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Les enfants endormis
Quarante ans après la mort de son oncle Désiré, Anthony Passeron décide d’interroger le passé familial. Evoquant l’ascension sociale de ses grands-parents devenus bouchers pendant les Trente Glorieuses, puis le fossé qui grandit entre eux et la génération de leurs enfants, il croise deux récits : celui de l’apparition du sida dans une famille de l’arrière-pays niçois – la sienne – et celui de la lutte contre la maladie dans les hôpitaux français et américains.
Dans ce roman de filiation, mêlant enquête sociologique et histoire intime, il évoque la solitude des familles à une époque où la méconnaissance du virus était totale, le déni écrasant, et la condition du malade celle d’un paria.
Coup de cœur des bibliothécaires de mon quartier, Les enfants endormis d’Anthony Passeron se révèle à la hauteur. L’auteur y retrace la mort de son oncle Désiré, mort du sida dans la France rurale des années 1980, la mettant en parallèle avec l’histoire de la recherche sur le sida et le VIH en France. Dans…
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the best technology of the olympics isn’t high tech
Audrey Watters (Second Breakfast)As a writer about and critic of education technology, I was often asked "what's your favorite piece of ed-tech" – some sort of "gotcha" question, I reckon, in which I was supposed to confess that, in fact, I hate everything. I'd answer "the window," which is, no doubt, some sort of "gotcha" response – even though, in truth, it is one of the most significant pieces of technology in a classroom and, no lies, truly one of my favorites. If you've ever taught or learned in a space without windows, yo
this mentions windows, a clean (enough) river, and no smart watches in triathlon.
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Ordinary human failings
It’s 1990 in London and Tom Hargreaves has it all: a burgeoning career as a reporter, fierce ambition and a brisk disregard for the « peasants » – ordinary people, his readers, easy tabloid fodder. His star looks set to rise when he stumbles across a scoop: a dead child on a London estate, grieving parents loved across the neighbourhood, and the finger of suspicion pointing at one reclusive family of Irish immigrants and « bad apples »: the Greens.
At their heart sits Carmel: beautiful, otherworldly, broken, and once destined for a future beyond her circumstances until life – and love – got in her way. Crushed by failure and surrounded by disappointment, there’s nowhere for her to go and no chance of escape. Now, with the police closing in on a suspect and the tabloids hunting their monster, she must confront the secrets and silences that have trapped her family for so many generations.
Ordinary human failings is a sad and painful exploration of everything that can go wrong in a poor immigrant family. It takes place in 1990s London and follows an Irish family, after the youngest child, a ten-year-old girl, is taken into custody for possibly killing a toddler from the same neighbourhood. Points of view alternate…