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Cloud Cuckoo Land [Book] Douban Sukkertoppen Goodreads
Cloud Cuckoo Land
author: Anthony Doerr publishing house: Scribner 2021 - 9
When everything is lost, it’s our stories that survive.

How do we weather the end of things? Cloud Cuckoo Land brings together an unforgettable cast of dreamers and outsiders from past, present and future to offer a vision of survival against all odds.

Constantinople, 1453:
An orphaned seamstress and a cursed boy with a love for animals risk everything on opposite sides of a city wall to protect the people they love.

Idaho, 2020:
An impoverished, idealistic kid seeks revenge on a world that’s crumbling around him. Can he go through with it when a gentle old man stands between him and his plans?

Unknown, Sometime in the Future:
With her tiny community in peril, Konstance is the last hope for the human race. To find a way forward, she must look to the oldest stories of all for guidance.

Bound together by a single ancient text, these tales interweave to form a tapestry of solace and resilience and a celebration of storytelling itself. Like its predecessor All the Light We Cannot See , Anthony Doerr’s new novel is a tale of hope and of profound human connection.
Le Sang de la Cité [Book] Goodreads
publishing house: Aux forges de Vulcain 2021 - 4
EnfermĂ©e derriĂšre deux murailles immenses, la CitĂ© est une mĂ©galopole surpeuplĂ©e, constituĂ©e de multiples duchĂ©s. Commis d’épicerie sur le port, Nox est liĂ© depuis son enfance Ă  la maison de la Caouane, la tortue de mer. Il partage son temps entre livraisons de vins prestigieux et sessions de poĂ©sie avec ses amis. Suite Ă  un coup d’éclat, il hĂ©rite d’un livre de poĂ©sie qui raconte l’origine de la CitĂ©. TrĂšs vite, Nox se rend compte que le texte fait Ă©cho Ă  sa propre histoire. MalgrĂ© lui, il se retrouve emportĂ© dans des enjeux politiques qui le dĂ©passent, et confrontĂ© Ă  la part sombre de sa ville, une citĂ©-miroir peuplĂ©e de monstres.
Un an dans la Ville-Rue [Book] Goodreads
publishing house: Le BĂ©lial’ 2022 - 5
Une ville-monde.<br />Un immense ruban urbain apparemment sans fin bordĂ© par les Voies – un chemin de fer – et le Fleuve. En son sous-sol, un mĂ©tro. Et sous le mĂ©tro
 Bienvenue dans la Ville-Rue. Diego Patchen rĂ©side dans le quartier de Vilgravier, du cĂŽtĂ© du 10 394 850ᔉ Bloc. Amoureux d’une plantureuse pompiĂšre, affligĂ© d’un pĂšre malade acariĂątre, Diego vit d’expĂ©dients. Son activitĂ© favorite demeure toutefois l’écriture de rĂ©cits spĂ©culatifs, ce genre littĂ©raire appelĂ© « Cosmos-Fiction ». Un registre volontiers dĂ©criĂ©, mais qui bĂ©nĂ©ficie d’un socle de lecteurs fidĂšles, et dans lequel les Ă©crivains se plaisent Ă  imaginer d’autres mondes, d’autres univers, aux configurations diffĂ©rentes
 Et alors que Diego cĂ©lĂšbre la sortie de son premier recueil, le voici bientĂŽt invitĂ© Ă  une croisiĂšre sur le Fleuve

Le Serpent [Book] Goodreads
publishing house: Le Bélial' 2022 - 3
Venise, 1610. Au cƓur de la SĂ©rĂ©nissime, citĂ©-monde la plus peuplĂ©e d'Europe, puissance honnie par le pape Paul V, il est un Ă©tablissement mystĂ©rieux connu sous le nom de <i>Maison des jeux</i>. Palais accueillant des joueurs de tous horizons, il se divise en deux cercles, Basse et Haute Loge. Dans le premier, les fortunes se font et se dĂ©font autour de tables de jeux divers et parfois improbables. Rarement, trĂšs rarement, certains joueurs aux talents hors normes sont invitĂ©s Ă  franchir les portes dorĂ©es de la Haute Loge. Les enjeux de ce lieu secret sont tout autre : pouvoir et politique Ă  l'Ă©chelle des États, souvenirs, dons et capacitĂ©s, annĂ©es de vie
