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'This life-stuffed novel is Aleksandar Hemon's masterpiece' - David Mitchell, author of Cloud AtlasThe World and All That It Holds is the epic, cross- continental tale of a love so strong it conquers the Great War, revolution, and even death itself.As the Archduke Franz Ferdinand arrives in Sarajevo one June day in 1914, Rafael Pinto is busy crushing herbs and grinding tablets behind the counter at the pharmacy he inherited from his father. It's not quite the life he had expected during his poetry-filled student days in libertine Vienna, but it's nothing a dash of laudanum, a summer stroll and idle fantasies can't put in perspective.And then the world explodes. In the trenches in Galicia, fantasies fall flat. Heroism gets a man killed quickly. War devours all that they have known, and the only thing Pinto has to live for are the attentions of Osman, a fellow soldier, a man of action to complement Pinto's introspective, poetic soul; a charismatic storyteller and Pinto's protector and lover.Together, Pinto and Osman will escape the trenches and find themselves entangled with spies and Bolsheviks. As they travel over mountains and across deserts, from one world to another, all the way to Shanghai, it is Pinto's love for Osman that will truly survive.

"This book originally appeared, in slightly different form, in The New Yorker (newyorker.com) on July 8, 2019"--Copyright page.

Dès le début de cette histoire, une menace plane sur Nicolas. Nous le sentons, nous le savons, tout comme il le sait, au fond de lui-même l'a toujours su. Pendant la classe de neige, ses peurs d'enfant vont tourner au cauchemar. Et si nous ignorons d'où va surgir le danger, quelle forme il va prendre, qui va en être l'instrument, nous savons que quelque chose est en marche. Quelque chose de terrible, qui ne s'arrêtera pas. Avec présentation, notes, dossier et cahier photos par Fanny Taillandier.

Der Bestseller von YASMINA REZA - jetzt als Fischer Taschenbuch! Die große französische Autorin Yasmina Reza erzählt auf unvergleichliche Weise einen Reigen von Paaren, Einzelgängern und Familien, die durch vielerlei Beziehungen miteinander verbunden sind. Ein unerhört lebensnaher Roman, ein Feuerwerk aus klugem Witz, tiefen Einsichten und geballter Gegenwart. Yasmina Reza, 1957 geboren, ist Autorin, Regisseurin und Schauspielerin. Ihre Theaterstücke sind in 30 Sprachen übersetzt. Ihr Stück ›Der Gott des Gemetzels‹ wurde auf 145 deutschsprachigen Bühnen aufgeführt und 2011 mit Jodie Foster, Kate Winslet und Christoph Waltz verfilmt.

"Aleksandar Hemon's lives begin in Sarajevo, a small, blissful city where a young boy's life is consumed with street soccer with his casually multi-ethnic group of friends, resentment of his younger sister, and occasional trips abroad with his engineer-cum-beekeeper father, and a young man's life is about poking at the pretensions of the city's elders with American music, bad poetry, and slightly better journalism. And then there is Chicago -- war breaking out at home and the city fully under siege, the Hemon family fleeing Sarajevo (with their dog) and all they had ever known, applying for asylum, and Hemon himself starting his own family in this new city. And yet this is not really a memoir. Like Hemon's fiction, The Book of My Lives defies convention and expectation. It is a love-song to two different cities; it is a heartbreaking paean to the bonds of family; it is a stirring exhortation to go out and play soccer -- and not for the exercise. It is a book driven by passions but built on fierce intelligence, devastating experience, and sharp insight. And like the best narratives, it is a book that will leave you a different reader -- a different person, with a new way of looking at the world. For fans of Hemon's fiction, The Book of My Lives is simply indispensable; for the uninitiated, it is the perfect introduction to one of the great writers of our time."--Publisher's description.

All'origine del «caso Vargas», che ha scalato le classifiche in Francia e in Europa, ci sono il linguaggio terso, lo stile ironico e incisivo, e l'accuratezza nei dettagli sorprendenti. I personaggi, atipici e logorati dalla vita, sono sempre pronti a battersi. Il commissario Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg, protagonista amato dai lettori, si muove nel mondo del distretto di polizia del XIII arrondissement. Definito «spalatore di nuvole», antirazionale e filosofico, Adamsberg preferisce un approccio zigzagante, brancolando nel buio fino a raggiungere intuizioni geniali, lontane dalla logica classica dell'investigatore. La sua prima apparizione avviene mentre indaga su misteriosi cerchi tracciati sui marciapiedi di Parigi, dove sente che presto comparirà un cadavere. Nel secondo romanzo, deve affrontare una serie di orrendi delitti, potenzialmente opera di un lupo mannaro. L'ultimo romanzo di questa trilogia lo coinvolge in un intricato caso ricco di simboli e superstizioni, che affondano nei tempi bui della Morte Nera. La trilogia include: L'uomo dei cerchi azzurri, L'uomo a rovescio e Parti in fretta e non tornare.