Finalist, City of Vancouver Book Award 2019A man returns to Hoi An in his retirement to compose a poem honouring his parents. Two teenagers, ostracized in a private school, forge an unlikely bond. A son discovers the truth about his father's business ventures and his dreams of success. A young bride, isolated on a remote island with her new husband, finds community in a group of abalone divers.Taking the title for his debut collection of short fiction from the walled palace of Vietnam's Nguyen dynasty, Philip Huynh dives headfirst into the Vietnamese diaspora. In these beautifully crafted stories, crystalline in their clarity and immersive in their intensity, he creates a universe inhabited by the deprivations of war, the reinvention of self in a new and unfamiliar settings, and the tensions between old-world parents and new-world children. Rooted in history and tradition yet startlingly contemporary in their approach, Huynh's stories are sensuously evocative, plunging us into worlds so all-encompassing that we can smell the scent of orange blossoms and hear the rumble of bass lines from suburban car stereos.

DEUXIEME CHAPITRE DU TOME 12Découvrez en avant-première la suite de "Perfect World" ! "Sans toi, ce monde serait imparfait..." Avec Perfect World, Rie Aruga aborde la difficile question du handicap. Dans notre monde trop cruel, comment est-il possible de s'aimer et de construire une relation saine et durable, quand tout semble vouloir vous en empêcher ? Une oeuvre bouleversante, poétique et sociale ! Tsugumi, à 26 ans, travaille au sein d'une entreprise de design d'intérieur. Un soir, lors d'une soirée de travail, quelle est sa surprise de retrouver autour de la table Ayukawa, son amour de lycée ! Mais depuis la fin de leurs études, le jeune homme, impliqué dans un accident, est en fauteuil roulant. Certaine que jamais elle n'aura la force (et l'envie) de fréquenter un homme "au corps amoindri", la jeune femme va pourtant sentir quelque chose bouger en elle...