Download Therese Desqueyroux by François Mauriac,Raymond N. MacKenzie PDF

By François Mauriac,Raymond N. MacKenzie

François Mauriac's masterpiece and one of many maximum Catholic novels, Thérèse Desqueyroux is the haunting tale of an unhappily married younger girl whose desperation drives her to options of homicide. Mauriac paints an unforgettable portrait of religious isolation and depression, yet he additionally dramatizes the complicated realities of forgiveness, grace, and redemption. Set within the nation-state open air Bordeaux, in a area of overwhelming warmth and surprising storms, the novel's panorama displays the internal international of Thérèse, a determine who has captured the imaginations of readers for generations.

Raymond N. MacKenzie's new translation of Thérèse Desqueyroux, the 1st given that 1947, captures the poetic lyricism of Mauriac's prose in addition to the depth of his stream-of-consciousness narrative. MacKenzie additionally presents notes and a biographical and interpretive advent to aid readers higher take pleasure in the mastery of François Mauriac, who used to be presented the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1952. This quantity additionally encompasses a translation of "Conscience, The Divine Instinct," Mauriac's first draft of the tale, by no means sooner than to be had in English.

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Download Percussions: Un roman familial bouleversant (French Edition) by Matthieu Ruf PDF

By Matthieu Ruf

En équilibre délicat, à l. a. façon d’un cellular, ce texte retrace l. a. vie d’un homme au second où celui-ci se retrouve au chevet de sa soeur, plongée dans le coma. 

Autoportrait en mouvement, réponse very unlikely à une query posée à son grand frère par Emilie quelques mois avant son twist of fate, Percussions cherche à donner forme à ces instants où rien ne compte hors l. a. vie, ces instants qui nous changent, s’impriment dans notre corps et façonnent notre imaginative and prescient du monde.

Un roman plein de poésie sur l. a. strength des liens familiaux

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Je suis l’écorce d’un arbre contre ma major nue, au fond du verger de mon enfance.
J’ai enlevé un de mes gants et posé ma major contre le tronc rugueux dont j’aime le touch, comme j’aime sentir, à travers los angeles laine, les coquilles pleines de fils que je ramasse pour aider ma grand-mère. Je me tiens debout sous le noyer, c’est l. a. fin de l’automne, ma grand-mère cherche des noix parmi les herbes qui m’arrivent au-dessus des genoux : je los angeles vois, dans ses bottes en caoutchouc, se pencher en avant, écarter les herbes et mettre dans un panier ces noix qui sont, parfois, encore dans leur écale verte. Il fait froid, malgré mes conduct chauds, mais je sais que, bientôt, lorsque les trois paniers seront remplis, ma grand-mère dira : « Allez, on rentre », et qu’une fois dans los angeles delicacies mes mains et mes pieds se réchaufferont, qu’elle me préparera un quatre-heures avec les cerneaux des noix qu’elle cassera et des biscuits, du thé au lait.

À PROPOS DE L'AUTEUR

Né en 1984 à Lausanne, Matthieu Ruf est journaliste indépendant et membre du collectif d’auteur-e-s AJAR. Percussions est son most advantageous livre.

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Download Point of No Return: A Novel by John P. Marquand PDF

By John P. Marquand

A number 1 New York Times bestseller by way of a Pulitzer Prize–winning novelist: A profitable ny banker is haunted by way of his humble New England roots.

Raised within the small city of Clyde, Massachusetts, Charles grey has labored hard and long to develop into a vice chairman on the privately owned Stuyvesant financial institution in big apple. yet on the most important second of his profession, while his concentration might be on interpreting his boss’s intentions and competing along with his leader rival for promoting, Charles unearths himself hopelessly distracted through the past.

Years in the past, the grey kinfolk was once featured in a sociological research in their native land. Charles, his sister, and their mom and dad have been categorized as individuals of the “lower-upper class,” the unstated lines in their tenuous social prestige solid in stark black and white. an opportunity stumble upon with the writer of the examine floods Charles’s techniques with memories—and whilst a enterprise subject compels him to come back to Clyde, it kind of feels as though destiny is motive on turning again the clock. As he displays at the defining moments of his adolescence, Charles contends with one of many important mysteries of lifestyles: how our lives can think either predetermined and random on the comparable time.

released in 1949, Point of No Return is an excellent research of personality and position heralded by means of the New York Times as “further facts that its writer is without doubt one of the most crucial residing American novelists.”

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Download Beach Breeze by Joanne DeMaio PDF

By Joanne DeMaio

From the New York Times bestselling writer of Beach Blues comes a singular of summers you always remember and friendships that by no means fade.

After a heartbreaking summer season at the Connecticut shore, a gaggle of seashore associates is as adrift as an unmoored rowboat. whilst a dismayed Jason Barlow drives as distant from the ocean as he can, abandoning his spouse, Maris, in addition to their stately cottage at the bluff, that information hits like a unexpected wave. collecting over an intimate meal in a coastal diner, the chums make a solemn pact to lean on one another and never make any further rash decisions.

Which is all good and solid, till every one pal wavers--testing relationships, commitments, and particularly love within the little seashore neighborhood of Stony element. yet can the magic of the weathered boardwalk, whispering lagoon grasses, and candy salt air healing what ails them?

