Juhea Kim

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  Créatures du petit pays

  Juhea Kim

  • 10/18
  • Litterature Etrangere
  • 7 Mars 2024
  • 9782264083074

  1918, à Séoul, Jade, jeune courtisane, découvre une capitale moderne et trépidante, mais aussi le désir d'indépendance qui s'est emparé de ses compatriotes face à l'oppression japonaise.
  
  Dans la lignée de Pachinko, une saga romanesque immersive dans la Corée du XXe siècle.
  Dans le Séoul des Années folles, une ville énergique et rebelle qui frémit sous le joug de l'occupation japonaise, jeunes courtisanes, aristocrates, soldats et idéalistes se désirent et se déchirent. Jade la gisaeng aime Hanchol, l'étudiant déclassé. Mais c'est Jungho, le chef de bande orphelin, fils d'un chasseur de tigres, qui se révèle son allié le plus fidèle dans un monde en pleine mutation. La grande Histoire et les monstres tapis dans le coeur des hommes leur imposeront à tous un destin parsemé d'écueils...
  Avec cette fresque historique d'une grande finesse, Juhea Kim nous raconte, sur près d'un demi-siècle, l'espoir et les tourments d'un peuple qui lutte pour son indépendance. Lire la suite Fermer

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  BEASTS OF A LITTLE LAND

  Juhea Kim

  • Faber Et Faber
  • 1 Octobre 2022
  • 9780861544424

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  BEASTS OF A LITTLE LAND - A NOVEL

  Juhea Kim

  • Ecco Press
  • 6 Décembre 2022
  • 9780063093584

  "A spectacular debut filled with great characters and heart." --Lisa See, author of Snow Flower and the Secret FanA Recommended Read from: USA Today * The Washington Post * Entertainment Weekly * The Today Show * Real Simple * Good Morning America * Harper''s Bazaar * Buzzfeed * Fortune * Vulture * Goodreads * Lit Hub * Book Riot * PopSugar * E! Online * Ms. Magazine * Chicago Review of Books * Bustle * The Oregonian * The MillionsAn epic story of love, war, and redemption set against the backdrop of the Korean independence movement, following the intertwined fates of a young girl sold to a courtesan school and the penniless son of a hunterIn 1917, deep in the snowy mountains of occupied Korea, an impoverished local hunter on the brink of starvation saves a young Japanese officer from an attacking tiger. In an instant, their fates are connected--and from this encounter unfolds a saga that spans half a century.In the aftermath, a young girl named Jade is sold by her family to Miss Silver''s courtesan school, an act of desperation that will cement her place in the lowest social status. When she befriends an orphan boy named JungHo, who scrapes together a living begging on the streets of Seoul, they form a deep friendship. As they come of age, JungHo is swept up in the revolutionary fight for independence, and Jade becomes a sought-after performer with a new romantic prospect of noble birth. Soon Jade must decide whether she will risk everything for the one who would do the same for her.From the perfumed chambers of a courtesan school in Pyongyang to the glamorous cafes of a modernizing Seoul and the boreal forests of Manchuria, where battles rage, Juhea Kim''s unforgettable characters forge their own destinies as they wager their nation''s. Immersive and elegant, Beasts of a Little Land unveils a world where friends become enemies, enemies become saviors, heroes are persecuted, and beasts take many shapes. Lire la suite Fermer

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  CITY OF NIGHT BIRDS

  Juhea Kim

  • Ecco Press
  • 26 Novembre 2024
  • 9780063440982

  A once-famous ballerina faces a final choice--to return to the world of Russian dance that nearly broke her, or to walk away forever--in this incandescent novel of redemption and love On a White Night in 2019, prima ballerina Natalia Leonova returns to St. Petersburg two years after a devastating accident stalled her career. Once the most celebrated dancer of her generation, she now turns to pills and alcohol to numb the pain of her past.She is unmoored in her old city as the ghosts of her former life begin to resurface: her loving but difficult mother, her absentee father, and the two gifted dancers who led to her downfall.One of those dancers, Alexander, is the love of her life, who transformed both Natalia and her art. The other is Dmitri, a dark and treacherous genius. When the latter offers her a chance to return to the stage in her signature role, Natalia must decide whether she can again face the people responsible for both her soaring highs and darkest hours.Painting a vivid portrait of the Russian ballet world, where cutthroat ambition, ever-shifting politics, and sublime artistry collide, City of Night Birds unveils the making of a dancer with both profound intimacy and breathtaking scope. Mysterious and alluring, passionate and virtuosic, Juhea Kim''s second novel is an affecting meditation on love, forgiveness, and the making of an artist in a turbulent world. Lire la suite Fermer

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