Deborah Levy revient sur sa vie. Elle fuit à Majorque pour réfléchir et se retrouver, et pense à l'Afrique du Sud, ce pays qu'elle a quitté, à son enfance, à l'apartheid, à son père - militant de l'ANC emprisonné -, aux oiseaux en cage, et à l'Angleterre, son pays d'adoption. À cette adolescente qu'...
Un divorce forcément douloureux, une grande maison victorienne troquée contre un appartement en haut d'une colline dans le nord de Londres, deux filles à élever et des factures qui s'accumulent... Deborah Levy a cinquante ans quand elle décide de tout reconstruire, avec pour tout bagage, un vélo éle...
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2016 SHORTLISTED FOR THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE 2016 Plunge into this hypnotic tale of female sexuality and power - from the Man Booker shortlisted author of Swimming Home Two women arrive in a village on the Spanish coast. Rose is suffering from a stran...
Electrifying and audacious, an unmissable new novel about old and new Europe, old and new love, from the twice-Man Booker-shortlisted author of Hot Milk and Swimming Home In 1989 Saul Adler ( a narcissistic, young historian) is hit by a car on the Abbey Road. He is apparently fine; he gets u...
En arrivant avec sa famille et un couple d'amis dans une villa sur les hauteurs de Nice, Joe Jacobs découvre un corps dans la piscine. Bien vivant. La créature s'appelle Kitty Finch : elle se dit botaniste, elle porte du vernis à ongles vert, et c'est toute nue qu'elle se présente à eux, plongeant a...
Like her namesake Jack Kerouac, J.K. is always on the road, travelling Europe with her typewriter in a pillowcase. From J.K.'s irreverent, ironic perspective, Levy charts a new, dizzying, end-of-the-century world of shifting boundaries and displaced peoples. ...
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Three bicycles. Seven ghosts. A crumbling apartment block on the hill. Fame. Tenderness. The statue of Peter Pan. Silk. Melancholy. The banana tree. A Pandemic. A love story.''br>From one of the great thinkers and writers of our time, comes the highly anticipated final instalment in Deborah Levy''s ...
The Unloved is a hypnotising novel by the Man Booker-shortlisted writer Deborah Levy. A group of hedonistic West European tourists gather to celebrate Christmas in a remote French chateau. Then an Englishwoman is brutally murdered, and the sad, eerie child Tatiana declares she knows who did it. ...
Billy England and his sister Girl are clever, stylish and damaged. Billy is a teenage "catastrophe theorist" which is handy since their mother has gone missing, and when they last saw their father his Elvis hair was in flames. Girl has a mission. She knocks on a door of a selected house and preten...
Things I Don't Want to Know is a brilliantly insightful longform essay by Deborah Levy. 'Things I Don't Want to Know' is a unique response to George Orwell from one of our most vital contemporary writers. Taking Orwell's famous list of motives for writing as the jumping-off point for a sequence o...
SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2016 SHORTLISTED FOR THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE 2016 A richly mythic, colour-saturated tale from the Man Booker-shortlisted author of Swimming Home - Deborah Levy explores the violently primal bond between mother and daughterToday I dropped my laptop on the concrete...
SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2016 A richly mythic, colour-saturated tale from the Man Booker-shortlisted author of Swimming Home--Deborah Levy explores the violently primal bond between mother and daughter. Two women arrive in a Spanish village--a dreamlike place caught between the deser...
The audacious and elegiac second installment in her 'living autobiography' on writing and womanhood, from the twice-Man Booker Prize-shortlisted author of Hot Milk and Swimming HomeFollowing the acclaimed Things I Don't Want to Know, Deborah Levy returns to the subject of her life in letters. The Co...
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As he arrives with his family at the villa in the hills above Nice, Joe sees a body in the swimming pool. But the girl is very much alive. She is Kitty Finch: a self-proclaimed botanist with green-painted fingernails, walking naked out of the water and into the heart of their holiday. Why is she the...
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Une année particulière commence pour Hélène, quand elle s'installe à Paris pour étudier l'archéologie. Elle est logée par son grand-oncle Daniel, un vieux globe-trotter excentrique qu'elle n'apprécie guère. Il est l'auteur, sous le pseudonyme de H.R. Sanders, de La Marque noire, une série de romans ...
Deux femmes partagent, le temps d'une nuit, une chambre d'hôpital. L'une est kabyle et musulmane, l'autre française et juive : tout les sépare sauf leurs cancers, qui sont les mêmes. Au cours de la nuit, par les paroles et les silences, le passage des soignants et des proches, elles vont se découvr...
Un roman d'une grande efficacité narrative, qui mêle avec brio, sur fond d'évocations de souvenirs d'enfance et de guerre, le motif romanesque des retrouvailles amoureuses et celui de l'usurpation (involontaire) d'identité. Madeleine retrouve soixante ans après son premier fiancé qu'elle croyait mor...
As he arrives with his family at the villa in the hills above Nice, Joe sees a body in the swimming pool. But the girl is very much alive. She is Kitty Finch: a self-proclaimed botanist with green-painted fingernails, walking naked out of the water and into the heart of their holiday. Why is she the...