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Um Patife Perfeito (O Beijo de um Patife #1)
by Éli Assunção Amanda MarielQuando Julia Honeyfield é enviada para um bordel, ela foge... Julia Honeyfield e a mãe estão em apuros depois que o pai de Julia as abandona. Sem dinheiro e doente, a mãe de Julia faz a única coisa em que pôde pensar para salvar a filha: envia Julia para um bordel em Londres. Quando Julia descobre a verdade, tenta escapar, mas acaba caindo nos braços de Charles, o Duque de Selkirk. Ela se atreveria a confiar nele para protegê-la... Charles não tem ideia do que fazer com a donzela em perigo, mas ele sabe que não pode virar as costas para ela. Algo em Julia captura o seu interesse, e sem pensar nas consequências, ele a leva para a sua propriedade. Assim que chegam lá, ele dá a ela um emprego como acompanhante da sua irmã, e recruta a mãe, a duquesa viúva de Selkirk, para ajudar a transformar Julia em uma dama. Uma noite muda tudo.. Quando Charles encontra Julia dançando sozinha no meio da noite, ele a toma nos braços. Esmagados pelo desejo, Julia e Charles se entregam à paixão. Agora tudo o que lhes é mais querido está em perigo – assim como os seus corações.
Uma Joia Imperfeita
by Dawn Brower Éli AssunçãoPieretta embarca em um navio sem saber que Thor está esperando para sequestrá-la e finalmente poder se vingar do seu avô. Será que o amor intervirá e alterará esse curso? Pieretta Carlyle tinha perdido o pai, e ficou sozinha no mundo, exceto por seu grand-père, o Comte Renard Dubois. O comte insiste que ela vá para a França viver com ele. Pieretta não quer deixar Charleston e o único lar que já tinha conhecido. Seu avô era o seu guardião, e ela deveria fazer o que ele mandava. Thor já tinha determinado o seu curso, e Pieretta era a chave para a sua vingança. Ele se tornou um pirata de forma involuntária depois que o sócio tentou assassiná-lo. Ele tinha que conseguir Pieretta de qualquer jeito, e não se importava em ter que saquear um navio para tê-la. Quando Pieretta e Thor se encontram, sentem uma atração instantânea, mesmo que este fato vá contra os seus melhores julgamentos. Pieretta está enojada com as ações do pirata. Thor sabe em que Pieretta acredita, mas segue em frente com o seu plano. Ela é apenas um meio para um fim. O que acontecerá dependerá da necessidade de Thor por vingança e da habilidade de Pieretta de perdoá-lo por seus atos covardes.
Uma Pérola Descartada
by Dawn Brower Éli AssunçãoPearla está fugindo do escândalo do seu casamento arruinado e encontra Damian em sua jornada. Pearla Montgomery está se curando de um coração partido. Ela estava prestes a se casar com o Duque de Huntly quando o casamento foi interrompido antes que eles terminassem de dizer “eu aceito”. A esposa supostamente morta do seu noivo tinha interrompido a cerimônia. Para se afastar do escândalo, ela foge de Londres. E então encontra um homem para o qual poderia entregar o coração, mas está com medo de deixar qualquer um se aproximar. Fugir começa a se tornar um hábito que ela não consegue largar. Damian, Conte Leone, se apaixonou por Pearla assim que a viu. Mesmo eles tendo se conhecido sob as piores circunstâncias. Infelizmente, ele era o irmão da mulher que tinha interrompido o casamento de Pearla. Um pequeno detalhe que o amor da sua vida parecia não conseguir esquecer. Ele não desistiria dela, mesmo se tiver que segui-la até o fim do mundo. Damian se comprometeu em fazê-la se apaixonar por ele, não importa o que estiver em seu caminho. Eles precisam transpor muitos obstáculos, mas o maior de todos serão os medos de Pia. Será que Damian conseguirá convencê-la a lhe entregar o seu coração e a confiar que ele o manterá seguro?
