A Hundred Suns

A Hundred Suns
Author :
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Total Pages : 381
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781250231499
ISBN-13 : 1250231493
Rating : 4/5 (493 Downloads)

Book Synopsis A Hundred Suns by : Karin Tanabe

Download or read book A Hundred Suns written by Karin Tanabe and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2020-04-07 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Named A Best Book of Spring 2020 by Real Simple · Parade · PopSugar · New York Post · Entertainment Weekly · Betches · CrimeReads · BookBub "A transporting historical novel, and a smart thriller."— Washington Post "A luscious setting combined with a sinister, sizzling plot." -EW A faraway land. A family’s dynasty. A trail of secrets that could shatter their glamorous lifestyle. On a humid afternoon in 1933, American Jessie Lesage steps off a boat from Paris and onto the shores of Vietnam. Accompanying her French husband Victor, an heir to the Michelin rubber fortune, she’s certain that their new life is full of promise, for while the rest of the world is sinking into economic depression, Indochine is gold for the Michelins. Jessie knows that the vast plantations near Saigon are the key to the family’s prosperity, and though they have recently been marred in scandal, she needs them to succeed for her husband’s sake—and to ensure that the life she left behind in America stays buried in the past. Jessie dives into the glamorous colonial world, where money is king and morals are brushed aside, and meets Marcelle de Fabry, a spellbinding expat with a wealthy Indochinese lover, the silk tycoon Khoi Nguyen. Descending on Jessie’s world like a hurricane, Marcelle proves to be an exuberant guide to colonial life. But hidden beneath her vivacious exterior is a fierce desire to put the colony back in the hands of its people––starting with the Michelin plantations. It doesn’t take long for the sun-drenched days and champagne-soaked nights to catch up with Jessie. With an increasingly fractured mind, her affection for Indochine falters. And as a fiery political struggle builds around her, Jessie begins to wonder what’s real in a friendship that she suspects may be nothing but a house of cards. Motivated by love, driven by ambition, and seeking self-preservation at all costs, Jessie and Marcelle each toe the line between friend and foe, ethics and excess. Cast against the stylish backdrop of 1920s Paris and 1930s Indochine, in a time and place defined by contrasts and convictions, Karin Tanabe's A Hundred Suns is historical fiction at its lush, suspenseful best.


A Hundred Suns Related Books

A Hundred Suns
Language: en
Pages: 381
Authors: Karin Tanabe
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-04-07 - Publisher: St. Martin's Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Named A Best Book of Spring 2020 by Real Simple · Parade · PopSugar · New York Post · Entertainment Weekly · Betches · CrimeReads · BookBub "A transporti
100 Suns
Language: en
Pages: 208
Authors: Michael Light
Categories: Photography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-04-03 - Publisher: Knopf

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Between July 1945 and November 1962 the United States is known to have conducted 216 atmospheric and underwater nuclear tests. After the Limited Test Ban Treaty
A Thousand Splendid Suns
Language: en
Pages: 380
Authors: Khaled Hosseini
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-09-18 - Publisher: A&C Black

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

A riveting and powerful story of an unforgiving time, an unlikely friendship and an indestructible love
Sun of Suns
Language: en
Pages: 340
Authors: Karl Schroeder
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007-07-31 - Publisher: Macmillan + ORM

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

In Karl Schroeder's sci-fi thriller, Hayden Griffin has come to the city of Rush with one thing in mind: to take murderous revenge for his parents' deaths. It i
100 Billion Suns
Language: en
Pages: 292
Authors: Rudolf Kippenhahn
Categories: Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 1993 - Publisher: Princeton University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

How are the nuclear power plants we call "stars" formed? Where do they get their energy and how do they die--and what does this suggest about the future of the