Aux quatre coins du monde, les femmes découvrent qu'elles détiennent le « pouvoir ». Du bout des doigts, elles peuvent infliger une douleur fulgurante - et même la mort. Soudain, les hommes comprennent qu'ils deviennent le « sexe faible ». Mais jusqu'où iront les femmes pour imposer ce nouvel ordre ?
Un roman d'une énergie fascinante. Une écrivaine puissante, qui n'amble pas avoir peur de grand-chose. Raphaëlle Leyris, Le Monde des livres.Ce troublant commentaire social, rythmé comme un thriller, est avant tout une réflexion sur la manière dont le pouvoir corrompt les individus. Amandine Schmitt, L'Obs.Réjouissant et captivant. Éric Libiot, L'Express.Un récit à la fois électrique et troublant. Sophie Pujas, Le Point.Baileys Women's Prize.Traduit de l'anglais par Christine Barbaste.
La fin des années 2020 approche et, entre cyberscience décadente, intelligence artificielle omniprésente et crise climatique plus qu'alarmante, la Terre continue de dérailler. Seuls les trois plus grands milliardaires du monde restent sereins. Lenk, Zimri et Ellen ont fait fortune dans la Silicon Valley et, bien que rivaux, ils ont tout prévu ensemble pour survivre si un jour l'humanité venait à s'effondrer. Or ce jour semble être arrivé. Mais c'est compter sans une jeune influenceuse, Lai Zhen, ancienne réfugiée hongkongaise, qui mène l'enquête sur les plans secrets des ultrariches. Alliée à un groupe d'idéalistes aussi exubérants que remontés, elle se met à rêver à un avenir où les technologies serviraient des causes plus nobles que celles de nous isoler, lobotomiser et forcer à consommer toujours plus. Mais comment reprendre le contrôle du futur ? Entre références bibliques et indigènes, poursuites infernales et course contre la montre, Le Futur se lit comme un jeu de survie palpitant où la trahison plane à chaque instant. Avec son style dynamique, Naomi Alderman signe une allégorie explosive des dérives technologiques et nous balade aux quatre coins du monde pour mieux saisir l'état de nos sociétés qui se déshumanisent à toute allure.
Insolente, rebelle, Ronit a quitté l'Angleterre et la communauté juive orthodoxe à dix-huit ans, direction New York. Refusant de se plier au destin tout tracé de mère de famille et d'épouse, elle a désobéi à son père, le grand Rav Krushka. À la mort de ce dernier, quinze ans plus tard, Ronit est rappelée auprès de sa famille, à Hendon. Elle retrouve Esti, qui fut sa petite amie, et son cousin Dovid. Eux n'ont pas désobéi. Dovid est devenu rabbin presque malgré lui. Esti a nié son attirance pour les femmes et suivi les préceptes de la Torah : elle a épousé Dovid... sans cesser d'aimer Ronit. Le retour de l'enfant maudite dans ce monde replié sur lui-même va provoquer une onde de choc.
Traduit de l'anglais par Hélène Papot.
WINNER OF THE 2017 BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S BEST BOOKS OF 2017 'Electrifying' Margaret Atwood 'A big, page-turning, thought-provoking thriller' Guardian All over the world women are discovering they have the power. With a flick of the fingers they can inflict terrible pain - even death. Suddenly, every man on the planet finds they've lost control. The Day of the Girls has arrived - but where will it end? ' The Hunger Games crossed with The Handmaid's Tale ' Cosmopolitan 'Superb. Insightful, thrilling, funny. Well-crafted, compelling, serious-minded' Daily Telegraph 'Fascinating, ingenious, rattles with a furious pace. Deserves to be read by every woman (and, for that matter, every man)' The Times 'Irresistible. Holds a mirror up to the here and now' Mail on Sunday 'Chilling, thrilling, a blast' Financial Times 'A shocking, thrill-a-minute story' Observer
''Gripping ... about to sweep the charts'' MARGARET ATWOOD
''Alderman is a fabulous, witty writer on the digital world'' SUNDAY TIMES
''A little Atwood, a little Gibson, all Alderman, it''s brilliant and I loved it'' LAUREN BEUKES
The latest novel from the Women''s Prize-winning, bestselling author of The Power, The Future is a white-knuckle tour de force and dazzling exploration of the world we have made and where we are going.
The Future is where the money is. The Future is a few billionaires leading the world to destruction.
The Future is a handful of friends hatching a daring plan.
The Future is the greatest heist ever? Or the cataclysmic end of civilisation...
The Future is here.
''A rollicking, fun-packed thriller with juicy stakes, constantly escalating twists, and a cast of characters who feel like they already exist somewhere out there in our fragile, free-wheeling present'' ALASTAIR REYNOLDS
A brand new collection of short stories featuring the Queen of Crime''s legendary detective Jane Marple, penned by twelve remarkable bestselling and acclaimed authors.
This collection of twelve original short stories, all featuring Jane Marple, will introduce the character to a whole new generation.Each author reimagines Agatha Christie''s Marple through their own unique perspective while staying true to the hallmarks of a traditional mystery.
