Heretic Dawn Fortunes Of France 3
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Heretic Dawn Fortunes Of France 3
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Author : Robert Merle
language : en
Publisher: Pushkin Press
Release Date : 2015-02-04
Heretic Dawn Fortunes Of France 3 written by Robert Merle and has been published by Pushkin Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-02-04 with Fiction categories.
The third book in the swashbuckling Fortunes of France series - devious courtly intrigues build to a horrific and bloody climax in the most powerful instalment yet 1572: Returning from his studies in Montpellier, Pierre de Siorac is ambushed by a jealous PŽrigord nobleman. A duel ensues, and Pierre must subsequently travel to Paris, to seek his pardon from the King. The capital city and the royal court are a disorienting new environment for Pierre: a world of sweet words and fierce pride, where coquettish smiles hide behind fans, and murderous intents behind elegant bows; a world of genteel tennis matches and deadly swordplay, whose elaborate social graces mask a simmering tension that will soon explode to engulf the entire city in one of history's most infamous bouts of butchery - and signal the dawn of a new and bloody era in the history of France. Here, Pierre faces the greatest challenge of his young existence - to make his way through this deceptively dangerous milieu, to win a royal pardon, and finally to escape from Paris with his life, and the lives of his beloved companions, intact. Heretic Dawn is the third book in the swashbuckling Fortunes of France series, after The Brethren and City of Wisdom and Blood. Robert Merle (1908-2004) was born in French Algeria, before moving to mainland France in 1918. Originally an English teacher, Merle served as an interpreter with British Expeditionary Force during the Second World War, and was captured by the German army at Dunkirk, the experience of which served as the basis for his Goncourt-prize-winning Weekend at Zuydcoote. He published the 13 volumes of his hugely popular Fortunes of France series over four decades, from 1977 to 2003, the final volume appearing just a year before his death in 2004.
Fortune De France 3 Paris Ma Bonne Ville
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Author : Robert Merle
language : fr
Publisher: Le Livre de poche
Release Date : 1994-09
Fortune De France 3 Paris Ma Bonne Ville written by Robert Merle and has been published by Le Livre de poche this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994-09 with Fiction categories.
Commencée en plein centre du Périgord au milieu du XVIe siècle, cette série nous conduit jusqu'aux lendemains de la mort de Mazarin, alors que débute véritablement le règne du Roi-Soleil.
Paris Ma Bonne Ville
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Author : Robert Merle
language : fr
Publisher:
Release Date : 1980
Paris Ma Bonne Ville written by Robert Merle and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1980 with France categories.
Analyse : Roman historique.
No Place To Lay One S Head
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Author : Françoise Frenkel
language : en
Publisher: Pushkin Press
Release Date : 2018-01-25
No Place To Lay One S Head written by Françoise Frenkel and has been published by Pushkin Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-01-25 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The unforgettable story of one woman's struggle to survive persecution in wartime France 'I loved my bookstore the way a woman loves, that is to say, truly' In 1921, Françoise Frenkel – a Jewish woman from Poland – opens Berlin's very first French bookshop. It is a dream come true. The bookshop attracts artists and diplomats, celebrities and poets – even the French ambassador himself. It brings Françoise peace, friendship and prosperity. Then one summer's day in 1939, the dream ends. It ends after Kristallnacht, when Jewish shops and businesses are smashed to pieces. It ends when no one protests. So, just weeks before the war breaks out, Françoise flees to France. In Paris, on the wireless and in the newspapers, horror has made itself at home. When the city is bombed, Françoise seeks refuge in Nice, which is awash with refugees and terrible suffering. Children are torn from their parents; mothers throw themselves under buses. Horrified by what she sees, Françoise goes into hiding. She survives only because strangers risk their lives to protect her. Unfolding in Berlin, Paris and against the romantic landscapes of southern France, No Place to Lay One's Head is a heartbreaking tale of human cruelty and unending kindness; of a woman whose lust for life refuses to leave her, even in her darkest hours. Very little is known about the life of Françoise Frenkel. She was born in Poland in 1889 and later studied and lived in Paris; in 1921 she set up the first French-language bookshop in Berlin with her husband. In 1939, she returned to Paris, and after the German invasion the following year fled south to Nice. After several years in hiding, she made a desperate attempt to cross the border to Switzerland. Frenkel died in Nice in 1975. Her memoir, originally published in Geneva in 1945, was rediscovered in a flea market in 2010, republished in the original French and is now being translated and published in numerous languages for the first time.
