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Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt is die geliefde skrywer van Oskar en die Pienk Tannie en Monsieur Ibrahim en die Blomme van die Koran. In Madame Pylinska en die Geheim van Chopin vertel Schmitt die vermaaklike en dikwels roerende verhaal van sy lesse by ‘n Poolse klavieronderwyseres, Madame Pylinska.
Sy ‘Saterdae saam met Madame Pylinska’ sluit ook lesse in oor die geskiedenis van Pole en komponiste wat vir die klavier geskryf het, veral Chopin en Liszt. Ander onvergeetlike karakters in die verhaal is Schmitt se Tante Aimée, aan wie hy sy liefde vir die klavier en veral Chopin te danke het, en Madame Pylinska se katte, vernoem na (of geïnkarneer deur?) beroemde Chopinpianiste soos Alfred Cortot, Arthur Rubinstein en Vladimir Horowitz.
Dit is ook die verhaal van Schmitt se ontdekking van waar sy eintlike talent lê: nie by die uitvoering van Chopin nie, maar by die skryf van kortverhale, romans en dramas.
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.
'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.
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Noah's Child (Paperback, Main)
Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt; Translated by Adriana Hunter
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R234
R198
Discovery Miles 1 980
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From one of the world's biggest selling authors comes another
million-copy worldwide bestseller: A beautiful and tender fable
seen through the eyes of a Jewish child living in Belgium under the
Nazi occupation. 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.
Internationally acclaimed play of cross-cultural friendship Paris
in the 1960s. Thirteen-year-old Moses lives in the shadow of his
less-than loving father. When he's caught stealing from wise old
shopkeeper Monsieur Ibrahim, he discovers an unlikely friend and a
whole new world. Together they embark on a journey that takes them
from the streets of Paris to the whirling dervishes of the Golden
Crescent.This delightful, moving play has already been a huge hit
in Paris and New York. Performed in thirteen countries and
published in twelve languages, it is also an award-winning film
starring Omar Sharif.Monsieur Ibrahim and the Flowers of the Qur'an
received its UK premiere at the Bush Theatre on 17 January 2006.
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