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Brick Lane / Monica Ali
Titre : Brick Lane Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Monica Ali Editeur : Black Swan Année de publication : 2004 Importance : 491 p. Format : 20 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-552-77115-3 Catégories : [Centre d'intérêt] Livre en anglais Index. décimale : 843 Résumé : At the tender age of eighteen, Nazneen's life is turned upside down. After an arranged marriage to a man twenty years her eider she exchanges her Bangladeshi village home for a block of flats in London's East End. In this new world, where poor people can be fat and even dogs go on diets, she struggles to make sense of her existence-and to do her duty to her husband. A man of inflated ideas (and stomach), he sorely tests her compliance. But Nazneen submits, as she must, to Fate and devotes her life to raising her family and slapping down her demons of discontent. Until Karim, a young radical, steps into the picture. Against a background of escalating racial and gang conflict, they embark on an affair that finally forces Nazneen to take control of her life... Exemplaires (1)
Code-barres Cote Support Localisation Section Disponibilité 11336593 LANG ALI LIV Adultes Livres en anglais Disponible Life after Life / Kate Atkinson
Titre : Life after Life Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Kate Atkinson Editeur : Black Swan Année de publication : 2014 Importance : 621 p. Format : 18 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-552-77968-5 Langues : Anglais (eng) Catégories : [Centre d'intérêt] Livre en anglais Résumé : During a snowstorm in England in 1910, a baby is born and dies before she can take her first breath.
During a snowstorm in England in 1910, the same baby is born and lives to tell the tale.
What if there were second chances? And third chances? In fact an infinite number of chances to live your life? Would you eventually be able to save the world from its own inevitable destiny? And would you even want to?
Life After Life follows Ursula Todd as she lives through the turbulent events of the last century again and again. With wit and compassion, Kate Atkinson finds warmth even in lifes bleakest moments, and shows an extraordinary ability to evoke the past. Here she is at her most profound and inventive, in a novel that celebrates the best and worst of ourselves.Exemplaires (1)
Code-barres Cote Support Localisation Section Disponibilité 11077210 LANG ATKI LIV Adultes Livres en anglais Disponible Perfect / Rachel Joyce
Titre : Perfect Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Rachel Joyce Editeur : Black Swan Année de publication : 2013 Importance : 447 p. Format : 20 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-552-77810-7 Catégories : [Centre d'intérêt] Livre en anglais Index. décimale : 843 Résumé : Summer, 1972: In the claustrophobic heat, eleven-year-old Byron and his friend begin 'Operation Perfect', a hapless mission to rescue Byron's mother from impending crisis.
Winter, present day: As frost creeps across the moor, Jim cleans tables in the local café, a solitary figure struggling with OCD. His job is a relief from the rituals that govern his nights.
Little would seem to connect them except that two seconds can change everything.
And if your world can be shattered in an instant, can time also put it right?Exemplaires (1)
Code-barres Cote Support Localisation Section Disponibilité 11336590 LANG JOYCE LIV Adultes Livres en anglais Disponible The Girl on the Train / Paula Hawkins
Titre : The Girl on the Train Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Paula Hawkins Editeur : Black Swan Année de publication : 2015 Importance : 408 p. Format : 18 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-552-77977-7 Catégories : [Centre d'intérêt] Livre en anglais Index. décimale : 843 Résumé : Rachel catches the same commuter train every morning. She knows it will wait at the same signal each time, overlooking a row of back gardens. Shes even started to feel like she knows the people who live in one of the houses. Jess and Jason, she calls them. Their life as she sees it is perfect. If only Rachel could be that happy.
And then she sees something shocking. Its only a minute until the train moves on, but its enough.
Now everythings changed. Now Rachel has a chance to become a part of the lives shes only watched from afar.
Now theyll see; shes much more than just the girl on the trainExemplaires (1)
Code-barres Cote Support Localisation Section Disponibilité 11344998 LANG HAWK LIV Adultes Livres en anglais Disponible The World According to Garp / John Irving
Titre : The World According to Garp Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : John Irving Editeur : Black Swan Année de publication : 1999 Importance : 569 p. Format : 18 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-552-11190-4 Langues : Anglais (eng) Catégories : [Centre d'intérêt] Irving, John
[Centre d'intérêt] Livre en anglaisRésumé : Garp is a book that captivates all who read it. Peopled with the most extraordinary characters you will ever meet, here is a novel that will make you laugh, make you weep, and, above all, make you think. Exemplaires (1)
Code-barres Cote Support Localisation Section Disponibilité 11077209 LANG IRVI LIV Adultes Livres en anglais Disponible