Her book: Poems
by Éireann Lorsung&“Exacting, and at the same time utterly magical." —ADA LIMÓNWith intelligence and crystalline clarity, a chorus of female voices speaks through the poems in Her book, Éireann Lorsung&’s luminous second collection.Full of youth, wonder, and imagination, Her book crosses distances and generations to celebrate the lives of women, their individual and shared experiences, and the bonds that bring them together. This is also a book about translation (of experience into art, of knowledge across time and space), conversation (with, for instance, work by the artist Kiki Smith), and friendship (especially those made during Lorsung&’s time in England). In these poems, the female body rises from a foundation of stars. Songbirds are cut from paper and stormy light. And letters arrive, and disappear, mysteries contained within.&“Part ecstatic recollection of the many ways places and objects leave their indelible marks upon our bodies and brains, and part timeless ode to the strange female beast that pounds inside of us all&” (Ada Limón), Her book is both an inspired work from Lorsung and, fundamentally, her book—poems belonging to all women.
The Century: Poems
by Éireann LorsungA meticulously detailed catalogue of ordinary people performing acts of extraordinary violence, The Century charts an awakening to structures of dominance and violence. In the tradition of witness poetry, The Century tugs apart the quotidian horrors required to perpetuate acts of violence like the Holocaust, the deployment of nuclear weapons in Japan and Iraq, American slavery and its lingering aftermath. When Éireann Lorsung writes of death and dying, of “bodies in the fields becoming the fields,” it’s the simplicity that’s most haunting. After a fire, “some of their skin moved off of them as they ran, a very / simple melting…” But these poems don’t just witness; they also resist and serve as models for resistant lives. Pushing back against form and grammar, constructions of time and geography, Lorsung traces decades of technological, geopolitical, and cultural shifts through generations and across continents as networks of dominance continue to be stubbornly upheld. The Century is evasive but thorny, splintering in the mind. This collection is a reminder that the arrival of each new century, decade, or year brings with it an invitation to join ongoing movements of resistance, air pockets of hope in the waters that we all swim or drown in.
Social Capital and Enterprise in the Modern State
by Patrick Alan Danaher Éidín Ní Shé Lorelle J. BurtonGiven the global crises confronting the world today, it is important to interrogate the notion of “the modern state” and to evaluate its effectiveness in providing security and services for its populations, including the most disadvantaged and vulnerable. This book investigates the modern state’s capacity to serve its constituents by examining the organisations that facilitate two key elements of contemporary living: social capital and social enterprise. These elements are explored in a series of rich case studies located in Australia, Ireland and Bangladesh, with broader implications for policy and practice in the rest of the world. The case studies highlight the growing importance of social enterprise and social entrepreneurship in fostering social capital and in contributing to the idea of “the enabling state”. This book will appeal to researchers, policy-makers and community leaders working in business, education, employment pathways, homelessness, housing, local government, mental health, public administration and refugee resettlement.
Loué sois-tu: lettre encyclique Laudato si' sur la sauvegarde de la maison commune
by Église Catholique FrançoisLoué sois-tu (Laudato si'), tel est le titre de l'encyclique du Pape François sur l'écologie et le respect de la création. Le discours du Pape se situe au niveau éthique et pastoral et confirme le souci manifesté depuis le début de son pontificat pour deux concepts-clé : l'urgence de la sauvegarde de la création et la lutte contre ce qu'il appelle la culture du déchet. 2015.
One-Third Nerd
by Gennifer Choldenko Églantine CeulemansA funny, fast-paced, and heartfelt story from the Newbery Honor-winning author of the Al Capone series. <p><p> Fifth grade is not for amateurs, according to Liam. Luckily, he knows that being more than one-third nerd is not cool. Liam lives in the Bay area near San Francisco with his mom and two younger sisters. Dakota is fascinated by science and has a big personality but struggles to make friends; Izzy, a child with Down syndrome, makes friends easily and notices things that go past everyone else. Dad lives across town, but he's over a lot. <p> And then there's Cupcake, their lovable German shepherd, who guards their basement apartment. Recently, Cupcake has a problem--she's peeing in the house. The kids need to make enough money to take her to the vet before their landlord upstairs finds out. And Mom and Dad have said if Cupcake doesn't stop, they will find her a new home. But the kids will never let Cupcake go. Can they save her?
