchewan

In this remarkable debut novel, Katherine Bucknell compellingly captures the tragedy of a disintegrating marriage. She brilliantly evokes a world glittering with wealth and social prestige yet stalked by desolation. David is an American investment banker working in London; Elizabeth, his wife, is a woman of peerless beauty and refinement. They have two children; their marriage seems perfect. But one summer evening, David finds himself alone in their empty Belgravia mansion. Elizabeth has abandoned him and fled to Virginia. David receives a phonecall from a long-lost friend, and so begins a transatlantic tale about friendship, marriage and betrayal that is filled with unexpected reversals. Canarino is a portrait of intimate relationships set in a world of privilege and achievement. Its characters possess personal gifts in dazzling abundance, yet their appetites to succeed, to be exceptional, tempt them to risk everything. How can we recognise love and friendship? Which bonds last longest? What is the cost of seeking perfection? Beneath the novel's polished surface lie haunting psychological depths. been turned.

On a small island in a glacier-fed lake on Alaska's Kenai Peninsula, a marriage is unravelling. Gary, driven by thirty years of diverted plans, and Irene, haunted by a tragedy in her past, are trying to rebuild their life together. Following the outline of Gary's old dream, they're hauling logs out to Caribou Island in good weather and in terrible storms, in sickness and in health, to patch together the kind of cabin that drew them to Alaska in the first place. Across the water on the mainland, Irene and Gary's grown daughter, Rhoda is starting her own life. She fantasizes about the perfect wedding day, whilst her betrothed, Jim the dentist, wonders about the possibility of an altogether different future. From the author of the massively-acclaimed Legend of a Suicide, comes a devastating novel about a marriage, a couple blighted by past shadows and the weight of expectation, of themselves and of each other. Brilliantly drawn and fiercely honest in its depiction of love and disappointment, David Vann's first novel confirms him as one of America's most dazzling writers of fiction.

Une grande saga familiale dans une contrée qui ressemble à s'y méprendre au Chili. Entre les différentes générations, entre la branche des maîtres et celle des bâtards, entre le patriarche, les femmes de la maison, les domestiques, les paysans du domaine, se nouent et se dénouent des relations marquées par l'absolu de l'amour, la familiarité de la mort, la folie douce ou bestiale des uns et des autres, qui reflètent et résument les vicissitudes d'un pays passé en quelques décennies des rythmes et traditions rurales aux affrontements fratricides et à la férocité des tyrannies modernes. Isabel Allende a quitté le Chili après le coup d'Etat militaire

You're a whirlwind. You're a success. You're living your life on the edge. But who'll catch you when you fall ? Holly Krauss lives life in the fast lane. A successful young businesswoman with a stable home life, she is loved and admired by all who meet her. But that's only one side of Holly. The other sees her take regular walks on the wild side - where she makes ever more reckless mistakes. And when those mistakes start mounting up, the two sides of Holly blur together and her life quickly spirals out of control. She thinks she's being stalked, someone is demanding money from her - threats lurk round every corner and those closest to Holly are running out of patience. But is she alone responsible for what's happening ? Are her fears just the paranoia of an illness - or intimations of very real danger ? And if she can no longer rely on her own judgement, who can she trust to catch her when she falls ?

In the quiet of twilight, on an early autumn day, twenty-six-year-old Elisa Vandersteel is killed while riding her bicycle along the Charles River. It appears she was struck by lightningùexcept the weather is perfectly clear with not a cloud in sight. Dr. Kay Scarpetta, the Cambridge Forensic Center’s director and chief, decides at the scene that this is no accidental Act of God. Her investigation becomes complicated when she begins receiving a flurry of bizarre poems from an anonymous cyberbully who calls himself Tailend Charlie. Though subsequent lab results support Scarpetta’s conclusions, the threatening messages don’t stop. When the tenth poem arrives exactly twenty-four hours after Elisa’s death, Scarpetta begins to suspect the harasser is involved, and sounds the alarm to her investigative partner Pete Marino and her husband, FBI analyst Benton Wesley. She also enlists the help of her niece, Lucy. But to Scarpetta’s surprise, tracking the slippery Tailend Charlie is nearly impossible, even for someone as brilliant as her niece. Also, Lucy can’t explain how this anonymous nemesis could have access to private information. To make matters worse, a venomous media is whipping the public into a frenzy, questioning the seasoned forensics chief’s judgment and "a quack cause of death on a par with spontaneous combustion."

La 4e de couv. indique : « Muchos años después, frente al peloton de fusilamiento, el coronel Aureliano Buendia habia de recordar aquella tarde remota en que su padre lo llevo a conocer el hielo.» Con estas palabras empieza una novela legendaria, una de una de las aventuras literarias más fascinantes del siglo XX. La familia Buendia-Iguarán, con sus milagros, fantasias, obsesiones, tragedias, incestos, adulterios, rebeldias, descubrimientos y condenas, representa al mismo tiempo el mito y la historia, la tragedia y el amor del mundo entero

Estamos en Marzo de 1966. Carmen Sotillo, a los 44 años, acaba de perder a su marido Mario de forma inesperada. Una vez que las visitas y la familia se han retirado, ella sola vela durante la ultima noche el cadáver de su marido e inicia con él un monologo-diálogo en el que descubrimos sus personalidades y los conflictos de su matrimonio.

