The English language has no specific word for the parent that has lost a child. There exist words for orphan, widow and widower, but there is no word that captures and conveys this tragic type of loss.
It has been eleven years since Diane Foley''s son, the American journalist James Foley, was kidnapped in northern Syria, and nearly ten since that day in August 2014 when she would learn that he had been murdered by ISIS in a public beheading that would ricochet in video around the world. A whole decade. Time rushes past. And yet, for Diane, that moment is unending.
In American Mother, legendary author Colum McCann tells Diane''s story as she recalls the months of his captivity, the efforts made to bring him home and the days following his death, in which Diane came face to face with one of the men responsible for her son''s kidnapping and torture. A testament to the power of radical empathy and moral courage, American Mother takes us inside one woman''s extraordinary journey to find connection in a world torn asunder, and to fight for others as a way to keep her son''s memory alive.>
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER CHOSEN AS A BOOK OF 2020 BY THE SUNDAY TIMES , OBSERVER , GUARDIAN , i PAPER , FINANCIAL TIMES , NEW STATESMAN , SCOTSMAN , IRISH TIMES , BBC.COM, WATERSTONES.COM 'You have to read Apeirogon ' Sunday Times 'Nothing like any book you've ever read' MICHAEL CUNNINGHAM 'An essential hymn to peace and forgiveness' independent.co.uk The novel of a lifetime about two men and their daughters: divided by conflict, yet united in grief.
Rami Elhanan and Bassam Aramin live near one another - yet they exist worlds apart. Rami is Israeli. Bassam is Palestinian. Rami's license plate is yellow. Bassam's license plate is green. It takes Rami fifteen minutes to drive to the West Bank. The same journey for Bassam takes an hour and a half.
Both men have lost their daughters. Rami's thirteen-year-old girl Smadar was killed by a suicide bomber while out shopping with her friends. Bassam's ten-year-old daughter Abir was shot and killed by a member of the border police outside her school. There was a candy bracelet in her pocket she hadn't had time to eat yet.
The men become the best of friends.
In this epic novel - named for a shape with a countably infinite number of sides - Colum McCann crosses centuries and continents, stitching time, art, history, nature and politics into a tapestry of friendship, love, loss and belonging. Musical, muscular, delicate and soaring, Apeirogon is the novel for our times.
'A quite extraordinary novel. Colum McCann has found the form and voice to tell the most complex of stories, with an unexpected friendship between two men at its powerfully beating heart' KAMILA SHAMSIE
Poétesse rom à la voix de feu, Zoli fascine ceux qui l'approchent mais reste insaisissable. Élevée sur les routes par son grand-père, qui a bravé l'interdit tzigane en lui apprenant à lire et à écrire, Zoli découvre très jeune le pouvoir des mots. Mais coucher sur le papier l'histoire de sa communauté, c'est livrer aux gadze une partie de l'âme tzigane. Adulée par le régime communiste avant de devenir paria, bannie par les siens pour avoir transgressé les règles, Zoli paiera sa liberté au prix fort... Parabole sur l'exil, éloge de la différence, Zoli est le voyage sans retour dans l'Europe des années trente à nos jours, d'une femme à la volonté impitoyable, et, à travers elle, un hymne aux " errants du monde " que l'on veut à toute force sangler à la terre.
A darkly epic novel about connection, disconnection and destruction - from the New York Times-bestselling, National Book Award-winning, Booker Prize-longlisted author of Let the Great World Spin
Anthony Fennell, a writer, has travelled to Cape Town with a simple aim: to find and board the Georges Lecointe, a cable repair vessel captained by the mysterious, charismatic Chief of Mission John Conway.
As the boat embarks along the west coast of Africa, Fennell settles into the routines and rituals of life out at sea. But as the mission falters, it becomes clear that Conway is in crisis: and that a terrible, violent tragedy is unfolding in the life he has left behind on land.
When Conway disappears, Fennel must set out to find him. His discoveries will bring him face to face with the darkest contradictions of the human heart - and to confront the possibility that the ties that bind us might be better off broken.>
This novel opens on a battlefield: trudging back from the front through a ravaged and icy wasteland, their horses dying around them, their own hunger rendering them almost savage, the Russian soldiers are exhausted as they reach the city of Ufa, desperate for food and shelter. They find both, and then music and dance. And there, spinning unafraid among them, dancing for the soldiers and anyone else who'll watch him, is one small pale boy, Rudolf. This is Colum McCann's dancer: Rudolf, a prodigy at six years old, who became the greatest dancer of the century, who redefined dance, rewrote his own life, and died of AIDS before anyone knew he had it.
This is an extraordinary life transformed into extraordinary fiction by one of the most acclaimed writers of his generation. One kind of masculine grace is perfectly matched to another in Colum McCann's beautiful and daring new novel.
