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The Hostile Joy by Kaouther Adimi is a deeply personal and political narrative about memory, trauma, and identity.
During a night at the Institut du Monde Arabe, the author reflects on the life of Baya Mahieddine, admired by artists such as Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso.
But art is only the ..
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The protagonist of László Krasznahorkai's new novel is 91-year-old Józsi Kanta, who tried everything in vain to disappear from the world's eyes. However, his fans manage to locate him in a village in Hungary. Kanda, a retired electrician, has the incognito in his blood; ..
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The dancer was arriving at the Gare du Nord at quarter to eight in the morning. Then he would take the metro to Place de Clichy. The building that housed the Quaker School was ancient. On the ground floor, about a dozen used pianos, jumbled together, like in a warehouse. On the floors, something lik..
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Why has ancient Greek political thought obscured the issue of slavery? Why is the voice of slaves never heard in the texts of ancient Greek literature? The development of Athenian slave-owning society and the rise of democracy are closely related. For the ancient Greeks, slavery is a "total soc..
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This book concerns the relationship between culture, society, and politics, the dilemmas, contradictions, and conflicts among them. Myrsini Zorba was a consistent and tireless researcher of the politics of culture. Utilizing international analyses of the cultural phenomenon, she attempted in this bo..
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Life after university doesn't suit Phil at all. Time passes excruciatingly slowly. She has returned to her childhood home and is living with her parents again, working endless hours at a Japanese restaurant in Heathrow Airport, and her plans to become a writer are going nowhere. But the chance d..
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It is a common understanding that, if we want to prevent the rise of the Right and the Far Right, we need solutions to people's everyday problems in order to remove the fuel of this trend. Is that enough? The argument of the book is that it is not enough. Immediate solutions to low wages or the ..
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The Algerian war is over. All wars eventually end. Five years later, the couple we met in Black Algiers, Inspector Paco Martinez and Irene, continue their lives; he in Marseille, she in Aix-en-Provence. A dead body in a student dormitory will bring Paco and his partner, Coupigny, closer to the stude..
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A public executioner searches for the dragoness beyond the glass mountains, trying to lift the curse he carries. A widow tries to lay her husband, who has become a vampire, to rest, searching for answers in his old haunts. A young Klepht moves heaven and earth to save his Captain from the mysterious..
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In Chevreuse, Nobel laureate Patrick Modiano explores the labyrinth of memory. Summer afternoon. Jean Bosman accidentally finds himself in the Sèvrez Valley. It has the ..
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Barcelona, 50s. Young Andría grows up between a father who wants to educate him as a Renaissance man, to make him proficient in many languages, and a mother who intends him for a career as a virtuoso violinist. Andría, intelligent, lonely and obedient, tries to satisfy his parents..
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The Indochina War lasted many years. However, in French school textbooks, it is barely mentioned. With an impressive sense of storytelling, A Decent Exodus describes how, in an incredible historical twist, two of the world's greatest powers were defeated by a very small people. With a series of ..
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