Paola Mazzarelli Livres

Early in 1941, having just seen off at Euston Station the two young men whom she has loved for the best part of her seventeen years, Juno Marlowe is hurrying down a London street with her ill-fitting shoes in her hands.  Airplanes thunder overhead; a battery of guns opens up.  When a stick of bombs falls she cowers, then takes to her heels in flight.  She is rescued from this nightmare by a gaunt stranger, frail and older than his years, and, guiding her up his front stairs, he offers her the protection of his house.Given this respite from the bleakness of having no home and no family to turn to, Juno first encounters tragedy, then a series of events which take her to a house in the West Country and the blossoming of an English spring into which war only occasionally intrudes.  Here she may find peace; here she will no longer be part of the furniture.  Part of the Furniture completes the triptych of wartime novels begun with The Camomile Lawn and A Sensible Life.

En 1937 à Shanghai, les vies de deux sœurs aux caractères opposés, Pearl et May Chin, changent lorsque leur père, en faillite, les vend à des Chinois de Californie. Elles s'installent à Los Angeles et luttent pour s'intégrer face au racisme et à l'anticommunisme.

Growing up in contemporary London, Sara struggles to understand her Iranian mother, Maryam. When tragedy strikes, Sara realises that only by learning more about her mother will she be able to live her own life fully.