La Isla De Las Mujeres Del Mar
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La Isla De Las Mujeres Del Mar
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Author : Lisa See
language : es
Publisher: SALAMANDRA
Release Date : 2020-02-06
La Isla De Las Mujeres Del Mar written by Lisa See and has been published by SALAMANDRA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-02-06 with Fiction categories.
Una inmersión fascinante en una cultura en vías de desaparición. Tras seducir a lectores y críticos de todo el mundo con El abanico de seda y Dos chicas de Shanghai, Lisa See vuelve a cautivarnos con La isla de las mujeres del mar, una bella e introspectiva novela sobre los lazos de amistad de dos jóvenes hanenyeo -mujeres buceadoras de la isla surcoreana de Jeju, cuya forma de vida ha sido reconocida por la Unesco como patrimonio de la humanidad- y las poderosas fuerzas, tanto naturales como históricas, que las rodean. Kim Young-sook y Han Mi-ja empiezan su preparación como haenyeo. A pesar de sus diferentes entornos familiares, pronto se hacen íntimas, aprenden la técnica del buceo y se enfrentan juntas a las exigencias físicas y los fracasos emocionales de su trabajo. Durante medio siglo, las dos jóvenes forjarán una sólida relación al tiempo que su vida se verá envuelta en acontecimientos tan trágicos y extraordinarios como la Segunda Guerra Mundial, la Guerra de Corea y sus secuelas, y tan inevitables como la irrupción de los teléfonos móviles y la llegada de nuevas políticas e ideas a la isla. Sin embargo, tras sobrevivir a cientos de inmersiones y desarrollar el más estrecho de los vínculos, algo que escapa a su control acabará rompiendo su amistad. Narrada porla entrañable voz de Young-sook, La isla de las mujeres del mar es no sólo una magnífica saga familiar con extraordinarias ramificaciones, sino también un vívido retrato del mundo singular y poco conocido de la isla de Jeju y de las atrocidades sufridas por sus moradores bajo la ocupación japonesa. La crítica ha dicho... «Una oda a un singular grupo de mujeres, que no esconde la hondura de la crueldad y la resistencia humanas.» Publisher's Weekly «Una exhaustiva investigación que nos habla no sólo de las tradiciones haenyeo, sino también de los asesinatos masivos en la isla de Jeju a principios de 1948, ocultados durante décadas por el gobierno surcoreano. [...] Imprescindible.» Kirkus Reviews «Una asombrosa historia sobre dos mujeres cuyas decisiones acaban uniéndolas inextricablemente.» Jodi Picoult «Brillante, [...] reflexiva y empática. [...] Necesaria.» The New York Times Book Review «Una novela que celebra la fuerza de las mujeres y la fortaleza de su amistad.» O, The Oprah Magazine
The Island Of Sea Women
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Author : Lisa See
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2019-03-05
The Island Of Sea Women written by Lisa See and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-03-05 with Fiction categories.
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “A mesmerizing new historical novel” (O, The Oprah Magazine) from Lisa See, the bestselling author of The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane, about female friendship and devastating family secrets on a small Korean island. Mi-ja and Young-sook, two girls living on the Korean island of Jeju, are best friends who come from very different backgrounds. When they are old enough, they begin working in the sea with their village’s all-female diving collective, led by Young-sook’s mother. As the girls take up their positions as baby divers, they know they are beginning a life of excitement and responsibility—but also danger. Despite their love for each other, Mi-ja and Young-sook find it impossible to ignore their differences. The Island of Sea Women takes place over many decades, beginning during a period of Japanese colonialism in the 1930s and 1940s, followed by World War II, the Korean War, through the era of cell phones and wet suits for the women divers. Throughout this time, the residents of Jeju find themselves caught between warring empires. Mi-ja is the daughter of a Japanese collaborator. Young-sook was born into a long line of haenyeo and will inherit her mother’s position leading the divers in their village. Little do the two friends know that forces outside their control will push their friendship to the breaking point. “This vivid…thoughtful and empathetic” novel (The New York Times Book Review) illuminates a world turned upside down, one where the women are in charge and the men take care of the children. “A wonderful ode to a truly singular group of women” (Publishers Weekly), The Island of Sea Women is a “beautiful story…about the endurance of friendship when it’s pushed to its limits, and you…will love it” (Cosmopolitan).
