A vingt-six ans, Cheryl Strayed pensait qu'elle avait tout perdu. N'ayant rien à perdre, elle a pris la décision la plus impulsif de sa vie: marcher onze à cent miles de la côte ouest de l'Amérique - depuis le désert de Mojave à l'État de Washington - et de le faire tout seul. Dans ce livre, elle compte capte les affres - mentale et physique - de son voyage.
Among the Dead in Rwanda, Bosnia, Croatia and Kosovo. In 1966, Clea Koff, a 23 year old graduate student was sent to Rwanda by the UN to work with a small team exhuming victims of the genocide. 'The Bone Woman' is a mesmerising account of her four years of gruelling investigations into these, and other murderous events - events which transformed her from an idealistic student to a war crimes veteran.
A frank, smart and endearing literary memoir of growing up as the daughter of Apple founder Steve Jobs in the rapidly changing Silicon Valley of the tech boom. This is her poignant story of family, of growing up, and of a childhood spent between two imperfect but extraordinary homes - an unforgettable portrait of her complex relationship with her parents and their fascinating worlds.
Soraya was a schoolgirl in the coastal town of Sirte, when she was given the honour of presenting a bouquet of flowers to Colonel Gaddafi, "the Guide," on a visit he was making the following week. This one meeting - a presentation of flowers, a pat on the head from Gaddafi - changed Soraya's life forever. Soon afterwards, she was summoned to Bab al-Azizia, Gaddafi's palatial compound near Tripoli, where she joined a number of young women who were violently abused, raped and degraded by Gaddafi. Heartwrenchingly tragic but ultimately redemptive, Soraya's story is the first of many that are just now beginning to be heard.In Gaddafi's Harem, Le Monde special correspondent Annick Cojean gives a voice to Soraya's story, and supplements her investigation into Gaddafi's abuses of power through interviews with other women who were abused by Gaddafi, and those who were involved with his regime, including a driver who ferried women to the compound, and Gaddafi's former Chief of Security.Gaddafi's Harem is an astonishing portrait of the essence of dictatorship: how power gone unchecked can wreak havoc on the most intensely personal level, as well as a document of great significance to the new Libya.
Millions have read Barack Obama's Dreams from my Father and think they know his story. Now, Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer David Maraniss has produced a startling biography which reveals the true narrative of Obama's early years.
Physicist and polymath, as familiar with Hindu scriptures as he was with quantum mechanics, J Robert Oppenheimer, director of the Manhattan Project that developed the atomic bomb, was the most famous scientist of his generation. This biography reveals a brilliant man, profoundly involved with some of the momentous events of the twentieth century.
Now available in paperback: the first serious biography of the religion baiting, republican hating, chain smoking, coffee addicted, doo-wop loving, guitar virtuoso.
An unflinching account of the author's journey into the heart of Tokyo's underground culture as a young man in the 1970s. For an outsider, unattached to the cultural burdens placed on the Japanese, this was a place to be truly free. This is a portrait of a young artist and the city that shaped him, and a timeless story about the desire to transgress boundaries: cultural, artistic and sexual.
