A story of men and women setting out in search of new adventures, blown off course by illness, war and strokes of fate, this exuberant Franco-Chilean family saga spans a hundred years, two world wars, four generations and two continents in the space of ten short chapters.
An NPR Best Book of the YearPierre is a young man at a crossroads. He drops out of architecture school and decides to travel to Vals in the Swiss Alps, home to a thermal springs complex located deep inside a mountain. The complex, designed by architect Peter Zumthor, had been the subject of Pierre’s thesis. The mountain holds many mysteries; it was said to have a mouth that periodically swallowed people up. Pierre, sketchbook in hand, is drawn to the enigmatic powers of the mountain and its springs, and attempts to uncover the truth behind them in the secret rooms he discovers deep within the complex. But he finds his match in a man named Valeret who is similarly obsessed, and who’d like nothing more than to eliminate his competitor.Gorgeously illustrated, Swimming in Darkness is an intriguing, noirish graphic novel about uncovering the powerful secrets of the natural world.
This sweeping, intelligent and immersive biographical graphic novel from award-winning creators, joins legendary scientist Charles Darwin as a young man, as he embarks on his voyage on the H.M.S. Beagle. It is the year 1831. A gifted but distracted young man named Charles Darwin has been offered a place aboard the H.M.S. Beagle, in a chain of events that will change both his life and the course of modern science. Join him on an epic journey of thrilling discovery as he explores remote corners of the natural world and pieces together the very beginnings of his revolutionary theory of evolution.
Josephine Baker (1906-1975) was nineteen years old when she found herself in Paris for the first time in 1925. Overnight, the young American dancer became the idol of the Roaring Twenties, captivating Picasso, Cocteau, Le Corbusier, and Simenon. In the liberating atmosphere of the 1930s, Baker rose to fame as the first black star on the world stage, from London to Vienna, Alexandria to Buenos Aires. After World War II, and her time in the French Resistance, Baker devoted herself to the struggle against racial segregation, publicly battling the humiliations she had for so long suffered personally. She led by example, and over the course of the 1950s adopted twelve orphans of different ethnic backgrounds: a veritable Rainbow Tribe. A victim of racism throughout her life, Josephine Baker would sing of love and liberty until the day she died.
"In the bohemian and brilliant Montparnasse of the 1920s, Kiki escaped poverty to become one of the most charismatic figures of the avant-garde years between the wars. Partner to Man Ray, she would be immortalised by many artists. The muse of a generation, she was one of the first emancipated women of the 20th century"--Provided by publisher
Louise je skúsená horolezkyňa, Ludovic je urastený mladý muž. Opustia svoje parížske zamestnania a vydajú sa na cestu okolo sveta. Zastavia sa na nádhernom ostrove medzi Patagóniou a Hornským mysom. Divoká príroda, zasnežené vrcholky hôr, ľadovcové krátery, jazerá bez vody sa však zmenia na nočnú moru. Zamilovaný muž a žena sú zrazu úplne sami. Ich novými spoločníkmi sa stávajú tučniaky, uškatce, tulene a potkany. Ako bojovať s hladom a vyčerpaním? A ak prežijú, budú schopní vrátiť sa medzi ľudí? Ako im opíšu neopísateľné? Román Náhle, sami je strhujúcim príbehom dvoch Robinsonov, príbehom o tom, čo z nás uprostred neľútostnej prírody robí ľudí.
A Pierre-Marie, un escritor de éxito en plena crisis creativa, la sorpresa le llega un buen día a su buzón en forma de paquete enviado por una de sus lectoras. ¡Y qué lectora! Adeline Parmelan, «grande, gruesa y morena», quien podría convertirse en su más terrible pesadilla. Pero en lugar de eso, ambos inician una intensa, divertida e inteligente correspondencia por e-mail y se convierten en indispensables el uno para el otro… Hasta que salen a la luz el contenido del paquete postal, casi olvidado en la mesa del estudio del escritor, y los secretos que alberga. Una novela que sienta bien y que querrás regalar una y otra vez. «Un pequeño elixir de buen humor». France Dimanche. «Un éxito literario basado en una relación epistolar que se devora en pocas horas y que es también una preciosa reflexión sobre la escritura». Femmes d’aujourd’hui.
