The Piano Teacher

 

The Piano Teacher

by Janice Y. K. Lee

ISBN: 978-0-00-728637-9

Format: Paperback, 343 pages

Publication: Harper Press, 2009

Condition: Excellent

Lelong Price: RM8.00

In the heat and bustle of 1950's Hong Kong, newlywed Claire Pendleton is changing from an uptight English wallflower to a beautiful, graceful bloom. Then she meets Will, driver to wealthy Chinese couples the Chens, when she takes the job of a piano teacher to their daughters. His enigmatic presence enthrals and excites her.

A decade earlier, with war looming, Eurasian beauty Trudy Liang casts her own spell of fascination. A social butterfly, she is a thing of mystery - and intrigue. She knows everyone worth knowing in Hong Kong - Chinese and foreign, good and bad, rich and poor. Including a newly arrived young Englishman - the magnetic Will Truesdale...

The Return Journey

 

The Return Journey

by Maeve Binchy

ISBN: 978-1-4091-0346-2

Format: Paperback, 415 pages

Publication: Orion, 2009

Condition: Good with light shelf wear

Lelong Price: RM8.00

There are star-crossed travellers who take each other's bags by mistake, only to learn that when you unlock a stranger's suitcase you enter a stranger's life; the house-sitter who moves into her client's life as well as her home; a holiday for four in Greece which has surprising consequences; and the chance encounter at an airport which unites an unlikely group of people.

A Thousand Splendid Suns

 

A Thousand Splendid Suns

by Khaled Hosseini

ISBN: 978-1-59448-307-3

Format: Paperback, 448 pages

Publication: Riverhead, 2008

Condition: Good with light shelf wear

Lelong Price: RM15.00

Mariam is only 15 when she is sent to Kabul to marry the troubled and bitter Rasheed, who is thirty years her senior. Nearly two decades later, in a climate of growing unrest, tragedy strikes 15 year old Laila, who must leave her home and join Mariam's unhappy household. Laila and Mariam are to find consolation in each other, their friendship grow as deep as the bond of sisters, as strong as the ties between mother and daughter.

With the passing of the time comes Taliban rule over Afghanistan, the street of Kabul loud with the sound of gunfire and bombs, life a desperate struggle against starvation, brutality and fear, the women's endurance tested beyond their worst imaginings. Yet love can move a person to act in unexpected ways, lead them to overcome the most daunting obstacles witn a startling heroism. In the end it is love that triumphs over death and destruction.

A Thousand Splendid Suns is an unforgettable potrait of a wounded country and deeply moving story of family and friendship. It is a beautiful, heart-wrenching story of an unforgiving time, an unlikely bond and an indestructible love.

A Wedding in December

Format: Paperback, 336 pages

Condition: Good as new

Lelong Price: RM10.00

A Wedding in December is the richly nuanced new novel about memory and the healing power of friendship from the bestselling author of Light on Snow.At an inn in the Berkshire Mountains of western Massachusetts, seven former schoolmates gather for a wedding. Nora, the owner of the inn, has recently had to reinvent her life following the death of her husband. Harrison, who still hears echoes from a horrific event at Kidd Academy twenty-six years ago, has made a life for himself in Toronto with his wife and two sons. Agnes, now a history teacher at Kidd is a still-single woman who longs to tell a secret she cannot reveal to the others, a secret that would stun them all. Bridget, the mother of a fifteen-year-old boy, has agreed to marry Bill, an old high school lover whom she has recently re-met, despite uncertainties about her health and future. It is Bill who passionately wants this wedding and who has brought everyone together for an astonishing weekend of revelation and recrimination, forgiveness and redemption.