Ros Schwartz
Author
Publication Date
2022
Language
English
Description
"Deep underground, thirty-nine women live imprisoned in a cage. Watched over by guards, the women have no memory of how they got there, no notion of time, and only a vague recollection of their lives before. As the burn of electric light merges day into night and numberless years pass, a young girl--the fortieth prisoner--sits alone and outcast in the corner. Soon she will show herself to be the key to the others' escape and survival in the strange...
Author
Publisher
Transit Books
Publication Date
2026
Language
English
Description
In this newly translated collection of three novellas, Jacqueline Harpman explores the many forms of resistance in the face of oppression. A woman trapped in a mysterious postwar forest struggles against strict rules governing the survivors' existence. A schoolgirl in 1940s Casablanca risks severe consequences when she dares to question authority. And a young wife confined by the expectations of an unhappy marriage begins to awaken to desires of her...
Author
Publication Date
2019
Language
English
Description
"In the vein of Amélie and The Little Paris Bookshop, a modern fairytale about a French woman whose life is turned upside down when she meets a reclusive bookseller and his young daughter. Juliette leads a perfectly ordinary life in Paris, working a slow office job, dating a string of not-quite-right men, and fighting off melancholy. The only bright spots in her day are her métro rides across the city and the stories she dreams up about the strangers...
5) Orlanda
Author
Publication Date
2025
Language
English
Description
"One afternoon in a cǎfe across the Gare du Nord train station in Paris, Aline Berger, a literature professor, struggles to re-read Virginia Woolf's Orlando, when an odd feeling comes over her. Suddenly, part of her consciousness splits off and finds itself in the body of an attractive young man named Lucien ̈Lfrene, who works as a rock journalist. In this newfound body, Aline's splintered mind names themselves Orlanda in homage to Virginia Woolf...
Author
Publisher
Arcadia Books Limited
Publication Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Dominique Manotti is back on form with a tale of intrigue and corruption. A call-girl whose black book lists her elite international clients is found murdered in an underground garage; a plane bound for Iran laden with illegal arms disappears from the skies over Turkey, and the president's closest advisor Bornard, head of a controversial Elysée security unit, manipulates the system with consummate ease - and illegality. Until the day when rookie...
Author
Publisher
Arcadia Books Limited
Publication Date
2013
Language
English
Description
School friends who campaigned together at Rennes in the heydey of 1968: Agathe Renourd and her protégé Nicolas Berger are in charge of the communications network of a major insurance consortium; Christian Deluc has become a council member at the Elysée Palace; Amelie raises thoroughbreds. Now, in 1989, the paths of these former students are due to cross in an entirely unexpected fashion as they start playing with fire, carried along
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