Christians in Palestine is journalist Jean Rolin’s highly personalized account of the lives of the Arab Christian population in Palestine. Set on the eve of the Iraq War, when Rolin visited Bethlehem, Ramallah and Jerusalem, this detailed portrayal reveals a people torn between their religious beliefs and their Arab patriotism, loathe to criticize their Muslim leaders and eager to blame their misfortune on the Israelis. Despite the importance of the community as guardians of the holy sites of Christianity, the Palestinian Christians suffer under a society governed by increasingly radicalized fundamentalist Islamic beliefs. As a consequence of the ongoing Middle East conflict, the Palestinian Christian rate of emigration is so high that they are now on the verge extinction, despite their presence in Palestine for over 2,000 years. Abandoned by their leadership and the international community, many believe that Palestinian Christianity will soon die if a peaceful resolution cannot be found between Israel and Palestine. Through his eloquent descriptions of the landscape and his intimate portrait of a community under siege, award-winning journalist Jean Rolin captures a little known aspect of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in vivid detail.
 Jean Rolin’s journalism has won many awards in France, including the Albert Londres Prize and the Prix Médicis. Christians is his first book to be translated into English.

Christians in Palestine

History

Rolin, Jean

Americas

Ig Publishing

In this nominally true story of an epic, transcontinental road trip, Jean Rolin travels to Africa from darkest France, accompanying a battered Audi to its new life as a taxi to be operated by the family of a Congolese security guard. The ghost of Joseph Conrad haunts Rolin's journey, as do memories of his expatriate youth in Kinshasa in the early 1960s--but no less present are W. G. Sebald and Marcel Proust, who are the guiding lights for Rolin's sensual and digressive attack upon history: his own as well as the world's. By turns comic, lyrical, gruesome, and humane, "The Explosion of the Radiator Hose" is a one-of-a-kind travelogue, and no less an exploration of what it means to be human in a life of perpetual exile and migration.

The Explosion of the Radiator Hose: A Novel (French Literature)

Literature & Fiction

Literary

Dalkey Archive Press

Savannah is a starkly tender and intimate recollection by French writer and journalist Jean Rolin of his friendship with British Vogue photographer Kate Barry. Both humorous and insightful, it in many ways serves as the epitaph to her life, which ended in a fall from her fourth-floor apartment in France. Barry was a very close friend of Jean Rolin, and together the two of them made a trip to the United States to retrace the footsteps of Flannery O'Connor, a Southern writer for whom Kate was deeply impassioned. In 2014, after Barry's death, Jean Rolin wanted to revisit this trip and reconstruct the memory of their journey in her absence. As he recreates his roadtrip over the course of this book, which ends, fittingly, in Savannah, Rolin evokes landscapes, characters, and a uniquely Southern atmosphere that underscores the relentless passage of time. Juxtaposed against the themes of loss and mortality, Jean Rolin evokes with light touches the figure of Kate. His incredible descriptive talent shines through in vivid descriptions of the South; he approaches his travel memoir with the accuracy of a documentary and the vibrant writing of a poet, and his memories of Kate are preserved beneath the motif of sucking the marrow out of life and keeping death at bay.

Savannah (French Literature)

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Chretiens (Folio) (French Edition)

Contemporary

Gallimard Education

L'idée, c'était de se procurer à Paris une vieille voiture en état de rouler, et de l'expédier au Congo où elle deviendrait un taxi. Celui-ci assurerait des ressources régulières à la famille du colonel, restée au pays quand lui-même avait été contraint de s'expatrier. Tel que le colonel et le narrateur l'avaient conçu, dans un café de la porte de Clichy, le projet était simple et brillant. Chemin faisant, tant sur mer que par la route, selon un itinéraire qui recoupe parfois ceux de Joseph Conrad, de Patrice Lumumba, de Che Guevara et d'autres fantômes moins illustres, il va se heurter à un grand nombre de difficultés, imputables aussi bien à l'état de la voiture qu'à celui du pays lui-même. Parmi toutes ces difficultés, finalement, il n'est pas avéré que la pire soit l'explosion de la durite.

L'explosion de la durite

Фоліо

Organisation (Folio) (French Edition)

Genre Fiction

Chien Mort Apres Lui

Nouvelles d'Afrique: À la rencontre de l'Afrique par ses grands ports (French Edition)

MABANCKOU, ALAIN

RUFIN, Jean-Christophe

COLLECTIFS

Orsenna, Érik

BUGUL, Ken

Waberi, Abdourahman A.

DUGAIN, Marc

Tillinac, Denis

Frébourg, Olivier

Le Clézio, J.M.G.

Nimier, Marie

Couao-Zotti, Florent

Europe

Gallimard]

Le ravissement de Britney Spears

Zones

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