Island Beneath The Sea
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Author : Isabel Allende
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins
Release Date : 2020-06-30
Island Beneath The Sea written by Isabel Allende and has been published by HarperCollins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-06-30 with Fiction categories.
The New York Times bestselling author of The House of the Spirits and A Long Petal of the Sea tells the story of one unforgettable woman—a slave and concubine determined to take control of her own destiny—in this sweeping historical novel that moves from the sugar plantations of Saint-Domingue to the lavish parlors of New Orleans at the turn of the 19th century “Allende is a master storyteller at the peak of her powers.”—Los Angeles Times The daughter of an African mother she never knew and a white sailor, Zarité—known as Tété—was born a slave on the island of Saint-Domingue. Growing up amid brutality and fear, Tété found solace in the traditional rhythms of African drums and the mysteries of voodoo. Her life changes when twenty-year-old Toulouse Valmorain arrives on the island in 1770 to run his father’s plantation, Saint Lazare. Overwhelmed by the challenges of his responsibilities and trapped in a painful marriage, Valmorain turns to his teenaged slave Tété, who becomes his most important confidant. The indelible bond they share will connect them across four tumultuous decades and ultimately define their lives.
The Tea Girl Of Hummingbird Lane
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Author : Lisa See
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2017-03-21
The Tea Girl Of Hummingbird Lane written by Lisa See and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-03-21 with Fiction categories.
A thrilling new novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa See explores the lives of a Chinese mother and her daughter who has been adopted by an American couple. Li-yan and her family align their lives around the seasons and the farming of tea. There is ritual and routine, and it has been ever thus for generations. Then one day a jeep appears at the village gate—the first automobile any of them have seen—and a stranger arrives. In this remote Yunnan village, the stranger finds the rare tea he has been seeking and a reticent Akha people. In her biggest seller, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, See introduced the Yao people to her readers. Here she shares the customs of another Chinese ethnic minority, the Akha, whose world will soon change. Li-yan, one of the few educated girls on her mountain, translates for the stranger and is among the first to reject the rules that have shaped her existence. When she has a baby outside of wedlock, rather than stand by tradition, she wraps her daughter in a blanket, with a tea cake hidden in her swaddling, and abandons her in the nearest city. After mother and daughter have gone their separate ways, Li-yan slowly emerges from the security and insularity of her village to encounter modern life while Haley grows up a privileged and well-loved California girl. Despite Haley’s happy home life, she wonders about her origins; and Li-yan longs for her lost daughter. They both search for and find answers in the tea that has shaped their family’s destiny for generations. A powerful story about a family, separated by circumstances, culture, and distance, Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane paints an unforgettable portrait of a little known region and its people and celebrates the bond that connects mothers and daughters.
Shanghai Girls
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Author : Lisa See
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2010-03-29
Shanghai Girls written by Lisa See and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-03-29 with Fiction categories.
Shanghai, 1937. Pearl and May are two sisters from a bourgeois family. Though their personalities are very different - Pearl is a Dragon sign, strong and stubborn, while May is a true Sheep, adorable and placid - they are inseparable best friends. Both are beautiful, modern and living a carefree life ... until the day their father tells them that he has gambled away the family's wealth, and that in order to repay his debts he must sell the girls as wives to two 'Gold Mountain' men: Americans. As Japanese bombs fall on their beloved city, the two sisters set out on the journey of a lifetime, one that will take them through the villages of southern China, in and out of the clutches of brutal soldiers, and even across the ocean, through the humiliation of an anti-Chinese detention centre to a new, married life in Los Angeles's Chinatown. Here they begin a fresh chapter, despite the racial discrimination and anti-Communist paranoia, because now they have something to strive for: a young, American-born daughter, Joy. Along the way there are terrible sacrifices, impossible choices and one devastating, life-changing secret, but through it all the two heroines of this astounding new novel by Lisa See hold fast to who they are - Shanghai girls.
Coral Island
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Author : Robert Michael Ballantyne
language : en
Publisher: BoD - Books on Demand
Release Date : 2022-09-20
Coral Island written by Robert Michael Ballantyne and has been published by BoD - Books on Demand this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-09-20 with Fiction categories.
