Sur le point de fêter ses cinq ans, Jack a les préoccupations des enfants de son âge. Ou presque. Il ne pense qu'à jouer et à essayer de comprendre le monde qui l'entoure, comptant sur sa mère pour répondre à ses questions. Celle-ci occupe dans sa vie une place immense, d'autant plus qu'il vit seul ...
B>Bestselling author Emma Donoghue returns with her next masterpiece, a brilliant, contemporary tale of love, loss and family. /b>A retired New York professor's life is thrown into chaos when he takes his great-nephew to the French Riviera, in hopes of uncovering his own mother's wartime secrets.Noa...
A l'été 1876, la ville de San Francisco suffoque sous une chaleur accablante. Dans un saloon, en lisière d'une voie ferrée, un coup de feu retentit. Blanche Beunon échappe de justesse à la mort qui n'épargne pas son amie Jenny Bonnet, fauchée sur le coup. Inconsolable, Blanche, une danseuse de burle...
Le départ, la route, l'arrivée : les trois parties de ce recueil de nouvelles marquent les étapes du voyage, de l'errance, de l'exil. Par-delà les époques, l'auteur nous entraîne du Massachusets puritain au New Jersey révolutionnaire, passant par la Louisiane belliqueuse, jusqu'aux bas-fonds sordide...
B>A major film starring Brie Larson/b>br>b>Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize/b>br>b>Shortlisted for the Orange Prize/b>Jack is five. He lives with his Ma. They live in a single, locked room. They don't have the key. Jack and Ma are prisoners.Room by Emma Donoghue is an extraordinarily powerful st...
Le rencontre entre Sile, une Irlandaise bobo et Jude, une Canadienne à l'âme bucolique fut aussi fortuite que rocambolesque et aurait dû rester sans suite. Mais la curiosité s'en est mêle et, de lettres en e-mails, de longues conversations en brêves retrouvailles, leur histoire va peu à peu prendre ...
An eleven-year-old girl stops eating, but remains miraculously alive and well. A nurse, sent to investigate whether she is a fraud, meets a journalist hungry for a story . . .Set in the Irish Midlands in the 1850s, Emma Donoghue's The Wonder - inspired by numerous European and North American cases o...
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From the bestselling author of ROOM comes a delicious tale of secrets, betrayal and forbidden love. After a separation of many years, Emily 'Fido' Faithfull bumps into her old friend Helen Codrington on the streets of Victorian London. Much has changed: Helen is more and more unhappy in her marri...
'Emma Donoghue writes books that are unlike anything I have ever seen before, and Astray is no exception. There is such a deep and compassionate imagination at work in every story in this collection that Astray feels almost like an act of clairvoyance.' Ann Patchett, Orange prize-winning author of B...
From the author of 'Slammerkin', a gripping historical novel about three famous Londoners - an artist, an actress and an aristocrat - based on a true scandal of 18th century London. ...
The story of a mother, her son, a locked room and the outside world ...