Reza, Yasmina

Art by Yasmina Reza ( Book )
50 editions published between 1994 and 2010 in 8 languages and held by 1,091 libraries worldwide
Serge has bought a modern painting for a large sum of money. Marc hates it and cannot believe that a friend of his could possibly want such a work. Yvan attempts, unsuccessfully, to placate both sides. If your friendship is based on tacit mutual agreement, what happens when one person does something completely different and unexpected? The question is: Are you who you think you are or are you who your friends think you are?

Desolation : [a novel by Yasmina Reza ( Book )
38 editions published between 1999 and 2007 in 12 languages and held by 787 libraries worldwide
An old man reflecting upon his life, marriages, friendships, love affairs, and the enragingly separate existence of his spoiled and lost only son.

Dawn, dusk or night : a year with Nicolas Sarkozy by Yasmina Reza ( Book )
14 editions published between 2007 and 2009 in 3 languages and held by 644 libraries worldwide
An unorthodox (and candid and witty) portrait of a man in his quest for ultimate power. In 2006, Yasmina Reza, the most celebrated playwright in France, asked Nicolas Sarkozy a simple question: Would he allow her to spend the next year with him and his team as he campaigned for the French presidency? His response was an unqualified yes. To the alarm of his advisers, and the consternation of many of her friends, who feared she was making a pact with the devil, she picked up her notebook and her pencil, and off she went. She was not simply an observer of Sarkozy's rise to power. Rather, hers is the account of a brilliant woman of letters dancing in orbit with the most powerful man in France. Their casual exchanges, her remarkable insights, their phenomenal experience exist as a play of words and glances, framed as scenes from a headlong drama.--From publisher description.

The god of carnage by Yasmina Reza ( Book )
19 editions published between 2006 and 2009 in 5 languages and held by 556 libraries worldwide
"What happens when two sets of parents meet up do deal with the unruly behavior of their children? A calm and rational debate between grown-ups about the need to teach kids how to behave properly? Or a hysterical night of name-calling, tantrums and tears before bedtime? Boys will be boys, but adults are usually worse-- much worse."--Back cover.

Adam Haberberg by Yasmina Reza ( Book )
18 editions published between 2002 and 2010 in 5 languages and held by 515 libraries worldwide
In her second novel, the acclaimed author of "Desolation" paints a bitingly funny, lethally wise portrait of a hapless nonhero's big adventure--a story that revels in the tragicomedy of one man's mid-life crisis.

Life x 3 by Yasmina Reza ( Book )
20 editions published between 2000 and 2010 in 5 languages and held by 410 libraries worldwide
Two couples who meet over dinner are given a second and third chance to revisit their differences and end on a different note The play received its British premiere at the Royal National Theatre in London in December 2000.

The unexpected man by Yasmina Reza ( Book )
20 editions published between 1995 and 2009 in 5 languages and held by 398 libraries worldwide
A train compartment. A man and a woman. In a series of dazzling internal monologues, the man, a novelist, muses on his latest work, contemplates the futility of writing, and considers his life in terms of his friends, his daughter, her lover, and the workings of Ex-Lax on his digestive system. The woman thinks about her life, her loves, and her friendships in the full knowledge that the man she is facing is the novelist she admires and would love to speak to, and whose latest work she has tucked in her handbag. Christopher Hampton's elegant translation of Yasmina Reza's sharp, witty and sexy play explores the "nostalgia for what might happen".--From publisher description.

Hammerklavier by Yasmina Reza ( Book )
9 editions published between 1998 and 2006 in 5 languages and held by 301 libraries worldwide
A collection of forty-four autobiographical sketches and fictional vignettes of the narrator's memories and fantasies of people, meditations on music, timelessness, and the nature of writing itself.

Conversations after a burial by Yasmina Reza ( Book )
19 editions published between 1986 and 2009 in 3 languages and held by 291 libraries worldwide
Yasmina Reza is internationally famous for her recent play the multi-award winning Art. Conversations After a Burial is her first play and won her the Moliere Award for best author in 1987.

Plays one by Yasmina Reza ( Book )
6 editions published between 2004 and 2005 in English and held by 241 libraries worldwide