Arctic Shipping: Climate Change, Commercial Traffic and Port Development (Routledge Studies in Transport Analysis)
by Édéric Lasserre Olivier FauryThis book considers both the present state of Arctic shipping and possible future trends with reference to the various sectors of maritime transportation: cruise tourism, container traffic and bulk shipping. Ports are analysed as tools that support the strategies of coastal states to foster the development of resource extraction, enhance the attractiveness of Arctic shipping lanes and enable the control of maritime activities through coast guard deployment. The aim of this book is to draw a picture of the trends of Arctic shipping. How is traffic evolving in Canada’s Arctic, or along the Northern Sea Route? Are there significant differences between bulk and container shipping segments when considering the Arctic market? How are the ports and the hinterland developing and what are the strategies behind those? How is the legal framework shaping the evolution of maritime transportation? The contributors to this book consider all of these questions, and more, as they map out the prospects for Arctic shipping and analyse in detail the development of Arctic shipping as a result of multi-variable interactions. This book will be key reading for industry professionals and post-graduate students alike.
A Woman's Battles and Transformations
by Édouard LouisA Woman's Battles and Transformations is a portrait of the author’s mother by the acclaimed writer of the international bestsellers The End of Eddy and History of Violence.Late one night, Édouard Louis got a call from his forty-five-year-old mother: “I did it. I left your father.” Suddenly, she was free.This is the searing and sympathetic story of one woman’s liberation: of mothers and sons, of history and heartbreak, of politics and power. It reckons with the cruel systems that govern our lives—and with the possibility of escape. Sharp, short, and fine as a needle, it is a necessary addition to the work of Édouard Louis, “one of France’s most widely read and internationally successful novelists” (The New York Times Magazine).
Adéu a l'Eddy Bellegueule
by Édouard LouisUna rebel·lió contra el món, contra la seva família i contra la societat. Vaig sortir corrents, de cop. Només vaig tenir temps de sentir que la mare deia Què fa ara aquest boig? No volia quedar-me al seu costat, em negava a compartir aquell moment amb ells. Ja era lluny, a partir d'aleshores ja no pertanyia al seu món, la carta ho deia. Vaig sortir als camps i vaig caminar una bona part de la nit, la frescor del nord, els camins de terra, l'olor de colza, molt forta en aquell moment de l'any. Tota la nit la vaig dedicar a elaborar la meva nova vida lluny d'aquí. «En realitat, la insurrecció contra els pares, contra la pobresa, contra la meva classe social, el seu racisme, la seva violència, els seus costums, va ser una cosa secundària. Perquè, abans que jo em rebel·lés contra el món de la meva infantesa, el món de la meva infantesa s'havia rebel·lat contra mi. Per a la meva família i els altres, de seguida, vaig ser font de vergonya i fins i tot de repulsió. Només tenia l'opció de fugir. Aquest llibre és un intent per entendre-ho.»Édouard Louis Ressenyes:«Excepcional. Un còctel de Zola i Dickens. Molt crua, de vegades quasi insuportable, però també tragicòmica, mantenint una certa distància, i mai maniquea.»Livres Hebdo «Un llenguatge contingut i alhora brutal, sense victimismes ni exaltacions líriques [...]. L'autor oposa, a la seva escriptura clàssica, la llengua del seu entorn, que barreja patuès local i sintaxi brusca. En efecte, la violència social s'exerceix amb el llenguatge.»Les Inrockuptibles «Magnífic [...]. És l'anunci d'un alliberament i d'un renaixement a través de les paraules per fugir de la fatalitat del determinisme social.»Le Point «Teixir un text amb la unió de dos registres lingüístics tan oposats és més que una proesa. L'èxit literari és innegable.»Le NouvelObservateur «Una narració sorprenent, a causa de la història personal de l'autor, però també del seu talent.»Madame Figaro «És el crit de còlera d'un jove que expressa la seva repugnància pel mite tenaç que converteix el proletariat en una fera valenta, de bon cor i amant de la vida.»Catherine Simon, Le Monde des Livres «L'escriptura d'Édouard Louis, el seu entestament a parlar de la vergonya, garanteixen que el seu llibre, que no hi ha dubte que fereix persones concretes, revela un escàndol universal.»Jean Birnbaum, Le Monde des Livres
