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La ville insoumise (2008) 89 1 303,326
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Jim Vilatzer was going nowhereâ??working in his parentsâ?? restaurant, sleeping in his childhood bedroomâ??until he ran up gambling debts that forced him to go somewhere far awayâ??fast. He uses his Russian-language skills (learned from his émigré grandparents) to cadge a job in Moscow finding and interviewing survivors of the Gulag. At first, he only finds that they are well hidden and leery of sharing their horrific stories, but he also discovers that heâ??s falling in love with their homeland. He is intoxicated by Moscowâ??s brooding, ironic atmosphere, its vast reservoir of entrepreneurial energy, its otherworldly churches and majestic subways. On any given day, petty indignities are more than offset by random acts of kindness. Jimâ??s taste for gambling is satisfied merely by living in a city that teems with risk and promise. So he blithely accepts a big win when a chance meeting with a lovely aspiring actress leads not only to romance but also to her grandfather, a concentration camp survivor who does actually want to share his story. Soon Jim is on a roll, scoring interviews with four other survivors in as many days, learning harrowing and fascinating things about bygone atrocities and feeling like he has finally found where he belongs. But his apparent success has earned him the attention of Russiaâ??s Interior Ministry and the CIA. Jim has become an unwitting cog in a scheme to spirit Soviet scientists and their deadly secrets out of Russia and into the hands of the highest bidder. Pursued ruthlessly by both sides, he must flee again, this time to the lawless border country, where an economist-cum- mobster is preparing to peddle the worldâ??s most dangerous technologies to whichever terrorists can muster the cash first. Like Donna Leonâ??s novels of Venice or John Burdettâ??s Bangkok series, The Unpossessed City makes of its setting an intricate, irresistible character. With taut, ingenious plotting and incisive prose, Fasman engages our most visceral fears and throws brilliant light on our most primal drivesâ??to feel that we belong, to find … (plus d'informations )
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Arriving at each new city, the traveller finds again a past of his that he did not know he had: the foreignness of what you no longer possess lies in wait for you in foreign, unpossessed places. (Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities)
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When the hospital door behind him clanged shut, and the gate to Wing 3 slowly began to creak open, Yegor Semyonovich Glazov wondered how high he could count.
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Jim Vilatzer was going nowhereâ??working in his parentsâ?? restaurant, sleeping in his childhood bedroomâ??until he ran up gambling debts that forced him to go somewhere far awayâ??fast. He uses his Russian-language skills (learned from his émigré grandparents) to cadge a job in Moscow finding and interviewing survivors of the Gulag. At first, he only finds that they are well hidden and leery of sharing their horrific stories, but he also discovers that heâ??s falling in love with their homeland. He is intoxicated by Moscowâ??s brooding, ironic atmosphere, its vast reservoir of entrepreneurial energy, its otherworldly churches and majestic subways. On any given day, petty indignities are more than offset by random acts of kindness. Jimâ??s taste for gambling is satisfied merely by living in a city that teems with risk and promise. So he blithely accepts a big win when a chance meeting with a lovely aspiring actress leads not only to romance but also to her grandfather, a concentration camp survivor who does actually want to share his story. Soon Jim is on a roll, scoring interviews with four other survivors in as many days, learning harrowing and fascinating things about bygone atrocities and feeling like he has finally found where he belongs. But his apparent success has earned him the attention of Russiaâ??s Interior Ministry and the CIA. Jim has become an unwitting cog in a scheme to spirit Soviet scientists and their deadly secrets out of Russia and into the hands of the highest bidder. Pursued ruthlessly by both sides, he must flee again, this time to the lawless border country, where an economist-cum- mobster is preparing to peddle the worldâ??s most dangerous technologies to whichever terrorists can muster the cash first. Like Donna Leonâ??s novels of Venice or John Burdettâ??s Bangkok series, The Unpossessed City makes of its setting an intricate, irresistible character. With taut, ingenious plotting and incisive prose, Fasman engages our most visceral fears and throws brilliant light on our most primal drivesâ??to feel that we belong, to find
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