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White Resin
White Resin is an ethereal love story of the almost-impossible reconciliation between the manufactured world and the haunting and feminine nature that envelops it. In this impassioned and wildly imagined story of creation, a girl named Dãa, is born to “twenty-four mothers,” the sisters of a convent at the edge of the Quebec taiga. Nearby, at the Kohle mining company, a woman dies giving birth to Laure, a child with albinism, in the workers’ canteen. What follows is a dream-like recounting of their love affair and the family they bear, a captivating magic-realist tale of origins and opposites, that would be fantastical if it did not ring so true to the boreal north. White Resin is at once a dream-like romance and an homage to gorgeous, feral, and fecund nature as it both stands against and entwined with the industrial world.
The Body of the Beasts
Disturbing and sensuous, Audrée Wilhelmy’s tale of a hermetic family minding a lighthouse in willed isolation is reminiscent of William Golding’s Lord of the Flies. The Body of Beasts is a startling, gorgeously written novel that tells the story of the Borya family living in isolation. Their lives are altered when young Osip, peering from the lighthouse gallery sees a woman, Noé, arrive — her dress scant, her skin curiously scarred, and her manner mysterious and wild. Noé bears a child, Mie, to the eldest son on whose hunter-gathering the Borya family depends. She lives in a cabin on her own and covers the walls with drawings that allude to her mysterious life. The family’s entren...
Les sangs
De son aïeul grand officier, Féléor Barthélémy Rü ne reçoit pas seulement une immense fortune ; il hérite également du désir de tuer et d'un goût pour la chair crue. Ces plaisirs, il les développe au contact des femmes qu'il croise et qui deviennent, pour certaines, ses épouses et victimes. D'une manière bien étrange, celui qu'on appelle l'Ogre, dans la Cité, attire à lui des proies presque consentantes. Mais d'où viennent ces femmes ? Qu'est-ce qui les pousse irrémédiablement vers Féléor ? Qu'ont-elles fait pour en être aimées ? C'est ce qu'elles expliquent dans les carnets qu'elles laissent derrière elles et que Féléor assemble en un curieux livre - ses Sangs. Me...
The Little Girl who was Too Fond of Matches
The choices they make will obliterate everything they once held to be true, and the villagers who insinuate themselves into the siblings' reality will have to question their own views of humanity."--BOOK JACKET.
The Body of the Beasts
Reminiscent of Gaétan Soucy's The Little Girl Who Was Too Fond of Matches and William Golding's Lord of the Flies, Audrée Wilhemy's The Body of Beasts is a startling, gorgeously written novel that tells the story of the Borya family minding a lighthouse and living in isolation. Their lives are altered when young Osip, peering from the lighthouse gallery he has made his home, sees a woman, Noé, arrives in Sitjaq -- her dress scant, her skin curiously scarred, and her manners mysterious and wild. Noé bears a child, Mie, to Sevastien-Benedikt, the eldest son on whose hunter-gathering the Borya family depends. She lives in a cabin on her own and covers the walls with drawings that allude to ...
Le corps des bêtes
Dans un paysage de roches, de glace et d’eau, au sommet d’un phare longeant une plage désertique, Mie attend que son oncle vienne l’initier aux mystères du corps. Mais Osip l’ignore ; il préfère passer ses journées à scruter les bateaux qui arrivent du large et à observer la mère de Mie, cette étrangère que son frère a ramenée de la forêt et qui le fascine. Sauvage, énigmatique, elle vit à l’écart de la famille. Son chant seul perce parfois le roulis des vagues. C’est elle qu’Osip désire. Alors, en attendant que son oncle accepte de la rejoindre, Mie imagine : elle emprunte par la pensée le corps des bêtes qui l’entourent, là un ours, ici une grue, pour comprendre de quelle lignée elle est issue. Seule dans sa chambre, elle tâche de percer l’énigme de sa chair. Osip daignera-t-il venir la retrouver ? Après un premier roman très remarqué, Les Sangs (Grasset, Prix Sade 2015), Audrée Wilhelmy nous plonge dans un univers fantasmagorique, à la lisière de la légende et du mythe. D’une langue puissante, envoûtante, elle explore la part animale que chacun porte en soi.
The African Equation
A giant of francophone writing, Algerian author Yasmina Khadra uses current events as a lens to examine narratives of Africa and the West. 'A skilled storyteller working at the height of his powers' Times Literary Supplement Frankfurt MD Kurt Krausmann is devastated by his wife's suicide. Unable to make sense of what happened, Kurt agrees to join his friend Hans on a humanitarian mission to the Comoros. But, sailing down the Red Sea, their boat is boarded by Somali pirates and the men are taken hostage. The arduous journey to the pirates' desert hideout is only the beginning of Kurt's odyssey. He endures imprisonment and brutality at the hands of captors whose failings are all too human. As the situation deteriorates, it is fellow prisoner, Bruno, a long-time resident in Africa, who shows Kurt another side to the wounded yet defiant continent he loves.
The President's Hat
Like Cinderella's glass slipper or Aladdin's lamp, the hat is a talisman that makes its wearers' dreams come true.
Peau-de-sang
Peau-de-Sang est le cinquième roman d'Audrée Wilhelmy, et celui de la maturité. Portrait d'une femme extraordinaire à la fois mère, sorcière et prostituée, ce roman est habité d'une force rare, incantatoire, à la croisée de la liberté de Goliarda Sapienza et de la poésie de Bérengère Cournut. Isolée dans le froid et la solitude des forêts, la ville de Kangoq est figée dans le temps. Ici, on vit de peu, du labeur des ouvrières dans les filatures et des hommes dans les champs. Mais une femme différente donne un secret équilibre à ce monde. Dans sa boutique, selon les heures, elle déplume de grandes oies des neiges, initie discrètement de jeunes filles aux élans de leur corps, ou accueille les hommes qui cherchent, dans sa chair, un impossible repos. Peau-de-Sang est le cinquième roman d'Audrée Wilhelmy, et celui de la maturité. Portrait d'une femme extraordinaire à la fois mère, sorcière et prostituée, ce roman est habité d'une force rare, incantatoire, à la croisée de la liberté de Goliarda Sapienza et de la poésie de Bérengère Cournut.
Wise Men
Almost overnight, Arthur Wise has become one of the wealthiest and most powerful attorneys in America. His first big purchase is a simple beach house in a place called Bluepoint, a town on the far edge of the flexed arm of Cape Cod. It's in Bluepoint, during the summer of 1952, that Arthur's teenage son, Hilly, makes friends with Lem Dawson, a black man whose job it is to take care of the house but whose responsibilities quickly grow. When Hilly finds himself falling for Lem's niece, Savannah, his affection for her collides with his father's dark secrets. The results shatter his family, and hers. Years later, haunted by his memories of that summer, Hilly sets out to find Savannah, in an attempt to right the wrongs he helped set in motion. But can his guilt, and his good intentions, overcome the forces of history, family, and identity? A beautifully told multigenerational story about love and regret, Wise Men confirms that Stuart Nadler is one of the most exciting young writers at work today.
