French books from Asia
Recommended French books (7)
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If you speak French here are some French books from Asia for the next part of the "Read Around The World Challenge".
1.
Brothers by Yu Hua FR
Rating: 4 10 Votes
ChinaDescription:
A bestseller in China, Brothers is an epic and wildly unhinged black comedy of modern Chinese society running amok. Here is China as we've never seen it before, in a sweeping, Rabelaisian panorama of forty years of rough-and-rumble Chinese history, from the madness of the Cultural Revolution to the equally rabid madness of extreme materialism. Yu Hua, award-winning author of To Live, gives us a surreal tale of two comically mismatched stepbrothers, Baldy Li, a sex-obsessed ne'er-do-well, and the bookish, sensitive Song Gang, who vow that they will always be brothers—a bond they will struggle t... continue
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L'architecte et le sultan by Elif Shafak FR
0 Ratings
TurkeyDescription:
Istanbul, XVIe siècle. Le jeune Jahan débarque dans cette ville inconnue avec pour seul compagnon un magnifique éléphant blanc qu'il est chargé d'offrir au sultan Soliman le Magnifique. En chemin, il rencontrera des courtisans trompeurs et des faux amis, des gitans, des dompteurs d'animaux ainsi que la belle et espiègle Mihrimah. Il attirera bientôt l'attention de l'architecte royal, Sinan : une rencontre fortuite qui va changer le cours de son existence. Au coeur de l'Empire ottoman, quand Istanbul était le c... continue
4.
La fin du chant by Galsan Tschinag FR
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MongoliaDescription:
" Claire et solitaire, la voix de la fillette s'élevait, déchirante. Mais la mère, la jument gris bleuté, gardait la posture qui était la sienne depuis la veille : tête baissée, yeux clos ; sa lèvre inférieure touchait presque le poulain mort étendu, rigide, pattes dressées vers le ciel comme les branches d'un arbre mort. L'autre, le poulain vivant, semblait découragé, il n'osait plus s'approcher des mamelles de la mère étrangère. " Des chevaux et des hommes. Sous le ciel de l'Altaï, au milieu des immenses steppes de Mongolie, Galsan Tschinag plante le somptueux et désormais familier décor d'u... continue
Genre
Recommended: 25 Jan 2023
Armenia6.
Japan7.
Wave by Sonali Daraniyagala FR
Rating: 3.5 39 Votes
Sri LankaDescription:
The book opens and we are inside the wave: thirty feet high, moving at twenty-five mph, racing two miles inland. And from there into the depths of the author's despair: how to live now that her life has been undone? Sonali Deraniyagala tells her story - the loss of her two boys, her husband, and her parents - without artifice or sentimentality. In the stark language of unfathomable sorrow, anger, and guilt: she struggles through the first months following the tragedy -- someone always at her side to prevent her from harming herself, her whole being furiously clenched against the reality she ca... continue
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Recommended: 25 Jan 2023
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