Like a swaying seashell wind chime, Beach Breeze is a ebook that leaves echoes of summer's sweetness and disappointment, lengthy after the final web page is turned.

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Download The Castaway (Sarasota Trilogy) by Piero Rivolta PDF

By Piero Rivolta

a guy adrift on a damaged catamaran within the Gulf of Mexico is rescued and taken to a care facility within the Yucatan run via an unconventional Jesuit. the fellow turns out to recollect not anything of his prior other than his identify. to hurry his restoration, the priest engages him in looking out conversations and introduces him to an enthralling lady who runs a college for kids on the town. As their 3 lives intertwine and their secrets and techniques come to mild, they turn into entangled in a posh net of feelings. advised in poetic prose, The Castaway, which maintains the tale all started in sundown in Sarasota, is a fable-like meditation at the nature of reminiscence, attractiveness, love and friendship, and provides a profound confirmation of the therapeutic strength of words.

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Download Week of This, A by Nathan Whitlock PDF

By Nathan Whitlock

a super, darkly comedian, and startlingly sincere novel, per week of This follows the lives of a longer kinfolk over one more and more determined week. on the centre of the radical is 38-year-old Manda, a difficult, sarcastic lady who has but to make peace with the city she used to be delivered to as after her mom and dad' messy divorce. Her estranged mom is loopy, her father is sick and in retreat, her broken older brother is transforming into stressed and far away, her stepbrother is a grown-up youngster with none genuine associates, and her husband is a tight-lipped, depressed store-owner who has been urgent Manda to have a baby.Full of barbed discussion and hilariously deadpan descriptions of kin dynamics and the type of awkward social dances that get played each day, per week of this can be a ebook for those that constantly suppose a bit misplaced, correct the place they're. those people who are shrewdpermanent sufficient to understand anything has long gone mistaken, yet cannot work out how one can repair it. those that recognize they don't seem to be young ones anymore, yet will not be particularly able to develop up.“A Week of this can be bleak, humorous, unhappy, shrewdpermanent, and in contrast to any novel i've got ever learn. The lives of those characters are so richly imagined i may flavor the furnace dirt, odor the backed-up sewer, consider the thump of each hangover. It’s an real, unsentimental literary scan that does not learn like an test. Nathan Whitlock has uncovered the undying center of lower-middle-class everywhere.” — Todd Babiak, writer of The e-book of Stanley and The Garneau Block.

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Download Anders denken: Eine Welt ohne Geld: Von allem weniger und by Elisabeth Scherf PDF

By Elisabeth Scherf

Der Reichtum sind die Menschen und nicht das Geld.
»Na, du hast dir ja ein schönes Universum zurechtgelegt! Herrlich! Da ist ja richtig was once los. Und du ruhst so mittendrin und weißt genau, used to be du tun und lernen willst. Wenn das so klar wäre, dann wüssten das noch mehr Leute. Glaubst du nicht?«
»Aber du merkst doch, dass immer mehr Leute ihr Handeln am Maßstab der Liebe messen und danach streben, mehr zu lieben. Du hast doch selber einmal gesagt, dass das Geld eine phänomenal raffinierte Ablenkung vom wirklichen Sinn des Lebens struggle. Dass erst behauptet wurde, das Geld stehe für einen realen Wert und am Schluss stand es für gar nichts mehr, und nur eine kleine Bande von Betrügern und Verbrechern struggle in die Gefangenschaft des Geldes geraten und musste es vermehren – ob sie wollten oder nicht.«
Humbertus nickt: »Auf jeden Fall macht einen deine Sicht auf das Leben froh. Ich habe lange nicht mehr so gelacht. Wenn guy bedenkt, dass ich mich vor einigen Stunden noch auf den Tod vorbereiten wollte.«
Wie könnte das Leben aussehen, wenn das Geld völlig verschwunden, einfach weg wäre? Die Menschen haben natürlich weiter Probleme – wie sollten sie sonst Erfahrungen machen, an denen sie wachsen – aber wie entscheiden sie sich, wenn die Wege zur Lösung ihrer Probleme nicht mehr durch Geld-Fragen verstellt werden?

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Download Der Schachspieler (German Edition) by Pascal Debra PDF

By Pascal Debra

Schach, Sinn und image. Dies sind die Schlüsselworte in diesem Roman.
Der Protagonist, ein junger Schachmeister, sinniert über seine Vergangenheit und seinen Schmerz den er durch die Tortur seiner Ausbildung ertragen musste und die ihn buchstäblich in den Wahnsinn treibt. Seine Welt scheint nur noch aus neurotischer Logik zu bestehen. Die gestörte Freundschaft zu Benjamin, seinem besten Freund, wird auf der gemeinsamen Reise nach Schottland in ein kafkaesk wirkendes Dorf, auf die Probe gestellt; nicht zuletzt wegen Cassandra, in die sich Benjamin Hals über Kopf dort verliebt und an die der Protagonist seinen Freund endgültig zu verlieren droht.
In einem Netz aus kontemplativen Gedanken, findet sich der Protagonist in einer Welt wieder, die weder gänzlich innen noch außen ist. Die Übergänge von Realität und phantasm verwischen und Landschaften des Geistes tun sich auf.

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