« Un voyage se passe de motifs. Il ne tarde pas à prouver qu''il se suffit à lui-même. On croit qu''on va faire un voyage, mais bientôt c''est le voyage qui vous fait, ou vous défait. »Sa lente et heureuse dérive dans les années 1953-1954 entre Genève et le Khyber Pass en compagnie du peintre Thierry Vernet a inspiré ce livre d''un flâneur émerveillé à Nicolas Bouvier (1929-1998), « un voyageur d''une espèce rare, comme Segalen et Michaux» (Jacques Meunier).

Avec "Nous", Evgeni Zamiatine jette dès 1920 les bases d'un genre littéraire nouveau, la «science-fiction». Son roman est considéré comme la matrice de 1984 de George Orwell et du Meilleur des mondes d'Aldous Huxley. En voici une nouvelle traduction d'Hélène Henry, qui rend pleinement justice au grand écrivain que fut Zamiatine.

In a corporate-dominated spacefaring future, planetary missions must be approved and supplied by the Company. Exploratory teams are accompanied by Company-supplied security androids, for their own safety.
But in a society where contracts are awarded to the lowest bidder, safety isn’t a primary concern.
On a distant planet, a team of scientists are conducting surface tests, shadowed by their Company-supplied ‘droid — a self-aware SecUnit that has hacked its own governor module, and refers to itself (though never out loud) as “Murderbot.” Scornful of humans, all it really wants is to be left alone long enough to figure out who it is.
But when a neighboring mission goes dark, it's up to the scientists and their Murderbot to get to the truth.

«Raskolnikov se mit à trembler de tout son corps comme un homme frappé d'un coup terrible.- Mais... alors... qui... est l'assassin ? balbutia-t-il d'une voix entrecoupée.Porphyre Petrovitch se renversa sur sa chaise, de l'air d'un homme stupéfait par une question abracadabrante.- Comment, qui est l'assassin ? répéta-t-il comme s'il n'en pouvait croire ses oreilles, mais c'est vous.»

For fans of <i>Cloud Atlas</i> and <i>Station Eleven</i>, a spellbinding and profoundly prescient debut that follows a cast of intricately linked characters over hundreds of years as humanity struggles to rebuild itself in the aftermath of a climate plague—a daring and deeply heartfelt work of mind-bending imagination from a singular new voice.<br /><br />Beginning in 2030, a grieving archeologist arrives in the Arctic Circle to continue the work of his recently deceased daughter at the Batagaika crater, where researchers are studying long-buried secrets now revealed in melting permafrost, including the perfectly preserved remains of a girl who appears to have died of an ancient virus.<br /><br />Once unleashed, the Arctic Plague will reshape life on earth for generations to come, quickly traversing the globe, forcing humanity to devise a myriad of moving and inventive ways to embrace possibility in the face of tragedy. In a theme park designed for terminally ill children, a cynical employee falls in love with a mother desperate to hold on to her infected son. A heartbroken scientist searching for a cure finds a second chance at fatherhood when one of his test subjects—a pig—develops the capacity for human speech. A widowed painter and her teenaged granddaughter embark on a cosmic quest to locate a new home planet. <br /><br />From funerary skyscrapers to hotels for the dead to interstellar starships, Sequoia Nagamatsu takes readers on a wildly original and compassionate journey, spanning continents, centuries, and even celestial bodies to tell a story about the resiliency of the human spirit, our infinite capacity to dream, and the connective threads that tie us all together in the universe.

Marianne Dashwood wears her heart on her sleeve, and when she falls in love with the dashing but unsuitable John Willoughby she ignores her sister Elinor's warning that her impulsive behaviour leaves her open to gossip and innuendo. Meanwhile Elinor, always sensitive to social convention, is struggling to conceal her own romantic disappointment, even from those closest to her. Through their parallel experience of love—and its threatened loss—the sisters learn that sense must mix with sensibility if they are to find personal happiness in a society where status and money govern the rules of love.
This edition includes explanatory notes, textual variants between the first and second editions, and Tony Tanner's introduction to the original Penguin Classic edition.

