Une pure merveille !
Un roman d'une grande beauté, drôle, fin, extrêmement lumineux sur des sujets difficiles : la perte de
l'être aimé, la dureté de la vie et la tristesse qu'on barricade parfois... Elise franco-japonaise,
orpheline de sa maman veut poser LA question à son père et elle en trouvera le courage au fil des pages,
grâce au retour de sa grand-mère du japon, de sa rencontre avec son extravagante amie Stella..
Ensemble il ne diront plus Sayonara mais Mata Ne !
Maugham, Kipling, Greene : the great short-story writers illuminate their worlds with a startling, unexpected vividness...Certainly that's true of Russell...
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Maugham, Kipling, Greene : the great short-story writers illuminate their worlds with a startling, unexpected vividness...Certainly that's true of Russell Banks, one of the few contemporary short- story writers who can bear comparison with those masters of the art. His new collection triumphantly confirms his rightful place as fiche finest exponent of the delicate art of short-story writing today. Written over the part 30 years, these spare, elegant and tender portraits of American life, among the trailer-parka and diners, evoking fading hopes and lost dreams, weave their magic like the finest chamber music : never a wasted word, nor a discordant sentence. And every one haunts the memory long after the book lies closed at your side.
Russell Banks has long been one of America's best writers, and this new volume - drawn from nearly forty years of production - contains some of his funniest and most moving work.