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A Single Rose (Paperback)
Muriel Barbery; Translated by Alison Anderson
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The Writer's Cats (Hardcover)
Muriel Barbery; Translated by Alison Anderson; Illustrated by Maria Guitart
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The first time that Mélanie met Clara, Mélanie was stunned by
Clara’s sense of authority, and Clara was struck by Mélanie’s
pink, glittery nails, which shimmered in the dark. “She looks
like a child,” thought the first. “She looks like a doll,”
pondered the second. These two women, both of the same
generation and exposed to the same media throughout their lives,
could not be more different in adulthood. Mélanie is a social
media superstar, broadcasting her children's daily lives on a
family YouTube channel. Clara is a young police officer, assigned
to the case after Mélanie’s daughter Kimmy is abducted.
Traversing the Big Brother generation, the social media influencer
generation, and right up to the 2030s, Delphine de Vigan offers a
bone-chilling exposé of a world where everything is broadcasted
and profited from, even family happiness.
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Suiza (Paperback)
Benedicte Belpois; Translated by Alison Anderson
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A comprehensive and broad introduction to computer and intrusion
forensics, this practical work is designed to help you master the
tools, techniques and underlying concepts you need to know,
covering the areas of law enforcement, national security and the
private sector. The text presents case studies from around the
world, and treats key emerging areas such as stegoforensics, image
identification, authorship categorization, link discovery and data
mining. It also covers the principles and processes for handling
evidence from digital sources effectively and law enforcement
considerations in dealing with computer-related crimes, as well as
how the effectiveness of computer forensics procedures may be
influenced by organizational security policy.
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A Single Rose (Paperback)
Muriel Barbery; Translated by Alison Anderson
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The temples and teahouses of Kyoto are the scene of a Frenchwoman's
emotional awakening in the stunning new novel by international
bestseller Muriel Barbery. Rose has turned 40, but has barely begun
to live. When the Japanese father she never knew dies and she finds
herself an orphan, she leaves France for Kyoto to hear the reading
of his will. In the days before Haru's last wishes are revealed,
his former assistant, Paul, takes Rose on a tour of the temples,
gardens and eating places of this unfamiliar city. Initially a
reluctant tourist and awkward guest in her late father's home, Rose
gradually comes to discover Haru's legacy through the itinerary he
set for her, finding gifts greater than she had ever imagined. This
stunning novel from international bestseller Muriel Barbery is a
mesmerizing story of second chances, of beauty born out of grief
and roses grown from ashes.
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The Forests (Paperback)
Sandrine Collette; Translated by Alison Anderson
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A man's quest to bring new life to a desolate world "In this
radiantly beautiful book, Sandrine Collette achieves a perfect
balance between horror and beauty, finding poetry even in the
dust."-ELLE Nobody wanted Corentin. His father left him, his mother
dreams of getting rid of him. Dragged from home to home, his
childhood is an aimless pilgrimage, until the day his mother leaves
him with old Augustine. Life begins anew for him. Deep into the
remote, verdant Valley of the Forests, Corentin finds the care and
love he's been missing. When he grows up and moves to the city,
Corentin immerses himself in the dazzling pleasures and
distractions of urban life. But all around him, the world is on
fire. Temperatures rise, rivers dry up, trees shed their leaves in
June: a catastrophe is brewing. The night the worst happens,
Corentin survives, hidden in the depths of the city's catacombs.
When he emerges, he finds a devastated landscape devoid of life.
Human, tree, or beast: nothing is left. But Corentin, armed only
with hope, sets off on a journey to find Augustine.
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Thirst (Paperback)
Amelie Nothomb; Translated by Alison Anderson
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A Strange Country (Paperback)
Muriel Barbery; Translated by Alison Anderson
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The Dream Maker (Paperback)
Jean-Christophe Rufin; Translated by Alison Anderson
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Thirst (Paperback)
Amelie Nothomb; Translated by Alison Anderson
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The Gospel according to Amelie Jesus is perhaps the most
universally known figure in the Western world, yet he remains one
of the most obscure. In her reinterpretation of the story of the
Passion and crucifixion, Nothomb gives voice to a transgressive
Messiah, the son of God portrayed as deeply human. Not so much
because of his broken chastity vows, rather because of his
inability to forgive himself for the pointless and sadistic
mise-en-scene that is the Passion. It all starts with the farcical
trial at the court of Pontius Pilate. When the witnesses for the
prosecution stand up one by one, they turn out to be,
paradoxically, the very ones who were healed by Jesus' miracles,
from the disgruntled beggar no longer able to solicit alms, to the
man who, freed from satanic possession, now finds his life fatally
boring. As the familiar, harrowing tale unfolds in all its dramatic
intensity, Nothomb veers from the tragic to the comic, from deep
compassion to cold mercilessness. She distils the essence of life
down to its basic components - love, death and thirst - revealing
that real human strength resides in the body, not in the spirit.
