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Self Portrait in Green
'NDiaye is a hypnotic storyteller with an unflinching understanding of the rock-bottom reality of most people's life.' New York Times ' One of France's most exciting prose stylists.' The Guardian. Obsessed by her encounters with the mysterious green women, and haunted by the Garonne River, a nameless narrator seeks them out in La Roele, Paris, Marseille, and Ouagadougou. Each encounter reveals different aspects of the women; real or imagined, dead or alive, seductive or suicidal, driving the narrator deeper into her obsession, in this unsettling exploration of identity, memory and paranoia. Self Portrait in Green is the multi-prize winning, Marie NDiaye's brilliant subversion of the memoir. Written in diary entries, with lyrical prose and dreamlike imagery, we start with and return to the river, which mirrors the narrative by posing more questions than it answers.
Who's who in Spain
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Les grandes maisons du vignoble de Jerez
En Andalousie, entre les trois villes de Jerez de la Frontera, Puerto de Santa María et Sanlúcar de Barrameda, s'étend un vignoble dont les paysages, les techniques d'élevage du vin, la gamme étendue de productions et même l'architecture urbaine manifestent l'originalité. Celle-ci est profondément ancrée dans l'histoire. En 1834, avec la disparition de l'ancienne structure corporative, il devint possible de cumuler les activités de production de raisin, d'élevage et de commercialisation des vins. Certaines entreprises familiales surent profiter de cette situation nouvelle : agrandissant leur domaine foncier, augmentant leurs stocks et consolidant leur présence sur les marchés é...
Gaceta de Madrid
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Plague and Pleasure
Plague and Pleasure is a lively popular history that introduces a new hypothesis about the impetus behind the cultural change in Renaissance Italy. The Renaissance coincided with a period of chronic, constantly recurring plague, unremitting warfare and pervasive insecurity. Consequently, people felt a need for mental escape to alternative, idealized realities, distant in time or space from the unendurable present but made vivid to the imagination through literature, art, and spectacle.
Empty Wardrobes
A previously untranslated classic of Portuguese feminist literature originally published in 1978, Carvalho's Empty Wardrobes introduces English-speaking readers to a forgotten and underappreciated woman writer a la recent publishing sensations Lucia Berlin, Natalia Ginzburg, Ingeborg Bachmann, Silvina Ocampo, and Armonia Somers. Empty Wardrobes is a tightly plotted, highly entertaining read, that, thanks to an ingenious detached narrative technique (one that makes the plot all the more fun to revisit and rethink), is both darkly humorous and devastatingly true.
