Après la perte tragique de leurs parents dans un accident de voiture, trois orphelins tentent de se reconstruire à leur manière.
Jules n'a rien en commun avec ses frères et soeurs, Marty et Liz. Rien à part le tragique accident de voiture en France où ils passent toutes leurs vacances qui leur ôtent très jeunes leurs parents. Placés dans le même pensionnat froid et sans âmes, ils deviennent vite des étrangers les uns pour les...

"Una extraordinaria selección de obras esenciales, en su mayoría inéditas, que celebran la fuerza, el talento y la diversidad de las mujeres latinas, y tienden puentes que nos conectan las unas con las otras. Desde la prosa implacable de sor Juana Inés de la Cruz hasta los poderosos cantos de la chamana María Sabina; desde las luchas revolucionarias de Audre Lorde, Lolita Lebrón y Berta Cáceres hasta el activismo de Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez;...

There are still wild places out there on our crowded planet. Through a series of personal journeys, Dan Richards explores the appeal of far-flung outposts in mountains, tundra, forests, oceans and deserts. These are landscapes that speak of deep time, whose scale can knock us down to size. Their untamed nature is part of their beauty and such places have long drawn the adventurous, the spiritual and the artistic. For those who go in search of the...

For year-round residents of a small town in the south of France, life often means stifling poverty and boredom. Sixteen-year-old Celine and her sister Jo dream of escaping to somewhere far from their daily routine, far from their surly, alcoholic father Manuel and uncaring mother Severine. That summer Celine falls pregnant, devastating news that reopens deep family wounds. Faced with Celine's refusal to name the father of her child, Manuel needs a...

How do Palestinians live, imagine and reflect on home and exile in this period of a stateless and transitory Palestine and a sharp escalation in Israeli state violence and accompanying Palestinian oppression? How can exile and home be written? In this volume of new writing, fifteen innovative and outstanding Palestinian writers-essayists, poets, novelists, critics, artists and memoirists-respond with their reflections, experiences, memories and polemics....