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Aged 105, Rose has endured more than her fair share of hardships: the Armenian genocide, the Nazi regime, and the delirium of Maoism. Yet somehow, despite all the suffering, Rose never loses her joie de vivre. As she looks back over her long life - one of survival and, sometimes, one of retribution - she recalls those unique experiences that added such spice to her life, whether it was being a confidante to Hitler, a friend to Simone de Beauvoir or cooking for Heinrich Himmler.
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Is one ever truly ready to face death? Can one, without faith, view death as a beginning rather than an end? The man dying without God is Francois Mitterrand, who was battling prostate cancer during both of his seven-year terms as President of France. Near the end, he called on a longtime friend, Franz-Olivier Giesbert, to whom he opened his mind as he had to no other person. One of the most complex personages of the century, Mitterrand offers in these pages his final, unforgettable testament.
On June 6, 1944, Frederick Giesbert, assigned to the American army’s 29th division, landed on bloody Omaha Beach, Normandy, an experience from which he never recovered. Three years later, Frederick had returned to his hometown of Chicago, married to a French girl. But when the seemingly happy couple moved to Normandy to make a home with their baby, something in Frederick snapped, and he turned cruel and violent. His son, Franz-Oliver, spent his childhood doing everything he could to defy his father. The American is a son’s fiercely honest and emotionally gripping story of a search for paternal understanding and forgiveness.
A boy's account of the nasty goings-on in a French village during World War II, some narrated in prose-poetry: "The man clips off the kneeling woman's hair. / The people shout with joy. / The hair is falling all around the woman. / The woman is crying. / The people yell piece of shit."
A plea for a more moderate, balanced, and accurate view of the Vichy regime.
"To be a vegetarian when you can eat meat is to deny the animal in you." "To slaughter an animal, you have to love animals"! "When living beings start to eat stones, the problem [of meat] will no longer be an issue." These are some quotes from philosophers and intellectuals that defy logic and encourage cruelty. Instead of recognizing that we should not cause suffering and kill sentient beings just for our pleasure, these intellectuals justify the consumption of animal products. They support a society that slaughters millions of animals daily because it does not want to change its eating habits. This book enumerates and denounces all the arguments developed by carnivores so that this great m...
"La vie, disait-il, est une tartine de merde dont il faut avaler chaque jour une bouchée. Pour faire passer, il suffit de se gaver de confitures ! — C’est quoi, les confitures ? — L’amour, le ciel, la terre, la nature." Où va le monde ? Sommes-nous devenus fous ? Sur fond de canicule, de bains de mer, de tyrannie de la "vertu" et de tensions en tout genre, Dernier été est une histoire d’amour, mais aussi une satire drôle, féroce, de notre temps et de celui qui vient. Avec un parti pris : celui d’en rire.