Leila Slimani
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*Soon to be an HBO series starring Nicole Kidman and Maya Erskine*
She has the keys to their apartment. She knows everything. She has embedded herself so deeply in their lives that it now seems impossible to remove her.
One of the 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR of The New York Times Book Review, by the author of Adèle, Sex and Lies, In the Country of Others, and Watch...
She has the keys to their apartment. She knows everything. She has embedded herself so deeply in their lives that it now seems impossible to remove her.
One of the 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR of The New York Times Book Review, by the author of Adèle, Sex and Lies, In the Country of Others, and Watch...
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2021
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English
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The award-winning, #1 internationally bestselling new novel by the author of The Perfect Nanny that “lays bare women’s intimate, lacerating experience of war” (The New York Times Book Review)
After World War II, Mathilde leaves France for Morocco to be with her husband, whom she met while he was fighting for the French army. A spirited young woman, she now finds herself a farmer’s wife, her vitality...
After World War II, Mathilde leaves France for Morocco to be with her husband, whom she met while he was fighting for the French army. A spirited young woman, she now finds herself a farmer’s wife, her vitality...
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Pub. Date
2023
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English
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The rebellions within an interracial family play out against the countercultural rebellions of the 1960s in this sexy, stylish, sophisticated new novel by the award-winning, internationally bestselling author of The Perfect Nanny and In the Country of Others.
It’s the 1960s, and the air is electric. On the cusp of adulthood, two biracial siblings—their father is Moroccan, their mother French—search for their...
It’s the 1960s, and the air is electric. On the cusp of adulthood, two biracial siblings—their father is Moroccan, their mother French—search for their...
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Adèle parece tener una vida perfecta. Trabaja como periodista, vive en un bonito apartamento en Montmartre con su marido Richard, médico especialista, y con su hijo de tres años, Lucien. Sin embargo, bajo esta apariencia de cotidianidad, Adèle esconde un inmenso secreto, la necesidad insaciable de coleccionar conquistas. «En el jardín del ogro» es la historia de un cuerpo esclavo de sus pulsiones, una novela feroz y visceral sobre la adicción...
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En 1944, Mathilde, una joven alsaciana, se enamora de Amín Belhach, combatiente marroquí en el ejército francés durante la II Guerra Mundial. Tras la Liberación, el matrimonio viaja a Marruecos y se establece en Meknés, ciudad en la zona del Protectorado de Francia con una importante presencia de militares y colonos. Mientras él intenta acondicionar la finca heredada de su padre, unas tierras ingratas y pedregosas, ella se sentirá muy pronto...
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Myriam, madre de dos niños, decide reemprender su actividad laboral en un bufete de abogados a pesar de las reticencias de su marido. Tras un minucioso proceso de selección para encontrar una niñera, se deciden por Louise, que rápidamente conquista el corazón de los niños y se convierte en una figura imprescindible en el hogar. Pero poco a poco la trampa de la interdependencia va a convertirse en un drama.
Con un estilo directo, incisivo y tenebroso...
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«Por ser un inmenso espacio de libertad donde se puede decir todo, bordear el mal, narrar el horror, liberarse de las reglas de la moral y del decoro, la literatura es hoy más necesaria que nunca. Añade complejidad y ambigüedad a un mundo que las rechaza.»
Así ocurre en los seis textos que conforman El diablo está en los detalles ―entre los que encontraremos relatos a la manera de Chéjov o apasionadas elegías a la lectura― y también...
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«Si quieres escribir una novela, la primera norma es saber decir no, rechazar las invitaciones.» ¿Por qué aceptar entonces la propuesta de pasar una noche en el museo Punta della Dogana?
A través del arte sutil de la digresión en la noche veneciana, Leila Slimani se adentra en el proceso creativo de su escritura, aborda los problemas de identidad y del pasado colonial, de moverse entre dos mundos, Oriente y Occidente, donde ella navega y se...
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Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2019
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English
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Adèle appears to have the perfect life. A respected journalist, she lives in a flawless Parisian apartment with her surgeon husband and their young son. But beneath the veneer of ‘having it all’, she is bored – and consumed by an insatiable need for sex, whatever the cost. Struggling to contain the twin forces of compulsion and desire, she begins to orchestrate her life around her one night stands and extramarital affairs, arriving...
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Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2020
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English
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"Jaw-dropping . . . Inspiring . . . A haunting and beautifully composed book . . . It blew my mind." —Lisa Taddeo, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Three Women
A fearless exposé of the secrets and lies of women's intimate lives, by the bestselling author of The Perfect Nanny, Adèle, and In the Country of Others
"All those in positions of authority—politicians, parents, teachers—maintain...
A fearless exposé of the secrets and lies of women's intimate lives, by the bestselling author of The Perfect Nanny, Adèle, and In the Country of Others
"All those in positions of authority—politicians, parents, teachers—maintain...
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Penguin Books
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[2021]
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English
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"In her first new novel since The Perfect Nanny launched her onto the world stage and won her acclaim for her "devastatingly perceptive character studies" (The New York Times Book Review), Leila Slimani draws on her own family's inspiring story for the first volume in a planned trilogy about race, resilience, and women's empowerment. Mathilde, a spirited young Frenchwoman, falls in love with Amine, a handsome Moroccan soldier in the French army during...
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Scribner
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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Presents a collection of short stories originally commissioned by "The New York Times Magazine" as the COVID-19 pandemic swept the world, from twenty-nine authors including Margaret Atwood, Tommy Orange, Edwidge Danticat, and more, in a project inspired by Boccaccio's "The Decameron."