One powerful novella, with two thematically linked short stories on either side of it, forms the basis of Everything in This Country Must. Although these are stories about Ireland and the Troubles, they have an almost mythical rather than a political feel. In the title story, four young soldiers help a farmer and his daughter free their horse from a stream in flood, unable to understand that their help will never be anything but an insult. In the novella, Hunger Strike, a young boy and his mother flee to Galway as the boy's uncle succumbs to a hunger strike in a Derry gaol. In Wood, a ten-year-old boy is asked by his mother to make poles for the marching season.>
Colum McCann's first novel goes back to the years before the Spanish Civil War, following the adventures of a peripatetic Irish photographer from the war-strewn shores of Europe to the exotic plains of Mexico. The story is told in the words of the photographer's only son, a wanderer himself, who uses his father's unreliable memories and the fading remnants of his art to piece together his family history and explain the mystery surrounding his mother - a Mexican beauty brought back by his father to Ireland.>
Modern fictionNew edition of McCann's novel which delves into the underbelly of New York. First published by Phoenix, this version ties in with the new paperback edition of Let The Great World Spin.
Published to coincide the with 50th anniversary of the Israel occupation of the West Bank, an anthology that explores the human cost of the conflict there as witnessed by such notable writers as Colum McCann, Colm Toibin, Dave Eggers, Madeleine Thien, Eimear McBride, Taiye Selasi and editors Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman. June 2017 marks the 50th anniversary of the Israel occupation of the West Bank. The violence on both sides of the conflict has been horrific, the casualties catastrophic. Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman, two of today''s most renowned novelists and essayists, have joined forces with the Israeli NGO Breaking the Silence-an organization comprised of former Israeli soldiers who served in the occupied territories and saw firsthand the injustice there-and a host of illustrious writers to tell the stories of the people on the ground in the contested territories. KINGDOM OF OLIVES AND ASH includes contributions from some of our most esteemed storytellers, including essays from editors Chabon and Waldman. Their writing enables readers to understand the human narratives behind the litany of grim destruction broadcasted nightly on the news. Together they all stand witness to the human cost of the occupation.
Rudolf, a prodigy at six years old, became the greatest dancer of the century, who redefined dance, rewrote his own life, and died of AIDS before anyone knew he had it. This is an extraordinary life transformed into fiction by one of the most acclaimed writers of his generation.
Bivouac sur la lune Un roman, des archives : la plus grande aventure humaine Pour célébrer le 40e anniversaire de l'alunissage historique d'Apollo 11, TASCHEN a choisi d'associer le texte culte de Norman Mailer aux spectaculaires photographies des archives de la NASA, du magazine LIFE et de nombreuses autres sources pour un hommage exceptionnel à la mission scientifique la plus importante de notre époque.
Le 20 juillet 1969, l'humanité vit un moment historique: Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin et Michael Collins exaucent le souhait de John f. Kennedy de voir les premiers hommes marcher sur la lune avant la fin des années 60. Dix ans de tests et de préparation, une équipe de 400 000 ingénieurs et scientifiques, un budget de 24 milliards de dollars et la fusée la plus puissante jamais lancée dans l'espace ont été nécessaires pour donner naissance à cet événement sans précédent, suivi par des millions de personnes à travers le monde. Norman Mailer a su comme personne restituer ce formidable défi technique, cette incroyable aventure humaine.
Norman Mailer, l'un des plus grands écrivains du XXe siècle, avait été engagé par le magazine LIFE pour couvrir la mission lunaire. Son reportage en trois volets représentait le documentaire le plus long jamais publié par le magazine. Mailer a ensuite enrichi et approfondi son reportage de nouvelles réflexions dans son remarquable ouvrage, Bivouac sur la lune, dont ce livre vous offre pour la première fois de longs extraits. Aussi à l'aise pour présenter l'aspect scientifique des voyages dans l'espace que pour aborder la psychologie des hommes impliqués dans l'aventure, du concepteur de la fusée Saturne V, Wernher von Braun, aux trois astronautes, en passant par la formidable équipe technique de la NASA, Mailer offre un point de vue à la fois incisif et provocateur sur cet événement-clé de l'époque.
Pour illustrer cet ouvrage, des centaines de photos et plans extraordinaires ont été sélectionnés dans les fonds de la NASA, les archives de magazines ou des collections personnelles. Ces images, dont beaucoup n'avaient encore jamais été publiées, illustrent le développement de l'agence spatiale américaine et le déroulement de la mission, de la vie à l'intérieur du module de commande à la sortie sur la lune, en passant par la joie que ce succès a suscitée dans le monde entier. Cette nouvelle édition comporte une introduction originale de Colum McCann et de nouvelles légendes rédigées par des spécialistes d'Apollo 11. En s'appuyant sur le journal de bord, les interviews des astronautes à leur retour, ou des publications de l'époque, ils dévoilent l'histoire et la technique derrière ces images.
''An extraordinary story of grace, forgiveness and moral courage'' Patrick Radden Keefe
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The English language has no specific word for the parent that has lost a child. There exist words for orphan, widow and widower, but there is no word that captures and conveys this tragic type of loss.
It has been eleven years since Diane Foley''s son, the American journalist James Foley, was kidnapped in northern Syria, and nearly ten since that day in August 2014 when she would learn that he had been murdered by ISIS in a public beheading that would ricochet in video around the world. A whole decade. Time rushes past. And yet, for Diane, that moment is unending.
In American Mother, legendary author Colum McCann tells Diane''s story as she recalls the months of his captivity, the efforts made to bring him home and the days following his death, in which Diane came face to face with one of the men responsible for her son''s kidnapping and torture. A testament to the power of radical empathy and moral courage, American Mother takes us inside one woman''s extraordinary journey to find connection in a world torn asunder, and to fight for others as a way to keep her son''s memory alive.>