Antonio José Bolivar Proaño est le seul à pouvoir chasser le félin tueur d’hommes. Il connaît la forêt amazonienne, il respecte les animaux qui la peuplent, il a vécu avec les Indiens Shuars et il accepte le duel avec le fauve. Mais Antonio José Bolivar a découvert sur le tard l’antidote au redoutable venin de la vieillesse : il sait lire, et il a une passion pour les romans qui parlent de l’amour, le vrai, celui qui fait souffrir.<br /><br />Partagé entre la chasse et sa passion pour les romans, le vieux nous entraîne dans ce livre plein de charme dont le souvenir ne nous quitte plus.

Istanbul, en cet hiver 1591, est sous la neige. Mais un cadavre, le crâne fracassé, nous parle depuis le puits où il a été jeté. Il connaît son assassin, de même que les raisons du meurtre dont il a été victime : un complot contre l'Empire ottoman, sa culture, ses traditions et sa peinture. Car les miniaturistes de l'atelier du Sultan, dont il faisait partie, sont chargés d'illustrer un livre à la manière italienne... <i>Mon nom est Rouge</i>, roman polyphonique et foisonnant, nous plonge dans l'univers fascinant de l'Empire ottoman de la fin du XVIe siècle, et nous tient en haleine jusqu'à la dernière page par un extraordinaire suspense. Une subtile réflexion sur la confrontation entre Occident et Orient sous-tend cette trame policière, elle-même doublée d'une intrigue amoureuse, dans un récit parfaitement maîtrisé. Un roman d'une force et d'une qualité rares.

In a remote Polish village, Janina devotes the dark winter days to studying astrology, translating the poetry of William Blake, and taking care of the summer homes of wealthy Warsaw residents. Her reputation as a crank and a recluse is amplified by her not-so-secret preference for the company of animals over humans. Then a neighbor, Big Foot, turns up dead. Soon other bodies are discovered, in increasingly strange circumstances. As suspicions mount, Janina inserts herself into the investigation, certain that she knows whodunit. If only anyone would pay her mind . . .
A deeply satisfying thriller cum fairy tale,
is a provocative exploration of the murky borderland between sanity and madness, justice and tradition, autonomy and fate. Whom do we deem sane? it asks. Who is worthy of a voice?
Duration: 11 hours 39 minutes.

Βαρκελώνη, δεκαετία του '50. Ο νεαρός Αντριά μεγαλώνει ανάμεσα σ' έναν πατέρα που θέλει να του δώσει μόρφωση αναγεννησιακού ανθρώπου, να τον κάνει γνώστη πολλών γλωσσών, και μια μητέρα που τον προορίζει για την καριέρα δεξιοτέχνη βιολονίστα. Ο Αντριά, ευφυής, μοναχικός και υπάκουος, προσπαθεί να ικανοποιήσει τις υπέρμετρες και αντιφατικές φιλοδοξίες των γονιών του, ως τη στιγμή που ανακαλύπτει την ύποπτη προέλευση του οικογενειακού πλούτου και άλλα ανομολόγητα μυστικά. Πενήντα χρόνια μετά, ο Αντριά, λίγο πριν χάσει τη μνήμη του, προσπαθεί να ανασυνθέσει την οικογενειακή ιστορία, ενώ γύρω από ένα εκπληκτικό βιολί του 18ου αιώνα διαπλέκονται τραγικά επεισόδια της ευρωπαϊκής ιστορίας, από την Ιερά Εξέταση ως τη δικτατορία του Φράνκο και τη ναζιστική Γερμανία, με αποκορύφωμα το Άουσβιτς, το απόλυτο κακό.<br /><br />Φιλόδοξο, συναρπαστικό μυθιστόρημα, που καταπιάνεται με τα μεγάλα ζητήματα της ζωής -την εξουσία, τον πόνο, τη μεταμέλεια, το κακό και την εξιλέωση, την εκδίκηση, την αγάπη, την ενοχή και τη συγχώρεση-, με υπέροχη γλώσσα και μια εντυπωσιακή πλοκή.

