Dorothee Zumstein Knihy

238pages. poche. Poche.

Nairobi, Kenya, 1997. Au cœur de l'Afrique, dans l'atmosphère décadente d'une communauté d'Européens exilés, le bouleversant portrait d'une femme déchirée entre deux hommes. Nairobi, Kenya, 1997. Au cœur de l'Afrique, dans l'atmosphère décadente d'une communauté d'Européens exilés, le bouleversant portrait d'une femme déchirée entre deux hommes.Entre Adam, l'organisateur de safaris, descendant de colons, et Hunter, le correspondant de guerre désabusé et cynique hanté par les atrocités rwandaises, le fragile équilibre d'Esmé va voler en éclats.Pour se reconstruire, la jeune femme devra-t-elle renoncer à l'Afrique et faire le deuil de ses illusions ?Ce récit d'une passion est aussi - au-delà d'une inoubliable plongée dans les somptueux paysages kenyans - une étude corrosive des mœurs des expatriés et un regard sans concession sur un continent en perdition.

My name is Lottie Biggs and in three weeks time, I will be fifteen years old. At school, most people call me Lottie Not-Very-Biggs. I’ve never found this particularly funny . . . My current hair colour is Melody Deep Plum which is not as nice as Melody Forest Flame but definitely better than the dodgy custard colour I tried last week . . . And this is my book – it’s about important things like boys and shoes and polo-neck knickers and rescuing giraffes and NOT fancying Gareth Stingecombe (even though he has manly thighs) and hanging-out with your best friend having A BLATANTLY FUNNY TIME. It is definitely not about sitting in wardrobes or having a mental disturbance of any kind! Painfully honest and laugh-so-hard-you-forget-to-breathe funny.

FOUR BLONDES charts the romantic intrigues, liaisons, betrayals and victories of four modern women: a beautiful B-list model finagles rent-free summerhouses in the Hamptons from her lovers until she discovers she can get a man but can't get what she wants; a high-powered magazine columnist's floundering marriage to a literary journalist is thrown into crisis when her husband's career fails to live up to her expectations; a 'Cinderella' records her descent into paranoia in her journal as she realises she wants anybody's life except her own; an artist and aging 'It girl' - who fears that her time for finding a man has run out - travels to London in search of the kind of love and devotion she can't find in Manhattan... Studded with her trademark wit and stiletto-heel-sharp insight, FOUR BLONDES is dark, true, and compulsively readable.