Leïla Slimani
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Collection Folio volume 6492
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Français
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"When a mother of two young children, decides despite her husband's reluctance to resume work in a law firm, the couple is looking for a nanny. They hire one. There is too much drama and prejudice related to class or culture" -- cataloger's summary.
Lorsque Myriam décide malgré les réticences de son mari de reprendre son activité au sein d'un cabinet d'avocats, le couple se met à la recherche d'une nounou. Après un casting sévère, ils engagent...
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2020
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Français
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En 1944, Mathilde, une jeune Alsacienne, s'éprend d'Amine Belhaj, un Marocain combattant dans l'armée française. Après la Libération, elle quitte son pays pour suivre au Maroc celui qui va devenir son mari. Le couple s'installe à Meknès, ville de garnison et de colons, où le système de ségrégation coloniale s'applique avec rigueur. Amine récupère ses terres, rocailleuses ingrates et commence alors une période très dure pour la famille....
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Collection Folio volume 6062
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Français
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Une semaine qu'elle tient. Une semaine qu'elle n'a pas cédé. Adèle a été sage. En quatre jours, elle a couru trente-deux kilomètres. Elle est allée de Pigalle aux Champs-Élysées, du musée d'Orsay à Bercy. Elle a couru le matin sur les quais déserts. La nuit, sur le boulevard Rochechouart et la place de Clichy. Elle n'a pas bu d'alcool et elle s'est couchée tôt. Mais cette nuit, elle en a rêvé et n'a pas pu se rendormir. Un rêve moite,...
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English
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"When Myriam, a French-Moroccan lawyer, decides to return to work after having children, she and her husband look for the perfect nanny for their two young children. They never dreamed they would find Louise: a quiet, polite, devoted woman who sings to the children, cleans the family's chic apartment in Paris's upscale tenth arrondissement, stays late without complaint, and hosts enviable kiddie parties. But as the couple and the nanny become more...
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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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Gallimard Audio
Pub. Date
2021
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Français
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Comme un écrivain qui pense que « toute audace véritable vient de l'intérieur », Leïla Slimani n'aime pas sortir de chez elle, et préfère la solitude à la distraction. Pourquoi alors accepter cette proposition d'une nuit blanche à la pointe de la Douane, à Venise, dans les collections d'art de la Fondation Pinault, qui ne lui parlent guère ?
Autour de cette « impossibilité » d'un livre, avec un art subtil de digresser dans la nuit vénitienne,...
7) Adèle
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Penguin Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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She wants only one thing: to be wanted. Adèle appears to have the perfect life: She is a successful journalist in Paris who lives in a beautiful apartment with her surgeon husband and their young son. But underneath the surface, she is bored--and consumed by an insatiable need for sex. Driven less by pleasure than compulsion, Adèle organizes her day around her extramarital affairs, arriving late to work and lying to her husband about where she's...
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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"--
Morocco, 1968: Two siblings, unusual for their biracial parentage--their father is Moroccan, their mother French--search for their place in a world not made to fit them. Aicha, strong-willed...
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Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
Description
"Leila Slimani was in her native Morocco promoting her novel Adèle, about a woman addicted to sex, when she began meeting women who confided the dark secrets of their sexual lives. In Morocco, adultery, abortion, homosexuality, prostitution, and sex outside of marriage are all punishable by law, and women have only two choices: They can be wives or virgins. Sex and Lies combines vivid, often harrowing testimonies with Slimani's passionate and intelligent...
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Sindbad
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
Russian
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"When Myriam, a French-Moroccan lawyer, decides to return to work after having children, she and her husband look for the perfect nanny for their two young children. They never dreamed they would find Louise: a quiet, polite, devoted woman who sings to the children, cleans the family's chic apartment in Paris's upscale tenth arrondissement, stays late without complaint, and hosts enviable kiddie parties. But as the couple and the nanny become more...
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Gallimard
Pub. Date
2016.
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Français
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"Lorsque Myriam, mère de deux jeunes enfants, décide malgré les réticences de son mari de reprendre son activité au sein d'un cabinet d'avocats, le couple se met à la recherche d'une nounou. Après un casting sévère, ils engagent Louise, qui conquiert très vite l'affection des enfants et occupe progressivement une place centrale dans le foyer. Peu à peu le piège de la dépendance mutuelle va se refermer, jusqu'au drame. A travers la description...
Author
Series
Pays des autres volume 2
Publisher
Gallimard
Pub. Date
[2022]
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Français
Description
"1968 : à force de ténacité, Amine a fait de son domaine aride une entreprise florissante. Il appartient désormais à une nouvelle bourgeoisie qui prospère, fait la fête et croit en des lendemains heureux. Mais le Maroc indépendant peine à fonder son identité nouvelle, déchiré entre les archaïsmes et les tentations illusoires de la modernité occidentale, entre l'obsession de l'image et les plaies de la honte. C'est dans cette période...
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Publisher
Stock
Pub. Date
[2021]
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Français
Description
"Comme un écrivain qui pense que 'toute audace véritable vient de l'intérieur', Leïla Slimani n'aime pas sortir de chez elle, et préfère la solitude à la distraction. Pourquoi alors accepter cette proposition d'une nuit blanche à la Pointe de la Douane, à Venise, dans des collections d'art qui ne lui parlent guère? Autour de cette 'impossibilité' d'un livre, avec un art subtil de digresser, Leïla Slimani nous parle d'elle, de l'enfermement,...
16) Adele
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Publisher
Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
She wants only one thing: to be wanted. Adèle appears to have the perfect life: She is a successful journalist in Paris who lives in a beautiful apartment with her surgeon husband and their young son. But underneath the surface, she is bored--and consumed by an insatiable need for sex. Driven less by pleasure than compulsion, Adèle organizes her day around her extramarital affairs, arriving late to work and lying to her husband about where she's...
Author
Series
Pays des autres volume 1
Publisher
Gallimard
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Français
Description
Après la Libération, Mathilde, une jeune Alsacienne, et Amine Belhaj, un Marocain ancien combattant dans l'armée française, s'installent à Meknès. Dans cette ville où le système de ségrégation coloniale s'applique rigoureusement, le couple doit se battre pour faire sa place, entre sacrifices, humiliations et racisme. Une histoire inspirée par la grand-mère de l'auteure qui se clôt en 1956.
18) Be-Gano shel ʻOg
Author
Publisher
Modan
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
עברית
Description
"Adèle appears to have the perfect life: She is a successful journalist in Paris who lives in a beautiful apartment with her surgeon husband and their young son. But underneath the surface, she is bored--and consumed by an insatiable need for sex. Driven by her compulsion, Adèle organizes her day around her extramarital affairs, arriving late to work and lying to her husband about where she's been, until she becomes ensnared in a trap of her own...
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Publisher
Coronet
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Over one night, alone in the Punta della Dogana Museum in Venice, Leïla Slimani grapples with the self as it is revealed in solitude. In a place of old and new, she confronts her past and her present, through her life as a Moroccan woman, as a writer, and as a daughter. Surrounded by art, she explores what it means to behold and clasp beauty; enveloped by night, she confronts the meaning of life and death."--Publisher.