Robert S. Elegant

Robert Elegant returns to the setting he knows better than any other living novelist - Hong Kong - with this beautifully crafted love story set in the fateful closing months before the handover of the territory to China. Newly divorced and relieved to be free of the husband who embodied all the worst characteristics of Hong Kong, Lucretia Barnes is filled with doubts about her ability to love again, and is wary of any new relationship. But the thirty-two-year-old American is captivated when she meets Robbie, the extraordinarily handsome and charming son of an English mother and a Tibetan father. Coming from different backgrounds and cultures, they experience the powerful attraction of opposites. Robbie is utterly different from the closed-minded money-mad crowd of which Lucretia was once part - but now despises. As Robbie sets out to show Lucretia his Hong Kong, the real Hong Kong, it seems that nothing can touch the happiness that envelops them. They cover the city by bus and by foot, exhilarated by their discovery of each other and mesmerized by what they see. But as their relationship deepens, so does their unspoken fear that their time together will be brief. The ominous future looming over this unique corner of the world shadows their happiness. Building to a dramatic conclusion, this powerful and compelling novel is full of danger and intrigue and love that transcends all borders.

In 1921, when Julia Paverson visits the wealthy family of her Chinese friend in Shangha, she is propelled into an exotic world of jolting contrasts and witnesses the cataclysmic birth of contemporary China.

Traces the events of the twenty-four year struggle for power between Chiang Kai-shek and Mao Tse-tung and their influence on the destiny of China.

As he works through his often difficult relationships with his single mother, distant twin sister, his first boyfriend, and an odd assortment of friends, a teenage boy learns about the wounds and healing brought by love.

Les nombreux lecteurs de ##Shogun## de James Clavell ne seront pas déçus par cette fresque chinoise d'un autre écrivain américain. Située entre 1624 et 1652, cette aventure d'un soldat anglais impliqué dans l'événement historique de cette époque, la conquête de l'empire des Ming par les Tartares (surnommés Mandchus), colle le plus possible à la réalité de ce qui fut dans ce roman documenté et bien raconté.

Florentine silk merchant Giovanni Pietro d'Angelo and his wife want only to marry their daughters to wealthy men of distinction. But when their son's indiscretion implicates him in a tragic accident, their eldest daughter must pay the price. To buy the silence of Sebastiano Rovere, they must give beautiful Bianca to him in marriage. But Bianca flees this cruel union, and then her husband's shocking murder frees Bianca to love at last...

On July 1, 1997, a world will come to an end, as one of the last outposts of the British empire returns to Chinese rule. No one has depicted that world - the dazzlingly modern, obdurately traditional Crown Colony of Hong Kong - more faithfully, shrewdly, or affectionately than Jan Morris, who in this contemporary classic of travel writing celebrates the city's charm and squalor, unravels the tangle of its history, and gives us an informed glimpse into its future. Combining firsthand reportage with exemplary research, Morris takes us from Hong Kong's clamorous back alleys to the luxurious Happy Valley racecourse, where taipans place their bets between sips of champagne and bird's nest soup. Morris chronicles the exploits of opium traders and pirates, colonists and financiers, and shows how their descendants view the prospect of reunification with the Chinese mainland. What emerges is an epic tableau, vastly informed and pungently evocative.