A trip to Poland
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Marie et Marya
, by Jillian Cantor, Éditions Le Livre de Poche Préludes, 448 p., €19.90.
Translated by Pascale Haas.
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Marya Sklodowska leaves her native Poland after a sentimental disappointment.
In Paris, she studied chemistry and physics, and became famous under the name of Marie Curie.
Jillian Cantor follows her rise, and also imagines what Marya's life could have been like had she stayed in Poland.
Two trajectories, two destinies of women in societies dominated by men, and a single goal, to find their place thanks to a fierce will.
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Marie et Marya
, by Jillian Cantor, Éditions Le Livre de Poche Préludes, 448 p., €19.90.
Translated by Pascale Haas.
Murders in Alabama
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Les Heures furieuses,
by Casey Cep, Éditions Pocket, 478 p., €8.50.
Translated by Cindy Colin Kapen.
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In this captivating book, Casey Cep retraces the story of Reverend Maxwell, accused of murders in Alabama in the 1970s, and that of Tom Radney, the lawyer who acquitted him, then also acquitted the man who shot him in front of witnesses!
She finally returns to the project of Harper Lee, who, seventeen years after
To Kill a Mockingbird
, wants to devote a book to the Maxwell affair.
An investigation that is so attached to the mystery...
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