Three boys, fifteen-year-old Ralph Rover (the narrator), eighteen-year-old Jack Martin and fourteen-year-old Peterkin Gay, are the sole survivors of a shipwreck on the coral reef of a large but uninhabited Polynesian island. At first their life on the island is idyllic; food, in the shape of fruits, fish and wild pigs, is plentiful, and using their only possessions; a broken telescope, an iron-bound oar and a small axe, they fashion a shelter and even construct a small boat. Their first contact with other people comes after several months when they observe two large outrigger canoes land on the beach. The two groups are engaged in battle and the three boys intervene to successfully defeat the attacking party, earning the gratitude of the chief Tararo. The Polynesians leave and the three boys are alone once more. Then more unwelcome visitors arrive in the shape of pirates, who make a living trading, or stealing, sandalwood. The three boys conceal themselves in a hidden cave, but Ralph is captured when he sets out to see if the pirates have left, and is taken aboard the pirate schooner. Ralph strikes up an unexpected friendship with one of the pirates, "Bloody Bill", and when they call at an island to trade for more wood he meets Tararo again. On the island he sees all facets of island life, including the popular sport of surfing, as well as the practice of infanticide and cannibalism. Rising tension leads to an attack by the inhabitants on the pirates, leaving only Ralph alive and Bloody Bill mortally wounded. However they manage to make their escape in the schooner. After Bill dies, making a death-bed repentance for his evil life, Ralph manages to sail back to the Coral Island to be re-united with his friends.
Treasure Island
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Author : Robert Louis Stevenson
language : en
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions
Release Date : 1993
Treasure Island written by Robert Louis Stevenson and has been published by Wordsworth Editions this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
While going through the possessions of a deceased guest who owed them money, the mistress of the inn and her son find a treasure map that leads them to a pirate's fortune.
China Dolls
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Author : Lisa See
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2014-06-03
China Dolls written by Lisa See and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-06-03 with Fiction categories.
It's 1938 and the exclusive Oriental nightclub in San Francisco's Forbidden City is holding auditions for showgirls. In the dark, scandalous glamour of the club, three girls from very different backgrounds stumble into each other lives. All the girls have secrets. Grace, an American-born Chinese girl, has fled the Midwest and an abusive father. Helen is from a Chinese family which has deep roots in San Francisco's Chinatown. And, as both her friends know, Ruby is Japanese passing as Chinese. Then, in a heartbeat, everything changes. The Japanese attack Pearl Harbor and paranoia, suspicion, and a shocking act of betrayal, threaten to destroy their lives.
The Way Past Winter
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Author : Kiran Millwood Hargrave
language : en
Publisher: Chicken House
Release Date : 2018-10-04
The Way Past Winter written by Kiran Millwood Hargrave and has been published by Chicken House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-04 with categories.
When Mila's brother disappears, she believes he's been taken by the Bear, a hooded stranger of legend who sought shelter at their home. Mila and her sisters follow his trail into the frozen north, determined to find a way past winter and bring their brother home.
Dreams Of Joy
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Author : Lisa See
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2012-02-07
Dreams Of Joy written by Lisa See and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-02-07 with categories.
Nineteen-year-old Joy Louie has run away from her home in 1950s America to start a new life in China. Idealistic and unafraid, she believes that Chairman Mao is on the side of the people, despite what her family keeps telling her. How can she trust them, when she has just learned that her parents have lied to her for her whole life, that her mother Pearl is really her aunt and that her real father is a famous artist who has been living in China all these years? Joy arrives in Green Dragon Village, where families live in crowded, windowless huts and eke out a meagre existence from the red soil. And where a handsome young comrade catches her eye... Meanwhile, Pearl returns to China to bring her daughter home - if she can. For Mao has launched his Great Leap Forward, and each passing season brings ever greater hardship to cities and rural communes alike. Joy must rely on her skill as a painter and Pearl must use her contacts from her decadent childhood in 1930s Shanghai to find a way to safety, and a chance of joy for them both. Haunting, passionate and heartbreakingly real, this is the unforgettable new novel by the internationally acclaimed Lisa See.