Chronology of multicultural literature in the Americas

1916: The Japanese-Brazilian magazine Shukan Nambei is created.
1924: The Japanese-Brazilian Review Brasil Jiho is created.
1927: Creation of The Journal native Haiti (Haitian Africa).
1940: Tambores en la noche Jorge Artel (African Colombian).
1944: Abdias do Nascimento, Teatro Experimental do creates the Negro in Rio de Janeiro.
1946: Pregon marimorena of Virginia Brindis de Salas (African Uruguayan).
1954: A cada um seu paraíso Grellert Otto (German, Brazil).
1956: Contos do imigrante Rawet Samuel, pioneer of Jewish literature in Brazil.
1959: The Last of the Just by Andre Schwarz-Bart (Guadeloupe Jew).
1967: Marion Fleischer, A Alam poesia no Brasil.
1968: Poemas para un pueblo de Pedro Shimosa (Japanese Bolivian).
1971: Álbum de familia de José Watanabe (Japanese Peruvian).
1973: O Homem Só um exército of Moacyr Scliar (Brazilian Jew); Ritmos negros del Perúof Nicomedes Santa Cruz (African Peruvian), Edward Kamau Brathwaite, The Arrivals(African Barbadian).
1977: A Hora da Estrela de Clarice Lispector (Brazil Jewish) Oku Onuora publishes Echo(African Jamaican).
1978: The Afro-Brazilian magazine Cadernos Negros is created in São Paulo.
1983: Honorary Degree of Doctor of Letters from the University of the West Indies is given to Louise Bennett (African Jamaican).
1988: O haikai no Brasil, Hidezaku Masuda Goga (Japanese Brazilian).
1990: Relato de um Certo Oriente Milton Hatoum (Lebanese Brazilian).
1991: The Guyana Prize for Literature awarded to the novel The Intended by David Dabydeen (Guyana of Indian origin); Elicura Chihuailaf Nahuelpán publishes El invierno, su Imagen y otros Poemas Azules (Chilean Amerindian).
1995: Jewish voices in Brazilian literature: a discourse of alterity prophecy Nelson Vieira.
1997: publication of Elegbara Alberto Mussa, who intends to blend Western narrative traditions, oriental, Indian and Afro-Brazilian (Brazilian Lebanese).
1999: José Yamashiro, Trajetória Duas Vidas (Japanese Brazilian).
2000: Abadio Green, Beyond the Mask (Amerindians of Panama); no somos gente Hugo Jamioy Juagibioy (Indian from Colombia).
2004: Negerjood in moederland Ellen Shade (Jewish Surinam), Esteban Rios, Dxi gueela 'GACA' diidxa '/ Cuando la noche sea palabra (Native Mexican); Encuentros en los Senderos Abya Yala Miguel Ángel López (Colombian Amerindian ) "An Afro-Caribbean Chinese: Cultural Cartographies of Contrariness In The Work of Antonio Chuffat Latour, Margaret Cezaire-Thompson, and Patricia Powell" Lisa Yun (Chinese Cubans).
2005: Kanew, daba el árbol sed that Miguel Ángel Jusayú (Venezuelan Amerindian).
2007: Carlos Montemayor and Donald H. Frischmann, Words of the True People evokes the poetry of the Americas in Amerindian languages.
2008: Daniel Munduruku publishes Todas as Coisas Pequenas são (Brazilian Amerindian).

Chronology of multicultural literature in the U.S.

1903: WEB Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk (African American).
1925: Alain Locke, The New Negro. Beginning of the Harlem Renaissance (African American).

1934: John Joseph Matthews, Sundown (Native American) and Henry Roth, Call It Sleep (Jewish American).
1935: Judgement Day Studs Lonigan trilogy concludes James T. Farrell (Irish American).
1939: Pietro Di Donato, Christ in Concrete (Italian American).
1943: Jerre Mangione, Mount Allegro (Italian American).
1945: Josephina Niggli, Mexican Village (Mexican American).
1949: Mari Tomasi, Like Lesser Gods (Italian American).
1953: The National Book Award is presented to Ralph Ellison Invisible Man (African American).
1957: John Okada, No-No Boy (Japanese American).
1961: Jesús Colón publishes A Puerto Rican in New York and Other skits, marking the beginning of the Nuyorican Movement (Puerto Rican American).

