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'My name is Oscar and I'm ten years old . . . They call me Egghead
and I look about seven. I live in hospital because of my cancer and
I've never written to you because I don't even know if you exist,'
writes Oscar in a letter to God. Oscar is ill and no one,
especially not his parents, will tell him what he already knows:
that he is dying. Granny Rose, the oldest of the 'ladies in pink'
who visit Oscar and his fellow patients, makes friends with him.
She suggests that he play a game: to pretend that each of the
following twelve days is a decade of his imagined future. One day
equals ten years, and every night Oscar writes a letter to God
telling him about his life. The ten letters that follow are
sensitive, funny, heartbreaking and, ultimately, uplifting. Oscar
and the Lady in Pink is a small fable with a big heart; it will
change the way you feel about death, and life.
Noam is a young man when the Flood wreaks havoc on the world,
destroying the peaceful lakeside village he called home, and
turning his whole life upside down. Destined to live forever as an
immortal, Noam travels through the centuries in search of the
meaning of life, and the events which shaped who we have become
today. Paradises Lost is the first installment of Eric-Emmanuel
Schmitt’s monumental project of recounting the history of
humanity, the fruits of more than thirty years of research. The
first in a series, and in the form of a stylistic novel much like
Yuval Noah Harari crossed with Alexandre Dumas. Schmitt combines
his scientific, religious and philosophical research to propel
readers from one world to another, and from pre-history to today.
Die storie wat afspeel in 1960 in Parys, wentel om Momo, ’n seun
wat alleen saam met sy pa in die besige Rue Bleu-distrik woon.
Gebroke oor die skeiding van sy vrou en ander seun, verwaarloos
Momo se pa sy seun tot die punt waar die tiener die meeste van sy
tyd alleen en geisoleerd deurbring. Hy vind ’n onwaarskynlike
bondgenoot in monsieur Ibrahim, ’n Moslem winkelier wat die meeste
van sy dae spandeer agter die toonbank van sy winkel.
It is 1942 and the Jews are being deported from Belgium. Separated
from his parents, seven-year-old Joseph must go into hiding. He is
taken in the dead of night to an orphanage, the Villa Jaune, where
the benign and enigmatic Father Pons presides over a motley
assortment of children. With the ever-present threat of the Gestapo
growing closer, Joseph learns that the secret of survival is to
conceal his Jewish heritage. Soon Joseph also discovers that Father
Pons has a secret of his own: he is risking his life not only for
the boys in his care, but for the Jewish faith itself. Sensitive,
funny and deeply humane, Noah's Child is a simple fable that
reveals the complexities of faith, bravery and the human condition.
First publication in English of France's most successful
contemporary playwright Don Juan on Trial: 'Brilliant dialogue' (Le
Figaro); The Visitor: 'An overwhelming triumph ...a masterpiece'
(Paris Match); 'Sharp, biting, unexpected and cunning' Le Figaro;
Enigma Variations: 'Schmitt...writes with extreme cunning...a
brilliant author' (Le Monde); 'Simple, shattering and witty. A play
full of surprises' (L'Express); Between Worlds: Schmitt's eighth
play is a metaphysical comedy set in the 'Two Worlds Hotel', where
those in a coma come to stay while their medical dramas unfold back
amongst the living."I have been looking for a play like this for
the last twenty years" (Alain Delon of Enigma Variations)
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