Euphoria
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4.0 • 1 Rating
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- $28.99
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- $28.99
Publisher Description
En 1933, trois jeunes et brillants anthropologues se rencontrent sur les berges du fleuve Sepik, dans le Territoire de Nouvelle-Guinée, alors sous domination anglaise. Inspiré par la vie de Margaret Mead, la célèbre anthropologue américaine qui sut donner du souffle à cette science encore si récente dans les années 30, Euphoria est un roman passionnant où il est question d’anthropologie, de tribus indigènes, d’ethnocentrisme et de guerres mondiales, mais aussi et surtout de nature, de désir et de possession… « Énergique, spirituel, férocement intelligent. […] Un triangle amoureux inattendu. » The New York Times Book Review « Poétique, saisissant. Lily King appréhende la substance du désir d’un homme pour une femme qui a radicalement changé le regard que nous portons sur nous-mêmes. » The Washington Post Sélection des 10 meilleurs livres de l’année 2014 de la New York Times Book Review.
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PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
The love lives and expeditions of controversial anthropologists Margaret Mead, Reo Fortune, and Gregory Bateson are fictionalized and richly reimagined in New England Book Award winner King's (Father of the Rain) meaty and entrancing fourth book. Set in the 1930s in Papua New Guinea, this impeccably researched story illuminates the state of the world as clearly as the passion of its characters. Many years into his study of the isolated Kiona tribe, Andrew Bankson (the stand-in for Bateson here) is recovering from a recent failed suicide attempt when he meets with renowned anthropologist Nell Stone (Mead) and her fiery husband Fen (Fortune) at a party. His vigor for life renewed after meeting them, Andrew introduces the couple to the tribe they'll be studying, who live a few hours away, down the Sepik River. Before long, Andrew becomes obsessed not just with his work but with Nell, and the relationship tangle sets off a fateful series of events. While the love triangle sections do turn pages (Innuendo! Jealousy! Betrayal!), King's immersive prose takes center stage. The fascinating descriptions of tribal customs and rituals, paired with snippets of Nell's journals as well as the characters' insatiable appetites for scientific discovery all contribute to a thrilling read that, at its end, does indeed feel like "the briefest, purest euphoria."
