Valeria Parrella

Alexei Sayle

Jean-Claude Izzo

Pawel Huelle

Murathan Mungan

Artur Becker

Christian Garcin

Peppe Lanzetta

Dinesh Allirajah

Adam Kaminski

Hatice Meryem

Claudia Parman

The six European port cities known as the Cities on the Edge Liverpool, Bremen, Gdansk, Istanbul, Marseilles and Naples - share a history of dissent, diversity and economic reinvention. Once gateways to the world, bringing wealth and innovation to their respective nations, they've long been maligned and misunderstood by their compatriots, preferring instead to look outwards, towards the sea - to the possibilities of change, of travel and of rebirth. Featuring short stories by twelve acclaimed writers from the Cities on the Edge, ReBerth explores these landscapes of change - the social tensions, the scars of war and economic decline, the attempts at regeneration, and the startling and sometimes unsavoury secrets of how these cities inhabitants thrive and survive. ...In Gdansk, a German exile returns to his childhood home in search of a valuable coin collection left behind during World War II... ...In Naples, a young woman desperate to escape the slums by any means necessary rises from street kid, to Camorra moll, to political powerbroker... ...In Liverpool, a young Spanish footballer arrives to fulfil his dream of playing in the Premiership. But in the backstreets of Anfield he meets a local resident with a very different perspective on the beautiful game ...

Stories from Cities on the Edge

ReBerth

Le notti di Vladivostok

Eric Faye

« En 1924, déguisée en mendiante tibétaine, Alexandra David-Néel franchit en quatre mois mille huit cents kilomètres de forêts, fleuves, vallées profondes et hauts sommets entre Yunnan et Tibet pour arriver clandestinement à Lhassa, alors interdite aux étrangers. À presque un siècle de distance, nous avons voyagé sur ses traces. En pleine mutation économique, touristique, uniformisatrice, la civilisation tibétaine est peut-être en train de disparaître sous les coups de boutoir de la raison économique et des intérêts de la géopolitique. Pourtant, le Tibet de 1924 se laisse encore deviner à travers la puissance des rites, du bouddhisme omniprésent, et de la ferveur religieuse de la population, ancrage de l’identité tibétaine menacée. Ce sont ces réalités multiples, qui semblent incompatibles parfois mais qui coexistent pourtant, que nous avons tenté de circonscrire entre le récit de notre voyage et l’évocation de la figure d’Alexandra David-Néel. » É.F. et C.G.

Dans les pas d'Alexandra David Néel

Patagonie, dernier refuge

Christian Garcin

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