1965: Mario Puzo, The Fortunate Pilgrim (Italian American), the Black Arts Repertory Theatre / School in Harlem was founded by Amiri Baraka.
1967: Founding of the publisher Quinto Sol (Mexican American).
1969: N. Scott Momaday won the Pulitzer Prize for House Made of Dawn (Native American), marking according to the critic Kenneth Lincoln beginning of the Native American Renaissance. "
1969: Philip Roth, Portnoy's Complaint (Jewish American).
1971: Frank Chin, Chickencoop Chinamen (Chinese American).
1972: Publication of Asian American Authors, the first anthology on this theme; Rudolfo Anaya,Bless Me, Ultima (Mexican American), Jose Montoya, El Sol y Los De Abajo RCAF and Other Poems (Mexican American).
1973: Bilingual Review Press have created (Latin American), The Asian American Theater Company is based in San Francisco, Miguel algarine creates the Nuyorican Poets Cafe in New York (Puerto Rican American).  
1974: Publication of Aiiieeeee!. An Anthology of Asian American Writers, published by David Hsin-fu Wand (ed.), Asian American Heritage.
1975: Ntozake Shange, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide (African American).
1976: Gary Soto, The Elements of San Joaquin (Mexican American), Bernice Zamora, Restless Serpents (Mexican American).
1977: Leslie Marmon Silko, Ceremony (Native American), Gerald Vizenor, Darkness in Saint Louis Bearheart (Native American).
1978: Janice Mirikitani, Awake in the River (Japanese American).
1979: Launch of Arte Público magazine (Latin American) Helen Barolin, Umbertina (Italian American).
1981: IB Nadel, Jewish Writers of North America; Lorna Dee Cervantes, Emplumada (Mexican American).
1982: Richard Rodriguez, Hunger of Memory (Mexican American).
1983: William Kennedy, Ironweed (Irish American).
1984: Louis Erdrich, Love Medicine (Native American).
1985: Creation of the literary magazine Wíčazo Ša Review (Native American), The Dream Book: An Anthology of Writings by Italian-American Women.
1987: Toni Morrison, Beloved (African American).
1988: Hisaye Yamamoto, Seventeen Syllables and Other Stories (Japanese American), Ella Deloria, Waterlily (Native American).
1989: Amy Tan, The Joy Luck Club (Chinese American), Maxine Hong Kingston, Tripmaster Monkey (Chinese American).
1992: Ray González, After Aztlan: Latino Poets of the Nineties (Latin American).
1995: Ginu Kamani, Junglee Girl (American Indian).
1996: Suheir Hammad, Born Palestinian, Born Black (Palestinian American).
1997: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Mistress of Spices (Indian American).
1998: Beau Sia, A Night Without Armor II (Chinese American).
2003: Tina De Rosa, Paper Fish (Italian American).
2006: Mohja Kahf: The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf (Syrian American). 

When I think that Beethoven died when so many idiots live ...., Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt

One day, during an exhibition of masks, Beethoven returns to the life of Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt: the writer remembers having once loved passionately, as a teenager. 
Why Beethoven did it away? Why today's man feels he more these emotions, romance, these thunderstorms inland and joy? Who has disappeared? Beethoven or us? And who is the murderer? 
This text is followed by Kiki van Beethoven, the adventure of a woman, in her sixties radiant, which goes through the music, change his life and that of her three friends. A tale of lost youth and the secrets buried.


Impressions: The book must be for those who want to discover a composer too well known to be listened to ..
The author's erudite and passionate music lover guide the reader step by step to make him see the beauty that resonates in the works too often ill-heeded.
Both philosophical essay on the beauty and creativity, aesthetic and ride, this little book will appeal to both laymen and insiders ... A book to listen without moderation. 

Sufi my love, Elif Shafak

Ella Rubinstein has seemingly everything to be happy: a beautiful house in Massachusetts, three beautiful children, a faithful dog. But on the eve of his fortieth birthday, she wonders if she has not gone beside herself. The infidelities of her husband are no longer a mystery and cooking classes on Thursday not enough to exalt his monotonous life. Decided to resume work, she was hired as a reader by a literary agent. His first assignment: write a note on a manuscript signed Aziz Z. Zahara. This novel, which recounts the encounter between the poet Rumi and the most famous dervish of the Muslim world, Shams of Tabriz, will be a revelation for Ella.Throughout the pages, she discovers Sufism, the rejection of convention and the splendor of love. This story proves to be the mirror of his own.Aziz - as Shams Rumi did for seven centuries ago - would it come release?

Impressions: No this is not a book on yet another depressed woman, no it is not just another book to rosewater for romantic housewife. Yes, the summary is a little draw, and yes it should read ...

