Bruno, le perroquet chantant qui récite des séries de chiffres mystérieux, a disparu. Au grand désespoir de Linus Steiman, petit garçon juif qui a fui l'Allemagne nazie avec ce seul compagnon. À quoi correspondent ces chiffres ? Clefs d'un code ultrasecret de l'armée allemande ? Numéros des comptes bancaires suisses de la famille de l'enfant déportée dans les camps d'extermination ? C'est à un vieux détective émule de Sherlock Holmes, Mr Parkins, que revient la tâche de résoudre cette énigme aussi originale que délicate. Il fallait tout le talent de l'auteur des Mystères de Pittsburgh et Des garçons épatants pour créer, sur la trame de fond de la grande tragédie du XXe siècle, ce joli conte en forme d'enquête policière.

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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.

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The enhanced audio/video content in this edition works on the Kindle App for iOS device (iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch).

 Includes an original theme song, 10 designs from the artist Stainboy, and a custom-made map of Telegraph Avenue. Also includes audio excerpts read by Clarke Peters (The Wire, Treme) and a video interview with the author.

 The immensely gifted writer and magical prose stylist Michael Chabon delivers another bravura epic - a big-hearted, exhilarating novel exploring the profoundly intertwined lives of two Oakland families.

 The Title Page features a playbar. Tap to access the recording of the Telegraph Avenue theme written by Peter Lerman and performed by The Wakanda Philharmonic Orchestra. Go to Featured Enhancements for links to the specially commissioned artwork , video interviews with the author, audio extracts from the book and the Telegraph Avenue Mix Tape. Tap the song titles to link through to the iTunes store where you can purchase the listed tracks.

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Sur Telegraph Avenue, à Oakland, Californie, subsiste un petit paradis des vinyles de collection, Brokeland. Refuge de toute une faune d'habitués et de cinglés de rythmes afro-américains, il est tenu par Archy Stallings et Nat Jaffe, deux amis de longue date. Mais le projet d'implantation d'un gigantesque magasin de disques menace son existence.Et les imbroglios commencent, avec leur effet domino. Car c'est bien plus que la disparition de Brokeland qui est en jeu. C'est une histoire d'amitiés, de fidélité au passé et d'identité culturelle pour laquelle se mobilisent, s'opposent ou s'allient les voyous et les musiciens du quartier, les hommes de la municipalité, mais aussi les femmes de Nat et d'Archy, deux ados fans de Tarantino, une vieille star de la blaxploitation et une aïeule chinoise ceinture noire de kung-fu.Calé sur le tempo funky des classiques du soul-jazz, rythmé par un style pyrotechnique éblouissant, Telegraph Avenue est le grand roman de la Californie d'hier et d'aujourd'hui.

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Qui est donc Linius Steiman, ce petit garçon de neuf ans réfugié en Angleterre après avoir fui l'Allemagne nazie ? Aphasique et parlant à peine l'anglais, Linius est l'objet d'une surveillance attentive de la part de ceux qui l'accueillent. Mais n'est-ce pas plutôt son compagnon, Bruno, un perroquet gris d'Afrique, qui les intrigue ? Volubile et polyglotte, Bruno récite en allemand de longues listes de chiffres mystérieux qui paraissent fasciner les personnes qui l'approchent. Ces chiffres seraient-ils ceux d'un code SS top-secret ? Ou ceux d'une série de comptes bancaires suisses appartenant à la famille de Linius, disparue sous la botte des SS ?Un homme est assassiné, Bruno enlevé, et la police impuissante à résoudre cette énigme. Un vieux détective, célèbre en son temps pour son flair infaillible et ses méthodes peu orthodoxes, accepte de se charger de l'enquête. Déroutant, irritant, il met tout son talent au service non de la police, mais du petit Juif qui n'a plus qu'un oiseau pour famille. Évidemment le détective de génie élucidera le secret – dévastateur – des nombres récités par le perroquet. Et en retrouvant Bruno, il rendra un peu de bonheur au petit garçon juif dont tous les souvenirs sont contenus dans les chants étranges d'un perroquet gris.Attaché à la mémoire de la plus grande tragédie du siècle dernier, Michael Chabon mêle l'enquête policière au drame des enfants exilés durant la Deuxième Guerre mondiale. Dans ce petit livre d'une grande originalité, il réinvente le roman à énigme du XIXe siècle qui a fasciné tant de lecteurs.

Michael Chabon’s Pulitzer Prizewinning bestseller, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, sprang from an early passion for the derringdo and largerthanlife heroes of classic comic books. Now, once more mining the rich past, Chabon summons the rollicking spirit of legendary adventures–from The Arabian Nights to Alexandre Dumas to Fritz Leiber’s Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser stories–in a wonderful new novel brimming with breathless action, raucous humor, cliffhanging suspense, and a cast of colorful characters worthy of Scheherazade’s most tantalizing tales.They’re an odd pair, to be sure: pale, railthin, blackclad Zelikman, a moody, itinerant physician fond of jaunty headgear, and exsoldier Amram, a grayhaired giant of a man as quick with a razortongued witticism as he is with a sharpened battleax. Brothers under the skin, comrades in arms, they make their rootless way through the Caucasus Mountains, circa A.D. 950, living as they please and surviving however they can–as blades and thieves for hire and as practiced bamboozlers, cheerfully separating the gullible from their money. No strangers to tight scrapes and close shaves, they’ve left many a fist shaking in their dust, tasted their share of enemy steel, and made good any number of hasty exits under hostile circumstances.None of which has necessarily prepared them to be dragooned into service as escorts and defenders to a prince of the Khazar Empire. Usurpe by his brutal uncle, the callow and decidedly illtempered young royal burns to reclaim his rightful throne. But doing so will demand wicked cunning, outrageous daring, and foolhardy bravado ... not to mention an army. Zelikman and Amram can at least supply the former. But are these gentlemen of the road prepared to become generals in a fullscale revolution? The only certainty is that getting there–along a path paved with warriors and whores, evil emperors and extraordinary elephants, secrets, swordplay, and such stuff as the grandest adventures are made of–will be much more than half the fun.From the Hardcover edition.

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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. A New York Times Notable Book of the Year - A Washington Post Book of the Year - An NPR Book of the Year - A Wall Street Journal Book of the Year - A Slate Book of the Year  ''Probably Chabon''s greatest, a piece of sustained writing that will be hard to see outdone in 2017'' The Times  Moonglow unfolds as a deathbed confession. An old man, his tongue loosened by powerful painkillers, his memory stirred by the imminence of death, tells stories to his grandson, uncovering bits and pieces of a history long buried. Why did he try to strangle a former business partner with a telephone cord? What was he thinking when he and a buddy set explosives on a bridge in Washington, D.C.? What did he feel while he hunted down Wernher von Braun in Germany? And what did he see in the young girl he met in Baltimore after returning home from the war?

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In his first novel since The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, Chabon presents a hilarious and heartbreaking work—the story of the friendship between the "wonder boys"—Grady, an aging writer who has lost his way, and Crabtree, whose relentless debauchery is capsizing his career.

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