Shan Sa

Depuis 1931, le dernier empereur de Chine règne sans pouvoir sur la Mandchourie occupée par l'armée japonaise. Alors que l'aristocratie tente d'oublier dans de vaines distractions la guerre et ses cr

Desde 1931, el último emperador de China reina sin poder sobre Manchuria, ocupada por el ejército japonés. La gran mayoría de los empobrecidos habitantes de China se resignan, temen, se someten. Pero, la resistencia tambien existe. En ese contexto, casi sin palabras, una joven china y un oficial japones se enfrentan y se aman ante un tablero de go.

La puerta de la Paz Celeste narra con sencillez y emoción la lucha por una vida más libre y justa, enfrentada a la maquinaria represora del poder establecido. ¿Encontrará Zhao a Ayamei? Hondamente afectado por la lectura del diario, ¿podra el teniente cumplir su mision?.

Zhao le soldat et Ayamei la révoltée courent dans les rues sombres de Pékin. La Place de la Paix céleste - Tian an men - est couverte du sang des étudiants. Du sang des enfants de la Chine moderne, éleves dans l''ideologie etouffante du regime maoiste. Ayamei se cache, quitte Pekin, parcourt des milliers de kilometres, fuit vers la montagne. Inlassablement Zhao suit sa piste. Son acharnement est a la mesure de sa foi dans le regime : aveugle et sans limites. Au terme de cette longue traque, Zhao, l''autodidacte inflexible, se laissera-t-il contaminer par la beaute et la poesie ou choisira-t-il d''ignorer la voie qu''Ayamei est en train de decouvrir ? Il deviendra, malgre lui, le heros d''un roman d''amour sobre, pudique et troublant.

Esta es la historia de Luz, una mujer de origen plebeyo que entra en el gineceo del emperador. La rivalidad entre la Emperatriz y las otras esposas del emperador es evidente, pero Luz logrará ganarse el amor y la confianza de Pequeño Faisan, el heredero del Imperio. A pesar de su origen plebeyo y su pasado de concubina cortes, logra llegar al poder y alterar las severas normas de la Ciudad Prohibida. Desde su posicion, participara en ceremonias que nunca antes habian estado permitidas a la Emperatriz, modificara las rigidas y caducas estructuras de gobierno, abrira la politica al pueblo y permitira que las mujeres oficien ritos sagrados.

Set in the 1930s in Manchuria, this novel is about a teenager who is obsessed with the Japanese game of Go, involved in a complex romance with two of her friends--and pregnant. A young Japanese soldier, part of the invading army, begins playing Go with her and falls in love with her. As the Japanese army begins its brutal takeover, the girl and her admirer become caught up in an increasingly dangerous chain of events that ends in tragedy.

Set in Japanese-occupied Manchuria in the 1930s, The Girl who Played Go is a haunting tragedy, a shocking tale of love and war reflected in the age-old game of go. In the Square of a Thousand Winds, snow falls as a sixteen-year-old Chinese girl beats all-comers at the game of go. One of her opponents is, unknown to her, a young Japanese officer of the occupying power, rigidly militaristic, imbued with the imperial ethic, but far from home and intrigued by this young opponent. Their encounters are like the game itself, restrained, subtle and surprisingly fierce. But as their two stories unfold the Japanese army moves inexorably through their huge land, in the vanguard of a greater war, leaving blood and destruction in its wake.

Depuis 1931, le dernier empereur de Chine règne sans pouvoir sur la Mandchourie occupée par larmée japonaise. Alors que laristocratie tente doublier dans de vaines distractions la guerre et ses cruau

A dramatically imagined tale. . . . Written with the unironic portentousness of an ancient myth, the novel nonetheless has modern and moving insights into such hot-button topics as violence and gender. Washington PostThe imaginative and dramatic love affair between Alexander the Great and Alestria, queen of the Amazons, when both are at the height of their powers.A brilliant yet ruthless savage conqueror and poet exhilarated by the worlds wonders, Alexander first meets Alestria on the battlefieldshocked to discover his adversary is female and mesmerized by her fierce, dazzling loveliness. At last, the legendary king has found his equal in this indomitable Amazon queen who has been taught since childhood to abhor men and repel all invaders. Alestria, in turn, cannot resist Alexanders strength and beauty, and they unite in deeply passionate, intensely problematic lovepursuing a remarkable destiny against a vast backdrop of warfare and political turmoil that stretches from Greece to Egypt, and across Persia, deep into the mysterious kingdoms of India.Acclaimed author Shan Sa brings Alexander the Great to richly imagined new life, entwining his historical legacy with a fantastic love affair set in a time of war between Western and Eastern civilizations.

En Chine, le saule pleureur symbolise la mort et la renaissance. Faut-il croire quune branche de saule puisse devenir une femme condamnée à poursuivre lamour de siècle en siècle ?En quatre périodes q

As the Japanese military invades 1930s Manchuria, a young girl approaches her own sexual coming of age. Drawn into a complex triangle with two boys, she distracts herself from the onslaught of adulthood by playing the game of go with strangers in a public square--and yet the force of desire, like the occupation, proves inevitable. Unbeknownst to the girl who plays go, her most worthy and frequent opponent is a Japanese soldier in disguise. Captivated by her beauty as much as by her bold, unpredictable approach to the strategy game, the soldier finds his loyalties challenged. Is there room on the path to war for that most revolutionary of acts: falling in love?

1937. Alors que la Mandchourie est occupée par larmée japonaise, une lycéenne de seize ans semble ignorer tranquillement la guerre, les cruautés, les privations. Mélancolique, seule telle « un roulea

Una novel·la sobre la guerra i l'amor, la Resistència i la repressió.