L’archive naît du désordre. Elle prend la ville en flagrant délit. Mendiants, voleurs, gens de peu sortent un temps de la foule. Une poignée de mots les fait exister dans les archives de la police du XVIIIe siècle. Evidentes autant qu’énigmatiques, on peut tout faire dire aux archives, tout et le contraire, puisqu’elles parlent du réel sans jamais le décrire. Le travail d’histo...(展开全部)

L’archive naît du désordre. Elle prend la ville en flagrant délit. Mendiants, voleurs, gens de peu sortent un temps de la foule. Une poignée de mots les fait exister dans les archives de la police du XVIIIe siècle. Evidentes autant qu’énigmatiques, on peut tout faire dire aux archives, tout et le contraire, puisqu’elles parlent du réel sans jamais le décrire. Le travail d’histo...(展开全部)

Lilia Liska has shrewdly outlived three husbands, raised five children, and seen the arrival of seventeen grandchildren. Now she has turned her keen attention to the diary of a long-forgotten man named Roland Bouley, with whom she once had a fleeting affair. Increasingly obsessed with Roland's intimate history, Lilia begins to annotate the diary with her own rather different ve...(展开全部)

Lilia Liska is eighty-one. She has shrewdly outlived three husbands, raised five children and seen the birth of seventeen grandchildren. Now she has turned her keen attention to a strange little book published by a vanity press: the diary of a long-forgotten man named Roland Bouley, with whom she once had a fleeting affair. Draw into an obsession over this fragment of intimate ...(展开全部)

Richly expansive and deeply moving, an intimate novel of secret lives and painful histories from one of the finest storytellers we have 'This brilliant novel examines lives lived, losses accumulated, and the slipperiness of perception. Yiyun Li writes deeply, drolly, and with elegance about history, even as it's happening. She is one of my favorite writers, and Must I Go is an ...(展开全部)

Richly expansive and deeply moving, an intimate novel of secret lives and painful histories from one of the finest storytellers we have 'This brilliant novel examines lives lived, losses accumulated, and the slipperiness of perception. Yiyun Li writes deeply, drolly, and with elegance about history, even as it's happening. She is one of my favorite writers, and Must I Go is an ...(展开全部)

Lilia Liska is eighty-one. She has shrewdly outlived three husbands, raised five children and seen the birth of seventeen grandchildren. Now she has turned her keen attention to a strange little book published by a vanity press: the diary of a long-forgotten man named Roland Bouley, with whom she once had a fleeting affair. Draw into an obsession over this fragment of intimate ...(展开全部)

Lilia Liska has shrewdly outlived three husbands, raised five children, and seen the arrival of seventeen grandchildren. Now she has turned her keen attention to the diary of a long-forgotten man named Roland Bouley, with whom she once had a fleeting affair. Increasingly obsessed with Roland's intimate history, Lilia begins to annotate the diary with her own rather different ve...(展开全部)

Li Juan a pris ce qu’elle appelle le « chemin sauvage » – une vie et une écriture aussi loin que possible du système, sur les hauts plateaux de l’Altaï. Là où le ciel est d’un bleu étincelant, la lumière éblouissante sur les étendues immenses de la steppe. Elle y a ouvert avec sa mère et sa grand-mère un petit atelier de couture qui fait aussi épicerie, et suit les éleveurs kaz...(展开全部)

Li Juan a pris ce qu’elle appelle le « chemin sauvage » – une vie et une écriture aussi loin que possible du système, sur les hauts plateaux de l’Altaï. Là où le ciel est d’un bleu étincelant, la lumière éblouissante sur les étendues immenses de la steppe. Elle y a ouvert avec sa mère et sa grand-mère un petit atelier de couture qui fait aussi épicerie, et suit les éleveurs kaz...(展开全部)