Die Gute Stadt Paris
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Author : Robert Merle
language : de
Publisher: Aufbau Digital
Release Date : 2011-01-12
Die Gute Stadt Paris written by Robert Merle and has been published by Aufbau Digital this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-01-12 with Fiction categories.
Sommer 1572. Der junge Pierre de Siorac, Sohn eines hugenottischen Edelmannes aus dem Périgord und gerade frischgebackener Mediziner, muß sich – wegen eines Duells von des Todesstrafe bedroht – in die Hauptstadt flüchten, die Gnade des Königs zu erflehen. Er ist tolerant im Glauben und schlagfertig, listig, intelligent im Leben, dazu von unwiderstehlicher Ausstrahlung auf Frauen – Talente, die ihm bei seinem gefahrvollen Vorhaben sehr von Nutzen sind. Er lernt das Paris der kleinen Leute kennen, aber auch den prunkvollen, düsteren Louvre. Er hofiert hohe Damen, die wahre Kokotten sind. Er begegnet den Günstlingen der Prinzen und den großen Geistern der Zeit. Seinem Geschick verdankt er es, daß er schließlich dem König vorgestellt wird und seine Begnadigung erlangt. – Aber in Frankreich tobt seit zehn Jahren ein mörderischer Glaubenskrieg zwischen Katholiken und Hugenotten, der in der Nacht des 24. August – der Hochzeitsnacht der katholischen Königstochter Marguerite mit dem „Ketzer“ Henri de Navarre – ihren blutigen Höhepunkt erreicht. Und auch Pierre de Siorac wird in den Strudel der Bartholomäusnacht gerissen.
Mazel Tov
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Author : J.S. Margot
language : en
Publisher: Pushkin Press
Release Date : 2020-01-23
Mazel Tov written by J.S. Margot and has been published by Pushkin Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-01-23 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
'Margot's is an exceptional voice, illuminating a section of society rarely seen in a refreshingly frank manner... Any reader interested in the central questions of our time will find enlightenment here' Deborah Feldman, author of Unorthodox When 20-year-old student J. S. Margot took a tutoring job, little did she know it would open up an entire world. In the family's Orthodox Jewish household, she would encounter endless rules – 'never come on a Friday, never shake hands with a man' – and quirks she had not seen before: tiny tubes on the doorposts, separate fridges for meat and dairy products. Her initial response was puzzlement and occasionally anger, but as she taught the children and fiercely debated with the family, she also began to learn from them. Full of funny misunderstandings and unexpected connections, Mazel Tov is a heartwarming, provocative and disarmingly honest memoir of clashing cultures and unusual friendships – and of how, where adults build walls, sometimes only children can tear them down. J.S. Margot (b. 1967) is a journalist and freelance writer based in Antwerp. An award-winning contributor to leading national newspapers De Standaard and De Morgen, she has also written five novels and lectures regularly in both the Netherlands and Belgium. In 2017 she was awarded the E. du Perronprijs and the Prize for the best Religious book from the VUKPP for Mazel Tov, which was also highly acclaimed in the Dutch and Belgian press. Mazel Tov has been translated into German, French and Polish and won the Best Book Award in Poland; it is her first book to be translated into English.
The Heart Of A Stranger
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Author : Andre Naffis-Sahely
language : en
Publisher: Pushkin Press
Release Date : 2020-01-14
The Heart Of A Stranger written by Andre Naffis-Sahely and has been published by Pushkin Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-01-14 with Literary Collections categories.
A fascinatingly diverse anthology of the literature of exile, from the myths of Ancient Egypt to contemporary poetry Exile lies at the root of our earliest stories. Charting varied experiences of people forced to leave their homes from the ancient world to the present day, The Heart of a Stranger is an anthology of poetry, fiction and non-fiction that journeys through six continents, with over a hundred contributors drawn from twenty-four languages. Highlights include the wisdom of the 5th century Desert Fathers and Mothers, the Swahili Song of Liyongo, The Flight of the Irish Earls, Emma Goldman's travails in the wake of the First Red Scare, the Syrian poet Nizar Qabbani's ode to the lost world of Andalusia and the work of contemporary Eritrean fabulist Ribka Sibhatu. Edited by poet and translator André Naffis-Sahely, The Heart of a Stranger offers a uniquely varied look at a theme both ancient and urgently contemporary.
