Jonathan Safran Foer

Oskar Schell, the nine-year-old son of a man killed in the World Trade Center attacks, searches the five boroughs of New York City for a lock that fits a black key his father left behind.

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

With only a yellowing photograph in hand, a young man -- also named Jonathan Safran Foer -- sets out to find the woman who may or may not have saved his grandfather from the Nazis. Accompanied by an old man haunted by memories of the war; an amorous dog named Sammy Davis, Junior, Junior; and the unforgettable Alex, a young Ukrainian translator who speaks in a sublimely butchered English, Jonathan is led on a quixotic journey over a devastated landscape and into an unexpected past.

A Novel

Everything Is Illuminated

Part memoir and part investigative report, Eating Animals is the groundbreaking moral examination of vegetarianism, farming, and the food we eat every day that inspired the documentary of the same name. Bestselling author Jonathan Safran Foer spent much of his life oscillating between enthusiastic carnivore and occasional vegetarian. For years he was content to live with uncertainty about his own dietary choices-but once he started a family, the moral dimensions of food became increasingly important. Faced with the prospect of being unable to explain why we eat some animals and not others, Foer set out to explore the origins of many eating traditions and the fictions involved with creating them. Traveling to the darkest corners of our dining habits, Foer raises the unspoken question behind every fish we eat, every chicken we fry, and every burger we grill. Part memoir and part investigative report, Eating Animals is a book that, in the words of the Los Angeles Times, places Jonathan Safran Foer "at the table with our greatest philosophers" -and a must-read for anyone who cares about building a more humane and healthy world.

Eating Animals

Comer Animais

Here I Am

Zjadanie zwierzat

Escape from Children's Hospital

Bernard Malamud

Yakov Bok quitte son village et s'installe à Kiev. Il aspire à une vie meilleure : un travail, un avenir, du temps pour lire ou pour rêver. Lorsqu'un enfant est découvert assassiné, cet homme comme les autres devient le coupable idéal. Car dans la Russie de Nicolas II, Yakov est d'abord un Juif. L'Homme de Kiev plonge dans les racines du mal, recréant l'Europe vacillante des tsars. Au-delà de la fable morale, Bernard Malamud a écrit un éblouissant roman sur la condition humaine, un chef-d'oeuvre qui le place aux côtés de Franz Kafka ou Joseph Roth.

L'homme de Kiev

"God asked Abraham to sacrifice his beloved son Isaac, and Abraham replied obediently, "Here I am." This is the story of a fracturing family in a moment of crisis. Over the course of three weeks in present-day Washington, D.C., three sons watch their parents' marriage falter and their family home fall apart. Meanwhile, a large catastrophe is engulfing another part of the world: a massive earthquake devastates the Middle East, sparking a pan-Arab invasion of Israel. With global upheaval in the background and domestic collapse in the foreground, Jonathan Safran Foer asks us: What is the true meaning of home? Can one man ever reconcile the conflicting duties of his many roles husband, father, son? And how much of life can a person ultimately bear?"--.

Ogni cosa è illuminata

Вот я

Bu Bizim Havamiz

Extremamente Alto e Incrivelmente Perto

" Sam sentit que tout allait exploser, mais il ignorait précisément quand et comment. " A la veille de sa bar-mitsva, le fils de Jacob et Julia Bloch est soupçonné d'être l'auteur d'injures racistes, ce qui lui vaut son renvoi du lycée. Pendant ce temps, Julia trouve sur le téléphone de son mari une série de textos pornographiques. On pense aux Scènes de la vie conjugale de Bergman revues par Philip Roth. A une fable délirante à la Mel Brooks. Ou aux deux à la fois. Car dans le monde de Jonathan Safran Foer, tout peut arriver, le meilleur comme le pire. Dans ce roman dont les dialogues crépitent comme des balles, on découvre que la grande et la petite histoire ne font qu'un. On passe ainsi sans crier gare du sacrifice d'Abraham à une théorie de la masturbation, d'un portrait d'Oliver Sacks à une analyse de la situation au Proche-Orient, de l'éloge du désir à la nostalgie du bonheur familial. Brillant, féroce, déchirant, désopilant, Me voici est l'oeuvre la plus aboutie d'un écrivain dont le talent ne connaît plus de limites.

Jonathan Safran Foer

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