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Set largely between Hong Kong and the Scottish Highlands, Maggie O'Farrell's third novel is a story about family and emigration - and the way you can never escape your family, or their history, no matter how far you travel. Stella - spirited, witty and passionate - has fled London to confront the childhood secret which has marked her life, and twinned her destiny with her sister's. A set of tragic circumstances and a hasty marriage bring Jake from Hong Kong to Britain, where he embarks upon a quest for the father he never knew. When Jake and Stella meet, both their lives are changed forever, but not before Stella's past is brought painfully out into the open. THE DISTANCE BETWEEN US is a loving, immensely moving and often very funny look at the way families work, which will live with the reader forever, and bring Maggie O'Farrell to her widest readership yet.… (plus d'informations)
Autant les livres précédents de l'auteur irlandaise ("Quand tu es parti" et "La maîtresse de mon amant") avaient séduit par leur finesse et leur sensibilité, autant celui-ci déçoit par trop de déjà-vu. Une enfance triste, un père absent, un drame initial, un traumatisme inavouable... et la structure alternée entre lieux et époques beaucoup trop à la mode. Même les paysages écossais n'arrivent pas à maintenir l'attention. Un livre vite lu et vite oublié. ( )
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He wakes to find himself splayed like a starfish across the bed, his mind running at full tilt.
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Jake often thinks of Hong Kong as a kind of overflow pipe for Europe. The people who come here have left their homes and their families for a reason and not usually one they ever disclose. They're all in varying degrees of separation, or running away from something or in search of an elusive element that might complete them. (2%)
Mrs. Yee always spoke Cantonese with him, his mother English, so he grew up thinking it was normal for the world to have a double meaning. (10%)
Stella looks down, looks at the diagram in front of her, at the lopsided shape of the human heart, its twin chambers, at the red and blue passageways flowing through it, seeing for the first time the way your heart is always full of two opposing elements. (30%)
He thinks of them like drops of oil in water: a distinct, cohesive presence, unchanged by the elements surrounding them. (41%)
Motherhood is a clear, prescribed thing. Those nine months you spent with another being pocketed inside you are a lifelong, unwritten contract that can't ever be cancelled. But fatherhood is nebulous, undefined, and can be almost nothing, a mere tailed cell shot out into the void. (48%)
Stella shrugs.It always surprises her, the way rows and schisms with your family can pass over, drain away so quickly. One minute you can be screaming that they have ruined your life and the next you're curled up on the bed together, as if nothing has happened. (88%)
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She steps out into the street, into the rain, and raises her hand, like someone shielding their eyes from light, like someone answering a question.
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Set largely between Hong Kong and the Scottish Highlands, Maggie O'Farrell's third novel is a story about family and emigration - and the way you can never escape your family, or their history, no matter how far you travel. Stella - spirited, witty and passionate - has fled London to confront the childhood secret which has marked her life, and twinned her destiny with her sister's. A set of tragic circumstances and a hasty marriage bring Jake from Hong Kong to Britain, where he embarks upon a quest for the father he never knew. When Jake and Stella meet, both their lives are changed forever, but not before Stella's past is brought painfully out into the open. THE DISTANCE BETWEEN US is a loving, immensely moving and often very funny look at the way families work, which will live with the reader forever, and bring Maggie O'Farrell to her widest readership yet.
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