The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane - format ePub

Los Angeles, 1957. Après avoir quitté l’Asie, Perle a donné naissance à Joy, devenue une jeune fille au caractère bien trempé. Trop, peut-être ? Bouleversée par les secrets familiaux qu’elle vient de...

« Lorsque j’aperçus le jeune homme qui regagnait lui aussi son siège, je fermai aussitôt les yeux. Je ne pouvais pas me permettre de le regarder. Assise ainsi, les yeux clos, je laissai la musique et...

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Dans la Chine du XIXᵉ siècle, le destin de deux jeunes filles est lié à tout jamais. Fleur de Lis, fille de paysans, et Fleur de Neige, d’origine aristocratique, sont nées la même année, le même jour,...

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Sud-ouest de la Chine, années 1990. À la Source de Printemps, sur le mont Nannuo, la culture du thé rythme la vie des habitants depuis toujours. Loin de connaître les progrès sans précédent qui se propagent...

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Los Angeles, 1957. On retrouve les deux sœurs de Filles de Shanghai, May et Perle, ainsi que la fille de cette dernière, âgée de dix-neuf ans, la fougueuse Joy. Bouleversée par les secrets familiaux...

L’inspectrice Liu Hulan est appelée pour enquêter sur une mort suspecte : le corps d’un archéologue américain a été retrouvé non loin du Barrage des Trois-Gorges, sur un site archéologique voué à disparaître...

Nous avons tout perdu, May et moi, à l’exception du lien qui nous unit. Après ce que nous venons de traverser, il est devenu si fort que même le plus affûté des couteaux ne parviendrait pas à le trancher....

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