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Faber and Faber
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Demon's story begins with his traumatic birth to a single mother in a single-wide trailer, looking "like a little blue prizefighter." For the life ahead of him he would need all of that fighting spirit, along with buckets of charm, a quick wit, [...]Ten-year old Jas has a unique way of experiencing the universe: the feeling of udder ointment on her skin as protection against harsh winters; the texture of green warts, like capers, on migrating toads; the sound of 'blush words' that arent't i[...]Here we meet Tambudzai, living in a run-down youth hostel in downtown Harare and anxious about her prospects after leaving a stagnant job. At every turn in her attempt to make a life for herself, she is faced with a fresh humiliation, until the [...]Frances is a coolheaded and darkly observant young woman, vaguely pursuing a career in writing while studying in Dublin. Her best friend is the beautiful and endlessly self-possessed Bobbi. At a local poetry performance one night, they meet a we[...]From the master of the small gesture, it is a fraught, realist masterpiece about the weight of love and its absence, the pride and disappointment of family, the anxiety and hopefulness of being alive in the twenty-first century. (source : publisher)Connell and Marianne grow up in the same small town in the west of Ireland, but the similarities end there. In school, Connell is popular and well-liked, while Marianne is a loner. But when the two strike up a conversation -awkward but electrify[...]On March 3, 1947, Archibald Isaac Ferguson is born. From that single beginning, Ferguson's life will take four simultaneous and independent fictional paths. Four Fergusons made of the same genetic material, four boys who are the same boy, will g[...]The novel is narrated by Thomas McNulty, an Irish emigrant who flees to Canada and then America to escape the Great Famine. In America he befriends John Cole and the two form a close relationship, working first, as young boys, as cross-dressing [...]Recueil de pièces en anglais.Moran is an old republican whose life was forever transformed by hos days of glory as a guerilla leader in the War of Independance. Now, in his old age, living out in the country, Moran is still fighting in a poignant struggle to come to terms w[...]Roman en anglais.A plane crash on a desert island and the only survivors, a group of schoolboys, assemble on the beach and wait to be rescued. By day they inhabit a land of bright fantastic birds and dark blue seas, but at night their dreams are haunted by the i[...]