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EAN : 9781529019964
352 pages
Picador (03/10/2019)
3/5   1 notes
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In her first contemporary novel since Room, bestselling author Emma Donoghue returns with her next masterpiece, a brilliant tale of love, loss and family. A retired New York professor’s life is thrown into chaos when he takes his great-nephew to the French Riviera, in hopes of uncovering his own mother's wartime secrets.

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We spend most of our lives holding on to objects, he thought, and finally they fall from our cold dead hands and those who tidy up after us have to worry of what to do with all this stuff.
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" That old-fashioned word again. Kith and kin, kinsfolk, kindred; like something out of J. R. R. Tolkien. Did she mean legally or genetically ? In what sense could you really be kin to someone you'd never met ? "
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" 'Don't underestimate the blood tie, ' Vivienne added. 'Like calls to like.'
Noah loathed this kind of mysticism.
'Strands of DNA do not sniff each other out.' "
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Qui est Saint-Patrick?

Le saint patron de l’Irlande
Le saint-patron des brasseurs

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