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Linda Crew

    Cet auteur explore les aspects profonds et souvent difficiles de l'expérience humaine, de la gestion des crises aux luttes personnelles contre la dépendance aux médicaments sur ordonnance. Initialement auteur de récits pour jeunes lecteurs, souvent ancrés dans des contextes historiques importants, son œuvre se tourne désormais vers des thèmes universels de survie et de guérison. Le style de l'auteur est incisif et profondément personnel, offrant aux lecteurs non seulement un regard sans concession sur ses propres combats, mais aussi un sentiment de réconfort et de rédemption potentielle. Son récit franc sert à la fois d'histoire d'avertissement et de témoignage de la résilience de l'esprit humain.

    Sundara
    Children of the River
    • Sundara fled Cambodia with her aunt's family to escape the Khmer Rouge army when she was thirteen, leaving behind her parents, her brother and sister, and the boy she had loved since she was a child.Now, four years later, she struggles to fit in at her Oregon high school and to be "a good Cambodian girl" at home. A good Cambodian girl never dates; she waits for her family to arrange her marriage to a Cambodian boy. Yet Sundara and Jonathan, an extraordinary American boy, are powerfully drawn to each other. Haunted by grief for her lost family and for the life left behind, Sundara longs to be with him. At the same time she wonders, Are her hopes for happiness and new life in America disloyal to her past and her people?

      Children of the River1991
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