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La escritora Bárbara Myst lleva años escribiendo novelas de intriga con gran éxito comercial, cuya trama ha copiado de un enigmático libro que encontró en el garaje de su abuelo y cuyas historias le han abierto las puertas del éxito. Decidida a terminar con esta farsa que la atormenta, abandona temporalmente a su marido y a sus dos hijas y emprende un improvisado viaje a un pueblo llamado Dark Falls, situado en un recóndito lugar de Montana, Estados Unidos, en donde piensa empezar de cero y escribir una novela original y brillante.

Published two weeks after Vladimir Nabokov’s seventieth birthday, Ada, or Ardor is one of his greatest masterpieces, the glorious culmination of his career as a novelist. It tells a love story troubled by incest, but it is also at once a fairy tale, epic, philosophical treatise on the nature of time, parody of the history of the novel, and erotic catalogue. Ada, or Ardor is no less than the supreme work of an imagination at white heat. This is the first American edition to include the extensive and ingeniously sardonic appendix by the author, written under the anagrammatic pseudonym Vivian Darkbloom.

Albinus, a respectable, middle-aged man and aspiring filmmaker, abandons his wife for a lover half his age: Margot, who wants to become a movie star. When Albinus introduces her to Rex, an American movie producer, disaster ensues. What emerges is an elegantly sardonic and irresistibly ironic novel of desire, deceit, and deception, a curious romance set in the film world of Berlin in the 1930s.

In Spymaster's Prism, the legendary former spymaster Jack Devine details the unending struggle with Russia and its intelligence agencies as it works against our national security. Devine tells this story through the unique perspective of a seasoned CIA professional who served more than three decades, some at the highest levels of the agency.

The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, the first novel Nabokov wrote in English, is a tantalizing literary mystery in which a writer’s half brother searches to unravel the enigma of the life of the famous author of Albinos in Black, The Back of the Moon, and Doubtful Asphodel. A characteristically cunning play on identity and deception, the novel concludes “ I am Sebastian, or Sebastian is I, or perhaps we both are someone whom neither of us knows.”

Nabokov’s third novel, The Luzhin Defense, is a chilling story of obsession and madness. As a young boy, Luzhin was unattractive, distracted, withdrawn, sullen — an enigma to his parents and an object of ridicule to his classmates. He takes up chess as a refuge from the anxiety of his everyday life. His talent is prodigious and he rises to the rank of grandmaster — but at a cost: in Luzhin’s obsessive mind, the game of chess gradually supplants reality.

This novel is the story of Dreyer, a wealthy and boisterous proprietor of a men’s clothing emporium. Ruddy, self-satisfied, and thoroughly masculine, he is perfectly repugnant to his exquisite but cold middle-class wife, Martha. Attracted to his money but repelled by his oblivious passion, she longs for their nephew instead, the thin, awkward, myopic Franz. Newly arrived in Berlin, Franz soon repays his uncle’s condescension in his aunt’s bed.

The first novel Nabokov wrote while living in America, and the most overtly political novel he ever wrote, Bend Sinister is a modern classic. While it is filled with veiled puns and characteristically delightful wordplay, it is, first and foremost, a haunting and compelling narrative about a civilized man caught in the tyranny of a police state. Professor Adam Krug, the country's foremost philosopher, offers the only hope of resistance to Paduk, dictator and leader of the Party of the Average Man.

Extensively revised by Nabokov in 1965 - 30 years after its original publication - Despair is the wickedly inventive and richly derisive story of Hermann, a man who undertakes the perfect crime: his own murder. One of the 20th century’s master prose stylists, Vladimir Nabokov was born in St. Petersburg in 1899. He studied French and Russian literature at Trinity College, Cambridge, then lived in Berlin and Paris, where he launched a brilliant literary career. In 1940 he moved to the United States, and achieved renown as a novelist, poet, critic, and translator.

