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With this novel, Booker Prize-winning author Anita Brookner confirms her reputation as an unparalleled observer of social nuance and deeply felt longings. Brief Lives chronicles an unlikely friendship: that between the flamboyant, monstrously egocentric Julia and the modest, self-effacing Fay, who is at once fascinated and appalled by Julia's excesses. Thrust together by their husbands' business partnership -- and by a guilty secret -- Julia and Fay develop an intense bond that is nonetheless something less than intimacy, a relationship in which we see our own uneasy compromises, not only with other people, but with life itself.From the Trade Paperback edition.

Julia et moi

Sofka

Une amie d'angleterre

Regardez-moi

The extraordinary Anita Brookner gives us a brilliant novel about age and awakening. In Visitors, Brookner explores what happens when a woman's quiet resignation to fate is challenged by the arrogance of youth.
Dorothea May is most at ease in the company of strangers -- so when she is prevailed upon to take in a young man in town for a family wedding, her carefully constructed, solitary world is thrown into disarray. As the wedding approaches, old family secrets surface and conflicts erupt between the generations. Dorothea's fragile façade of peaceful acceptance is pierced, forcing her to face in a new way both her past and her future.
Exquisite writing, richly drawn characters, and penetrating perceptions about people are featured in another superb novel from this acclaimed and award-winning writer.

Visitors

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Penguin Decades bring you the novels that helped shape modern Britain. When they were published, some were bestsellers, some were considered scandalous, and others were simply misunderstood. All represent their time and helped define their generation, while today each is considered a landmark work of storytelling.


The latecomers are Hartmann and Fibich, brought over to England as children to escape Nazi Germany, now living close to each other in London in their 60s, and still friends. Yet they could not be more different, each having adopted different strategies to reconcile themselves with their past and to cope with an uncertain world.

Latecomers

Edith Hope, l'héroïne d'Hôtel du Lac, s'est retirée mystérieusement sur les bords du Léman, contrainte de s'éloigner de ses proches. Elle y demeurera jusqu'à la fin de la saison d'été, isolement qui donnera lieu à toutes les spéculations. Que s'est-il passé ? La narratrice nous révélera progressivement comment elle a dû changer sa vie. Parmi les pensionnaires se trouvent Monsieur Neville avec lequel une relation particulière se noue, une vieille comtesse, le patron de l'établissement... Dans cette atmosphère singulière de huis-clos haletant s'ébauche un suspens en clair-obscur... Hôtel du Lac a obtenu en 1984 le Booker Prize, le plus important et prestigieux prix littéraire britannique. Dans y la préface, son ami l'écrivain Julian Barnes rend ici à Anita Brookner un hommage subtil en forme de portrait.

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