A beautiful mystical tale straight out of the tales of Thousand and One Nights. An entertaining way and beautifully written to discover or deepen Sufism. The Muslim spirituality much closer to us than Islam hardcore ... A book on Love, a book about love ..

My detractors will always say that the end is a bit immoral, after all, Ella is a crisis of teen and she fits into a cult ... I agree but I think the key lies in the call to conversion, the quest for the Absolute

Philippe Sollers, Treasure of Love

"We live in Venice, therefore, Minna and me, away. We can not escape, you see nobody, water, books, birds, trees, boats, bells, silence, music, we agree on everything. Never enough time yet again. Late at night, a grand march to the ferry terminal and back, when all sleep. I get up early, the sun on the left, and that time again, and again time. You are silent much, that evidence means. The lovers are alone in the world because the world is done for them and by them. Love is in the vortex cell of chance, and those two had a chance to meet a few billion at the same time. Between French and Italian, there is a long and bizarre history. She asks, with Stendhal, only deepen. "

Philippe Sollers was born in Bordeaux. He founded the journal and the collection as it stood in 1960, then in 1983, the magazine and The Infinite Collection. Author of numerous novels and essays (Paradise, Women, Portrait of the players, the absolute heart, Day in Venice, The Secret, The War of taste, The rider of the Louvre, Casanova's admirable ...) it has published by Editions Gallimard fixed Passion (Vintage White, 2000, Folio No. 3566), The Star Lovers (Vintage White, 2002 Folio No. 4120), A Divine Life (Vintage White, 2006, Folio No. 4533), The Travelers Time (Vintage White, 2009), Great Speeches (Vintage White, 2010).

Impressions: I must confess right now, I'm not at all a fan of Sollers ... Author libertine and malicious, praised by all the cream-Pratini Germano, has a knack for exasperating me ...

But given all the critical praise and unanimous, so I went in trying to put my evil thoughts a bit muted reaction ...

I have conquered the first few pages, beautiful passages about Venice, about love, literature.But after a while ... pffff We are bored ... The journey of a dreamer becomes a bit disjointed Treaty on Stendhal and loves missed ....

Hardly enough to really masterpiece ... A pretentious book although I confess it is well written ...

You can safely do without and if you still want to shine in society, read a lagarde you will learn much about Stendhal without losing too much time!

The Will of Olympia, Chantal Thomas

The story of two sisters from a poor background and very religious. One of them escaped while the other is placed in a convent ....
After some years the youngest decides to go looking for one she admired so much ...

Brrrrr, it was not good to be a young woman in the eighteenth. Grandeur and decadence of a Cinderella who all failed to succeed.
A beautiful book that suits the author manages to make us forget his scholarship and to serve an exciting romantic intrigue.
We must however take this book as an anti fairy tale and not the absolute reality. The cartoon was omni-present and manifest anti-monarchy ....
For those who are sad (and me), reading this book can become quite painful ....

Laura Kasischke, in a perfect world

The story: After a wedding Express with the pilot of his dreams is powered Jiselle mother of large family ... Gradually, as her illusions fall one after the other, the world crumbles around her little by little ...

Impressions: Do not rely on the summary, this book is not a book about the harsh Women ... Madame Bovary is not just another competitor ...
Very comfortable under cover of a book for young housewife in need of feeling, the reader is drawn into a tale of ordinary life in a blended family and a world in Apocalypse. Also at the border between fantasy and psychological literature, the author plays with favorite themes of the literature of anticipation. Of 'Ravage' through 'the plague', the tone is set! Without doubt the best book of the author ...
Gradually, as the world crumbles, heroin built his own, the consolidating getting rid of the superfluous.
A Barjavel with duvets in all!

The will, followed by Cross loveless, Heinrich Böll

Overview: These two works completed loveless Cross in 1947 and The Testament written in 1948, are among the earliest writings of Heinrich Böll and illuminate the genesis of his work.

In The Testament, 1943, on the Atlantic Wall, two officers compete: the Catholic Rhineland concerned about the lives of his men, the fanatical Prussian order and discipline. They reveal their true nature in Russia.

Cross loveless recounts the fate of a Catholic family from 1933 to 1945.Two brothers are opposed: the first, attracted by Nazi ideology, the second champion of individual resistance to the regime. Their reunion on the Russian front will be tragic.

The author describes his experience of war, a huge waste of human, but in the depths of abandonment, the opportunity to prove to ourselves, a glimpse of a chance of salvation.

