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Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Unemployed everyman Thierry must submit to a series of quietly humiliating ordeals in his search for work. Futile retraining courses that lead to dead ends, interviews via Skype, an interview-coaching workshop critique of his self-presentation by fellow jobseekers; all are mechanisms that seek to break him down and strip him of identity and self-respect in the name of reengineering of a workforce fit for a neoliberal technocratic system.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
183 p. ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
Mohammed has spent the past forty years working in France. As he approaches retirement, he takes stock of his life, his devotion to Islam and to his assimilated children, and decides to return to Morocco, where he spends his life's savings building the biggest house in the village and waiting for his children and grandchildren to come be with him. A heartbreaking novel about parents and children, A Palace in the Old Village captures the sometimes...
Author
Publisher
Drawn & Quarterly
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
202 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"In This is How I Disappear, Mirion Malle paints an empathetic portait of a young woman wrestling with psychological stress and the trauma following an experience of sexual assault. Malle displays frankness and a remarkable emotional intelligence as she explores depression, isolation, and self-harm in her expertly-drawn novel. Her heroine battles an onslaught of painful emotions and while Clara can provide consolation to those around her, she finds...
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