A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER CHOSEN AS A BOOK OF 2020 BY THE SUNDAY TIMES , OBSERVER , GUARDIAN , i PAPER , FINANCIAL TIMES , NEW STATESMAN , SCOTSMAN , IRISH TIMES , BBC.COM, WATERSTONES.COM 'You have to read Apeirogon ' Sunday Times 'Nothing like any book you've ever read' MICHAEL CUNNINGHAM 'An essential hymn to peace and forgiveness' independent.co.uk The novel of a lifetime about two men and their daughters: divided by conflict, yet united in grief.
Rami Elhanan and Bassam Aramin live near one another - yet they exist worlds apart. Rami is Israeli. Bassam is Palestinian. Rami's license plate is yellow. Bassam's license plate is green. It takes Rami fifteen minutes to drive to the West Bank. The same journey for Bassam takes an hour and a half.
Both men have lost their daughters. Rami's thirteen-year-old girl Smadar was killed by a suicide bomber while out shopping with her friends. Bassam's ten-year-old daughter Abir was shot and killed by a member of the border police outside her school. There was a candy bracelet in her pocket she hadn't had time to eat yet.
The men become the best of friends.
In this epic novel - named for a shape with a countably infinite number of sides - Colum McCann crosses centuries and continents, stitching time, art, history, nature and politics into a tapestry of friendship, love, loss and belonging. Musical, muscular, delicate and soaring, Apeirogon is the novel for our times.
'A quite extraordinary novel. Colum McCann has found the form and voice to tell the most complex of stories, with an unexpected friendship between two men at its powerfully beating heart' KAMILA SHAMSIE
Half German, half Russian, Hel was raised by a Japanese general and survived Hiroshima to become a mystic, a master of the senses, and the most deadly assassin in the world. Nicholai has left his past behind him to live a life of isolation in a remote mountain fortress, determined to attain a state of effortless perfection known as shibumi. Then Hannah Stern arrives at his door. Hannah needs protection from a sinister organization known as the Mother Company. But, as Hel knows all too well, they are not easy to escape. And now they're coming after him too. The battle lines are drawn: ruthless power and corruption on one side, and on the other...shibumi.
Patrick Bateman is twenty-six and works on Wall Street; he is handsome, sophisticated, charming and intelligent. He is also a psychopath. Taking us to a head-on collision with America's greatest dream - and its worst nightmare - this work is a black comedy about a world we all recognize but do not wish to confront.
Bosch reopens the hunt for a psychotic killer who stalked the streets of Los Angeles years before. The superb twelfth Harry Bosch novel from the award-winning No. 1 bestselling author.
One of the best (and longest) crime novels ever written, it is the heart of Ellroy's four-novel masterpiece, the LA Quartet, and an example of crime writing at its most powerful.
Pour surveiller sa baby-sitter, Maya a installé une caméra dans son salon, quand apparaît à l'écran son mari, Joe... qu'elle vient d'enterrer ! Un choc suivi de deux troublantes découvertes : le certificat de décès de Joe a disparu et l'arme impliquée dans sa mort est aussi celle qui a coûté la vie à la soeur de Maya, Claire, quelques mois auparavant dans des circonstances troubles.
Mort ou vivant, Joe était-il bien l'homme que Maya pensait connaître ? La frontière entre vérité et illusions n'a jamais semblé si floue. La jeune veuve plonge dans les zones d'ombre du passé... à ses risques et périls.
Il y a quinze ans, la vie de Nap a basculé : son frère jumeau et la petite amie de celui-ci ont été retrouvés morts sur la voie ferrée. Double suicide d'amoureux ? Nap n'y a jamais cru.
Désormais flic, Nap voit ressurgir le passé : un ami d'enfance vient d'être sauvagement assassiné. Sur les lieux du crime, les empreintes d'une femme que Nap pensait disparue : Maura, son amour de jeunesse. Le choc est total. Celle qu'il aimait serait-elle une dangereuse psychopathe ? Et s'il était le prochain sur sa liste ?
