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Zulu
by Caryl Férey
Published by Gallimard
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As a child Ali Neuman ran away from the Bantoustan of KwaZulu to escape the Inkatha militia, at war with the ANC, so illegal. Even his mother, the only survivor of the family, doesn´t know what they have done to him... Today chief of the criminal police of Cape Town, window on South Africa, Neuman has to cope with two major curses: violence and AIDs, of which the country, the first African democracy, breaks all the records.more |
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| One day, Alexander Astrid receives an anonymous manuscript in the post entitled Garden of Love, a reference to the great British poet William Blake. It is not long before Alex, a screwed-up, drifting cop, reads between the lines a troubling and even diabolical version of his own life. more |
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Garden of love
by Marcus Malte
Published by Zulma
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Du même auteur
by Nan Aurousseau
Published by Stock
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From the opening sentences, the reader is caught up in the simmering energy and vibrant voice of this novel. Aurousseau invents a new genre: the whodunnit that is part-autobiography, part-fiction.more |
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| "If, after each murder, the first or the second person who came along was promptly arrested, no crime would go unpunished, and the police force would find itself with a lot more time on its hands, which it could dedicate to security operations to reassure the population. So wrote superintendent Wallance in one of his notebooks, before murdering someone himself in order to better prove the effectiveness of his logic..."more |
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Chair aux enchères
by Raphael Majan
Published by P.O.L
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Manta corridor
by Dominique Sylvain
Published by Viviane Hamy
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Paris in a heat wave. In the district around the famous Passage Brady, ex-Superintendent Lola Jost and her friend Ingrid Diesel, an American devotee of Paris, try to cool down with a strawberry and mint soup made by their friend Maxime Duchamp. The latter tells them about the disappearance of Louis Manta, a young shampooer at a Parisian hairdresser’s, “Dakar Extravaganza”, managed by the hilarious Lady Mba, queen of the dubious quotation and of chicken in peanut sauce. A delicious Parisian adventure, full of spicy happenings, crisp verbal jousting and underwater mysteries.more |
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