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La Trilogie de l'Empire Séries

Cette saga explore les relations complexes et les bouleversements politiques qui ont marqué le début du XXe siècle, en particulier en Irlande. Elle suit des personnages naviguant dans une période de profonds changements sociétaux, où l'ancien monde cède la place au nouveau. Les récits mêlent avec brio le drame personnel au contexte historique, présentant des personnages vivants et explorant les thèmes de la perte, de l'identité et de la résilience au milieu des troubles. C'est une exploration captivante de l'esprit humain en des temps tumultueux.

The Singapore grip
The Siege of Krishnapur
Troubles

Ordre de lecture recommandé

  1. Troubles

    • 444pages
    • 16 heures de lecture

    1919: After surviving the Great War, Major Brendan Archer makes his way to Ireland, hoping to discover whether he is indeed betrothed to Angela Spencer, whose Anglo-Irish family owns the once-aptly-named Majestic Hotel in Kilnalough. But his fiancée is strangely altered and her family's fortunes have suffered a spectacular decline. The hotel's hundreds of rooms are disintegrating on a grand scale; its few remaining guests thrive on rumors and games of whist; herds of cats have taken over the Imperial Bar and the upper stories; bamboo shoots threaten the foundations; and piglets frolic in the squash court. Meanwhile, the Major is captivated by the beautiful and bitter Sarah Devlin. As housekeeping disasters force him from room to room, outside the order of the British Empire also totters: there is unrest in the East, and in Ireland itself the mounting violence of "the troubles." Troubles is a hilarious and heartbreaking work by a modern master of the historical novel.

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    3,7

  2. The Siege of Krishnapur

    • 346pages
    • 13 heures de lecture

    The Siege of Krishnapur is a modern classic of narrative excitement that also digs deep to explore some fundamental questions of civilisation and life.

    The Siege of Krishnapur2
    4,0

  3. The Singapore grip

    • 704pages
    • 25 heures de lecture

    Singapore, 1939: life on the eve of World War II just isn't what it used to be for Walter Blackett, head of British Singapore's oldest and most powerful firm. No matter how forcefully the police break one strike, the natives go on strike somewhere else. His daughter keeps entangling herself with the most unsuitable beaus, while her intended match, the son of Blackett's partner, is an idealistic sympathizer with the League of Nations and a vegetarian. Business may be booming—what with the war in Europe, the Allies are desperate for rubber and helpless to resist Blackett's price-fixing and market manipulation—but something is wrong. No one suspects that the world of the British Empire, of fixed boundaries between classes and nations, is about to come to a terrible end. A love story and a war story, a tragicomic tale of a city under siege and a dying way of life, The Singapore Grip completes the “Empire Trilogy” that began with Troubles and the Booker prize-winning Siege of Krishnapur.

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    4,0