Showing results for "Ponti" in World Literature

La famille Praline est une famille unie et pleine d'amour. Enfin... la famille Praline est une famille unie... Oui, bon... la famille Praline est... une famille. Le précédent Noël des Praline n'était pas simplement raté. Ce fut plutôt une catastrophe de taille cosmique, qui a laissé toute la famille traumatisée. Surtout les deux sœurs, Nathaline et Barbara, qui, après s'être battues à grands jets de lait de poule, ne se sont pas adressé la parole pendant un an. Hélas, inexorablement, la période des fêtes revient.

Vinh Doan has a problem. Ten million of them, in fact. He’s a high-level fixer for global conglomerates, which means big money…and big troubles. When ten million dollars go missing from one of his accounts, he needs a top-notch hacker to find it. His first thought? Emily MacDonald, his high school ex. While Vinh has been taking the financial world by storm, Emily has been struggling. After her dad died, she dropped out of college and put her dreams aside. Her job in tech support has seriously tested her sunny disposition and her finances.

Olufunke Ogundimu explora neste potente conto a sua escrita afrofuturista, num 2087 aterradoramente próximo, quando tudo muda, menos a barreira entre quem tem e quem não tem. Onde os pobres ficaram do lado fora de onde é fácil negar a realidade, num mundo distorcido de quem acredita que mudança climática é fake news. Até o planeta terra atingir o ponto de ruptura e mover as areias dos grandes desertos arrasando fronteiras nacionais, cidades, assoreando rios e oceanos impondo novas formas de viver aos humanos