These texts are marked with an impression that belongs only Böll humanist: the authenticity and an exasperated faith in God.

Born in Cologne in 1917 into a Catholic family, Heinrich Böll was convened in spring 1939 for a short period until 1945. Back in his hometown, he emerged as the leading writers of the postwar generation. Several collections of essays, a hundred stories, a dozen novels that mark his literary career, crowned by the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1972. He died July 16, 1985.

Translated from German by Alain Huriot

Impressions: I had the feeling of having found a nugget. Two stories, two facets of Heinrich Böll. "The Testament" is a critic of corruption and mediocrity of the German army. "The cross without love" is unquestionably a work of major Catholic .....

The idealist and humanist Christian conflict. One is committed to his country, unaware that it has signed a deal with the horror ... He rejected without really find his faith and his friends, on behalf of an Ideal named 'Germany'. Although in his quest he finds evil ... The other is a dreamer opposed to national socialism ....

A vigorous style, an almost mystical background. A true aesthetic shock !!!!!!! A Bernanos German? ...

worried man, Henning Mankell

History: Grandfather of a small Klara, Wallander has made his dreams: to live in the countryside with his dog.

After referring to the commissioner the cold war and a case of Russian submarines in Swedish waters, the stepfather of his daughter Linda, a former naval officer, disappears, then it's the turn of the stepmother .Suspicions of espionage. In favor of Russia? U.S.? Parallel to the Stockholm police and secret services, Wallander pursues its latest survey. He then started his own deep diving: the years passed and the women in his life parade. And the little Klara became his ultimate tag.

The author: Born in 1948, Henning Mankell divides his time between Sweden and Mozambique. Famous for its police officers, it is also the author of plays, books for youth and novels. Last published as: The Italian Footwear (Seuil, 2009).

Impressions: It's hard to classify this book among thrillers ... In the latest survey (well constructed) of his hero, the author takes a sort of diary of his anguish and depression that awaits the approach of old age ....

The hero is none other than Henning Mankell himself, is being weakened gradually have more and more health concerns, and sees the specter of Alzheimer lapping around him. Without falling into pathos and the sentimental, this book reminds us of the greatest weakness of modern man: a man who has lost meaning and hope. A man who, nearing its end does not know what to hang on ....

Apocalypse baby virgine Despentes

Book summary: Valentine Galtane , enigmatic and difficult teenager, disappeared. The narrator, Lucie , anti-heroine thirties, private detective without conviction or talent , bound by the grandmother of Valentine to monitor his movements, was lost on a subway platform in Paris. How to find it? What to do with Valentine edifying picture which shows if experienced with boys ? Would she joined in Barcelona this mother she has ever known?

The best would be for Lucy to team up with the Hyena , a ' private 'to radical methods, a powerful woman with flexible body full of violence expressed by saccades: a fee and also for fun, The Hyena accepts market. Here are mismatched colleagues, one lesbian volcanic, the other hetero low frequency crossing the France and Spain to Barcelona in search of the littlerunaway. 

Impressions: The first chapters packed me, my former suspicions were flying one after the other. I even went so far MYSELF congratulate telling me that everything had finally read the good books were not where the thought ....... But the plot thickened from the second half of the book ... The good novel has been transformed, not into a pumpkin, but manifest cradingue pro-lesbian and other oddities that frankly had nothing to do with the plot. As for the denouement, one hesitates between pity, irritability, anger, and eventually want to cry foul. It's really shocking that a book so pitiful denouement, which will look into the tricks of the da vinci code to appease the readers in search of thrill anti-Catholic ... (And yes .. The Opus Dei is still in the figure ....)

that this book gets the prize Renaudot !!!.. Here I do not know what to think ...

Mr. Nabe do not be disappointed, I think the jury did not deserve you ....

Elizabeth George, the procession of death

History: Inspector Thomas Lynley, the hero of fifteen novels of Elizabeth George, left the police after the murder of his wife, Helen. But his successor, Isabelle Ardery, who wants his team to win - especially the old accomplice Lynley, Barbara Havers - manages to convince him to return after discovering the body of a young woman in a cemetery. The investigation leads them into the region of the New Forest, where the victim's best friend is also trying to shed light on his death. Meanwhile, we discover another case: a three year old child has disappeared and the suspects could be three young boys ...

Impressions: This is really not the best of the author ... Trying too hard to do ... well ... We did too!

This book deserves to blunt cuts to give a bit of pace to the plot. The reader has trouble "hanging", his attention was constantly dispersed descriptions a bit long ...