 Tout le monde n'est pas digne de concourir dans la Haute Loge. Mais pour Thene, jeune femme bafouĂ©e par un mari aigri et falot ayant englouti sa fortune, il n'y a aucune alternative. D'autant que l'horizon qui s'offre Ă  elle ne connaĂźt pas de limite. Pour peu qu'elle gagne. Et qu'elle n'oublie pas que plus Ă©levĂ©s sont les enjeux, plus dangereuses sont les rĂšgles

The War [Book] Goodreads
publishing house: Avon Books 1983 - 4
La guerre est finie, vive la guerre! Une nouvelle Ăšre s’ouvre pour le clan Caskey : les annĂ©es d’acharnement d’Elinor vont enfin porter leurs fruits; les ennemies d’hier sont sur le point de devenir les amies de demain; et des changements surgissent d’oĂč personne ne les attendait. Le conflit en Europe a fait affluer du sang neuf jusqu’à Perdido. DĂ©sormais les hommes vont et viennent comme des marionnettes sur la propriĂ©tĂ© des Caskey, sans se douter que, peut-ĂȘtre, leur vie ne tient qu’à un fil.
Shangri-la [Book] Douban Goodreads
author: Mathieu Bablet publishing house: Ankama éditions 2016 - 9
Avec Shangri-La, Mathieu Bablet signe le premier titre SF du Label 619 et vous emmÚne dans le monde « presque » parfait de Tianzhu Enterprises.
Dans un futur lointain de quelques centaines d’annĂ©es, les hommes vivent dans une station spatiale loin de la Terre et rĂ©gie par une multinationale Ă  qui est vouĂ© un vĂ©ritable culte. En apparence, tout le monde semble se satisfaire de cette « sociĂ©tĂ© parfaite ». Dans ce contexte, les hommes veulent repousser leurs propres limites et devenir les Ă©gaux des dieux. C’est en mettant en place un programme visant Ă  crĂ©er la vie Ă  partir de rien sur Shangri-La, une des rĂ©gions les plus hospitaliĂšres de Titan, qu’ils comptent bien réécrire la « GenĂšse » Ă  leur façon.
Symphonie atomique [Book] Goodreads
publishing house: Critic 2021 - 10
Le monde d’aprĂšs s’effondre.<br /><br />MalgrĂ© l’odeur de fin des temps, des restes de civilisations subsistent, au bord du chaos, et chacun lutte pour donner du sens Ă  sa vie. Les quatre modĂšles des puissances atomiques, aux abois, dominent cette dĂ©solation et se confrontent, prĂȘts Ă  en dĂ©coudre : ultra-capitalisme amĂ©ricain, Ă©cologisme europĂ©en, nationalisme russe et totalitarisme social chinois. Dans ce climat dĂ©lĂ©tĂšre, l’équilibre ne tient plus qu’à un fil, sur le point de rompre.<br /><br />Parmi le concert des forces nuclĂ©aires spatiales, l’Europe en Transition fait figure de naine. Pour autant, alors qu’émerge une crise dans la crise, le sort de l’HumanitĂ© va peut-ĂȘtre dĂ©pendre des dĂ©cisions de deux de ses membres, que rien ne prĂ©disposait Ă  cela : Juan et Agathe.<br /><br />Dans cette nouvelle Ăšre, Ă  l’Europe reconfigurĂ©e et oĂč l’espace constitue le terrain nĂ©vralgique des conflits, leurs actes vont faire Ă©cho Ă  l’étrange soulĂšvement en cours dans les steppes d’Asie centrale – sous le commandement du jeune Ashkat –, et les confronter Ă  l’énigme qu’incarne Ulan Moltov, l’ñme de la rĂ©bellion, le cƓur du jeu de poker Ă  grande Ă©chelle qui dĂ©bute.
Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began [Book]
publishing house: Pantheon 1992 - 9
Acclaimed as a quiet triumph and a brutally moving work of art, the first volume of Art Spieglman's <i>Maus</i> introduced readers to Vladek Spiegleman, a Jewish survivor of Hitler's Europe, and his son, a cartoonist trying to come to terms with his father, his father's terrifying story, and History itself. Its form, the cartoon (the Nazis are cats, the Jews mice), succeeds perfectly in shocking us out of any lingering sense of familiararity with the events described, approaching, as it does, the unspeakable through the diminutive.<br /><br />This second volume, subtitled <i>And Here My Troubles Began</i>, moves us from the barracks of Auschwitz to the bungalows of the Catskills. Genuinely tragic and comic by turns, it attains a complexity of theme and a precision of thought new to comics and rare in any medium. <i>Maus</i> ties together two powerful stories: Vladek's harrowing tale of survival against all odds, delineating the paradox of daily life in the death camps, and the author's account of his tortured relationship with his aging father. At every level this is the ultimate survivor's tale - and that too of the children who somehow survive even the survivors.
The House [Book] Goodreads
publishing house: Avon Books 1983 - 1
Perdido, 1928. Alors que le clan Caskey se dĂ©chire dans la guerre intestine et sans merci que se livrent Mary-Love et sa belle-fille, et que d’autres crises — conjugales, Ă©conomiques, existentielles — aux rĂ©percussions dĂ©fiant l’imagination se profilent, dans les recoins sombres de la maison d’Elinor, la plus grande de la ville, les mauvais souvenirs rĂŽdent et tissent, implacables, leurs toiles mortelles.
The Levee [Book] Goodreads
publishing house: Avon Books 1983 - 2
A Dead Woman's Legacy and an Awsome Blood-Curdling Dismemberment.
Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History [Book] Goodreads Douban
8.4 (7 ratings) author: Art Spiegelman publishing house: Pantheon Books 1991 - 11
The first installment of the Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel acclaimed as “the most affecting and successful narrative ever done about the Holocaust” (Wall Street Journal) and “the first masterpiece in comic book history” (The New Yorker).<br /><br />A brutally moving work of art—widely hailed as the greatest graphic novel ever written—Maus recounts the chilling experiences of the author’s father during the Holocaust, with Jews drawn as wide-eyed mice and Nazis as menacing cats.<br /><br />Maus is a haunting tale within a tale, weaving the author’s account of his tortured relationship with his aging father into an astonishing retelling of one of history's most unspeakable tragedies. It is an unforgettable story of survival and a disarming look at the legacy of trauma.
The Flood [Book] Goodreads
publishing house: Avon Books 1983 - 1
The mysterious saga of the Caskey family begins in Blackwater I: The Flood, as a devastating flood brings a strange and beautiful visitor to the small, sleepy lumber town of Perdido, Alabama. <br /><br />Elinor Dammert's arrival will forever change the town and the wealthy and powerful Caskey family. <br /><br />James, who dotes on Elinor like a second daughter... <br /><br />Sister, who pines for Elinor’s strength and independence... <br /><br />Oscar, who loves Elinor and determines to build a life with her... <br /><br />And matriarch Mary-Love, perhaps the only person in Perdido with an inkling of Elinor’s true power and purpose. <br /><br />For Elinor is more than she appears, and she brings to Perdido—and to the Caskeys—a deadly, inexplicable otherness from which no one can ever be safe.
Chien blanc [Book] Goodreads
publishing house: ㊠㈩ç‘Șć‡ș版瀟 1972 - 3
«C'Ă©tait un chien gris avec une verrue comme un grain de beautĂ© sur le cĂŽtĂ© droit du museau et du poil roussi autour de la truffe qui le faisait ressembler au fumeur invĂ©tĂ©rĂ© sur l'enseigne du Chien-qui-fume, un bar-tabac Ă  Nice, non loin du lycĂ©e de mon enfance.<br />Il m'observait, la tĂȘte lĂ©gĂšrement penchĂ©e de cĂŽtĂ©, d'un regard intense et fixe, ce regard des chiens de fourriĂšre qui vous guettent au passage avec un espoir angoissĂ© et insupportable.<br />Il entra dans mon existence le 17 fĂ©vrier 1968 Ă  Beverly Hills, oĂč je venais de rejoindre ma femme Jean Seberg, pendant le tournage d'un film.»
