A young woman prays at her husband's bedside as he lies in a coma with a bullet in his neck. Her husband's body reminds her of the legend of the patience stone, a stone that hears all confessions until it explodes, and finally, spurred to new heights of daring, she spills out her most explosive secret.
Twee veertienjarige jongens, Sacha en Augustin, gaan op zoek naar thrills in het Parijs van de bevoorrechten. Ze trekken van feest naar feest, gaan van appartement dat op de Seine uitkijkt naar luxe hotelsuite ze drinken, roken, vrijen en spuiten, meestal tegelijkertijd. Ze gaan alleen naar school als ze daar zin in hebben en voelen zich door niets uitgedaagd. Ze zoeken wanhopig naar steeds extremere ervaringen, want wie geeft nog ergens om in deze tijd? Niets doet ertoe. Sacha Sperling beschrijft in Ik, voor eeuwig de angsten, twijfels en gevoelens van de jongere generatie en laat met een avontuurlijke stijl zijn verbazingwekkende literaire volwassenheid zien.
A national best-seller that was featured on such lists as The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, the San Francisco Chronicle, The Boston Globe, and Publishers Weekly, The Sexual Life of Catherine M. was the controversial sleeper hit of the year. Since her youth, Catherine Millet, the eminent editor of Art Press, has led an extraordinarily active and free sexual life -- from al fresco encounters in Italy to a gang bang on the edge of the Bois du Boulogne to a high-class orgy at a chichi Parisian restaurant. A graphic account of sex stripped of sentiment, of a life of physical gratification and a relentlessly honest look at the consequences -- both liberating and otherwise -- have created this candid, powerful, and deeply intelligent depiction of unfettered sexuality.
"The author...has built knowledge into artistic fiction."--"The New York Times Book Review" Elisha is a young Jewish man, a Holocaust survivor, and an Israeli freedom fighter in British-controlled Palestine; John Dawson is the captured English officer he will murder at dawn in retribution for the British execution of a fellow freedom fighter. The night-long wait for morning and death provides "Dawn," Elie Wiesel's ever more timely novel, with its harrowingly taut, hour-by-hour narrative. Caught between the manifold horrors of the past and the troubling dilemmas of the present, Elisha wrestles with guilt, ghosts, and ultimately God as he waits for the appointed hour and his act of assassination. "Dawn" is an eloquent meditation on the compromises, justifications, and sacrifices that human beings make when they murder other human beings.