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Rentrée littéraire 2024
Angleterre, 1805. L'histoire vraie du premier amour d'Anne Lister, femme de lettres et exploratrice anglaise, sur fond de colonialisme, d'émancipation féminine et d'homosexualité.
Août 1805. Au pensionnat de King's Manor, dans le Yorkshire, Eliza Raine, fille d'un médecin de la Compagnie des Indes orientales et de son " épouse de campagne " indienne, se lie avec une nouvelle élève, Anne Lister. Si la jeune orpheline fait de son mieux pour passer inaperçue, Lister - comme elle aime à se faire appeler -, issue de la petite noblesse, se plie plus difficilement aux conventions de l'époque. Téméraire, le verbe haut, la jeune femme aux allures de garçon revendique son esprit d'indépendance. L'amitié naissante entre les deux élèves laisse rapidement place à autre chose. Mais cette passion secrète va bientôt être mise à l'épreuve.
Dix ans plus tard, Eliza écrit à son amante depuis l'asile où elle est internée...
Inspirée par la correspondance inachevée d'Eliza Raine et le journal intime d'Anne Lister, femme de lettres et exploratrice anglaise devenue figure de proue du lesbianisme, l'histoire d'un premier amour sur fond de colonialisme et d'émancipation féminine. -
1918. Trois jours à Dublin, ravagé par la guerre et une terrible épidémie. Trois jours aux côtés de Julia Power, infirmière dans un service réservé aux femmes enceintes touchées par la maladie. Partout, la confusion règne, et le gouvernement semble impuissant à protéger sa population. À l'aube de ses 30 ans, alors qu'à l'hôpital on manque de tout, Julia se retrouve seule pour gérer ses patientes en quarantaine. Elle ne dispose que de l'aide d'une jeune orpheline bénévole, Bridie Sweeney, et des rares mais précieux conseils du Dr Kathleen Lynn - membre du Sinn Féin recherchée par la police. Dans une salle exiguë où les âmes comme les corps sont mis à nu, toutes les trois s'acharnent dans leur défi à la mort, tandis que leurs patientes tentent de conserver les forces nécessaires pour donner la vie. Un huis clos dont Julia sortira transformée, ébranlée dans ses certitudes et ses repères.
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Sur le point de fêter ses cinq ans, Jack a les préoccupations des enfants de son âge. Ou presque. Il ne pense qu'à jouer et à essayer de comprendre le monde qui l'entoure, comptant sur sa mère pour répondre à ses questions. Celle-ci occupe dans sa vie une place immense, d'autant plus qu'il vit seul avec elle dans la même pièce, depuis sa naissance. Il y a bien les visites du Grand Méchant Nick, mais la mère fait tout pour éviter à Jack le moindre contact avec lui. Jusqu'au jour où elle comprend qu'elle ne peut pas continuer à entretenir l'illusion d'une vie ordinaire. Elle va alors tout risquer pour permettre à Jack de s'enfuir.Room, c'est un sinistre fait divers revisité par Gulliver et par Alice, mais c'est aussi une histoire de survie qui célèbre l'indéfectible pouvoir de l'amour maternel. André Clavel, L'Express.Un roman d'une douceur renversante. Emily Barnett, Les Inrockuptibles.
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Shortlisted for the Atwood Gibson Prize.
The heartbreaking story of the love of two women - Anne Lister, the real-life inspiration behind Gentleman Jack, and her first love, Eliza Raine - from the bestselling author of Room and The Wonder.
''Donoghue conjures a whole new world'' - The Observer
In 1805, at a boarding school in York, two fourteen-year-old girls first meet.
Eliza Raine, the orphan daughter of an Indian mother, keeps herself apart from the other girls, tired of being picked out for being different. Anne Lister, a gifted troublemaker, is determined to conquer the world, refusing to bow to society''s expectations of what a woman can do.
As they fall in love, the connection they forge will remain with them for the rest of their lives.
