Showing results for "constellations" in Literary Fiction

The Crescent City after the war is at the heart of a rapidly changing America, and ex-sailor Jack Rodenko is caught up in a strange and shifting milieu as he tends bar at a seedy club called L’Êtoile. While struggling to build a new life, Rodenko becomes involved with a corrupt, greedy power broker, and falls in love with a striking photographer - relationships that will force him to choose between two decidedly different futures.

Anthony Marra transports us to a snow-covered village in Chechnya, where eight-year-old Havaa watches from the woods as Russian soldiers abduct her father in the middle of the night, accusing him of aiding Chechen rebels. Across the road their lifelong neighbor and family friend Akhmed has also been watching, fearing the worst when the soldiers set fire to Havaa’s house. But when he finds her hiding in the forest with a strange blue suitcase, he makes a decision that will forever change their lives. He will seek refuge at the abandoned hospital where the sole remaining doctor, Sonja Rabina, treats the wounded.

In a snow-covered village in Chechnya, eight-year-old Havaa watches from the woods as her father is abducted in the middle of the night by Russian soldiers. Their lifelong friend and neighbour, Akhmed, has also been watching, and when he finds Havaa he knows of only one person who might be able to help. For tough-minded doctor Sonja Rabina, it’s just another day of trying to keep her bombed-out, abandoned hospital going.

Canary Islands, 1882: Explorer and plant biologist Niklas Bruunis researches a species alleged to have hallucinogenic qualities capable of eliminating the psychic limits between one human mind and another. Buenos Aires, 1983: Born to a white Argentinian anthropologist and a black Brazilian engineer, Cassio comes of age with the Internet, and demonstrates the skills and personality that will make him one of the first great Argentine hackers. The southern Argentinian techno-hub of Bariloche, 2024: Piera, on the same research group as Cassio, studies human DNA.

En 2001, à la mort de son ancien professeur, l'éditeur-poète Chevalier Branlequeue (un nom de plume!), l'écrivain Samuel Nihilo décide de poursuivre les recherches de ce dernier sur la crise d'octobre 1970. Chevalier y a toujours vu l'aboutissement d'une conspiration politique. De Montréal, où commence son enquête, jusqu'au village mexicain de Zopilote, où les chemins de Nihilo et d'un ex-felquiste se croiseront....

Eve is a reluctant mother; Eve is a famous phenomenon; Eve is a quiet country teacher. Liam is a successful artist; Liam is a scheming husband; Liam is a gentle partner. Pari is a leading scientific researcher; Pari is a recognized model; Pari is a picture of declining mental states.

¿Querés leer La constelación de Andrómeda? No lo intentes. No vas a poder. Es un artefacto inclasificable, irreductible a la categoría de "texto". Puede recorrerse como un álbum de fotografías, proyectarse como una película o escucharse como una banda de sonido. Simultáneamente.

28 octobre 1949, le Constellation à destination de New-York s'écrase dans l'archipel des Açores avec quarante-huit personnes à son bord. Aucun survivant. Parmi les victimes, des gens célèbres : Marcel Cerdan, champion de boxe et amant d'Édith Piaf, et la grande violoniste Ginette Neveu. Mais aussi des anonymes.