Critiques en avant-premièreDaniel Hahn

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Août 2022 Lot

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Eduardo Halfon, Lisa Dillman (Traducteur), Daniel Hahn (Traducteur)

From internationally celebrated Eduardo Halfon comes a new installment in his hero’s nomadic odyssey as he searches for answers surrounding his grandfather’s abduction

In Canción, Eduardo Halfon’s eponymous wanderer is invited to a Lebanese writers’ conference in Japan, where he reflects on his Jewish grandfather’s multifaceted identity. To understand more about the cold, fateful day in January 1967 when his grandfather was abducted by Guatemalan guerillas, Halfon searches his childhood memories. Soon, chance encounters around the world lead to more clues about his grandfather’s captors, including a butcher nicknamed “Canción” (or song). As a brutal and complex history emerges against the backdrop of the Guatemalan Civil War, Halfon finds echoes in the stories of a woman he meets in Japan whose grandfather survived the atomic bombing of Hiroshima.

Through exquisite prose and intricate storytelling, Halfon exposes the atrocities of war and the effect that silence and extreme violence have on family and identity.

“Extraordinary. . . . Establish[es] an affinity between fiction and autobiography that unsettles generic divisions.” —World Literature Today

“Another minimasterpiece by a master of the form.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

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June 2019 Lot

Offre terminée: Juin 24 à 06:00 pm EDT

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From one of Spain’s most original authors comes a wild, absurdist story about a lonely man’s misguided attempts to connect “Part surreal comedy, part dark parable, Millás’s wild work brings readers face to face with the mundane facets of middle-class suburban life. . . . A page-turner of the strangest order, Millás’s debut stuns and entrances. It’s impossible to put down.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) Laid off from his job, Damián Lobo obsessively imagines himself as a celebrity being interviewed on TV. After committing an act of petty theft at an antiques market, he finds himself trapped inside a wardrobe and delivered to the seemingly idyllic home of a husband, wife, and their internet-addicted teenage daughter. There, he sneaks from the shadows to serve as an invisible butler, becoming deeply and disastrously involved with his unknowing host family. Every thread of the plot is ingeniously tied together, creating a potent admixture of parable, love story, and thriller. Millás masterfully reveals the everyday as innately surreal as he renders the unbelievable tangible and the trivial fantastical, and full of dark humor.
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September 2018 Lot

Offre terminée: Septembre 24 à 06:00 pm EDT

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The restaurant is crowded and noisy. The man sits by the window, watching the grey sky, bored, as he is every Monday morning. Suddenly he turns and she's there, standing in front of him. Years have passed since he last saw her, since the day he left, without an explanation, without a reason. Only now does he realize he never stopped loving her, even for a second. When she tries to run away from him, too shocked by the sudden onslaught of emotions, he stops her. And as they embrace, surrounded by passersby, they promise to hold on, to make mistakes again. To love each other. Deeply and forever. With his intimate, almost whispered style, Pedro Chagas Freitas takes the reader on a journey to discover the truth about love; the kind of love that touches, envelops and thrills you, that conceals and reveals, that wounds and heals, that seizes you and sets you free.
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March 2018 Lot

Offre terminée: Mars 26 à 06:00 pm EDT

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Eduardo Halfon, Lisa Dillman (Traducteur), Daniel Hahn (Traducteur)
“Eduardo Halfon is a brilliant storyteller.” —Daniel Alarcón “The hero of Halfon’s novel delights in today’s risible globalism, but recognizes that what we adopt from elsewhere makes us who we are.” —New York Times Book Review “Editors’ Choice” selection “Tight and lean . . . falling somewhere between the novels of Roberto Bolaño, WG Sebald, and Junot Díaz.” —Telegraph In Mourning, a mysterious family tragedy inspires Eduardo Halfon’s eponymous narrator on a journey across the globe and through the tangled memories of childhood to discover what, or who, really killed his uncle Salomón. As he goes deeper, he realizes that the truth lies buried in his own past, in the brutal Guatemala of the 1970s and his subsequent exile to the American South. Subtle and stirring, Mourning is a reflection on the formative and destructive power of family mythology, silence, and loss.
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August 2014 Lot

Offre terminée: Août 25 à 06:00 pm EDT

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Eduardo Halfon, Lisa Dillman (Traducteur), Daniel Hahn (Traducteur)
The journey continues for the hero of the acclaimed The Polish Boxer In Eduardo Halfon’s first novel The Polish Boxer, the nomadic narrator brought readers along on the search for his origins, demonstrating how stories change and evolve. In Monastery, the hero returns to travel from Tel Aviv, where his sister’s Jewish Orthodox wedding is being held, to the highland coffee plantations of Guatemala, and then from the jazz haunts of Harlem to the French Breton coast, where he dreams of Chekhov in an attempt to retrace his grandfather’s path. Along the way, he’s confronted by authority, isolation, history’s atrocities, and the burdens of his heritage. As he moves through the chaos of the world, and the intolerance he finds both within and without, he comes to realize that “a wall is never bigger than the spirit of those it confines.” Praise for The Polish Boxer “Elegant” —Marie Claire “Deeply accessible, deeply moving.” —Los Angeles Times “Tight and lean . . . falling somewhere between the novels of Roberto Bolaño, WG Sebald, and Junot Díaz.” —Telegraph “Funny and revelatory. . . . The hero of Halfon’s novel delights in today’s risible globalism, but recognizes that what we adopt from elsewhere makes us who we are.” —New York Times Book Review, Editor’s Choice citation
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December 2009 Lot: 2 Livres Offert

Offre terminée: Decembre 22 à 10:00 am EST

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One of the finest poets of the English language, Percy Bysshe Shelley is known as much for his outstanding lyric poems as for his unconventional lifestyle. Works such as ‘Ozymandias’, ‘To a Skylark’ and ‘Ode to the West Wind’ have been read and loved by successive generations; and so too has remained a fascination with Shelley’s short life. In this new biography, Daniel Hahn elucidates an extraordinary life using extracts from the poet’s work, creating a brilliant portrait of the outlandish genius who published Gothic horror novelettes in his teens and eloped with the daughter of a coffee-shop owner, but who went on to create some of England’s finest poetry and to inspire countless future poets.
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Poetic Lives: ColeridgeAperçu
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Poet, philosopher and critic, Samuel Taylor Coleridge is now best remembered for his extraordinary ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’ and ‘Kubla Khan’. With his friend William Wordsworth he founded the Romantic Movement in Britain: theirs was one of the most productive and creative partnerships in the history of English Literature; together with Robert Southey, they became known as the Lake Poets. Daniel Hahn here traces the history of Coleridge’s life, his intense friendship with William and Mary Wordsworth, his travels through Europe, failed marriage and crippling addiction to opium. He reveals the inspiration for Coleridge’s greatest works, and proffers insightful extracts from the poet’s own works. The result is a succinct and rounded portrayal of this great writer.
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