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Les filles de Shanghai Séries

Cette série plonge les lecteurs dans le monde vibrant et tumultueux de Shanghai des années 1930, suivant deux sœurs dont la vie est irrévocablement changée. Chassées du privilège vers l'adversité, elles s'embarquent pour des voyages périlleux à travers les continents et les océans, confrontées à des mariages arrangés et aux défis d'une nouvelle terre. Leur histoire est une exploration poignante de la résilience, de la recherche de l'amour et du pouvoir durable de l'espoir au milieu de la discrimination et de l'attrait éblouissant d'Hollywood.

Dreams of Joy
Filles de Shanghai

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  1. Filles de Shanghai

    • 432pages
    • 16 heures de lecture

    For readers of the phenomenal bestsellers Snow Flower and the Secret Fan and Peony in Love —a stunning new novel from Lisa See about two sisters who leave Shanghai to find new lives in 1930s Los Angeles May and Pearl, two sisters living in Shanghai in the mid-1930s, are beautiful, sophisticated, and well-educated, but their family is on the verge of bankruptcy. Hoping to improve their social standing, May and Pearl’s parents arrange for their daughters to marry “Gold Mountain men” who have come from Los Angeles to find brides. But when the sisters leave China and arrive at Angel’s Island (the Ellis Island of the West)—where they are detained, interrogated, and humiliated for months—they feel the harsh reality of leaving home. And when May discovers she’s pregnant the situation becomes even more desperate. The sisters make a pact that no one can ever know. A novel about two sisters, two cultures, and the struggle to find a new life in America while bound to the old, Shanghai Girls is a fresh, fascinating adventure from beloved and bestselling author Lisa See.

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  2. Dreams of Joy

    A Novel

    • 452pages
    • 16 heures de lecture

    Nineteen-year-old Joy Louie has run away from her home in 1950s America to start a new life in China. Idealistic and unafraid, she believes that Chairman Mao is on the side of the people, despite what her family keeps telling her. How can she trust them, when she has just learned that her parents have lied to her for her whole life, that her mother Pearl is really her aunt and that her real father is a famous artist who has been living in China all these years? Joy arrives in Green Dragon Village, where families live in crowded, windowless huts and eke out a meagre existence from the red soil. And where a handsome young comrade catches her eye...Meanwhile, Pearl returns to China to bring her daughter home - if she can. For Mao has launched his Great Leap Forward, and each passing season brings ever greater hardship to cities and rural communes alike. Joy must rely on her skill as a painter and Pearl must use her contacts from her decadent childhood in 1930s Shanghai to find a way to safety, and a chance of joy for them both. Haunting, passionate and heartbreakingly real, this is the unforgettable new novel by the internationally acclaimed Lisa See.

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