Cambiar: método
by Édouard LouisUna historia de aprendizaje y metamorfosis sobre cómo cambiar de identidad. Casi una década después de Para acabar con Eddy Bellegueule, su ópera prima, que se convirtió en un sorprendente fenómeno internacional, Édouard Louis regresa con un nuevo texto autobiográfico que nos permite medir el alcance del camino recorrido desde una infancia marcada por la miseria económica, moral y cultural hasta la vida adulta en los elegantes barrios de París. Una fascinante y conmovedora historia de aprendizaje y metamorfosis para escapar de la pobreza, la violencia y la exclusión. Dotado de una trágica lucidez y de una franqueza asombrosa, Cambiar: método es probablemente el libro más tierno y melancólico de Édouard Louis, una forma de odisea personal que no es sino el fruto maduro de una permanente, insaciable y terapéutica búsqueda de la felicidad. Reseñas:«Un Édouard Louis más literario que nunca. [...] Un libro que expresa, en un estilo más narrativo, cómo el autor se vengó de su pasado, cómo los encuentros y las casualidades de la vida lo llevaron a mirarse a sí mismo. Fascinante».FranceInter «Después de haber escrito sobre todo para salvarse y existir, Édouard Louis alienta un proyecto literario híbrido, entre el activismo y la autoficción, que consiste en escribir libros que sean armas para otros».Le Devoir «El libro más poderoso, delicado y emotivo de Édouard Louis».Femme Actuelle «Un autor que tiene más recuerdos que si tuviera mil años».Le Monde
Change: A Novel
by Édouard LouisNamed a Best Book of the Year by Vogue, BBC, and Hudson BooksellersA New Yorker Recommended Read of the YearAn autobiographical novel from Édouard Louis, hailed as one of the most important voices of his generation—about social class, transformation, and the perils of leaving the past behind.One question took center stage in my life, it focused all my thoughts and occupied every moment when I was alone with myself: how could I get this revenge, by what means? I tried everything.Édouard Louis longs for a life beyond the poverty, discrimination, and violence in his working-class hometown—so he sets out for school in Amiens and, later, university in Paris. He sheds the provincial “Eddy” for an elegant new name, determined to eradicate every aspect of his past. He reads incessantly, he dines with aristocrats, he spends nights with millionaires and drug dealers alike. Everything he does is motivated by a single obsession: to become someone else. At once harrowing and profound, Change is not just a personal odyssey, a story of dreams and of “the beautiful violence of being torn away,” but a vividly rendered portrait of a society divided by class, power, and inequality.
Historia de la violencia
by Édouard LouisComo ya había hecho con Para acabar con Eddy Bellegueule, Édouard Louis se sumerge de nuevo en las duras experiencias de su propia vida para idear un relato estremecedor. La publicación de Para acabar con Eddy Bellegueule proyectó a Édouard Louis como uno de los escritores jóvenes más destacados en el panorama de las letras francesas. La novela, de tintes marcadamente autobiográficos, se convirtió de un día para otro en un auténtico fenómeno de ventas y crítica, que se extendió a países tan dispares como Albania, Dinamarca o Estados Unidos. Dos años después, Louis vuelve con una historia sobrecogedora. La madrugada de un veinticinco de diciembre, cuando regresaba a casa tras cenar con sus amigos más íntimos, Édouard se encontró casualmente con un desconocido y lo invitó a su apartamento. Unas horas más tarde, en un acto de una brutalidad inusitada, el hombre lo violó e intentó estrangularlo. Basándose en esta experiencia traumática, el autor ha realizado un audaz ejercicio de catarsis literaria no sólo para analizar y comprender los impulsos más viles y ultrajantes de los que es capaz el ser humano, sino también para explorar las múltiples facetas de la violencia. En un alarde de sinceridad extrema, Édouard Louis franquea la barrera del pudor y consigue algo que está al alcance de muy pocos creadores: hacernos sentir y pensar a la vez. Sin ningún tipo de restricción, su testimonio es profundamente emotivo e inteligente, por lo que merece figurar entre las obras más representativas de nuestro tiempo. La crítica ha dicho...