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 !
Set in Bohemian Paris at the turn of the century, The Magician was inspired by the notorious and sinister black magician Aleister Crowley.
It was written...
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Set in Bohemian Paris at the turn of the century, The Magician was inspired by the notorious and sinister black magician Aleister Crowley.
It was written in response to the considerable interest then being taken in Satanism, magic and the occult. It is not only a fascinating picture of Parisian café society, but also extends the them of bondage - a favourite of Maugham's - to explore the notions of psychic domination and hypnotic slavery.