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Cinnamon Gardens
Selvadurai has captured horrifyingly well the airlessness of a society in which only a few are truly able to breathe, and deeply' Mary Loudon, The Times In Shyam Selvadurai's masterful second novel, set in repressive and complex 1920s Ceylon, the Cinnamon Gardens is a residential enclave of wealthy Ceylonese. Among them is Annalukshmi, an independent and high-spirited young teacher intent on thwarting her parents' plans to arrange her marriage. In a parallel narrative, her uncle, Balendran Navaratnam, respectably married but secretly homosexual, has his life disrupted by the arrival in Ceylon of Richard, a lover from long ago. 'Richly rewarding . . . this is, in many ways, an old-fashioned n...
The Beach Cafe
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Love Marriage
'In this globe-scattered Sri Lankan family, we speak only of two kinds of marriage. The first is the Arranged Marriage. The second is the Love Marriage.' An outstanding debut novel of fractured family relationships in modern Sri Lanka. Reverse a family tree and branches of blood are whittled down to one person - in this case, the young female narrator, Yalini - composed of all the women and men who came before her; the result of many marriages. Parents want nothing more than to prevent their children from colliding with inevitability: that in a different world, there is a different kind of marriage. Yet Tamil and Sinhalese parents - particularly after the great ethnic violence in Sri Lanka in 1983 - watch helplessly as their children cut themselves free of the need to please their ancestors. They walked out of the country to give their children opportunity, but this was not the opportunity they intended them to take: Western marriage. For Yalini and her generation, they are the children of their parents, but have entered other countries in which the rules of marriage - Love Marriage, Arranged Marriage, and all that lies in between - dramatically do not apply.
La Nord
La Nord est un roman qui prend pour toile de fond le stade Geoffroy Guichard, la ville de Saint-Etienne, le Forez... Pendant les cinq mois precedant la finale de la Coupe de la Ligue qui a oppose l'ASSE a Rennes en avril 2013, nous suivons, au fil des semaines et des matchs, un groupe d'amis, supporters acharnes des Verts. Cette immersion dans la vie de ces fans de foot permet a l'auteur de denoncer les derives du football business, mais aussi d'aborder la passion qui anime les tribunes populaires et les groupes ultras, avec leurs amities et leurs rivalites parfois excessives.
The Gallery of Vanished Husbands
A moving story of family and a life-long love affair in 1950s London, from the New York Times bestselling author of The House at Tyneford. London, 1958. It's the eve of the sexual revolution, but in Juliet Montague's conservative Jewish community where only men can divorce women, she finds herself a living widow, invisible. Ever since her husband disappeared seven years ago, Juliet has been a hardworking single mother of two and unnaturally practical. But on her thirtieth birthday, that's all about to change. A wealthy young artist asks to paint her portrait, and Juliet, moved by the powerful desire to be seen, enters into the burgeoning art world of 1960s London, which will bring her fame, fortune, and a life-long love affair.
La cueilleuse de thé
« Impossible de rester insensible au sort des cueilleuses de thé » - Clarisse Sabard, auteur des Lettres de Rose Au Sri Lanka, l'ancien Ceylan, Shemlaheila est cueilleuse de thé dans une plantation. Depuis dix ans déjà, elle ploie sous les lourds sacs de feuilles de thé et sous le joug des contremaîtres, mais, à l'aube de ses vingt ans, la jeune femme a d'autres rêves. Elle est bien décidée à partir, à échapper à la condition de celles qui, dans les théiers et dans les maisons, sont au service des hommes. Elle ne sera pas cueilleuse de thé toute sa vie, comme sa mère, comme toutes ces femmes asservies qui n'ont d'autres horizons que les interminables rangées de théiers... Du Sri Lanka à Londres, à la découverte d'un pays complètement différent du sien, Shemla va découvrir une autre culture, d'autres personnes et surtout d'autres envies. La cueilleuse de thé qu'elle a toujours été choisira-t-elle de revenir au pays, ou de se créer une nouvelle vie ? Une grande histoire romantique, entre le Skri Lanka et l'Angleterre
The Separation
FROM THE NUMBER 1 BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE TEA PLANTER'S WIFE The Separation, Dinah Jefferies' stunning debut novel, is the heartbreaking tale of a family fractured by lies and one mother's love reaching across the distance of years and continents. A country at war with itself, a family divided and betrayed, a bond that can never be broken... Malaya, 1955. Lydia Cartwright returns from visiting a sick friend to an empty house. The servants are gone. The phone is dead. Where is her husband Alec? Her young daughters, Emma and Fleur? Fearful and desperate, she contacts the British District Officer and learns that Alec has been posted up country. But why didn't he wait? Why did he leave no message? Lydia's search takes her on a hazardous journey through war-torn jungle. Forced to turn to Jack Harding, a man she'd vowed to leave in her past, she sacrifices everything to be reunited with her family. And while carrying her own secrets, Lydia will soon face a devastating betrayal which may be more than she can bear . . .
The Kashmir Shawl
For fans of The Tea-Planter’s Wife and Victoria Hislop comes a gripping story of doomed love and secrets in 1940s Kashmir.
Yellow Crocus
Originally published: Berkeley, CA: Flaming Chalice Press, 2010.
La terre des loups
Suite à son licenciement, Jessy part s'installer en Savoie, dans un village qui a servi de refuge au peintre Steffen Witzberg pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Ce petit coin de paradis est pourtant menacé par un projet de construction qui en ferait une station touristique. Seule solution : un projet de financement solidaire pour déplacer le lieu des travaux... Elle-même artiste, Jessy se voit contrainte de prendre les pinceaux et d'imiter le style de Witzberg afin de vendre un tableau pour une somme conséquente et de sauver son village. Cet acte, pourtant plein de bonnes intentions, aura des conséquences graves et inattendues pour la jeune femme. Entre grandeur des paysages et intimi...
