Ulla brise le silence et livre un récit brut sur l’emprise, la honte et l’amour maudit. Entre confession et cri de révolte, L’humiliation explore les liens indéfectibles qui unissent une femme à son bourreau, bien au-delà des apparences.

1975, Lyon : une poignée de prostituées s’enferme dans une église pour réclamer leur dignité. L’Amour amer raconte leur combat, porté par Ulla, figure emblématique de la révolte et de la quête d’amour.

En quête de vérité après la mort mystérieuse de leurs parents, Tidiane et Safiatou infiltrent la puissante famille Al-Maktoum, à Dubaï, en se faisant passer pour un couple de domestiques. Leur mission : comprendre, déstabiliser... et se venger. Mais secrets enfouis, amours interdites et manipulations transforment leur plan en un piège dangereux. Au coeur d'un univers où le pouvoir écrase tout, Tidiane et Safiatou découvrent peu à peu l'horreur qui a détruit leur vie ainsi que l'objet mystérieux qui pourrait faire tomber la famille Al-Maktoum. À PROPOS DE L'AUTEUR Salif Sagna est un jeune écrivain passionné par les histoires mêlant émotions, mystère et profondeur psychologique. Nourri par ses lectures, le cinéma et la diversité des cultures du monde, il crée des univers singuliers qui reflètent sa sensibilité et son imaginaire. Il achève l'écriture de ce manuscrit à l'âge de dix-sept ans.

Dans "L'amour amer", Ulla racontait avec une poignante sincérité le temps du mépris, des amours vénales, et de sa lutte passionnée pour reconquérir la dignité. Plus de trois cent mille lecteurs en ont fait un succès. Avec "La chair du Désert", qu'elle qualifie de roman parce que, dit-elle, "la plupart des faits racontés dans cette histoire sont vrais", Ulla nous entraîne à sa suite, dans le monde fascinant, luxueux jusqu'à l'arrogance, voluptueux jusqu'à la débauche, et tourmenté jusqu'à la révolte, des princes du pétrole d'Arabie. De Ryad à la Mecque, d'intrigues de palais des mille et une nuits en orgies dorées, femmes perverses, dignitaires saturés de plaisirs, comploteurs et extrémistes, peuplent cet univers étrange dans lequel, par amour encore, se trouve précipitée Ulla, toujours en quête de "sa" vérité.

The handsome and eligible Prince Ivan of Rusitania urgently needs to find a bride who is very young, very pretty and very rich. His cousin, Prince Peter of neighbouring Voskia, is determined to prevent him marrying as he intends to inherit Rusitania. He needs revenge on Ivan. Peter invaded Rusitania hoping for a quick victory, instead he suffered a disastrous defeat.Danger follows Ivan from Rusitania to Paris and then to London, where he meets Lady Cecilia Beaumont, who undertakes to help him find a suitable bride. Almost-on-the-shelf, Cecilia is intelligent, stylish and very wealthy. Wary of suitors after her fortune, she has given up on marriage and devotes herself both to her father, the Earl of Yarlington and the clinic she has founded to help the poor of London. Soon Cecilia finds her life threatened and her heart captured. Then she meets Peter's and Ivan's ex-mistress, the voluptuous Countess Natasha. Neither is what they seem on first sight. What happens as Ivan and Cecilia fight for happiness and their lives is told in this absorbing romance by BARBARA CARTLAND.Barbara Cartland was the world's most prolific novelist who wrote an amazing 723 books in her lifetime, of which no less than 644 were romantic novels with worldwide sales of over 1 billion copies and her books were translated into 36 different languages. As well as romantic novels, she wrote historical biographies, 6 autobiographies, theatrical plays and books of advice on life, love, vitamins and cookery. She wrote her first book at the age of 21 and it was called Jigsaw. It became an immediate bestseller and sold 100,000 copies in hardback in England and all over Europe in translation. Between the ages of 77 and 97 she increased her output and wrote an incredible 400 romances as the demand for her romances was so strong all over the world. She wrote her last book at the age of 97 and it was entitled perhaps prophetically The Way to Heaven. Her books have always been immensely popular in the United States where in 1976 her current books were at numbers 1 & 2 in the B. Dalton bestsellers list, a feat never achieved before or since by any author. Barbara Cartland became a legend in her own lifetime and will be best remembered for her wonderful romantic novels so loved by her millions of readers throughout the world, who have always collected her books to read again and again, especially when they feel miserable or depressed. Her books will always be treasured for their moral message, her pure and innocent heroines, her handsome and dashing heroes, her blissful happy endings and above all for her belief that the power of love is more important than anything else in everyone's life."