Dans l'Odyssée d'Homère, la nymphe Calypso dispa- raît du récit avec le départ d'Ulysse, qu'elle a échoué à retenir. C'est à cet instant précis que s'ouvre le roman d'Anne Luthaud : Calypso quitte sa maison, son village, sa vie - à quoi bon rester puisqu'Ulysse est parti ? Commence alors l'errance d...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE 2017 'When I finished Sara Baume's new novel I immediately felt sad that I could not send it in the post to the late John Berger. He, too, would have loved it and found great joy in its honesty, its agility, its beauty, its invention. Baume is a writer of outstan...

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA FIRST NOVEL AWARD 2015LONGLISTED FOR THE GUARDIAN FIRST BOOK AWARD 2015LONGLISTED FOR THE DESMOND ELLIOTT PRIZE 2016 WINNER OF THE SUNDAY INDEPENDENT NEWCOMER OF THE YEAR, IRISH BOOK AWARDS 2015WINNER OF THE GEOFFREY FABER MEMORIAL PRIZE FOR FICTION You find me on a Tuesd...

Winner of the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature * Winner of the Sunday Independent Newcomer of the Year Award * Short-listed for the Costa First Novel Award * Long-listed for the Desmond Elliott Prize * Long-listed for the Guardian First Book Award 2015, Readers’ Choice * Long-listed for the Warwick...

Shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize “Baume is a writer of outstanding grace and style. She writes beyond the time we live in.”--Colum McCann “Baume leaves nothing unturned in this dark and sometimes funny excavation of the human heart.” --Minneapolis Star-Tribune “Fascinating, because of the cu...

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Gauguin en Polynésie retrace le parcours polynésien de l'artiste, parti à Tahiti en 1891 pour donner un second souffle à son oeuvre. Il est destiné au lecteur désireux de mieux comprendre l'artiste et son oeuvre. De courts tableaux décrivent le contexte historique, artistique et social de l'époque....