The Ministry for the Future [Book] Douban Sukkertoppen Goodreads Skybridge
author: Kim Stanley Robinson publishing house: Orbit 2020 - 10 other title: The Ministry for the Future
From legendary science fiction author Kim Stanley Robinson comes a remarkable vision of climate change over the coming decades.
The Ministry for the Future is a masterpiece of the imagination, using fictional eyewitness accounts to tell the story of how climate change will affect us all. Its setting is not a desolate, postapocalyptic world, but a future that is almost upon us -- and in which we might just overcome the extraordinary challenges we face.
It is a novel both immediate and impactful, desperate and hopeful in equal measure, and it is one of the most powerful and original books on climate change ever written.
"A breathtaking look at the challenges that face our planet in all their sprawling magnitude and also in their intimate, individual moments of humanity." -- Booklist (starred)
"A sweeping, optimistic portrait of humanity's ability to cooperate in the face of disaster. This heartfelt work of hard science-fiction is a must-read for anyone worried about the future of the planet." -- Publishers Weekly (starred)
Paradise [Book] Goodreads
publishing house: The New Press 1995 - 5
Paradise is at once the story of an African boy's coming of age, a tragic love story, and a tale of the corruption of traditional African patterns by European colonialism. It presents a major African voice to American readers - a voice that prompted Peter Tinniswood to write in the London Times, reviewing Gurnah's previous novel, "Mr. Gurnah is a very fine writer. I am certain he will become a great one." Paradise is Abdulrazak Gurnah's great novel. At twelve, Yusuf, the protagonist of this twentieth-century odyssey, is sold by his father in repayment of a debt. From the simple life of rural Africa, Yusuf is thrown into the complexities of precolonial urban East Africa - a fascinating world in which Muslim black Africans, Christian missionaries, and Indians from the subcontinent coexist in a fragile, subtle social hierarchy. Through the eyes of Yusuf, Gurnah depicts communities at war, trading safaris gone awry, and the universal trials of adolescence. Then, just as Yusuf begins to comprehend the choices required of him, he and everyone around him must adjust to the new reality of European colonialism. The result is a page-turning saga that covers the same territory as the novels of Isak Dinesen and William Boyd, but does so from a perspective never before available on that seldom-chronicled part of the world.
La Nuit du faune [Book] Goodreads
publishing house: Éditions Albin Michel 2021 - 9
Au sommet d’une montagne vit une petite fille nommĂ©e AstrĂ©e, avec pour seule compagnie de vieilles machines silencieuses. Un aprĂšs-midi, elle est dĂ©rangĂ©e par l’apparition inopinĂ©e d’un faune en quĂȘte de gloire et de savoir. Le faune veut apprĂ©hender le destin qui attend sa race primitive. AstrĂ©e, pour sa part, est consumĂ©e d’un ennui mortel, face Ă  un cosmos que sa science a privĂ© de toute profondeur et de toute poĂ©sie. Et sous son apparence d’enfant, se cache une trĂšs ancienne crĂ©ature, derniĂšre reprĂ©sentante d’un peuple disparu, aux pouvoirs considĂ©rables. À la nuit tombĂ©e, tous deux entreprennent un voyage intersidĂ©ral, du SystĂšme solaire jusqu’au centre de la Voie lactĂ©e, et plus loin encore, Ă  la rencontre de civilisations et de formes de vies inimaginables
Solomon Gursky Was Here [Book] Goodreads
publishing house: Penguin Canada 2002 - 1
Berger, son of the failed poet L.B. Berger, is in the grips of an obsession. The Gursky family with its colourful bootlegging history, its bizarre connections with the North and the Inuit, and its wildly eccentric relations, both fascinates and infuriates him. His quest to unravel their story leads to the enigmatic Ephraim Gursky: document forger in Victorian England, sole survivor of the ill-fated Franklin expedition and charasmatic religious leader of the Arctic. Of Ephraim's three grandsons, Bernard has fought, wheeled and cheated his way to the head of a liquor empire. His brother Morrie has reluctantly followed along. But how does Ephraim's protege, Solomon, fit in? Elusive, mysterious and powerful, Solomon Gursky hovers in the background, always out of Moses' grasp, but present-like an omen.
