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Éléni, une jeune Athénienne, évoque la fin de sa liaison avec Grigoris - Grec installé à Paris - leur première rencontre, leurs retrouvailles à Barcelone, puis encore cette rupture dont elle ne parvient pas à guérir. Le veut-elle vraiment? « Ma souffrance est le dernier lien qui subsiste entre nous » écrit-elle. Cette lettre adressée à un absent n'est pas une complainte. Éléni demande aux mots de l'aider à comprendre l'amour. Les mots se montreront bienveillants : ils lui apprendront à discerner sur le visage de l'amour les traits de la poésie. « Sur le flacon tu avais...

Terceira coletânea de contos do ganhador do Man Booker Prize, Julian Barnes, Pulso reúne histórias sobre amor e amizade, perda e saudade, ligadas por um ritmo comum: do corpo, do amor, do sexo, da doença e da morte. Do familiar ao extraordinário, de acontecimentos privados a fatos históricos, de encontros a desencontros de amigos ou de amantes, as histórias narradas em Pulso ressoam e possuem brilho próprio. Lançado originalmente em 2011, Pulso apresenta 14 contos, divididos em duas partes. Na primeira reúnem-se os relatos mais ágeis, escritos praticamente à base de diálogos,...

Vivienne is a collection of eight books that details the life of Vivienne, a French woman, penned by Rita. Eliza Humphreys (aka Rita) was an English novelist known for creating stories with strong female central characters. Excerpt: "The old woman left the room, and Vivienne and Madame Pitteri resumed their efforts at restoring the suspended animation to the senseless figure before them. How long the time seemed as they waited for medical help! What an eternity of horror were those anxious moments when the white, still face was locked in that rigid semblance of death, and neither pulse nor...

Lord Copper is proud of his ability to discover talented reporters. However, due to a confusion of surnames he sends the most improbable journalist possible to 'cover' a civil war in an African Republic. Evelyn Waugh launches a ferocious satire about the world of journalism, special envoys, and information.