The untold story of how Russia refined the art and science of targeted assassination abroad—while Western spies watched in horror as their governments failed to guard against the threat. Unflinchingly documenting the growing web of death on British and American soil, Heidi Blake bravely exposes the Kremlin's assassination campaign as part of Putin's ruthless pursuit of global dominance—and reveals why Western governments have failed to stop the bloodshed.

Klasické dílo první dámy detektivního žánru. V neúprosném rytmu známého popěvku o deseti malých černoušcích ubývá hostů v luxusním sídle na ostrově, bouří odříznutém od světa. Jakási ďábelská síla žene podle předem připraveného plánu jednoho po druhém do záhuby, až nezbude žádný. Kam však zmizel vrah?

" Transparent Things revolves around the four visits of the hero - sullen, gawky Hugh Person - to Switzerland.... As a young publisher, Hugh is sent to interview R., falls in love with Armande on the way, wrests her, after multiple humiliations, from a grinning Scandinavian and returns to NY with his bride.... Eight years later - following a murder, a period of madness and a brief imprisonment - Hugh makes a lone sentimental journey to wheedle out his past...." (Martin Amis)

Nabokov’s fourth novel, The Eye, is as much a farcical detective story as it is a profoundly refractive tale about the vicissitudes of identities and appearances. Smurov, a lovelorn, excruciatingly self-conscious Russian émigré living in pre-war Berlin, commits suicide after being humiliated by a jealous husband, only to suffer even greater indignities in the afterlife as he searches for proof of his existence among fellow émigrés who are too distracted to pay him any heed.

Le véhicule Cupra Formentor de Ouisam B. 33 ans surnommé le Gay a été criblé de balles de 9 mm samedi 4 mai 2024 sur le parking de la discothèque l'étoile à toulouse. La Ville rose fait face, depuis quelques années maintenant, à une multiplication des règlement de comptes sanglants sur fond de trafic de drogue. Une situation qui rappelle celle à laquelle les habitants de la cité phocéenne sont régulièrement confrontés. Mais pourquoi un tel changement ? pour comprendre il faut remonter à la fin des années 90 début des années 2000.

Hlavní hrdinka Rachel Sextonová, dcera volebního soupeře amerického prezidenta, odlétá do Arktidy, kde NASA objevila ve starém meteoritu pravděpodobný důkaz mimozemského života. Za polární kruh je povolán i biolog Michael Tolland, který má pomoci ověřit autenticitu objevu. Vědecké bádání se ale brzy zvrtne do boje o holé přežití. Nakolik je objev součástí nemilosrdného politického boje o prezidentský post? Kdo má zájem utajit pravdu i za cenu lidských životů a proč?

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Pour comprendre cette rocambolesque histoire, il faut se plonger d’abord dans la mouvance rock et punk des années 80. A cette époque, de nombreux groupes de rock font leur apparition dans le paysage musical français comme les Béruriers Noirs, Les Garçons Bouchers ou bien Les Wampas

Quel serait le point commun entre l’affaire du bar du téléphone, l’assassinat du juge Pierre Michel et l’exécution en pleine Rue Saint Rome à Toulouse d’un homme surnommé « Le grand » ?

A gripping narrative of power, corruption and greed, The Mechanism is the true story of how a simple investigation into money laundering uncovered the biggest corruption scandal in human history. When a small team of investigators discovered that a black market currency dealer was operating out of a Brazilian petrol station, they could never have imagined that their work would destroy the government and lead to the impeachment of two presidents.

Qui ne connait pas Maître Randall Schwerdorffer ? Avocat brillant, médiatisé par l’affaire Jonathan Daval en 2017, ce personnage à la fois provocateur, passionné et charismatique laisse rarement indifférent. Celui qui a prêté serment à Besançon en janvier 2001 et qui a obtenu une dizaine d’acquittements, vient de sortir son troisième ouvrage aux éditions « Hugo-Doc » sous le titre « Itineraire d’un avocat hors norme ». Il est l'invité de Vladimir Max pour la page culture