Sea of Tranquility [Book] Goodreads Douban
Sea of Tranquility
7.1 (7 ratings) author: Emily St. John Mandel publishing house: Knopf 2022 - 4
The award-winning, best-selling author of Station Eleven and The Glass Hotel returns with a novel of art, time, love, and plague that takes the reader from Vancouver Island in 1912 to a dark colony on the moon three hundred years later, unfurling a story of humanity across centuries and space.
Edwin St. Andrew is eighteen years old when he crosses the Atlantic by steamship, exiled from polite society following an ill-conceived diatribe at a dinner party. He enters the forest, spellbound by the beauty of the Canadian wilderness, and suddenly hears the notes of a violin echoing in an airship terminal--an experience that shocks him to his core.
Two centuries later a famous writer named Olive Llewellyn is on a book tour. She's traveling all over Earth, but her home is the second moon colony, a place of white stone, spired towers, and artificial beauty. Within the text of Olive's bestselling pandemic novel lies a strange passage: a man plays his violin for change in the echoing corridor of an airship terminal as the trees of a forest rise around him.
When Gaspery-Jacques Roberts, a detective in the Night City, is hired to investigate an anomaly in the North American wilderness, he uncovers a series of lives upended: The exiled son of an earl driven to madness, a writer trapped far from home as a pandemic ravages Earth, and a childhood friend from the Night City who, like Gaspery himself, has glimpsed the chance to do something extraordinary that will disrupt the timeline of the universe.
A virtuoso performance that is as human and tender as it is intellectually playful, Sea of Tranquility is a novel of time travel and metaphysics that precisely captures the reality of our current moment.
L’Homme qui savait la langue des serpents [Book] Goodreads
publishing house: Attila 2013 - 1
Voici l'histoire du dernier des hommes qui parlait la langue des serpents, de sa sƓur qui tomba amoureuse d’un ours, de sa mĂšre qui rĂŽtissait compulsivement des Ă©lans, de son grand-pĂšre qui guerroyait sans jambes, d’une paysanne qui rĂȘvait d’un loup-garou, d’un vieil homme qui chassait les vents, d’une salamandre qui volait dans les airs, d’australopithĂšques qui Ă©levaient des poux gĂ©ants, d’un poisson titanesque las de ce monde et de chevaliers teutons Ă©pouvantĂ©s par tout ce qui prĂ©cĂšde... PeuplĂ© de personnages Ă©tonnants, empreint de rĂ©alisme magique et d’un souffle inspirĂ© des sagas scandinaves, un roman Ă  l’humour et Ă  l’imagination dĂ©lirants.
Termination Shock [Book] Douban Goodreads Skybridge
author: Neal Stephenson publishing house: William Morrow 2021 - 11 other title: Termination Shock A Novel
A visionary technothriller about climate change.
Neal Stephenson’s sweeping, prescient new novel transports readers to a near-future world where the greenhouse effect has inexorably resulted in a whirling-dervish troposphere of superstorms, rising sea levels, global flooding, merciless heat waves, and virulent, deadly pandemics.
One man has a Big Idea for reversing global warming, a master plan perhaps best described as “elemental.” But will it work? And just as important, what are the consequences for the planet and all of humanity should it be applied?
Ranging from the Texas heartland to the Dutch royal palace in the Hague, from the snow-capped peaks of the Himalayas to the sunbaked Chihuahuan Desert, Termination Shock brings together a disparate group of characters from different cultures and continents who grapple with the real-life repercussions of global warming. Ultimately, it asks the question: Might the cure be worse than the disease?
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