The first instalment in the Pulitzer Prize-winner's masterpiece - a trilogy following one family over a hundred years.
Les cent dernières années : Une saga familiale Séries
Cette saga tentaculaire retrace la vie d'une famille américaine sur un siècle entier. Elle suit les générations à travers leurs succès et leurs épreuves, des luttes guerrières aux drames personnels. Le récit plonge au cœur des cycles de naissance, d'amour et de perte, tout en reflétant des moments cruciaux de l'histoire américaine. C'est une exploration captivante de la manière dont les événements personnels et historiques s'entremêlent, façonnant le destin des individus et l'héritage d'une famille.
Ordre de lecture recommandé
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Early Warning
- 812pages
- 29 heures de lecture
"Early Warning" opens in 1953 with the Langdon family at a crossroads. Their stalwart patriarch, Walter, who with his wife, Rosanna, sustained their farm for three decades, has suddenly died, leaving their five children, now adults, looking to the future. Only one will remain in Iowa to work the land, while the others scatter to Washington, D.C., California, and everywhere in between. As the country moves out of post World War II optimism through the darker landscape of the Cold War and the social and sexual revolutions of the 1960s and 70s, and then into the unprecedented wealth for some of the early 1980s, the Langdon children each follow a different path in a rapidly changing world. And they now have children of their own: twin boys who are best friends and vicious rivals; a girl whose rebellious spirit takes her to the notorious Peoples Temple in San Francisco; and a golden boy who drops out of college to fight in Vietnam leaving behind a secret legacy that will send shock waves through the Langdon family into the next generation.
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Golden Age
- 720pages
- 26 heures de lecture
The final novel in Jane Smiley's masterpiece - the Last Hundred Years trilogy