| Whether you are looking for French classic novels, contemporay French authors, francophone litterature, essays or comics, we invite you to come and explore the library of the Alliance Française of Calgary!!
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Fault Lines is told through the eyes of four six-year old children, each telling the history of one family, from the present day California working backwards to the World War Two Holocaust era. With each successive child narrative, the reader moves closer to the family secret at the heart of Fault Lines.
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| Amélie is a young language teacher living in Tokyo. When she succumbs to the attention of one and only student _ the shy, wealthy, and oh-so-Japanese _ Rinri-the lovers-to-be find themselves swept along by an affair that is as unusual as it is tender. |
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Guaranteed to send shock through the literary community, Perec's W tells two parallel stories. The first is autobiographical, describing the author's wartime boyhood. The second tale, denser, more disturbing, more horrifying, is the allegorical story of W, a mythical island off Tierra del Fuego, governed by the trall of the Olympic "ideal", where losers are tortured and winners held in temporary idolatry.
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Expert advice on over 350 French French cheeses How to buy a good cheese, store and serve it to enhance flavour, aroma, and texture.
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In a narrative that spans accross time from Charlemagne to the birth of Cirque du Soleil, bilingual Canadian authors Jean-Benoît Nadeau and Julie Barlow unravel the mysteries of a language that has maintained its global influence in spite of the ascendancy of English. |
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