This complex narrative of intrigue, memories, and suspense merits the attention of an active and perceptive audience that can piece together the variegated lines of thought shared by the protagonists of the novel. Three very different worlds come together under one roof in the sordid confines of a striptease joint in Paris. Poetic and vulgar voices mingle and diverge through the present and past as each character tries to come to terms with his or her own identity.'I just don't want to go, Manuel. I don't want to! How can you think I'd like to see a live sex act, with lights and music! What...

This book of poetry by great Paraguayan poet Renée Ferrer sings the daily life and emotions of Jews at the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camps, through poems and psaums. It was translated from Spanish into French by famous French poet Alain Saint-Saëns. 'Le recueil de poèmes de Renée Ferrer, Ignominie, est un éloge à la vie, une célébration de la mémoire, un shabbat shalom de l'amitié entre les peuples. Merci à Renée Ferrer d'avoir su l'écrire avec la retenue et le respect nécessaires, eu égard à la gravité du sujet. Merci encore à la poétesse paraguayenne de nous avoir...