Over 650 pages where you find the time long, it's a safe bet that you will not hold the shock ... And yet ... What a pity ... The plot was good and yet sympathetic characters ... Read all the same, not hesitating to skip pages ...

The Léviatemps, Maxime Chattam

The story: Too much desire death, broiled soul. Paris, 1900. Prisoner of its success, a writer decides to leave everything to go deep in his nightmares, its depths, explore what is worst in him. In this fertile fears hides the matrix monsters buried in us all. A Leviathan Shadow, a golem of violence. Guy wanted to dig up the dirt Timaeus, he will meet with evil. Esoteric circles of the capital to the excesses of the Expo, the beginning of the twentieth century inspires Maxime Chattam hallucinated a thriller where the progress of science feed the madness of lost souls in search of eternity.


Impressions: I always wondered how an author with such a pretty face and an air of perfect in-law could also have distorted ideas ..... Maxime Chattam takes us once again in a solid thriller, well constructed and bloody wish. His art lies in attention to detail, where chance has no place.
We both ride in a complex investigation and convincing, but in a Paris reconstituted with brio, the reader is totally immersed in that time. I read the book, a map of Paris by hand to try to identify the places he is talking about .. (Yes I know I've got all ..:))
A criminal investigation although difficult for his characters, a beautiful archaeological survey for the reader.
Nice work once again!

Philippe Claudel Survey

History: The Investigator is responsible for a mission in the Enterprise, it happens in a city where it loses its bearings. Concern the win. What happens to him on? Who are these people?

I RINTING: Future, so they do not include 

A worthy heir to Kafka and Aldous Huxley to whom he borrowed themes and atmosphere in a nightmarish fable and oppressive. The author takes us on a journey to the border of madness and absurdity. The reader is sucked, chewed, heckled, turn-balled by a current that leads the hero to nowhere. A powerful experience that sounds like a cry of alarm about the meaning of our lives.

A must read ...

'In each of these boxes, he said to himself, he is a man, a man like him, who had been heckled, abused, we had been led to expect, which had been led to believe he had a mission to fill a role to play, a place to exist, we did mess around, humiliated, belittled, which had been designated the fragility of his condition, his memories and his convictions, an investigator may or be claimed as a man who now shouted and banged against the walls and nobody could help him ....'

Suite (s) imperial (s), Bret Easton Ellis

The sequel, 25 years after "less than zero '... The author of trashy'American Psycho 'known for his novels always on the border of fantasy and good taste was highly anticipated .. Unfortunately he does not sign here a landmark book ...

Clay, quarantine, returned to Los Angeles for vague reasons of work, he found 25 years after his former friends become unrecognizable by plastic surgery. Used as a screenwriter, he lets himself be enchanted by a young actress who thinks that missed its charms replace his lack of talent.
All the action takes place among these people desperate to get someone hoping to become .. Pathetic characters in sordid circumstances, readers journey into the world (im) pathetic show business.
But the mayonnaise does not ....
The action is disjointed, unconvincing plot, the book sounds a bit hollow.
In short: bof, bof ....
You can expect that kind of pocket that one!

The color of feelings, Kathryn Stockett

History: Among Whites in Jackson, Mississippi, it is black who are cleaning, cooking and caring for children. It is 1962, racial laws are authoritative.
A young middle-class white and two black good. Nobody would believe in their friendship. Yet driven by a secret desire to change things, despite the fear, they will unite their destinies, and in secret to write a story upsetting. Exciting, funny, poignant, this book has conquered America with its unforgettable characters. Sold over two million copies, this first novel became a cultural phenomenon in America.

Impressions: I see your mines already skeptical, even a book blaming and moralizing. Another book well in tune with the times, and a little easier sopo. You're tired of the box of Uncle Tom .....
Well, you're wrong ....
This book is a marvel ...
The author does not stop that the relationship between communities (in this incredible environment of the twentieth century it said ..) but offers a reflection on the Status of Women in the South where conservative. Without dogmatism, this book is intended as an overview of a melancholy that nothing has rocked the youth of Kathryn Stockett.

There is no subject more risky for a writer of the South that the affection between a person black and one white in the unequal world of segregation. Because the dishonesty on which is founded a company makes suspect all emotion, making it impossible to know whether what was exchanged between two persons was a loyal sense of pity or pragmatism. Howell Raines.

But this book is not a treaty sociological and far!
The characters are likeable, the situations ring true, humor underlying and omnipresent About lightens and gives a healthy distance on a topic that may seem cumbersome.

