Leila Mottley

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  Arpenter la nuit

  Leila Mottley

  • Le Livre de Poche
  • Litterature
  • 10 Janvier 2024
  • 9782253248507

  Kiara, dix-sept ans, vivote avec Marcus, son frère aîné, dans un immeuble d'East Oakland. Livrés à eux-mêmes, ils ont vu leur famille fracturée par la mort et la prison. Si lui rêve de faire carrière dans le rap, elle se démène pour trouver du travail et payer le loyer. Mais les dettes s'accumulent et l'expulsion approche. Un soir, ce qui commence comme un malentendu devient aux yeux de l'adolescente le seul moyen de s'en sortir. Elle décide de vendre son corps et d'arpenter la nuit. Mais rien ne l'a préparée à la violence de cet univers, et surtout pas l'arrestation qui la précipite dans un enfer aux antipodes de son imagination. Un roman à la beauté brute, porté une langue à fleur de peau.
  
  Quel talent ! Quelle liberté de ton chez cette auteure Américaine de seulement vingt ans ! Gwénaëlle Loaëc, Le Parisien Week-End.
  
  Intensément poignant, d'une profonde humanité. Philippe Blanchet, Rolling Stone.
  
  Ce premier roman échappe systématiquement aux clichés misérabilistes grâce à une écriture qui étincelle de poésie, d'humour et de réalisme. Christine Ferniot, Télérama. Lire la suite Fermer

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  NIGHTCRAWLING - LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2022

  Leila Mottley

  • Bloomsbury Publishing
  • 11 Mai 2023
  • 9781526634573

  LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2022 - THE YOUNGEST EVER BOOKER NOMINEE THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ''MOTTLEY ATTEMPTS TO DO FOR OAKLAND SOMETHING OF WHAT THE WIRE DID FOR BALTIMORE'' THE TIMES ''A SOUL-SEARCHING PORTRAIT OF SURVIVAL AND HOPE'' OPRAH WINFREY When there is no choice, all you have left to do is walk.
  
  Kiara Johnson does not know what it is to live as a normal seventeen-year-old. With her mother in a rehab facility and an older brother who devotes his time and money to a recording studio, she fends for herself - and for nine-year-old Trevor, whose own mother is prone to disappearing for days at a time. As the landlord of their apartment block threatens to raise their rent, Kiara finds herself walking the streets after dark, determined to survive in a world that refuses to protect her.
  
  Then one night Kiara is picked up by two police officers, and the gruesome deal she is offered in exchange for her freedom lands her at the centre of a media storm. If she agrees to testify in a grand jury trial, she could help expose the sickening corruption of a police department. But honesty comes at a price - one that could leave her family vulnerable to their retaliation, and endanger everyone she loves.
  
  Nightcrawling is an unforgettable novel about young people navigating the darkest corners of an adult world, told with a humanity that is at once agonising and utterly mesmerising.
  
  -------------------------------------- ''UNFORGETTABLE'' GUARDIAN ''A MAGNIFICENT DEBUT'' RUTH OZEKI, winner of the Women''s Prize for Fiction 2022 -------------------------------------- READERS CAN''T GET ENOUGH OF NIGHTCRAWLING '' Nightcrawling is a lyrical masterpiece'' ***** ''This book ripped my heart out'' ***** ''Unputdownable . . . From the first page I was hooked'' ***** ''This is a heart-achingly necessary book which will carve a hole in your soul and stay with you forever'' ***** ''It is rare to read a first novel so perfectly crafted'' ***** ''This is an absolute must-read. Five stars out of five'' ***** ''Completely gripping . . . This is going to be a huge bestseller'' *****> Lire la suite Fermer

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  NIGHTCRAWLING

  Leila Mottley

  • Bloomsbury Publishing
  • 24 Mai 2022
  • 9781526634559

  A searing debut novel inspired by a true story from the streets of Oakland, California, announcing the arrival of a blazing, young talent ''Leila Mottley''s writing erupts and flows like lava . . . Nightcrawling bursts at the seams of every page and swallows you whole'' TOMMY ORANGE, finalist for the Pulitzer Prize ''A truly beautiful and powerful book'' RUTH OZEKI When there is no choice, all you have left to do is walk.
  
  Kiara Johnson does not know what it is to live as a normal seventeen-year-old. With her mother in a rehab facility and an older brother who devotes his time and money to a recording studio, she fends for herself - and for nine-year-old Trevor, whose own mother is prone to disappearing for days at a time. As the landlord of their apartment block threatens to raise their rent, Kiara finds herself walking the streets after dark, determined to survive in a world that refuses to protect her.
  
  Then one night Kiara is picked up by Officers 601 and 190, and the gruesome deal she is offered in exchange for her freedom lands her at the centre of a media storm. If she agrees to testify in a grand jury trial, she could help expose the sickening corruption of a police department. But honesty comes at a price - one that could leave her family vulnerable to their retaliation, and endanger everyone she loves.
  
  Nightcrawling is an unforgettable novel about young people navigating the darkest corners of an adult world, told with a humanity that is at once agonising and utterly mesmerising.>
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• Nouv.

  The girls who grew big

  Leila Mottley

  • Penguin
  • 1 Juin 2025
  • 9780241705513

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  NIGHTCRAWLING - LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2022

  Leila Mottley

  • Bloomsbury
  • 7 Juin 2022
  • 9781526634566

  A searing debut novel inspired by a true story from the streets of Oakland, California, announcing the arrival of a blazing, young talent ''Leila Mottley''s writing erupts and flows like lava . . . Nightcrawling bursts at the seams of every page and swallows you whole'' TOMMY ORANGE, finalist for the Pulitzer Prize ''A truly beautiful and powerful book'' RUTH OZEKI When there is no choice, all you have left to do is walk.
  
  Kiara Johnson does not know what it is to live as a normal seventeen-year-old. With her mother in a rehab facility and an older brother who devotes his time and money to a recording studio, she fends for herself - and for nine-year-old Trevor, whose own mother is prone to disappearing for days at a time. As the landlord of their apartment block threatens to raise their rent, Kiara finds herself walking the streets after dark, determined to survive in a world that refuses to protect her.
  
  Then one night Kiara is picked up by Officers 601 and 190, and the gruesome deal she is offered in exchange for her freedom lands her at the centre of a media storm. If she agrees to testify in a grand jury trial, she could help expose the sickening corruption of a police department. But honesty comes at a price - one that could leave her family vulnerable to their retaliation, and endanger everyone she loves.
  
  Nightcrawling is an unforgettable novel about young people navigating the darkest corners of an adult world, told with a humanity that is at once agonising and utterly mesmerising.> Lire la suite Fermer

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