Aux quatre coins du monde, les femmes découvrent qu'elles détiennent le « pouvoir ». Du bout des doigts, elles peuvent infliger une douleur fulgurante - et même la mort. Soudain, les hommes comprennent qu'ils deviennent le « sexe faible ». Mais jusqu'où iront les femmes pour imposer ce nouvel ordre ?
Insolente, rebelle, Ronit a quitté l'Angleterre et la communauté juive orthodoxe à dix-huit ans, direction New York. Refusant de se plier au destin tout tracé de mère de famille et d'épouse, elle a désobéi à son père, le grand Rav Krushka. À la mort de ce dernier, quinze ans plus tard, Ronit est rappelée auprès de sa famille, à Hendon. Elle retrouve Esti, qui fut sa petite amie, et son cousin Dovid. Eux n'ont pas désobéi. Dovid est devenu rabbin presque malgré lui. Esti a nié son attirance pour les femmes et suivi les préceptes de la Torah : elle a épousé Dovid... sans cesser d'aimer Ronit. Le retour de l'enfant maudite dans ce monde replié sur lui-même va provoquer une onde de choc.
Traduit de l'anglais par Hélène Papot.
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A l'université d'Oxford, un groupe d'amis s'installe dans la maison du séduisant et manipulateur Mark Winters. Ensemble, ils vont connaître les premières rencontres amoureuses, les soirées inoubliables mais aussi le désenchantement et les bouleversements propres à la jeunesse. La perversité cachée derrière les façades prestigieuses d'Oxford se dévoile au fil des pages, révélant un monde faussement exemplaire qui prépare à tout sauf à la réalité.
Andrew Brown is a trader for a big international bank. He makes lots of money every day, but he never has enough time. Now, he might found a way to borrow some - and at a very reasonable interest rate! But will it make his life easier, or will more time just give him more trouble? Penguin Readers is a series of the best new fiction, essential non-fiction and popular classics written for learners of English as a foreign language. Beautifully illustrated and carefully adapted, the series introduces language learners around the world to the bestselling authors and most compelling content from Penguin Random House. The eight levels of Penguin Readers follow the Common European Framework and include language activities that help readers to develop key skills. Doctor Who: Borrowed Time, a Level 5 Reader, is B1 in the CEFR framework. The text is made up of sentences with up to four clauses, introducing present perfect continuous, past perfect, reported speech and second conditional. It is well supported by illustrations, which appear regularly.
From the author of The Power , winner of the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction 2017 Ronit has left London and transformed her life. She has become a cigarette-smoking, wise-cracking, New York career woman, who is in love with a married man. But when Ronit's father dies she is called back into the very different world of her childhood, a world she thought she had left far behind. The orthodox Jewish suburb of Hendon, north London is outraged by Ronit and her provocative ways. But Ronit is shocked too by the confrontation with her past. And when she meets up with her childhood girlfriend Esti, she is forced to think again about what she has left behind.
A new version of this much-loved anthology, with a brand-new story featuring the brand-new Thirteenth Doctor from literary sensation Naomi Alderman! Twelve wonderful tales of adventure, science, magic, monsters and time travel - featuring all twelve Doctors - are waiting for you in this very special Doctor Who book. And now they're joined by a very exciting, and very exclusive, new tale - written by Naomi Alderman, author of The Power - that will star the Thirteenth Doctor, as she battles to save the universe with her three close and trusted friends. Other authors featured are: Eoin Colfer, Michael Scott, Marcus Sedgwick, Philip Reeve, Patrick Ness, Richelle Mead, Malorie Blackman, Alex Scarrow, Charlie Higson, Derek Landy, Neil Gaiman, and Holly Black.
A look at how and why exercise affects the way we think and feel
« Vous voulez plus de temps, n'est-ce pas ? Nous n'enavons jamais assez. Je vous propose un marché... » S'il y a bien une chose qui fait défaut à Andrew Brown, c'est le temps.
Sa course contre la montre fait de sa vie un enfer. Tout serait tellement plus simple si on lui accordait un peu de délai. Messieurs Symington et Blenkinsop, les rois du sablier, ont justement la possibilité de lui prêter de quoi différer le compte à rebours - à un taux défiant toute concurrence - à ceci près que les emprunteurs risquent leur vie sans le savoir. Le Docteur et ses compagnons flairent le problème et s'infiltrent dans la banque. Mais ils doivent faire vite avant que les usuriers ne recouvrent leur dette.