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La prière de l’absent
069.00 DHBody et Sindibad, deux vagabonds réfugiés dans le cimetière de Fès, découvrent un enfant au milieu des tombes. Convaincus que cette rencontre est le signe du destin, ils s’aventurent avec Yamna la mendiante sur les traces d’un héros de la résistance marocaine. Cette quête initiatique, pleine de poésie, les entraîne au coeur d’un Maroc tourmenté et envoûtant.
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La bâtarde D’Istanbul
0111.00 DHChez les Kazanci, Turcs d’Istanbul, les femmes sont pimentées, hypocondriaques, aiment l’amour et parlent avec les djinns, tandis que les hommes s’envolent trop tôt pour l’au-delà ou pour l’Amérique. Chez les Tchakhmakhchian, Arméniens émigrés aux Etats-Unis dans les années 1920, quel que soit le sexe auquel on appartient, on est très attaché à son identité et à ses traditions. Le divorce de Barsam et Rose, puis le remariage de celle-ci avec un Turc nommé Mustafa suscitent l’indignation générale. Quand, à l’âge de vingt et un ans, la fille de Rose et de Barsam, désireuse de comprendre d’où vient son peuple, gagne en secret Istanbul, elle est hébergée par la chaleureuse famille de son beau-père. L’amitié naissante d’Armanoush Tchakhmakhchian et de la jeune Asya Kazanci, la ” bâtarde “, va faire voler en éclats les secrets les mieux gardés…
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Ce que le jour doit à la nuit
0113.00 DH” Mon oncle me disait : “Si une femme t’aimait, et si tu avais la présence d’esprit de mesurer l’étendue de ce privilège, aucune divinité ne t’arriverait à la cheville.’
Oran retenait son souffle en ce printemps 1962. La guerre engageait ses dernières folies. Je cherchais Émilie. J’avais peur pour elle. J’avais besoin d’elle. Je l’aimais et je revenais le lui prouver. Je me sentais en mesure de braver les ouragans, les tonnerres, l’ensemble des anathèmes et les misères du monde entier. ”
Yasmina Khadra nous offre ici un grand roman de l’Algérie coloniale (entre 1936 et 1962) et éclaire d’un nouveau jour, dans une langue splendide et avec la générosité qu’on lui connaît, la dislocation atroce de deux communautés amoureuses d’un même pays.
” Si j’ai fait du cinéma jusqu’à aujourd’hui, c’est sûrement dans la perspective de réaliser un jour une histoire comme celle-là et toute mon expérience de cinéaste était tendue dans une telle attente inconsciente. Le roman de Yasmina Khadra est arrivé comme un signe du destin. ” Alexandre ArcadyPrix Roman France Télévisions 2008
Élu Meilleur livre de l’année 2008 par le magazine Lire
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To the Lighthouse
039.00 DHThe serene and maternal Mrs Ramsay, the tragic yet absurd Mr Ramsay, together with their children and assorted guests, are holidaying on the Isle of Skye. From the seemingly trivial postponement of a visit to a nearby lighthouse Virginia Woolf constructs a remarkable and moving examination of the complex tensions and allegiances of family life, and the conflict between male and female principles. One of the great literary achievements of the twentieth century, To the Lighthouse is often cited as Virginia Woolf’s most popular novel.
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The Hound Of The Baskervilles
039.00 DHThe Baskerville family curse tells of how a terrifying, supernatural hound roams the moors around Baskerville Hall and preys on members of the family in revenge for a ghastly crime committed by one of their ancestors. When Sir Charles Baskerville is found dead in the grounds, with a large animal footprint near his lifeless body, the locals are convinced that the hound is back. It is up to Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson to uncover the truth and keep the new heir to the hall safe from danger.
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
039.00 DHHuck Finn spits, swears, smokes a pipe and never goes to school. With his too-big clothes and battered straw hat, Huck is in need of ‘civilising’, and the Widow Douglas is determined to take him in hand. And wouldn’t you know, Huck’s no-good Pap is also after him and he locks Huck up in his cabin in the woods. But Huck won’t stand too much of this, and after a daring escape, he takes off down the Mississppi on a raft with an runaway slave called Jim. But plenty of dangers wait for them along the river – will they survive and win their freedom?
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Dubliners
039.00 DHDubliners is a collection of fifteen short stories by James Joyce, first published in 1914. It presents a naturalistic depiction of Irish middle class life in and around Dublin in the early years of the 20th century.
These stories were written when Irish nationalism was at its peak, and a search for a national identity and purpose was raging; at a crossroads of history and culture, Ireland was jolted by various converging ideas and influences. They centre on Joyce’s idea of an epiphany: a moment where a character experiences a life-changing self-understanding or illumination. Many of the characters in Dubliners later appear in minor roles in Joyce’s novel Ulysses. The initial stories in the collection are narrated by child protagonists, and as the stories continue, they deal with the lives and concerns of progressively older people. This is in line with Joyce’s tripartite division of the collection into childhood, adolescence and maturity. -
Dickens at Christmas
039.00 DHIt is said that Charles Dickens invented Christmas, and within these pages you’ll certainly find all the elements of a quintessential traditional Christmas brought to vivid life: snowy rooftops, gleaming shop windows, steaming bowls of punch, plum puddings like speckled cannon balls, sage and onion stuffing, miracles, magic, charity and goodwill.
This Vintage Classics edition gathers together not only Dickens’ Christmas Books (‘A Christmas Carol’, ‘The Chimes’, ‘The Battle of Life’,’The Cricket on the Hearth’ and ‘The Haunted Man’) but also stories that Dickens wrote for the special seasonal editions of his periodicals All the Year Round and Household Words, and a festive tale from The Pickwick Papers.
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
039.00 DHThe portrayal of Stephen Dedalus’s Dublin childhood and youth, his quest for identity through art and his gradual emancipation from the claims of family, religion and Ireland itself, is also an oblique self-portrait of the young James Joyce and a universal testament to the artist’s ‘eternal imagination’. Both an insight into Joyce’s life and childhood, and a unique work of modernist fiction, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is a novel of sexual awakening, religious rebellion and the essential search for voice and meaning that every nascent artist must face in order to fully come into themselves.
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A Christmas Carol
039.00 DHEbenezer Scrooge is unimpressed by Christmas. He has no time for festivities or goodwill toward his fellow men and is only interested in money. Then, on the night of Christmas Eve, his life is changed by a series of ghostly visitations that show him some bitter truths about his choices.A Christmas Carol is Dickens’ most influential book and a funny, clever and hugely enjoyable story.
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Pollyanna
039.00 DHWhen her father dies, Pollyanna is sent to live with her stern Aunt Polly. She is poor, orphaned and alone but Pollyanna just feels lucky to have an aunt at all. The truth is that her dear father, before he died, taught her a trick for life – the ‘Glad Game’ – the aim of which is to find the good in every bad situation. Before long, Pollyanna’s sunny outlook has brightened up the whole town. But when a horrible accident occurs can the Game save Pollyanna?
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Gulliver’s Travels
039.00 DHIn the course of his famous travels, Gulliver is captured by miniature people who wage war on each other because of religious disagreement over how to crack eggs, is sexually assaulted by giants, visits a floating island, and decides that the society of horses is better than that of his fellow man. Swift’s tough, filthy and incisive satire has much to say about the state of the world today and is presented here in its unexpurgated entirety.
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