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Jean-Luc Persecuted
Jean-Luc Persecuted follows the ill-fated life of an unhappily married man. When Jean-Luc’s wife pursues an affair and leaves him with their child, Jean-Luc’s behavior becomes more and more erratic. He falls to drinking, behaving recklessly, and squandering his money. The narrative follows the explosive downfall of a lone man and his unstoppable mental collapse, surrounded by villagers unable to effect real change. This novel, never before translated, exemplifies the earthy, realistic, often allegorical style of iconic Swiss writer Ramuz.
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Je m'appelle Jennylyn
Jennylyn entreprend un voyage à travers l'Europe, sur les traces de son père inconnu... À 20 ans, Jennylyn décide de prendre une année sabbatique pour partir à la recherche de son père qu’elle n’a jamais connu. Ce poète russe a autrefois vécu un été passionné avec sa mère, avant de disparaître sans savoir qu’il allait devenir père. De Genève à Odessa, en passant par Paris, Vienne et Prague, Jennylyn recrée le passé de son mystérieux père, remplissant en même temps les trous de sa mémoire. Cela lui permet d’asseoir son identité. Les lieux, comme des tableaux, prennent réellement vie au fur et à mesure que la jeune femme avance dans sa quête. Ce roman retrace...
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Farinet's Gold
The old man Sage taught Maurice Farinet many things and one of them was the location of a secret vein of gold. After Sage died, Farinet began to make coins. Based on a true story, Ramuz tells an extraordinary tale of mountains and villages, of independence and the price of freedom.
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Beauty on Earth
Through the door of a Swiss inn the reader steps into a painting. Two men talk to each other and before long the writer -someone like them, one of them- begins to address us. Thus commences the fugue that is Beauty on Earth,in which the coming of a beautiful orphan to her uncle's inn brings a gradual chaos upon his town. Swiss novelist Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz published La Beauté in 1927. This translation by Michelle Bailat-Jones is a gift for which English language readers have waited decades.
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