In the late summer of 1913, George Sawle brings his Cambridge friend Cecil Valance, a charismatic young poet, to visit his family home. Filled with intimacies and confusions, the weekend will link the families for ever, having the most lasting impact on George's sixteen-year-old sister Daphne.
Sud-Ouest africain, début du XXe siècle. Des hommes observent, le sang chauffé par l'alcool et le désir, l'arrivée de bateaux en provenance d'Allemagne. A leur bord, des centaines de femmes engagées aux frais de l'Empire pour fournir aux colons allemands une épouse, et parfois simplement de la chair. Pour Hanna X comme pour beaucoup de ces femmes, c'est un peu le voyage de la dernière chance. Petite fille dans la grisaille d'un orphelinat de Brême, elle rêvait à ce qui se cache au-delà du silence, au pays des palmiers qui voient naître le vent. Fuyant la misère et les mauvais traitements, Hanna pense trouver en Afrique la matérialisation de ses rêves d'enfant. C'est un monde livré à la brutalité coloniale et masculine qu'elle y découvre à ses dépens. Violée, défigurée, Hanna refuse de se soumettre à la loi du plus fort. A la tête d'une armée où autochtones et femmes allemandes font cause commune contre le pouvoir des colons, la jeune femme organise une révolte, un voyage au-delà du silence imposé par la violence et l'oppression. En réunissant les éléments épars de l'identité d'une femme au destin hors du commun, Au-delà du silence donne la parole aux minorités souvent oubliées de l'Histoire. Un roman plein de bruit et de fureur, hanté par les images d'un passé peu glorieux. Un captivant plaidoyer en faveur de la liberté.
"It is 1970, and a down-at-the-heels California commune devoted to peace, free love and the simple life has decided to relocate to the last frontier - the unforgiving landscape of interior Alaska - in the ultimate expression of going back to the land. The novel opposes two groups of characters: Sess Harder, his wife, Pamela, and other young Alaskans who are already successfully homesteading in the wilderness, and the brothers and sisters of "Drop City," led by Norm Sander and three idealistic emigres from the east coast, Star, her boyfriend, Marco, and Ronnie. As these two communities collide, unexpected friendships and dangerous enmities are born as everyone struggles with the bare essentials of life: love, nourishment and a roof over one's head."--BOOK JACKET.
In an edgy psychological thriller that is as mesmerizing as it is profound, Rupert Thomson fearlessly delves into the darkest realm of the human spirit to reveal the sinister connection between sexuality and power. Stepping out of his Amsterdam studio one April afternoon to buy cigarettes for his girlfriend, a dashing 29-year old Englishman reflects on their wonderful seven-year relationship, and his stellar career as an internationally acclaimed dancer and choreographer. But the nameless protagonist's destiny takes an unthinkably horrifying turn when a trio of mysterious cloaked and hooded women kidnap him, chain him to the floor of a stark white room to keep as their sexual prisoner, and subjected him to eighteen days of humiliation, mutilation, and rape. Then, after a bizarrely public performance, he is released, only to be held captive in the purgatory of his own guilt and torment: The realization that no one will believe his strange story. Coolly revelatory, meticulously crafted, The Book of Revelation is Rupert Thomson at his imaginative best.