Full of passion and heartbreak, evocative and wholly unique, Learned by Heart is the dazzling novel from acclaimed author Emma Donoghue. -
Now a major new Netflix film starring Florence Pugh and Ciaran Hinds An eleven-year-old girl stops eating, but remains miraculously alive and well. A nurse, sent to investigate whether she is a fraud, meets a journalist hungry for a story. Set in the Irish Midlands in the 1850s, Emma Donoghue''s The Wonder - inspired by numerous European and North American cases of ''fasting girls'' between the sixteenth century and the twentieth - is a psychological thriller about a child''s murder threatening to happen in slow motion before our eyes. Pitting all the seductions of fundamentalism against sense and love, it is a searing examination of what nourishes us, body and soul.
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In 7th C, Ireland, three men set sail to a bird-thick island to find God. EmmaDonoghue combines pressure-cooker intensity + radical isolation, to stunning effect. What is Divine Grace? Purity of soul? Virtue? Not what they think.>
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Le rencontre entre Sile, une Irlandaise bobo et Jude, une Canadienne à l'âme bucolique fut aussi fortuite que rocambolesque et aurait dû rester sans suite. Mais la curiosité s'en est mêle et, de lettres en e-mails, de longues conversations en brêves retrouvailles, leur histoire va peu à peu prendre forme, jusqu'à ce que la distance devienne insupportable.
Laquelle des deux femmes sera prête à tout quitter pour mettre fin à la séparation et de quel côté de l'Atlantique leur avenir va-t-il s'écrire ?
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Jack is five. He lives with his Ma. They live in a single, locked room. They don''t have the key. Jack and Ma are prisoners. '' Room is a book to read in one sitting. When it''s over you look up: the world looks the same but you are somehow different and that feeling lingers for days'' Audrey Niffenegger ''One of the most profoundly affecting books I''ve read in a long time'' John Boyne ''Such incredible imagination, and dazzling use of language . . . Room is unlike anything I''ve ever read before'' Anita Shreve '' Room is that rarest of entities, an entirely original work of art. I mean it as the highest possible praise when I tell you that I can''t compare it to any other book. Suffice to say that it''s potent, darkly beautiful, and revelatory'' Michael Cunningham
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Le départ, la route, l'arrivée : les trois parties de ce recueil de nouvelles marquent les étapes du voyage, de l'errance, de l'exil. Par-delà les époques, l'auteur nous entraîne du Massachusets puritain au New Jersey révolutionnaire, passant par la Louisiane belliqueuse, jusqu'aux bas-fonds sordides de Toronto. Immigrés à la recherche d'une vie meilleure, orphelins transférés, esclaves en quête de liberté, voleurs de grands chemins..., tous sont en mouvement, que ce soit pour partir, arriver, ou découvrir de nouveaux lieux, loin de leurs identités familiale et nationale. Mais dans ces « fictions historiques » (l'auteur a effectué un véritable travail d'historienne), tout n'est pas dramatique, et l'errance peut mener aussi à la découverte de soi.
Emma Donoghue imagine les vies qui se cachent entre les lignes des livres d'histoire, les sentiments derrière les dates, les gens derrière les chiffres. Libération.
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Clever, ambitious, and richly researched. A slice of 1890s Paris that makes us see that our modern problems aren''t so modern after all! The Paris Express is a smartly structured novel that ratchets up the pace until it''s hurtling along as fast as the doomed train itself.>
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B>A major film starring Brie Larson/b>br>b>Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize/b>br>b>Shortlisted for the Orange Prize/b>Jack is five. He lives with his Ma. They live in a single, locked room. They don't have the key. Jack and Ma are prisoners.Room by Emma Donoghue is an extraordinarily powerful story of a mother and child kept in isolation, and the desire for, and price of, freedom.
