This irresistible debut, set in contemporary New York, provides a sharp, insightful look into how the relationship between two best friends changes when they are no longer coming of age but learning how to live adult lives. As close as sisters for twenty years, Sarah and Lauren have been together through high school and college, first jobs and first loves, the uncertainties of their twenties and the realities of their thirties. Sarah, the only child of a prominent intellectual and a socialite, works at a charity and is methodically planning her wedding. Lauren-beautiful, independent, and unpredictable-is single and working in publishing, deflecting her parents' worries and questions about her life and future by trying not to think about it herself. Each woman envies-and is horrified by-particular aspects of the other's life, topics of conversation they avoid with masterful linguistic pirouettes. Once, Sarah and Lauren were inseparable; for a long a time now, they've been apart. Can two women who rarely see one other, selectively share secrets, and lead different lives still call themselves best friends? Is it their abiding connection-or just force of habit-that keeps them together?With impeccable style, biting humor, and a keen sense of detail, Rumaan Alam deftly explores how the attachments we form in childhood shift as we adapt to our adult lives-and how the bonds of friendship endure, even when our paths diverge.

Rich and Pretty - A Novel

Amanda et Clay, des Blancs newyorkais, partent en vacances avec leurs deux enfants à Long Island. Amanda a loué une jolie villa récemment rénovée. Le temps est superbe, la piscine immense, la nature accueillante. Mais lors de la deuxième nuit, un bruit sourd résonne dans le lointain et peu de temps après, on frappe à la porte. Les propriétaires, un couple d'Afro-Américains plus âgés, surpris sur la route par une soudaine panne d'électricité et de réseau demandent l'hospitalité. Inquiets et agacés par cette intrusion, Amanda et Clay n'ont d'autre choix que d'accepter. Leur séjour de rêve prend fin brutalement.

Désormais sans lien avec le monde extérieur, loin de la ville, sont-ils en sécurité ? Peuvent-ils se fier les uns aux autres ? Hypocrisie, peur de l'autre, panique, chacun affronte l'inconcevable à sa façon dans ce huis clos oppressant et sans concession.

Traduit de l'anglais (États-Unis) par Jean Esch

Le monde après nous

''Easily the best thing I have read all year''  KILEY REID, AUTHOR OF  SUCH A FUN AGE  ''You will probably need to read it in as close to one sitting as possible  ''   SUNDAY TIMES ''Simply breathtaking . . . An extraordinary book, at once smart, gripping and hallucinatory''   OBSERVER  ''A page-turner taking in themes of isolation, race and class''   GUARDIAN  ***THE INSTANT  NEW YORK TIMES  BESTSELLER***  A magnetic novel about two families, strangers to each other, who are forced together on a long weekend gone terribly wrong  Amanda and Clay head to a remote corner of Long Island expecting a holiday: a quiet reprieve from life in New York City, quality time with their teenage son and daughter and a taste of the good life in the luxurious home they''ve rented for the week. But with a late-night knock on the door, the spell is broken. Ruth and G. H., an older couple who claim to own the home, have arrived there in a panic. These strangers say that a sudden power outage has swept the city, and - with nowhere else to turn - they have come to the country in search of shelter.

But with the TV and internet down, and no phone service, the facts are unknowable. Should Amanda and Clay trust this couple - and vice versa? What has happened back in New York? Is the holiday home, isolated from civilisation, a truly safe place for their families? And are they safe from one another?
 _______  SOON TO BE A MAJOR GLOBAL NETFLIX ADAPTATION STARRING DENZEL WASHINGTON AND JULIA ROBERTS  SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD 2020  Everyone is talking about LEAVE THE WORLD BEHIND  ''A book that could have been tailor-made for our times''  The Times   ''An exceptional examination of race and class and what the world looks like when it''s ending''  Roxane Gay  ''A thrilling book - one that will speak to readers who have felt the terror of isolation in these recent months and one that will simultaneously, as great books do, lift them out of it''  Vogue   ''Explores complex ideas about privilege and fate with miraculous wit and grace''  Jenny Offill  ''For the reader, the invisible terror outside in  Leave the World Behind  echoes the sense of disquiet today in a world convulsed by the pandemic''  Financial Times   ''Alam''s achievement is to see that his genre''s traditional arc, which relies on the idea of aftermath, no longer makes sense. Today, disaster novels call for something different''  New Yorker   ''Read it with the lights on'' Jenna Bush Hager, October Book Club pick

Leave the world behind

Rumaan Alam (né en 1977) est un écrivain américain.

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rumaan_Alam

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