Will Trent is a brilliant agent with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. Newly in love, he is beginning to put a difficult past behind him. Then a local college student goes missing, and Will is inexplicably kept off the case by his supervisor and mentor, deputy director Amanda Wagner. Will cannot fathom Amanda’s motivation until the two of them literally collide in an abandoned orphanage they have both been drawn to for different reasons. Decades before, when his father was imprisoned for murder, this was Will’s home. It appears that the case that launched Amanda’s career forty years ago has suddenly come back to life—and it involves the long-held mystery of Will’s birth and parentage. Now these two dauntless investigators will each need to face down demons from the past if they are to prevent an even greater terror from being unleashed.

Acaso sea Cronica de una muerte anunciada la obra más «realista» de Gabriel Garcia Márquez, pues se basa en un hecho historico acontecido en la tierra natal del escritor. Cuando empieza la novela, ya se sabe que los hermanos Vicario van a matar a Santiago Nasar -de hecho, ya le han matado- para vengar el honor ultrajado de su hermana Ángela, pero el relato termina precisamente en el momento en que Santiago Nasar muere. El tiempo ciclico, tan utilizado por Garcia Márquez en sus obras, reaparece aqui minuciosamente descompuesto en cada uno de sus momentos, reconstruido prolija y exactamente por el narrador, que va dando cuenta de lo que sucedio mucho tiempo atrás, que avanza y retrocede en su relato y hasta llega mucho tiempo después para contar el destino de los supervivientes. La accion es, a un tiempo, colectiva y personal, clara y ambigua, y atrapa al lector desde un principio, aunque este conozca el desenlace de la trama. La dialéctica entre mito y realidad se ve potenciada aqui, una vez más, por una prosa tan cargada de fascinacion que la eleva hasta las fronteras de la leyenda

Marion and Shiva Stone, born in a mission hospital in Ethiopia in the 1950s, are twin sons of an illicit union between an Indian nun and British doctor. bound by birth but with widely different temperaments they grow up together, in a country on the brink of revolution, until a betrayal splits them apart. But fate has not finished with them - they will be brought together once more, in the sterile surroundings of a hospital theatre. From the 1940s to the present, from a convent in India to a cargo ship bound for the Yemen, from a tin operating theatre in Ethiopia to a hospital in the Bronx, this is both a richly visceral epic and riveting family story.

Mai 1789, un vent de révolte souffle sur Paris. Gabriel Joly, jeune provincial ambitieux, monte à la capitale où il rêve de devenir le plus grand journaliste de son temps. Un enquêteur déterminé à faire la lumière sur les mystères de cette période tourmentée. Son premier défi : démasquer le Loup des Cordeliers, cet étrange justicier qui tient un loup en laisse et, la nuit, commet de sanglants assassinats pour protéger des femmes dans les rues de Paris... Les investigations de Gabriel Joly le conduisent alors sur la route des grands acteurs de la Révolution qui commence : Danton, Desmoulins, Mirabeau, Robespierre, personnages dont on découvre l'ambition, le caractère, les plans secrets. Alors que, le 14 juillet, un homme s'échappe discrètement de la Bastille, Gabriel Joly va-t-il découvrir l'identité véritable du Loup des Cordeliers, et mettre au jour l'un des plus grands complots de la Révolution française ?

Séville. Un homme tente de protéger un mystérieux carnet. Quelques heures plus tard, il est retrouvé crucifié. En tentant de venger la mort de son ami, Tom Kirk, l'ancien voleur, découvre qu'une série d'assassinats vise le milieu des ventes d'objets d'art. Quelqu'un semble préparer un impossible cambriolage, au cour même du musée du Louvre. Les cadavres s'accumulent, ainsi que les fausses pistes. Certains éléments troublants remontent jusqu'à Napoléon : l'empereur lui-même aurait laissé des messages codés menant à un incroyable secret. « Le digne successeur de Follett et Forsyth ! » (Christopher Reich)

Weil sein Sohn tot geboren wurde, will ein Burgherr der jungen Hebamme Marthe Hände und Füße abschlagen lassen. Nur mit knapper Not gelingt ihr die Flucht aus dem Dorf. Um zu überleben, schließt sich das Mädchen einer Gruppe Siedler an, die ostwärts ziehen, um sich in dem noch unerschlossenem Gebiet ein neues, freies Leben aufzubauen. Angeführt werden ie von dem edlen Ritter Christian, der sofort von Marthe fasziniert ist. Doch ihre Schönheit und ihre besondere heilende Gabe haben auch die Aufmerksamkeit von Randolf erregt, Christians erbitterstem Fein...,