An absorbing bildungsroman that tells the story of three sisters
amidst France's rapid transformation in the '70s Three sisters were
born into a modest Catholic family in Aix-en-Provence. Sabine, the
eldest, dreams of an artist's life in Paris; Helene, the middle
girl, grows up divided between the bourgeois environment of
Neuilly-sur-Seine and the simple life led by her parents; Mariette,
the youngest, learns the secrets and silences of a dazzling and
crazy world. In 1970, French society is changing. Women have
emancipated themselves whilst men have lost their bearings, and the
three sisters, each in their own way, find ways to live a life of
their own-a strong life, far from the morality, education, and the
religion of their childhood. This family chronicle, which takes us
from the May 1968 protests to the 1981 elections, is as much a
tender and tragic stroll through the 20th century as it is the
chronicle of an era, where consciousnesses are awakening to the
upheaval of the world, and heralding the chaos to come.
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Just After the Wave (Paperback)
Sandrine Collette; Translated by Alison Anderson
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In His Own Image (Paperback)
Jerome Ferrari; Translated by Alison Anderson
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A novel about passion, death, and the ambiguous relationship
between art and reality Antonia grows up in rural Corsica, a place
of deeply-rooted traditions and strong family ties. When she's
fourteen, her uncle, a priest, gives her a camera-suddenly changing
the way she looks at the world and igniting a life-long passion.
Over two decades later, Antonia runs into Dragan, a soldier whom
she had met when she was reporting on the war in the former
Yugoslavia. The two spend the night in deep conversation,
reminiscing about their experience of the conflict. As she drives
home, Antonia loses control of her car, plunges off a cliff and is
killed instantly. Tasked with officiating at her funeral, Antonia's
uncle is forced to reflect on her life and legacy and on the
profound questions they beg about ambition and doubt, passion and
guilt, representation and reality. Wide in scope but rich in
detail, restrained yet deeply moving, In His Own Image weaves
together the story of a life with universal themes that resonate
across time and space.
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Hear Our Defeats (Paperback)
Laurent Gaude; Translated by Alison Anderson
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A French intelligence officer, Assem, is tasked with tracking down
a former member of the U.S. Special Forces suspected of drug
trafficking during the War in Afghanistan. En route to Beirut he
shares a night with Miriam, an Iraqi archaeologist, who is in a
race against time to save ancient artefacts across the Middle East
from the terrorist group ISIS. Punctuating these two storylines are
vignettes from the bellicose past, all turning points in world
history, each showing a will to continue in the face of defeat.
A timeless story between foundational tale and myth When Salina
dies, it falls to her youngest son to tell her story, a story of
violence and suffering, vengeance and passion. Exiled three times,
the first time as a new-born abandoned outside a village by a
mysterious horseman, Salina was taken in and raised by a clan that
only ever saw her as a stranger and an enemy to be defeated. Three
times a mother, her children born from strife, Salina never knew
love, and revenge became her reason to live. For her to gain
admittance to the cemetery, to a place of peace at last, Salina's
son must face up and tell the tale of Salina's ordeals-her rape the
most harrowing-in minute detail. He has no choice but to give voice
to all the hardship that for years fed into Salina's rage. With
this short novel set in an ancestral world, Laurent Gaude explores
a narrative space where time flows to rhythmic rituals, where fate
blurs to legend, and secrets become myth.
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Nothing But Dust (Paperback)
Sandrine Collette; Translated by Alison Anderson
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A primal tale of cruelty and redemption The family farm has run to
ruin. Rafael's father has abandoned them. His older brothers, the
twins Mauro and Joaquin, blame Rafael for their father's departure
and exact revenge on their baby brother. Steban, Rafael's other
sibling, is a simpleton whose affections and allegiances change
with the shifting winds. Ruling over this dysfunctional roost is a
tyrannical and avaricious mother. There is nothing bucolic about
existence on a dilapidated farm on the lonely Patagonian steppe.
Life is ruthless, unforgiving, and bloody. As the family tensions
mount, daily life degenerates into open warfare, revealing dark
truths about the human soul. For readers of Coetzee's Disgrace, the
writing of Dorothy Alison, and the southern gothic of William
Faulkner, Nothing but Dust is a gripping, unsentimental, ultimately
majestic story about life in one of the most inhospitable places on
Earth.
Awarded the Prix des libraires by France’s booksellers, a
universal story about music and restoring one’s faith in others
amid the aftermath of tremendous loss. Tokyo, 1938. An amateur
quartet, led by the compassionate Yu, gathers to practice.
