Books similar like L'Urgence et la Patience

The Lover

Set against the backdrop of French colonial Vietnam, The Lover reveals the intimacies and intricacies of a clandestine romance between a pubescent girl from a financially strapped French family and an…

Buy this book on Amazon

La prochaine fois que tu mordras la poussière

« Ce livre me fait peur. Le processus a été douloureux. Mon père nous a annoncé qu’il n’allait pas tarder à mourir et je me suis mis à écrire. Trois années au peigne fin, mes relations, mes pensées pa…

Buy this book on Amazon

Make Me Famous

Buy this book on Amazon

Bright Lights, Big City

With the publication of Bright Lights, Big City in 1984, Jay McInerney became a literary sensation, heralded as the voice of a generation. The novel follows a young man, living in Manhattan as if he o…

Buy this book on Amazon

Vivre vite

"J'ai été aimantée par cette double mission impossible. Acheter la maison et retrouver les armes cachées. C'était inespéré et je n'ai pas flairé l'engrenage qui allait faire basculer notre existence. …

Buy this book on Amazon

Proust, roman familial

Buy this book on Amazon

Chéri

Léa de Lonval is an aging courtesan, a once famous beauty facing the end of her sexual career. She is also facing the end of her most intense love affair, with Fred Peloux--known as Chéri--a playboy h…

Buy this book on Amazon

La Colère et l'Envie

Buy this book on Amazon

By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept

Buy this book on Amazon

Story of the Eye

Only Georges Bataille could write, of an eyeball removed from a corpse, that "the caress of the eye over the skin is so utterly, so extraordinarily gentle, and the sensation is so bizarre that it has …

Buy this book on Amazon

An Attempt at Exhausting a Place in Paris

Buy this book on Amazon

Fantastique Histoire d'amour

Buy this book on Amazon

Bel-Ami

Guy de Maupassant's scandalous tale of an opportunistic young man corrupted by the allure of power, "Bel-Ami" is translated with an introduction by Douglas Parmee in "Penguin Classics". Young, attract…

Buy this book on Amazon

Les Yeux de Mona

Cinquante-deux semaines : c’est le temps qu’il reste à Mona pour découvrir toute la beauté du monde.

C’est le temps que s’est donné son grand-père, un homme érudit et fantasque, pour l’initier, chaque …

Buy this book on Amazon

The Leopard

The Sicilian prince Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa (1896-1957) died just after writing The Leopard, his only novel. Visconti's film adaptation, starring Alain Delon and Claudia Cardinale, won the Palme …

Buy this book on Amazon

Paris-Briançon

Buy this book on Amazon

Vers la beauté

Buy this book on Amazon

La plus secrète mémoire des hommes

Un magistral roman d'apprentissage, une saisissante enquête sur les traces d'un mystérieux auteur menée par un jeune écrivain africain à Paris.

En 2018, Diégane Latyr Faye, jeune écrivain sénégalais, d…

Buy this book on Amazon

Ghosts

Written in 1881, when melodrama and farce were still at their peak of popularity, Ibsen’s Ghosts is a three-act tragedy that explores uncomfortable, even forbidden themes. It is also a highly critical…

Buy this book on Amazon

So Long a Letter

This novel is in the form of a letter, written by the widowed Ramatoulaye and describing her struggle for survival. It is the winner of the Noma Award.

Buy this book on Amazon

L'Urgence et la Patience

Similar books (20)