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A Free Life
- Auteur : Ha Jin
- Editeur : Vintage books 2009 654 p.
In A Free Life, Ha Jin follows the Wu family — father Nan, mother Pingping, and son Taotao — as they sever their ties with China in the aftermath of the 1989 massacre at Tiananmen Square and begin a new life in the United States. As Nan takes o[...]Memoirs of a Geisha
- Auteur : Arthur Golden
- Editeur : Vintage books 1998 434 p.
This story is a rare and utterly engaging experience. It tells the extraordinary story of a geisha -summoning up a quarter century from 1929 to the post-war years of Japan's dramatic history, and opening a window into a half-hidden world of erot[...]Possession : a romance
- Auteur : Antonia Susan Byatt
- Editeur : Vintage books 2004 511 p.
It is 1948, and England is recovering from a war. But at 21 Nevern Street, London, the conflict has only just begun. Queenie Bligh's neighbours do not approve when she agrees to take in Jamaican lodgers, but Queenie doesn't know when her husband[...]Runaway
- Auteur : Alice Munro
- Préfacier, etc. : Jonathan Franzen
- Editeur : Vintage books 2005 335 p.
Here are men and women of wildly different times and circumstances, their lives made vividly palpable by the nuance and empathy of Munro's writing. Runaway is about the power and betrayals of love, about lost children, lost chances. There is pai[...]The Handmaid's Tale
- Auteur : Margaret Atwood
- Editeur : Vintage books 1996 324 p.
The Republic of Gilead offers Offred only one function: to breed. If she deviates, she will, like dissenters, be hanged at the wall or sent out to die slowly of radiation sickness. But even a repressive state cannot obliterate desire - neither O[...]