Suddenly, their rehearsal is brutally interrupted by military
police. In the ensuing skirmish, Yu’s violin is smashed while his
son, Rei, witnesses his father’s arrest. He will never see him
again. Salvaging his father’s instrument, Rei escapes thanks to a
mysterious lieutenant. Paris, 2003. Raised in France, Rei–now
Jacques–has dedicated his life to the broken violin’s repair:
studying music, becoming an apprentice, and, eventually, a luthier.
However, despite his effort to rehabilitate the damage of years
ago, he struggles to reconcile his past with the present. Yet, when
a world-class violinist, connected to the lieutenant that helped
him as a boy, appears, Jacques’ past is rekindled and he
perseveres in a final bid to heal. Fractured Soul is a parable of
what once was lost and what there stands to be gained–a story of
immense beauty and ferocious courage. Translated from the French by
Alison Anderson
Contents: 1. Introduction: the meaning of consumption; the meaning of change? Steven Miles, Kevin Meethan and Alison Anderson 2. Setting the Scene: changing conceptions of consumption Alan Warde 3. Consuming Women; winning women? Janice Winship 4. Consuming Men; producing Loaded Ben Crewe 5. Producing TV; consuming TV Steve Spittle 6. Consuming Advertising; consuming cultural history Liz McFall and Paul du Gay 7. Consuming Retro; consuming design Adrian Franklin 8. Consuming Symbolic Meaning; consuming alcohol 9. Consuming Technology; consuming home computers Elaine Lally 10. Consuming Youth; consuming lifestyles Steven Miles 11. Changing Consumer; changing disciplinarity Russell W. Belk
The consumer ethic is ubiquitous. Everything we do, see, hear and even feel appears to be connected in some way to our experience as consumers. The increasingly high profile of debates over consumption, consumer culture, consumer behaviour and consumer rights reflects a world undergoing rapid change. The Changing Consumer charts thenature of that change, as well as discussing why consumption has become so important and what role, if any, it plays in underpinning social, economic and political transformation. Featuring contributions from some of the leading theorists of consumption from across a range of disciplines, this collection includes chapters on: * Men's consumption and men's magazines * The changing profile of women as consumers * the representation of consumption on popular TV shows * Consuming retro chic * The symbolic and emotional role of alcohol consumption. Drawing on fascinating case studies throughout, this book will be essential reading for students and academics interested in the study of consumption.
Over the past decade, the environment has become a contentious
issue provoking intense political debate and public concern. In
this innovative and comprehensive work, important research on media
and the environment is successfully interwoven into an integrated
cultural studies text. Arguing that any study of mass media must be
placed within the wider context of culture, politics and society,
the author offers an in-depth analysis of pressure politics and the
environmental lobby, as well as a critical examination of the
production, transmission and negotiation of news discourse. Media,
Culture and the Environment will be welcomed by students of
cultural and media studies and by those studying environmental
politics and human geography.
This book is intended for final year undergraduates and
postgraduates in cultural and media studies, as well as
postgraduate and academic researchers. Courses on culture and the
media within sociology, environmental studies, human geography and
politics.
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My Devotion (Paperback)
Julia Kerninon; Translated by Alison Anderson
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Winner of the 2018 Fnon Literary Prize
A subtle, captivating, and insightful exploration of the mysterious connections between love, submission, and creation.
Helen and Franck, both born into high-ranking diplomatic families, meet in Rome as high-school students and immediately detect in each other the wounded child hidden beneath their gilded social status. Their relationship becomes a dangerous, explosive mix of love and friendship.
Immediately after Helen's graduation, they leave their past and family behind to move in together in her apartment in Amsterdam. While Helen immerses herself in her studies and embarks on a promising academic career, Frank, after a few difficult years, makes a spectacular debut on the Dutch Art scene with his first paintings. Helen remains faithfully by his side during his rise to fame, overseeing the domestic details of his life in apparent total self-abnegation.
Are introverted Helen and flamboyant Franck who they really appear to be? Are they victims or monsters? Kerninon’s English language debut, full of masterfully orchestrated twists and turns, leaves simple distinctions behind and progresses on to far more intriguing terrain.
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Suiza (Paperback)
Benedicte Belpois; Translated by Alison Anderson
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A powerful story of dysfunctional love Tomas is a wealthy farmer,
rough and taciturn, as rooted in the land as the eucalyptus trees
he grows under the Galician sun. When he's diagnosed with lung
cancer, he tells no-one. Suiza is a damaged young woman, strikingly
beautiful, barely literate, a run-away. Her only dream, to see the
sea. The relationship that ensues is as passionate and tender as it
is troubling and nuanced. How transformative can love really be? As
happiness and the promise of healing beckon, the darkness that has
been spreading underneath all along will reveal itself, bringing
the narrative to a heart-stopping, heart-wrenching denouement.
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