Lydie Salvayre

• Dec-1996
• / Literary
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A disturbing, provocative story of an awards ceremony at a massive automotive factory takes acceptance speeches and presentations, makes them into individual minibiographies, and explores the insanity and chaos that is not isolated to fictio...

• May-2005
• / General Fiction
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At the City Hall in a small town in the South of France, one man starts his campaign to correct the ills that have overtaken his proud nation by lecuring the town's inhabitants on the art of conversation. In the narrator's opinion, "coversation is...

• Jan-2006
• / General Fiction
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When a bailiff turns up, a teenager tries to salvage her mother, their dignity and the TV. When a bailiff arrives at a housing project on the edge of Paris to draw up a routine inventory of goods in view of seizure, the reception he receives from ...

• Nov-2006
• / General Fiction
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The hiring of a new secretary shouldn't be a big deal--just a slight a change in the office environment. But for the protagonist of this novel, it is a declaration of war, a call to arms: "The new secretary has only been here two days," she says, ...

• Nov-2007
• / General Fiction
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The Power of Flies begins in a courtroom, where a man is undergoing an interrogation. He has committed a crime, and he must now explain himself. But instead of letting the judge, lawyer, and psychiatrist question him, he asks himself all the quest...

• Feb-2010
• / Literary
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• Sep-2012
• / General Fiction
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Qui est B.W. ? Éditeur, sportif, voyageur, lecteur, le compagnon de Lydie Salvayre est un homme hors du commun. Atteint d''une maladie des yeux qui le rend aveugle, privé de lecture, il est comme un ours en cage. Lydie Salvayre à ses côtés recueille ...

• Jan-2020
• / General Fiction
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Aged fifteen, as Franco's forces begin their murderous purges and cities across Spain rise up against the old order, Montse has never heard the word fascista before. In any case, the villagers say facha (the ch is a real Spanish ch, by the way, with ...