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Chargement... Orchid Housepar Cindy Martinusen-Coloma
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. 56358 A pleasant tale, that transports you to a land rich in cultural nuances, folklore and entertaining family stories. Being married to a Filipino, I appreciated the setting greatly, and the author writes with a genuine sense of authenticity that flows through the story. Plot-wise, the transformation of the protagonist as she overcomes hurdles is heartwarming, as is the relationships and the connections that develop between the characters. The only criticism is that I felt that the book attempts to but doesn't really succeed in building suspense. The allusions to danger throughout seemed disconnected from the heroine's reality, and the big climax I was expecting didn't really carry much punch. Nevertheless, I enjoyed it reading it. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
Love in a foreign land. A decaying hacienda full of secrets. And a woman searching for the story of her life. A funeral and some family business--that's what Julia Bentley expects when she travels to the Philippines to bury her grandfather. She hopes for a brief adventure, a distraction from her most recent failed relationship and her loose-ends California life. Maybe even a chance to meet some distant relatives she's never known. Instead, she discovers a place where past and present, Spanish and Asian, primitive and civilized mingle in a melange as spicy and colorful as the paella her relatives dish up for special occasions. A place where some children hitch rides on cattle and others wield loaded guns. Where guerillas lurk in the jungle, and volcanoes and governments are threatened to blow. Where stories haunt her ancestral home--the grand but decaying Hacienda Esperanza, Plantation of Hope--and danger lurks behind every tree. Love and orchids bloom in places she never thought to look. How can a land so foreign, and so troubled, fill her with a strange peace? And would staying mean risking her life . . . or finding it at last? Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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