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B>Bestselling author Emma Donoghue returns with her next masterpiece, a brilliant, contemporary tale of love, loss and family. /b>A retired New York professor's life is thrown into chaos when he takes his great-nephew to the French Riviera, in hopes of uncovering his own mother's wartime secrets.Noah is only days away from his first trip back to Nice since he was a child when a social worker calls looking for a temporary home for Michael, his eleven-year-old great-nephew. Though he has never met the boy, he gets talked into taking him along to France.This odd couple, suffering from jet lag and culture shock, argue about everything from steak hache to screen time, and the trip is looking like a disaster. But as Michael's ease with tech and sharp eye help Noah unearth troubling details about their family's past, both of them come to grasp the risks that people in all eras have run for their loved ones, and find they are more akin than they knew.Written with all the tenderness and psychological intensity that made Room a huge bestseller, Akin is a funny, heart-wrenching tale of an old man and a boy who unpick their painful story and start to write a new one together.
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An eleven-year-old girl stops eating, but remains miraculously alive and well. A nurse, sent to investigate whether she is a fraud, meets a journalist hungry for a story . . .Set in the Irish Midlands in the 1850s, Emma Donoghue's The Wonder - inspired by numerous European and North American cases of 'fasting girls' between the sixteenth century and the twentieth - is a psychological thriller about a child's murder threatening to happen in slow motion before our eyes. Pitting all the seductions of fundamentalism against sense and love, it is a searing examination of what nourishes us, body and soul.
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''An immersive, unforgettable fever-dream of a novel'' The Times The Sunday Times bestseller from the acclaimed author of The Wonder and Room The old world dying on its feet, a new one struggling to be born . . . Dublin, 1918. In a country doubly ravaged by war and disease, Nurse Julia Power works at an understaffed hospital in the city centre, where expectant mothers who have come down with an unfamiliar flu are quarantined together. Into Julia''s regimented world step two outsiders: Doctor Kathleen Lynn, on the run from the police, and a young volunteer helper, Bridie Sweeney. In the darkness and intensity of this tiny ward, over the course of three days, these women change each other''s lives in unexpected ways. They lose patients to this baffling pandemic, but they also shepherd new life into a fearful world. With tireless tenderness and humanity, carers and mothers alike somehow do their impossible work. In The Pull of the Stars , Emma Donoghue tells an unforgettable and deeply moving story of love and loss. Guardian ''s ''Brilliant Books to Transport You This Summer'' Cosmopolitan ''s ''Best Books to Read This Summer'' Stylist ''s ''Best Summer Reads''
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Frog Music is a wonderfully evocative novel of intrigue and murder from Emma Donoghue, the author of the international bestseller Room, an emotive and powerful novel that was shortlisted for the 2010 Man Booker and Orange Prizes.
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From the bestselling author of ROOM comes a delicious tale of secrets, betrayal and forbidden love.
After a separation of many years, Emily 'Fido' Faithfull bumps into her old friend Helen Codrington on the streets of Victorian London. Much has changed: Helen is more and more unhappy in her marriage to the older Vice-Admiral Codrington, while Fido has become a successful woman of business and a pioneer in the British Women's Movement. But, for all her independence of mind, Fido is too trusting of her once-dear companion and finds herself drawn into aiding Helen's obsessive affair with a young army officer.
When the Vice-Admiral seizes the children and sues for divorce, the women's friendship unravels amid accusations of adultery and counter-accusations of cruelty and attempted rape, as well as a mysterious 'sealed letter' that could destroy more than one life . . .
Based on blow-by-blow newspaper reports of the 1864 Codrington Divorce, The Sealed Letter, full of sparkling characters and wicked dialogue, is a thought-provoking mystery and gripping drama of friends, lovers and marriage.
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'Emma Donoghue writes books that are unlike anything I have ever seen before, and Astray is no exception. There is such a deep and compassionate imagination at work in every story in this collection that Astray feels almost like an act of clairvoyance.' Ann Patchett, Orange prize-winning author of Bel Canto
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ROOM: UNABRIDGED 9 CDS - READ BY M. FRIEDMAN, E. ARCHER, S. TOREN AND R. PETKOFF
Emma Donoghue
- Pan Macmillan
- 21 Octobre 2010
- 9780230755154
The story of a mother, her son, a locked room and the outside world