Evening Descends Upon The Hills
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Author : Anna Maria Ortese
language : en
Publisher: Pushkin Press
Release Date : 2018-05-03
Evening Descends Upon The Hills written by Anna Maria Ortese and has been published by Pushkin Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-05-03 with Fiction categories.
Classic stories and reportage set in Naples in the 1940s and 50s that inspired Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan Novels A highly evocative classic set in Italy's most vibrant and turbulent metropolis in the immediate aftermath of World War Two. Anna Maria Ortese was one of the most celebrated and original Italian writers of the Twentieth Century. Her stories and reportage, collected in this volume, form a powerful portrait of ordinary lives, both high and low, family dramas, love affairs, and struggles to pay the rent, set against the crumbling courtyards of the city itself, and the dramatic landscape of Naples Bay.
Sand
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Author : Wolfgang Herrndorf
language : en
Publisher: Pushkin Press
Release Date : 2017-03-30
Sand written by Wolfgang Herrndorf and has been published by Pushkin Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-03-30 with Fiction categories.
A sophisticated literary thriller set during the cold war - an ambitious and brilliantly crafted story of murder, memory loss and nuclear secrets... Somewhere in the North African desert, a man with no memory tries to evade his armed pursuers. Who are they? What do they want from him? If he could just recall his own identity he might have a chance of working it out. Elsewhere, four westerners are murdered in a hippy commune and a suitcase full of worthless currency goes missing. Enter a pair of very unenthusiastic detectives, a paranoid spy whose sanity has baked away in the sun, and a beautiful blonde American with a talent for being underestimated. Sand is a gripping thriller - part Pynchon, part le Carré, part Coen brothers - an unsettling, caustically funny tale of pursuit and madness. Born in 1965, Wolfgang Herrndorf originally worked as a painter and illustrator before starting to write novels. He had his literary breakthrough in 2010 with Tschick, which has sold more than a million copies in Germany. By this point he was already suffering from an incurable brain tumour. He continued to write for the next few years, completing Sand, which won the 2012 Leipzig Book Fair prize. He also documented his experiences of fighting his illness on a blog, Arbeit and Struktur, which was later published in book form. In 2013 he took his own life.
War In Val D Orcia
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Author : Iris Origo
language : en
Publisher: Pushkin Press
Release Date : 2017-02-23
War In Val D Orcia written by Iris Origo and has been published by Pushkin Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-02-23 with History categories.
'A remarkably moving document that, like the best of the elemental war stories, eventually becomes a statement about the unplanned nature and folly of war'_ The New York Times At the height of the Second World War, Italy was being torn apart by German armies, civil war, and the eventual Allied invasion. In a corner of Tuscany, one woman - born in England, married to an Italian - kept a record of daily life in a country at war. Iris Origo's compellingly powerful diary, War in Val d'Orcia, is the spare and vivid account of what happened when a peaceful farming valley became a battleground. At great personal risk, the Origos gave food and shelter to partisans, deserters and refugees. They took in evacuees, and as the front drew closer they faced the knowledge that the lives of thirty-two small children depended on them. Origo writes with sensitivity and generosity, and a story emerges of human acts of heroism and compassion, and the devastation that war can bring. With a new introduction by writer and social historian Virginia Nicholson, and stunning rediscovered photographs. Iris Origo (1902-1988) was a British-born biographer and writer. She lived in Italy and devoted much of her life to the improvement of the Tuscan estate at La Foce, which she purchased with her husband in the 1920s. During the Second World War, she sheltered refugee children and assisted many escaped Allied prisoners of war and partisans in defiance of Italy's fascist regime and Nazi occupation forces. Pushkin Press also publishes her memoir, Images and Shadows, as well as two of her biographies, A Study in Solitude: The Life of Leopardi - Poet, Romantic and Radical and The Last Attachment: The Story of Byron and Teresa Guiccioli.