Mariagrazia Gini Ordre des livres (chronologique)

English anthropologist Andrew Bankson has been alone in the field for several years, studying the Kiona river tribe in the territory of New Guinea. Haunted by the memory of his brothers' deaths and increasingly frustrated and isolated by his research, Bankson is on the verge of suicide, when a chance encounter with colleagues, the controversial Nell Stone and her wry and mercurial Australian husband Fen, pulls him back from the brink. Nell and Fen have just fled the bloodthirsty Mumbanyo and, in spite of Nell's poor health, are hungry for a new discovery

Dès son enfance, Patrick a été placé sous la garde de sa tante Mame, une New-yorkaise excentrique et pleine de vie. Maintenant qu'il a terminé ses études, il part avec elle pour un voyage fou autour du monde : des péchés des Folies-Bergère à une garden-party chaotique de la reine d'Angleterre, jusqu'au cœur de la Russie. En chemin, ils doivent faire face à des gigolos huileux, de faux nobles et des idéalistes boudeurs, et se retrouvent, grâce aux actions imprévisibles de la pétillante Mame, dans des situations des plus rocambolesques.

One of England’s finest and most loved writers explores the uncomfortable and tragicomic gap between people’s public appearance and their private desires in two tender and surprising stories. In The Greening of Mrs. Donaldson, a recently bereaved widow finds interesting ways to supplement her income by performing as a patient for medical students, and renting out her spare room. Quiet, middle-class, and middle-aged, Mrs. Donaldson will soon discover that she rather enjoys role-play at the hospital, and the irregular and startling entertainment provided by her tenants. In The Shielding of Mrs. Forbes, a disappointed middle-aged mother dotes on her only son, Graham, who believes he must shield her from the truth. As Graham’s double life becomes increasingly complicated, we realize how little he understands, not only of his own desires but also those of his mother. A master storyteller dissects a very English form of secrecy with two stories of the unexpected in otherwise apparently ordinary lives.