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    A Hundred Suns: A Novel
    A Hundred Suns: A Novel
    A Hundred Suns: A Novel
    Audiobook13 hours

    A Hundred Suns: A Novel

    Written by Karin Tanabe

    Narrated by Angela Dawe and Emily Ellet

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    "A haunting, evocative tale that left me both richly satisfied and deeply unsettled – yet another Tanabe triumph. Captivating, suspenseful, and full of surprises." —Fiona Davis, national bestselling author of The Masterpiece

    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 Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin's Press

    “[A] stirring, elegant romance, richly drawn and complete with multidimensional characters.” - Publishers Weekly

    “A HUNDRED SUNS has a cinematic quality...This view of French occupation in Indochina is replete with love affairs, revenge and secrets, not to mention a history lesson about the evils of colonialism.” - Washington Post

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Audio
    Release dateApr 7, 2020
    ISBN9781250261021
    Author

    Karin Tanabe

    Karin Tanabe is the author of over half a dozen novels, including A Woman of Intelligence and The Gilded Years. A former Politico reporter, her writing has also appeared in The Washington Post, Miami Herald, Chicago Tribune, and Newsday. She has appeared as a celebrity and politics expert on Entertainment Tonight, CNN, and CBS Early Show. Karin is a graduate of Vassar College and lives in Washington, D.C.

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    • 5/5
      This was a great story with a lot of really interesting plot twists. The setting in the 1930s French colonial Indochine (now Vietnam) and the historical struggle between communism and capitalism in the region were super fascinating to me, and something that I’d never read about before. Unfortunately there were a lot of pronunciation errors in both the French and Vietnamese, but that’s not a reason to avoid it. I really enjoyed the ride.
    • 4/5
      I enjoyed this book in Vietname of the 1930s, French colonial time, it kept me riveted all along, with an unexpected ending.