by Lucien Bodard · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9782298004786
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«La vallée des roses» is the historical novel by Lucien Bodard, published by Éd. France loisirs in paperback (575 pages, in French).
In an ancient and ruthless China, marked by a long tradition of torture, young Yi seeks to make her way, convinced that one triumphs only through hardness, dissimulation and duplicity. The novel follows her steps in a world where survival demands cunning and cruelty.
The work was originally published in 1977; the France Loisirs paperback edition dates from 2007.
For readers of historical fiction interested in traditional China and in female protagonists who make their way in hostile environments.
Lucien Bodard was a Chinese-born French reporter, and writer on events in East and Southeast Asia, such as the Indochinese nations becoming independent from France, and the Vietnam War.