«Una espléndida y dolorosa búsqueda de la verdad. [...] Un texto controlado y estremecedor, de una fuerza implacable.»Raphaëlle Leyris, Le Monde des Livres «Una novela magistral. [...] Uno de los libros más influyentes del año.»Johan Faerber, Diacritik «Una novela polifónica y abismal.»Jean-Claude Perrier, Livres Hebdo «Édouard Louis nos da a entender que encontraremos la verdad oculta de nuestra sociedad si penetramos en la violencia del mundo; y que, si nos ponemos de parte de quienes están sometidos por ella, descifraremos sus secretos y podremos eliminarlos. Pues la violencia engendra violencia, y sus víctimas la practican en los demás.»Télérama «La capacidad para transformar el sufrimiento personal en una reflexión sobre las heridas más profundas que la sociedad inflige a los más débiles es el rasgo que mejor define a Édouard Louis.»MIT News
History of Violence: A Novel
by Lorin Stein Édouard LouisHistory of Violence is international bestselling French author Edouard Louis’s autobiographical novel about surviving a shocking sexual assault and coping with the post-traumatic stress disorder of its aftermath.On Christmas Eve 2012, in Paris, the novelist Édouard Louis was raped and almost murdered by a man he had just met. This act of violence left Louis shattered; its aftermath made him a stranger to himself and sent him back to the village, the family, and the past he had sworn to leave behind.A bestseller in France, History of Violence is a short nonfiction novel in the tradition of Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood, but with the victim as its subject. Moving seamlessly and hypnotically between past and present, between Louis’s voice and the voice of an imagined narrator, History of Violence has the exactness of a police report and the searching, unflinching curiosity of memoir at its best. It records not only the casual racism and homophobia of French society but also their subtle effects on lovers, brothers and sisters, husbands and wives. It represents a great step forward for a young writer whose acuity, skill, and depth are unmatched by any novelist of his generation, in French or English.
Lucha y metamorfosis de una mujer
by Édouard LouisLa heroica transformación de una madre en un mundo dominado por los hombres. Édouard Louis se ha convertido en una de las plumas más temidas entre el poder establecido. Dotado de un estilo singular y una voz inconfundible, el nuevo enfant terrible de las letras galas ha transformado sus experiencias y sentimientos más íntimos en lacerantes historias de denuncia y catarsis, como su violación en vísperas de Navidades en Historia de la violencia o la tormentosa relación paternofilial en Quién mató a mi padre. En Lucha y metamorfosis de una mujer, Louis prosigue su ambicioso proyecto autobiográfico, que en esta ocasión focaliza en la figura de su madre, una mujer «apartada de todo, sojuzgada e incluso a veces humillada por la violencia masculina, que a los cuarenta y cinco años se rebeló, huyó y, poco a poco, construyó su libertad». La crítica ha dicho...«El escritor hace un retrato desu madre como una mujer destruida por la sociedad, la familia e incluso su hijo... antes de celebrar su reencuentro. Brillante.»Télérama «Dedicado a su madre, este libro parece en muchos sentidos el envés de Quién mató a mi padre. Y la dimensión teatral del texto hace que el orgullo de ser hijo de esta mujer sea sensible y conmovedor.»Le Monde «Un libro sobre lo que el autor llama la arqueología de la destrucción de su madre. Un texto breve, a la vez que duro y profundamente conmovedor, que devuelve la dignidad a la madre.»La Presse «Desde Para acabar con Eddy Bellegueule, Édouard Louis ha demostrado y desmontado la violencia de la dominación. Después de Quién mató a mi padre, dedica Lucha y metamorfosis de una mujer a su madre. Una demostración implacable.»La Libre Belgique «Este pequeño libro trata de la reconstrucción. O de cómo una mujer sobrevivió a lo que debería haberla destrozado. [...] La metamorfosis de una madre y también la metamorfosis de un hijo.»Bibliobs «El viaje de una víctima de la violencia social y patriarcal hacia su emancipación. [...] Un fresco autobiográfico que dibuja un "mapa del mundo social".»LesInrocks
Para Acabar de Vez com Eddy Bellegueule