1958. Gli anni passano, tra ricevimenti fastosi, unioni insolite e rivelazioni travolgenti, ma non portano quiete per i membri della famiglia Caskey. Dopo l’età dell’oro, ritornano giorni foschi. Qualcosa di terribile incombe su Perdido, i suoi abitanti e i suoi fiumi. Il tempo delle profezie è ormai giunto.<br />Sesto e ultimo episodio della saga bestseller dell’autore amato da Stephen King.

12 hrs 15 mins<br /><b>Mimi is a 'waste girl',</b> a member of the lowest caste on Silicon Isle.<br /><br />Located off China's southeastern coast, Silicon Isle is the global capital for electronic waste recycling, where thousands like Mimi toil day and night, hoping one day they too will enjoy the wealth they’ve created for their employers, the three clans who have ruled the isle for generations.<br /><br /><b>Luo Jincheng </b>is the head of one of these clans, a role passed down from his father and grandfather before him. As the government enforces tighter restrictions, Luo in turn tightens the reins on the waste workers in his employ. Ruthlessness is his means of survival.<br /><br /><b>Scott Brandle</b> has come to Silicon Isle representing TerraGreen Recycling, an American corporation that stands to earn ungodly sums if they can reach a deal to modernize the island’s recycling process.<br /><br /><b>Chen Kaizong</b>, a Chinese American, travels to Silicon Isle as Scott’s interpreter. There, Kaizong is hoping to find his heritage, but finds more questions instead. The home he longs for may not exist.<br /><br /><b>As these forces collide, a dark futuristic virus is unleashed on the island, and war erupts between the rich and the poor; between Chinese tradition and American ambition; between humanity’s past and its future.</b><br /><br /><br />Rights Catalog Text<br /><br />0<br />0

An alien armada lurks on the edges of Teixcalaanli space. No one can communicate with it, no one can destroy it, and Fleet Captain Nine Hibiscus is running out of options.
In a desperate attempt at diplomacy with the mysterious invaders, the fleet captain has sent for a diplomatic envoy. Now Mahit Dzmare and Three Seagrass—still reeling from the recent upheaval in the Empire—face the impossible task of trying to communicate with a hostile entity.
Whether they succeed or fail could change the fate of Teixcalaan forever.

An act of translation is always an act of betrayal.
1828. Robin Swift, orphaned by cholera in Canton, is brought to London by the mysterious Professor Lovell. There, he trains for years in Latin, Ancient Greek, and Chinese, all in preparation for the day he'll enroll in Oxford University's prestigious Royal Institute of Translation — also known as Babel.
Babel is the world's center of translation and, more importantly, of silver-working: the art of manifesting the meaning lost in translation through enchanted silver bars, to magical effect. Silver-working has made the British Empire unparalleled in power, and Babel's research in foreign languages serves the Empire's quest to colonize everything it encounters.
Oxford, the city of dreaming spires, is a fairytale for Robin; a utopia dedicated to the pursuit of knowledge. But knowledge serves power, and for Robin, a Chinese boy raised in Britain, serving Babel inevitably means betraying his motherland. As his studies progress Robin finds himself caught between Babel and the shadowy Hermes Society, an organization dedicated to sabotaging the silver-working that supports imperial expansion. When Britain pursues an unjust war with China over silver and opium, Robin must decide: Can powerful institutions be changed from within, or does revolution always require violence? What is he willing to sacrifice to bring Babel down?
Babel — a thematic response to The Secret History and a tonal response to Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell — grapples with student revolutions, colonial resistance, and the use of translation as a tool of empire.

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Ambassador Mahit Dzmare arrives in the center of the multi-system Teixcalaanli Empire only to discover that her predecessor, the previous ambassador from their small but fiercely independent mining Station, has died. But no one will admit that his death wasn't an accident—or that Mahit might be next to die, during a time of political instability in the highest echelons of the imperial court.
Now, Mahit must discover who is behind the murder, rescue herself, and save her Station from Teixcalaan's unceasing expansion—all while navigating an alien culture that is all too seductive, engaging in intrigues of her own, and hiding a deadly technological secret—one that might spell the end of her Station and her way of life—or rescue it from annihilation.