Janice Y. K. Lee

**Rescheduled from Tuesday, March 3rd**

Thursday, April 9th, 2015, 7 p.m.

Gibson's is excited to welcome Holly LeCraw as she presents her new novel, The half brother!

From Holly LeCraw, the Pushcart Prize-nominated author of the critically acclaimed debut novel The Swimming Pool, comes a refreshing and bold new twist on the traditional New England boarding school novel with The half brother, an elegant and propulsive story about family loyalties, inescapable fates, and the enduring search for self identity.

“A stirring, melancholy tale of families and the secrets they dare not share, set against the cloistered backdrop of a New England boarding school.” –Janice Y. K. Lee, author of The Piano Teacher

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Location: Street: 45 S Main St Additional: City: Concord , Province: New Hampshire Postal Code: 03301 Country: United States (afegit de IndieBound)… (més)

Location: Board Room, 3rd Floor

Join fellow readers the last Friday of every month, 12 noon, for our lively discussion about books, movies, culture, current events and anything else that pops up for discussion. Lots of fun and everyone welcome.

November's edition of the Friday Book Club starts off on the road, following a young Che Guevara through his famous memoir The Motorcycle Diaries. We'll ultimately end up in Hong Kong for Janice Y.K. Lee's novel The Piano Teacher.

For free reading copies and more information, please call Diego at 780-496-7000 or send an e-mail to: dibarra@epl.ca (DiegoIbarra)… (més)

Janice Y. K. Lee , La Professora de piano.

The Piano Teacher by Janice Y. K. Lee is a stunning debut! Claire led a sheltered life in England, living with her Mum and Dad. Traveling to Hong Kong as a young bride she is taken into a society for which she possesses no map. She is unmoored. Claire married because that was what young women did with their lives. Her husband is a pleasant chap, but not terribly exciting. She takes a job teaching the Chen’s daughter to play the piano. Claire meets Will, the Chen’s Anglo chauffer and begins a torrid affair. Slowly she discovers Will’s past. He arrived in Hong Kong before WWII, fell in love with Trudy, a high spirited woman who will always own his heart. The world was their oyster until the Japanese invaded Hong Kong. Will was interred with the rest of the Brits while Trudy did her best to live under Japanese rule. The story alternates time periods, opening piece by piece like the petals of a rose, each layer slowly revealing the past. The controversy and history in this book should easily fill the Fiction Book Club’s discussion. (booksense)… (més)

Janice Y.K. Lee llegeix The Piano Teacher.

In the sweeping tradition of "The English Patient," Janice Y.K. Lee's debut novel, now a best-seller, is a tale of love and betrayal set in war-torn Hong Kong. In 1942, Englishman Will Truesdale falls headlong into a passionate relationship with Trudy Liang, a beautiful Eurasian socialite. But their affair is soon threatened by the invasion of the Japanese as World War II overwhelms their part of the world. Ten years later, Claire Pendleton comes to Hong Kong to work as a piano teacher and also begins a fateful affair. As the threads of this spellbinding novel intertwine, impossible choices emerge-between love and safety, courage and survival, the present, and above all, the past. "A rare and exquisite story...Transports you out of time, out of place, into a world you can feel on your very skin." -Elizabeth Gilbert (bookconscious)… (més)

Janice Y. K. Lee llegeix La Professora de piano.

Janice Y.K. Lee renders the dramas of human history with intelligence and imagination, crafting a novel of the highest caliber. Imbued with authentic, sensual detail and keen observations about a forgotten world, The Piano Teacher evokes the romantic sweep of The English Patient and the colonial fiction of W. Somerset Maugham. A remarkable debut by a gifted writer, it will remain with the reader long after the last page is turned. (jlelliott)… (més)

Janice Y. K. Lee de gira per The Piano Teacher.

This tale of two love affairs in mid-century Hong Kong explores colonial pretensions during World War II. An Englishman, Will Truesdale, arrives in Hong Kong in 1941 and falls into a passionate relationship with a beautiful Eurasian socialite, Trudy Liang. When the Japanese invade, Will is interned and Trudy has to expend her energy on her own survival. After the war, Claire Pendleton, comes to Hong Kong with her British civil servant husband. She begins giving piano lessons to the daughter of a rich Chinese couple and falls in love with their driver, Will. As both stories unfold, we learn about the complex web of lies, love, politics and war in Hong Kong in the 1950’s. (jasbro)… (més)