by Édouard LouisPrimeiro romance de Edouard Louis, que lhe valeu o imediato aplauso da crítica e a fama internacional. Criado no seio de uma família da classe trabalhadora, na Picardia, interior da França, Eddy não é igual às outras crianças. Os seus modos, a sua maneira de falar e a sua delicadeza valeram-lhe humilhações, ameaças e a incompreensão, tanto por parte dos colegas de escola, como do pai, «um duro», alcoólico e irascível, e da mãe, uma mulher cansada e alheada. Eddy cresce assim, preso na contradição de tanto gostar como odiar a pessoa que é, do fascínio e asco pelos seus desejos mais íntimos, de querer a liberdade de uma outra vida, mas nunca conseguindo colocar verdadeiramente de parte o seu amor pelos pais. Primeiro romance de Edouard Louis, que lhe valeu o imediato aplauso da crítica e a fama internacional, Para Acabar de Vez com Eddy Bellegueule é um livro audacioso, feito de memória pessoal e de ficção, um romance temerário e franco, que procura responder à derradeira pergunta: como pode cada um de nós inventar a sua própria liberdade? Os elogios da crítica: «Um romance de uma força e de uma verdade emocionantes.» — Annie Ernaux «Uma história impressionante acerca da diferença e da adolescência.» — The New York Times «O início de uma fulgurante carreira literária.» — The Washington Post«De uma força emocional devastadora.» — The New Yorker
Para acabar con Eddy Bellegueule
by Édouard LouisUna rebelión contra el mundo, contra su familia y contra la sociedad. «Excepcional.»Livres Hebdo Salí corriendo de repente. Sólo me dio tiempo a oír a mi madre, que decía Pero ¿qué hace ese idiota? No quería estar con ellos, me negaba a compartir con ellos ese momento. Yo estaba ya lejos, había dejado de pertenecer a su mundo, la carta lo decía. Salí al campo y estuve andando gran parte de la noche: el ambiente fresco del norte, los caminos de tierra, el olor de la colza, muy intenso en esa época del año. Dediqué toda la noche a elaborar mi nueva vida, lejos de allí. «La verdad es que la rebelión contra mis padres, contra la pobreza, contra mi clase social, su racismo, su violencia, sus atavismos, fue algo secundario. Porque, antes de que me alzara contra el mundo de mi infancia, el mundo de mi infancia se había alzado contra mí. Para mi familia y los demás, me había convertido en una fuente de vergüenza, incluso de repulsión. No tuve otra opción que la huida. Este libro es un intento de comprenderla.»Édouard Louis La crítica ha dicho...«Un lenguaje contenido y a la vez brutal, sin victimismos ni exaltaciones líricas [...]. A su escritura clásica, el autor opone la lengua de su entorno, que mezcla jerga local y sintaxis rota. Efectivamente, la violencia social se ejerce con el lenguaje.»Les Inrockuptibles «Magnífico [...]. Es el anuncio de una liberación y de un renacimiento a través de las palabras para escapar de la fatalidad del determinismo social.»Le Point «Tejer un texto uniendo dos registros lingüísticos tan opuestos es más que una proeza. El éxito literario es innegable.»Le Nouvel Observateur «Una narración asombrosa, a causa de la historia personal del autor, pero también de su talento.»Madame Figaro «Excepcional. Un cóctel de Zola y Dickens. Dura, a veces casi insoportable, pero también tragicómica, en cierta medida distante, pero en absoluto maniquea.»Livres Hebdo «Es el grito de cólera de un joven que expresa su asco frente al mito tenaz que convierte al proletariado en una bestia valiente, de buen corazón y amante de la vida.»Catherine Simon, Le Monde des Livres «La escritura de Édouard Louis, con su obstinación en hablar de la vergüenza, demuestra que su libro, que cae como un mazo sobre personas concretas, revela un escándalo universal de primera magnitud.»Jean Birnbaum, Le Monde des Livres
Quién mató a mi padre