I read in one go and I'm sure you will do the same ....

Demolition notices, Frederick Montlouis-Felicite

Here's a small wonder by a member of the small literary bf.

This is the first book of the author.

Eight new black all over and well written as each other.

Eight characters representing various aspects of our society.

Eight figures a chilling because nothing terribly close to us.

The topics are serious and grim, the style is still light and fast. To find out, hoping that there will be more ...

The man who stopped writing, Marc-Edouard Nabe: Grand Nabe

Author: Marc-Edouard Nabe, 51, 28 pounds to the counter, enfant terrible of French literature. Wherever he goes, everybody passes away. He likes to "kill" in his books, being a lover or understatement or restraint .... At age 27 he managed to commit suicide on mediatically "apostrophe" where he screams his hatred of licra and small écrivailleux untalented. He screams his love for Celine and Rebatet .... Suffice to say that the politically correct do not like it ....
Yet, his last book was shortlisted for the prize Renaudot ... He who no longer wish to cook something up with the publishing world has chosen to self-publish and self-distribute ... Do not look for it on the gondolas of bookstores he does not want to be .... It is for anti-publishing ....


The story: As you stop smoking, the narrator is the author decides to stop writing.Forced to leave his house he met a young blogger who leads in a succession of facets of Parisian life.
Without taking a breath, the reader is drawn into a vision of a decaying Paris where the poor and the virtual model is made a new life.

Impressions: Nabe was dead, long live !!!!! Nabe
Unable to close the book. The 700 pages can be read in one sitting. The torture of a beautiful book in a chapter written with genius!
In the manner of a slightly crazy Pausanias, the author stumbled and staggered traveler, we will discover what makes the world 'intellectual' today. We meet hundreds of characters known or unknown ... It "kills" with lightness and engineering all the people he meets, through their showing their weaknesses ....
You walk into places trendy 'place to be, facebook Jack Bauer, the new codes of' hipness' seen with the decline of a man that his time left.
Far from being just a settling of accounts (what his detractors accuse him), the author provides plenty of humor with a review of our sad world ...

This amateur loves to play jazz with the music of words, the rhythm of sentences. The style is very fast, the sentences are short and punchy.
A free-form jazz literary underlying melody and catchy that gives this novel the size of a Great.
Mr. Nabe, continue to stop writing we will continue to stop you ... Until next time!

If you want to order this book: http: / / www.marcedouardnabe.com

Djoliba, a river of blood. Alain Wagneur

The third installment of the adventures of Richard Zamanski. It is this time facing the world's French-African and sordid political shenanigans.
The Niger River in Bamako on the banks called Djoliba (river of blood) ... The commander put in a closet Zamanski provincial resumed service after the suicide of a strange old friend ... The drama apparently the result of his ordinary quiet little seaside town on the banks of the River Niger where he will be faced with the horror.

A very dark thriller, an author who masters his subject. A plot in surprising denouement. All the ingredients are there for fans of literary thrills ....

Cold alters the trajectory of the fish, Pierre Szalowski

The book pretty for the souls of children in search of good feelings and happy endings.

Abstract: A 10 year old boy learns that her parents will separate. He begged the sky for help. It will be understood literally since unprecedented ice storm descends on the city.
This deluge of ice will benefit all those around the boy and gradually changing for the better.

Yes you are not dreaming, yes I praised a book that ends well, where everyone becomes nice and the world becomes beautiful ... Why? Because this book is good.The style is never mawkish, always touching. The eyes of this child that we've all been solace drive and restore confidence in the future ...
A book that makes you want that winter happens ....

"Enjoy" Annie Lemoine

Women like the leak .. In all cases it is a theme in vogue this year on the shelves of our libraries ..
Claire, 40, a divorce (obviously), two children, chose to flee this life so cruel to spend a weekend at the hotel by the sea ..
As this woman a little bored, she extrapolates its neighbors bowl of coffee and think I found enough to fill his life so commonplace. She calls one of his friends who gave him this advice so profound: "fun" it sure is better than you ... emm ...- His life as the digest is then disrupted (tremolo LOUD please) ..

Without doubt the biggest scam of this new literary ... Annie Lemoine says his life (we even have the right to a description of issues for a champion if I if!) Thinking that his magic feather (mouaii she has not quite rub) will compensate for the emptiness of his novel .. It's crazy that it publishes people like that ... If you pass this book, but mostly quietly chuckles are not buying!!