La vérité est proche. Si proche. Bien plus terrible et dangereuse que tout ce que Nap imagine...
CHOSEN BY TIME MAGAZINE AS ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR"ONE HELLISHLY EXCITING RIDE."Detroit Free PressThe '50s are finished. Zealous young senator Robert Kennedy has a redhot jones to nail Jimmy Hoffa. JFK has his eyes on the Oval Office. J. Edgar Hoover is swooping down on the Red Menace. Howard Hughes is dodging subpoenas and digging up Kennedy dirt. And Castro is mopping up the bloody aftermath of his new communist nation."HARDBITTEN. . . INGENIOUS. . . ELLROY SEGUES INTO POLITICAL INTRIGUE WITHOUT MISSING A BEAT."The New York TimesIn the thick of it: FBI men Kemper Boyd and Ward Littell. They work every side of the street, jerking the chains of made men, street scum, and celebrities alike, while Pete Bondurant, exrogue cop, freelance enforcer, troubleshooter, and troublemaker, has the conscience to louse it all up."VASTLY ENTERTAINING."Los Angeles TimesMob bosses, politicos, snitches, psychos, fall guys, and femmes fatale. They're mixing up a molotov cocktail guaranteed to end the country's innocence with a bang. Dig that crazy beat: it's America's heart racing out of control. . . ."A SUPREMELY CONTROLLED WORK OF ART."The New York Times Book ReviewFrom the Paperback edition.
There has never been a writer like James Ellroy.' Telegraph Los Angeles, December 6, 1941. Last hopes for peace are shattered when Japanese squadrons bomb Pearl Harbor. War fever and race hate grip the city and the internment of Japanese-Americans begins.
Following the hellish murder of a Japanese family, three men and one woman are summoned. William H. Parker is a captain on the Los Angeles Police. He's superbly gifted, corrosively ambitious and consumed by dubious ideology. He is bitterly at odds with Sergeant Dudley Smith - Irish emigre, ex-IRA killer and fledgling war profiteer. Kay Lake is a 21-year-old dilettante looking for adventure. Hideo Ashida is a brilliant police chemist and the only Japanese on the payroll.
Four driven souls - rivals, lovers, history's pawns - thrown into an investigation which will not only rip them apart but take America to the edge of the abyss at a crucial moment in its history.
The globe-trotting spy thriller that inspired the upcoming action blockbuster Argylle (February 2024), featuring a star-studded cast including Henry Cavill, Bryce Dallas Howard, Samuel L. Jackson, and John Cena, and directed by Matthew Vaughn of Kingsman trilogy fame A luxury train speeding towards Moscow and a date with destiny.
A CIA plane downed in the jungles of the Golden Triangle.
A Nazi hoard entombed in the remote mountains of South-West Poland.
A missing treasure, the eighth wonder of the world, lost for seven decades.
One Russian magnate's dream of restoring a nation to greatness has set in motion a chain of events which will take the world to the brink of chaos.
Only Frances Coffey, the CIA's most legendary spymaster, can prevent it. But to do so, she needs someone special.
Enter Argylle, a troubled agent with a tarnished past who may just have the skills to take on one of the most powerful men in the world. If only he can save himself first...
The police urgently need Harry Hole A killer is stalking Oslo''s streets. Police officers are being slain at the scenes of crimes they once investigated, but failed to solve. The murders are brutal, the media reaction hysterical. But this time, Harry can''t help anyone For years, detective Harry Hole has been at the centre of every major criminal investigation in Oslo. His dedication to his job and his brilliant insights have saved the lives of countless people. But now, with those he loves most facing terrible danger, Harry can''t protect anyone. Least of all himself.
It's 1945: a German bomber flies over Iceland in a blizzard. Puzzlingly, there are both German and American officers on board. One of the senior German officers claims that their best chance of survival is to try to walk to the nearest farm and sets off, a briefcase handcuffed to his wrist. He soon disappears into the white vastness.