by Édouard LouisUn repaso a la historia política francesa de los últimos años. Otra novela dura, crítica y demoledora de Édouard Louis. Consolidado como el nuevo enfant terrible de las letras francesas gracias al impacto de obras tan singulares como Para acabar con Eddy Bellegueule e Historia de la violencia, dos libros de tintes marcadamente autobiográficos que anticipaban la irrupción de la ultraderecha en Francia y sus nefastas consecuencias, Édouard Louis vuelve a la carga con un j'accuse tan breve como demoledor acerca de las desigualdades sociales del país, que es, a la vez y sobre todo, un ejercicio de reconciliación muy emotivo con su padre moribundo. Grito airado contra el abandono y el desprecio de los políticos hacia las clases trabajadoras más desfavorecidas, este libro combina retazos íntimos de una tormentosa relación paternofilial fracturada por la vergüenza, la pobreza y la homofobia, con mordaces y específicas denuncias de los salvajes recortes impulsados por los sucesivos gobiernos de Chirac, Sarkozy, Hollande y Macron, a los que el autor acusa, como mínimo, de homicidio complaciente. Éxito fulminante de ventas y de crítica, llevado a los escenarios con enorme repercusión, traducido a numerosos idiomas y rodeado de una gran expectación mediática por su carga de profundidad contra los poderes públicos, este lacerante testimonio personal se ha convertido en un texto de referencia para quienes, como los «chalecos amarillos», no quieren pertenecer a esa categoría de seres humanos a los que, como al padre de Louis, «la política tiene reservada una muerte prematura». La crítica ha dicho...«Un libro rabioso y desgarrador en el que el perdón va de la mano de una intención abiertamente política.»Le Parisien «Una obra tan breve como un fogonazo, con el enigmático títulode una novela negra, que aúna los dos temas preferidos del autor, biografía y política, en este caso a través de una declaración de amor hasta ahora inédita. [...] Una oda conmovedora.»Télérama «Te impresiona de inmediato. Édouard Louis escribe bien y describe bien. [...] Crea un suspense íntimo que la escritura tensa y destensa a voluntad. Fascinante.»L'Express
The End of Eddy: A Novel
by Michael Lucey Édouard Louis<P>An autobiographical novel about growing up gay in a working-class town in Picardy. <P>“Every morning in the bathroom I would repeat the same phrase to myself over and over again . . . Today I’m really gonna be a tough guy.” <P>Growing up in a poor village in northern France, all Eddy Bellegueule wanted was to be a man in the eyes of his family and neighbors. But from childhood, he was different—“girlish,” intellectually precocious, and attracted to other men. <P>Already translated into twenty languages, The End of Eddy captures the violence and desperation of life in a French factory town. It is also a sensitive, universal portrait of boyhood and sexual awakening. <P>Like Karl Ove Knausgaard or Edmund White, Édouard Louis writes from his own undisguised experience, but he writes with an openness and a compassionate intelligence that are all his own. The result—a critical and popular triumph—has made him the most celebrated French writer of his generation.
Smack-Bam, or The Art of Governing Men: Political Fairy Tales of Édouard Laboulaye (Oddly Modern Fairy Tales #13)
by Jack Zipes Édouard LaboulayeWry political fairy tales from a nineteenth-century politician that speak to our current timesÉdouard Laboulaye (1811–1883), one of nineteenth-century France’s most prominent politicians and an instrumental figure in establishing the Statue of Liberty, was also a prolific writer of fairy tales. Smack-Bam, or The Art of Governing Men brings together sixteen of Laboulaye’s most artful stories in new translations. Filled with biting social commentary and strong notions of social justice, these rediscovered tales continue to impart lessons today. Inspired by folktales from such places as Estonia, Germany, Iceland, and Italy, Laboulaye’s deceptively entertaining stories explore the relationships between society and the ruling class. In “Briam the Fool,” the hero refuses the queen’s hand after he kills the king. In “Zerbino the Bumpkin,” the king and prime minister are idiots, while the king’s daughter runs away with a woodcutter to an enchanted island. And in the title story, “Smack-Bam, or The Art of Governing Men,” a superficial prince is schooled by a middle-class woman who smacks him when he won’t engage in his lessons and follows him across Europe until he falls in love with her. In these worlds, shallow aristocrats come to value liberty, women are as assertive and intelligent as men, and protagonists experience compassion as they learn of human suffering. With an introduction by leading fairy-tale scholar Jack Zipes that places Laboulaye’s writing in historical context, Smack-Bam, or The Art of Governing Men presents spirited tales from the past that speak to contemporary life.
