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 !
Pakistan 1971. Laila is a naïve, privileged nine-year old, at her family estate for the winter holidays. Her world is peopled by adults - progressive...
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Pakistan 1971. Laila is a naïve, privileged nine-year old, at her family estate for the winter holidays. Her world is peopled by adults - progressive parents, a protective ayah and an imperious, old-fashioned grandmother. Adored and indulged, Laila still feels excluded from this enigmatic world. Much like the young heroes of her favourite Enid Blyton adventures, she wants a slice of the action, and with a best friend by her side. This friend is Rani - the spirited teenage granddaughter of a family servant. Rani, however, is hurtling into a forbidden love affair, and when she becomes pregnant, she has no one to turn to but Laila. Eager but artless, Laila flounders in a world she does not understand and unleashes a catastrophe.
Moni Mohsin was raised in Pakistan and educated at Cambridge University. She divides her time between Lahore and London, where she lives with her husband and two children.