Et si votre vie n'était qu'un vaste mensonge ? Si l'homme que vous avez épousé il y a dix ans n'était pas celui que vous croyez ? Si tout votre univers s'effondrait brutalement Pour Grace Lawson, il a suffi d'un seul regard.
Juste un regard sur une photo vieille de vingt ans pour comprendre que son existence est une terrible imposture. Mais le cauchemar ne fait que commencer. Traques, disparitions, vengeances implacables, assassinats sanglants. un suspense à vous couper le souffle, par Harlan Coben, le maître de vos nuits blanches.
In the heart of Italy, Harvard professor of symbology, Robert Langdon, is drawn into a harrowing world centered on one of history's most enduring and mysterious literary masterpieces . Dante's Inferno. Against this backdrop, Langdon battles a chilling adversary and grapples with an ingenious riddle. By the author of The Da Vinci Code .
Inscrite par une amie sur le site de rencontres JustMyType.com, Kat Donovan, quarante ans, séduisante inspectrice au NYPD, tombe sur le profil de Jeff, son premier amour brutalement disparu dix-huit ans plus tôt. Mais sous une autre identité.
Les premiers échanges sonnent faux, distants. Pourquoi Jeff est-il devenu si froid ? Aurait-il pu oublier leur histoire, et jusqu'à cette chanson de John Waite dont ils avaient fait l'hymne de leur amour ?
Blessée par l'attitude de Jeff, bouleversée par l'assassinat de son père et par les révélations récentes du meurtrier, Kat tente de reprendre ses marques en se concentrant sur une affaire de disparitions de femmes. Des femmes piégées, sur Internet, par un homme charmant, dont Kat craint de reconnaître le profil. Qui est vraiment ce Jeff ?
Soudain, tout dérape. Et la gueule du loup se referme brutalement sur Kat.
À 16 ans, Mickey Bolitar a déjà vécu son lot de tragédies : la disparition de son père, les difficultés de sa mère à surmonter ce choc, l'installation chez son oncle Myron. Des questions sur le passé de ses parents et sur ce qui est vraiment arrivé à son père le taraudent.
Un matin, les policiers lui apprennent une terrible nouvelle : son amie Rachel a été prise dans une fusillade. Pour découvrir la vérité, il sera aidé de l'énigmatique Ema et du déjanté Spoon.
Comme son oncle Myron, Mickey ne renonce jamais quand il est question d'aider les siens, mais comment les protéger s'il ignore de qui et de quoi ?
Virtuosité du rythme et de la syncope, richesse du langage : la voix singulière de Percy Bysshe Shelley demeure l'une des plus belles et des plus fascinantes de la poésie anglaise. Ode au vent d'Ouest et le long poème visionnaire à la mémoire de John Keats, Adonaïs, comptent parmi les oeuvres les plus importantes du romantisme anglais.
Texte intégral lu par françois d'aubigny. traduit de l'américain par roxane azimi depuis le suicide de spencer, son meilleur ami, adam, 16 ans, est un adolescent sombre, qui passe son temps enfermé dans sa chambre, face à son ordinateur. partagés entre le respect de son intimité et la peur de voir leur fils se faire prendre au piège de la toile du web, ses parents décident d'installer un logiciel espion.
« boucle-la et tu risques rien » : tel est l'alarmant message qu'ils découvrent, rapidement suivi d'une autre révélation : spencer n'était pas seul lors de sa mort. c'est alors qu'un soir adam disparaît...
Comment localiser adam ? à quels jeux dangereux se livrent ces ados en manque de sensations fortes ?
Suspendu à la voix de françois d'aubigny, chaque chapitre vous apportera frisson et étonnement.
Best-selling crime fiction author James Ellroy returns with the fourth in his LA Quartet.Klein's been hung out as bait, "a bad cop to draw the heat," and the heat's coming from all sides: from local politicians, from LAPD brass, from racketeers and drug kingpins--all of them hell-bent on keeping their own secrets hidden.
