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The Origin of Violence
Winner of the inaugural French Orange Prize in 2009 and the Prix Renaudot's livre de poche prize
During a school trip to Buchenwald concentration camp, a young French teacher comes across a photograph of a man whose resemblance to his own father, Adrien, is uncanny. However, the man has a ...
Fear
A rediscovered, controversial classic of war literature with a new introduction by John Berger
First published in 1930,Fear graphically describes the terrible experiences of soldiers during World War I. It tells the story of Jean Dartemont, a young man called up in 1915. He is not a rebel, but ...
The Silent Cry
The key work by the Nobel Prize winner,The Silent Cry encapsulates'Japanese history, society and ...
Two brothers, Takashi and Mitsu, return from Tokyo to the village of their childhood. Selling their family home leads them to an inescapable ...
Stabat Mater
In early eighteenth-century Venice an orphan girl discovers life and independence in the music of ...
The female musicians of the Instituto della Pietà play from a gallery in the church, their faces half hidden by metal grilles. They live segregated from the world. Cecilia, is a violinist who, ...