by Anne Peile

Publisher: Serpent’s Tail

This is a transgressive love story by a singular new voice. A secretive child by nature, Susanna makes a covert list of everything she knows about her absent father, waiting for the day that she is reunited with him. Deeply unhappy at home, living with her overbearing mother and promiscuous sister, she stays out of the house as much as possible. When she finally discovers …more This is a transgressive love story by a singular new voice.

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By Sankar / trans. Arunava Sinha

Publisher: Atlantic Books, Limited

Welcome to the Shahjahan, one of Calcutta’s oldest and most venerable hotels. In “Chowringhee”, the Shahjahan’s new receptionist regales his audience with stories of the people who spend their days and nights within the Shahjahan’s grand facade. Like Bengal itself, this is a place where greed, seduction and death live alongside love, luxury and pride.

With wit, warmth, and ferocious energy, “Chowringhee” reveals to us an entire universe. One of the great novels of contemporary Indian literature, it presents a glittering vision of a lost metropolis, and an homage to an old Bengal of myth and memory.

Reviewed by Boyd Tonkin

Friday, 15 May 2009 :

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by Michele Giuttari

Publisher Little, Brown

‘More murder most Italian,’ says Rebecca. ‘The latest title to feature Chief Superintendent Michele Ferrara sees the cat-like investigator caught up in a massacre in New York.’

In an apartment on the nineteenth floor of a Madison Avenue skyscraper, six people have been slaughtered. Among the victims is the owner of the apartment: Rocco Fedeli, a Calabrian from San Pietro d’Aspromonte, a man with no criminal record, an ordinary citizen, one of the many immigrants who has made his fortune in America. But the investigation begins to suggest that the murders ? or rather the executions ? are linked to the drugs and the Calabrian Mafia ? the ‘Ndrangheta.

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Stephen Wright

Traduit de l’américain par François Happe

Éditions Gallmeister

“magistral” - TÉLÉRAMA

Véritable “trip” hallucinogène, Méditations en vert suit les membres d’une unité de renseignement militaire durant la guerre du Vietnam : Claypool, à qui l’on avait promis un emploi de bureau et qui se retrouve au milieu des combats ; Payne, obsédé par le film qu’il est en train de tourner sur la guerre ; Kraft, un agent de la CIA qui finira par se fondre dans la jungle … Dans cette compagnie qui vit en autarcie en attendant avec inquiétude une possible attaque, la drogue est omniprésente, les ordres capricieux, le cynisme rampant.

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Craig Johnson

Traduit de l’américain par Sophie Aslanides

Éditions Gallmeister

“une puissance narrative digne des hautes plaines de l’ouest américain” - TÉLÉRAMA

Lorsque Mari Baroja est empoisonnée à la maison de retraite de Durant, Wyoming, le shérif Walt Longmire se trouve embarqué dans une enquête qui le ramène cinquante ans en arrière. Il se plonge alors dans le passé mystérieux de cette femme et dans celui de son mentor, le shérif Lucian Connally à la poigne légendaire.

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Auteur(s):  Reinhard Kleist (tekeningen)

Genre: Novelle

Met zijn verstripte Johnny Cash-biografie Cash - I see a darkness oogstte Reinhard Kleist flink wat lovende commentaar. Nu is er een nieuwe (naar het Nederlands vertaalde) strip van de Duitse stripauteur: The secrets of Coney Island. Mijn kennismaking met ’s mans werk, want - vraag me niet hoe het mogelijk is - zijn bejubelde Cash-strip heb ik niet gelezen.

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This collection of poetry by French-speaking women contains over 600 poems from 56 different pens, from the twelfth-century Anglo-Norman Marie de France through such noted poets of the past century as Lucienne Desnoues, Liliane Wouters, and Albertine Sarrazin…

Unprecedented in scope and depth, this tour de force collection of works by French-speaking women poets contains over 600 poems from 54 different pens, from the twelfth century Marie de France through Albertine Sarrazin, who died in 1967.

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