Mahagony: A Novel
by Édouard GlissantÉdouard Glissant&’s novels, closely tied to the theories he developed in Poétique de la Relation (Poetics of relation), are rich explorations of a deported and colonized people&’s loss of their own history and the ever-evolving social and political effects this sense of groundlessness has caused in Martinique. In Mahagony Glissant identifies both the malaise of and the potential within Martinican society through a powerful collective narrative of geographic identity explored through multiple narrators. These characters&’ lives are viewed back and forth over centuries of time and through tales of resistance, linked always by the now-ancient mahogany tree. Attempting to untangle the collective memory of Martinique, Mathieu, the contemporary narrator, creates a conscious history of these people in that place—a record that unearths the mechanics of misrepresentation to get at the fundamental, enduring truths of that history, perhaps as only the mahogany tree knows it.
A Scent of Champagne: 8,000 Champagnes Tasted and Rated
by Richard Juhlin Édouard CointreauChampagne may be the most misunderstood category of wine in the world, as many labels of sparkling wines bear the name in error. True champagne comes only from the French province of Champagne and contains three specific grape varieties. But figuring out more about the wine can be confusing: what is the difference between cuvée de prestige, blanc de noirs, and rosé? What is the best kind of food to pair with champagne? How many different kinds of sweetness are there? What is the best method of storage?Richard Juhlin, the world's foremost champagne expert, answers these questions and more as he takes the reader on a journey to the geographical area of Champagne and through the history of the drink. He explains how to arrange tastings and develop one's sense of smell, and why the setting where you drink champagne is important, including personal anecdotes about his lifelong journey from PE teacher to connoisseur. Also included is a catalog section that describes and ranks different champagne houses, types, and vintages. Sit back and enjoy Juhlin's graceful prose with a lovely glass of champagne, the sparkling wine that has come to epitomize luxury and elegance.Skyhorse Publishing, along with our Good Books and Arcade imprints, is proud to publish a broad range of cookbooks, including books on juicing, grilling, baking, frying, home brewing and winemaking, slow cookers, and cast iron cooking. We've been successful with books on gluten-free cooking, vegetarian and vegan cooking, paleo, raw foods, and more. Our list includes French cooking, Swedish cooking, Austrian and German cooking, Cajun cooking, as well as books on jerky, canning and preserving, peanut butter, meatballs, oil and vinegar, bone broth, and more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.
A Scent of Champagne: 8,000 Champagnes Tested and Rated
by Anette Cantagallo Richard Juhlin Édouard CointreauA luxury volume on the world's most elegant beverage--by world renowned champagne expert Richard Juhlin, with an introduction by Édouard Cointreau In this beautiful and heavily illustrated volume the world's foremost champagne expert, Richard Juhlin takes the reader on a journey to the geographical area of Champagne and through the history of the beverage. With rich photography to accompany the text he explains how to arrange tastings, develop one's sense of smell, and why the setting where you drink champagne is important. He also includes personal anecdotes about his lifelong journey from teacher to connoisseur as well as a reference guide describing and ranking an incredible 8,000 champagne houses, types, and vintages. Sit back and enjoy Juhlin's graceful prose with a lovely glass of champagne, the beverage that has come to epitomize luxury and elegance. This is a must have edition for any serious collector and lover of champagne.
Larousse Patisserie and Baking: The ultimate expert guide, with more than 200 recipes and step-by-step techniques and produced as a hardback book in a beautiful slipcase
by Éditions LarousseLarousse Patisserie and Baking is the complete guide from the authoritative French cookery brand Larousse. It covers all aspects of baking - from simple everyday cakes and desserts to special occasion show-stoppers. There are more than 200 recipes included, with everything from a quick-mix yoghurt cake to salted caramel tarts and a spectacular mixed berry millefeuille. Special features on baking for children, lighter recipes and quick bakes, among many others, provide a wealth of ideas. More than 30 extremely detailed step-by-step technique sections ensure your bakes are perfect every time. The book also includes workshops on perfecting different types of pastry, handling chocolate, cooking jam and much more, demonstrated in clear, expert photography. This is everything you need to know about pastry, patisserie and baking from the cookery experts Larousse.