PRIX FEMINA ETRANGER 2020 Deborah Levy revient sur sa vie. Elle fuit à Majorque pour réfléchir et se retrouver, et pense à l'Afrique du Sud, ce pays qu'elle a quitté, à son enfance, à l'apartheid, à son père - militant de l'ANC emprisonné -, aux oiseaux en cage, et à l'Angleterre, son pays d'adop...
L'oeuvre de Deborah Levy est marquée par un vaste projet autobiographique, dont Le coût de la vie, constitue le volet central. Dramaturge, poétesse et romancière anglaise, l'autrice revient sur sa vie. À l'âge de 50 ans et après des décennies d'une vie de famille au nord de Londres, Deborah Levy se...
En arrivant avec sa famille et un couple d'amis dans une villa sur les hauteurs de Nice, Joe Jacobs découvre un corps dans la piscine. Bien vivant. La créature s'appelle Kitty Finch : elle se dit botaniste, elle porte du vernis à ongles vert, et c'est toute nue qu'elle se présente à eux, plongeant a...
The Unloved is a hypnotising novel by the Man Booker-shortlisted writer Deborah Levy. A group of hedonistic West European tourists gather to celebrate Christmas in a remote French chateau. Then an Englishwoman is brutally murdered, and the sad, eerie child Tatiana declares she knows who did it. ...
Billy England and his sister Girl are clever, stylish and damaged. Billy is a teenage "catastrophe theorist" which is handy since their mother has gone missing, and when they last saw their father his Elvis hair was in flames. Girl has a mission. She knocks on a door of a selected house and preten...
Things I Don't Want to Know is a brilliantly insightful longform essay by Deborah Levy. 'Things I Don't Want to Know' is a unique response to George Orwell from one of our most vital contemporary writers. Taking Orwell's famous list of motives for writing as the jumping-off point for a sequence o...
SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2016 SHORTLISTED FOR THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE 2016 A richly mythic, colour-saturated tale from the Man Booker-shortlisted author of Swimming Home - Deborah Levy explores the violently primal bond between mother and daughterToday I dropped my laptop on the concrete...
SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2016 A richly mythic, colour-saturated tale from the Man Booker-shortlisted author of Swimming Home--Deborah Levy explores the violently primal bond between mother and daughter. Two women arrive in a Spanish village--a dreamlike place caught between the deser...
The audacious and elegiac second installment in her 'living autobiography' on writing and womanhood, from the twice-Man Booker Prize-shortlisted author of Hot Milk and Swimming HomeFollowing the acclaimed Things I Don't Want to Know, Deborah Levy returns to the subject of her life in letters. The Co...
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Les Voyages de Daniel Ascher de Déborah Lévy-Bertherat Éditions Rivages Une année particulière commence pour Hélène, quand elle s´installe à Paris pour étudier l´archéologie. Elle est logée par son grand-oncle Daniel, un vieux globe-trotter excentrique qu'elle n'apprécie guère. Il est l'auteur, sous...
Deux femmes partagent, le temps d'une nuit, une chambre d'hôpital. L'une est kabyle et musulmane, l'autre française et juive : tout les sépare sauf leurs cancers, qui sont les mêmes. Au cours de la nuit, par les paroles et les silences, le passage des soignants et des proches, elles vont se découvr...
Un roman d'une grande efficacité narrative, qui mêle avec brio, sur fond d'évocations de souvenirs d'enfance et de guerre, le motif romanesque des retrouvailles amoureuses et celui de l'usurpation (involontaire) d'identité. Madeleine retrouve soixante ans après son premier fiancé qu'elle croyait mor...
As he arrives with his family at the villa in the hills above Nice, Joe sees a body in the swimming pool. But the girl is very much alive. She is Kitty Finch: a self-proclaimed botanist with green-painted fingernails, walking naked out of the water and into the heart of their holiday. Why is she the...
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Kissing you is like new paint and old pain. It is like coffee and car alarms and a dim stairway and a stain and it's like smoke.' ('Placing a Call') How does love change us? And how do we change ourselves for love - or for lack of it? Ten stories by acclaimed author Deborah Levy explore these delica...
A sensation in France, this is a story about literary deceptions, family secrets, and a thrilling quest for the truth Who is the real author of The Black Insignia? Is it H. R. Sanders, whose name is printed on the cover of every installment of the wildly successful young adult adventure series? Or i...
Numbers and statistical claims dominate today's news. Politics, budgets, crime analysis, medical issues, and sports reporting all demand numbers. Now in its third edition, News Numbers focuses on how to evaluate statistical claims in science, health, medicine, and politics. It does so by helping re...