Naomi Alderman Leigh Bardugo Alyssa Cole Lucy Foley Elly Griffiths Natalie Haynes Jean Kwok Val McDermid Karen M. McManus Dreda Say Mitchell Kate Mosse Ruth Ware Miss Marple was first introduced to readers in a story Christie wrote for The Royal Magazine in 1927 and made her first appearance in a full-length novel in 1930''s The Murder at the Vicarage.It has been 45 years since Agatha Christie''s last Marple novel, Sleeping Murder, was published posthumously in 1976, and this collection of ingenious new stories by twelve Christie devotees will be a timely reminder why Jane Marple remains the most famous fictional female detective of all time.
Andrew Brown is a trader for a big international bank. He makes lots of money every day, but he never has enough time. Now, he might found a way to borrow some - and at a very reasonable interest rate! But will it make his life easier, or will more time just give him more trouble? Penguin Readers is a series of the best new fiction, essential non-fiction and popular classics written for learners of English as a foreign language. Beautifully illustrated and carefully adapted, the series introduces language learners around the world to the bestselling authors and most compelling content from Penguin Random House. The eight levels of Penguin Readers follow the Common European Framework and include language activities that help readers to develop key skills. Doctor Who: Borrowed Time, a Level 5 Reader, is B1 in the CEFR framework. The text is made up of sentences with up to four clauses, introducing present perfect continuous, past perfect, reported speech and second conditional. It is well supported by illustrations, which appear regularly.
From the author of The Power, winner of the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction 2017James, always the outsider, enters Oxford - high seat of privilege, wealth and ambition. There he meets Mark Winters - dissolute, astonishingly, heartbreakingly rich, and pitilessly cruel - and the fellow students he has gathered around him: untouchable Emmanuella; on-again/off-again Simon and Franny; and passionate, true Jess.The nights - and many of the days - become one long party. Friendships are made, and broken. Lovers swapped, or dropped. It is all beguiling and bewitching. Everything James dreamed of but never quite believed in.But after university they are each cast out into an indifferent world. Free of Mark and his dark influence, they are lost to one another, until one night tragedy strikes . . .
From the author of The Power, winner of the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction 2017Ronit has left London and transformed her life. She has become a cigarette-smoking, wise-cracking, New York career woman, who is in love with a married man.But when Ronit's father dies she is called back into the very different world of her childhood, a world she thought she had left far behind. The orthodox Jewish suburb of Hendon, north London is outraged by Ronit and her provocative ways. But Ronit is shocked too by the confrontation with her past. And when she meets up with her childhood girlfriend Esti, she is forced to think again about what she has left behind.
Une éducation anglaiseAprès la communauté juive orthodoxe qui était au centre de La Désobéissance, Naomi Alderman s'intéresse dans Mauvais genre à un autre cercle très fermé : la prestigieuse université d'Oxford. Portrait d'un groupe d'amis réuni autour du séduisant (et manipulateur) Mark Winters, ce roman initiatique raconte les premières amours, les soirées inoubliables, mais aussi le désenchantement et les bouleversements intimes de cet âge de déraison qu'est la jeunesse. Dans la lignée du Maître des illusions de Donna Tartt, Mauvais genre révèle la perversité cachée derrière les façades impeccables d'Oxford, ce monde faussement exemplaire qui prépare à tout sauf à la réalité.
« Vous voulez plus de temps, n'est-ce pas ? Nous n'enavons jamais assez. Je vous propose un marché... » S'il y a bien une chose qui fait défaut à Andrew Brown, c'est le temps.
Sa course contre la montre fait de sa vie un enfer. Tout serait tellement plus simple si on lui accordait un peu de délai. Messieurs Symington et Blenkinsop, les rois du sablier, ont justement la possibilité de lui prêter de quoi différer le compte à rebours - à un taux défiant toute concurrence - à ceci près que les emprunteurs risquent leur vie sans le savoir. Le Docteur et ses compagnons flairent le problème et s'infiltrent dans la banque. Mais ils doivent faire vite avant que les usuriers ne recouvrent leur dette.
A collection of brand-new short stories written by major international writers and inspired by Kafka - to commemorate one hundred years since his death
Franz Kafka is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most enigmatic geniuses of twentieth-century literature. Few writers have inspired as much interpretation, adaptation and imitation as he has - from films to novels to memes - and very few artists in any field have created work that captures so resonantly the fraught peculiarity of our existence.
What happens when Kafka''s idiosyncratic imagination meets some of the greatest literary minds writing in English across the globe today? From a future society who ask their AI servants to construct a giant tower to reach God; to a flat hunt that descends into a comically absurd bureaucratic nightmare; to a population experiencing a wave of anxiety attacks, these specially commissioned stories speak powerfully to the strangeness of being alive today.
From the author of The Power , winner of the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction 2017 Ronit has left London and transformed her life. She has become a cigarette-smoking, wise-cracking, New York career woman, who is in love with a married man. But when Ronit's father dies she is called back into the very different world of her childhood, a world she thought she had left far behind. The orthodox Jewish suburb of Hendon, north London is outraged by Ronit and her provocative ways. But Ronit is shocked too by the confrontation with her past. And when she meets up with her childhood girlfriend Esti, she is forced to think again about what she has left behind.
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