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Cargando... My Favourite Wife (2008)por Tony Parsons
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. I bought this from a supermarket ('nuff said) as I'd run out of reading material, and if I was being unkind I'd say I'd have been better off reading the back of a cereal packet. To be honest, the book doesn't stand a chance really. The protagonist is a lawyer, so Parsons has an uphill battle getting any sort of empathy going anyway, and it just feels tired and forced. It wasn't even really easy reading guilty pleasure material, though somewhat bizarrely featured adverts for bars of chocolate near the back. I've enjoyed a couple of Parson's previous books (Man and Boy and Stories We Could Tell), but this story of a lawyer seeking his fortune in China, and becoming torn between his wife and a Chinese girl just doesn't work on any level. The writing often read like a Parsons pastiche, the characters were one dimensional, and the story took a laughable turn during a typoon. I've given it two stars as I did make it do the end, but I wouldn't really recommend this one, even if you have enjoyed previous Parsons books. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
The world-wide, mega selling author of Man and Boy is back with a sizzling, Shanghai tale of sex, romance and second wives Hot shot young lawyer Bill Holden and his wife Becca move with their four year old daughter to the booming, gold-rush city of Shanghai, a place of enormous wealth and crushing poverty, where fortunes are made and foreign marriages come apart in spectacular fashion. Bill's law firm houses the Holden family in Paradise Mansions - a luxury apartment block where newly rich Chinese men install their second wives: fabulous young beauties like JinJin Li, ex-school teacher, crossword addict and the Holdens' neighbour. After Becca witnesses a tragedy that awakens her to the reality of life beyond the glitzy surface of the city, she returns temporarily to London with Holly - and Bill and JinJin are thrown together. Bill wants to be a better man than the millionaire who keeps JinJin Li as a second wife on the side. A better man than anyone who cheats. Becca is his best friend. And, in the end, adrift without his young family, can he give JinJin anything better than she had before? My Favourite Wife is a book about where sex, romance and obsession ends, and where true love begins. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Uspešni mladi londonski advokat Bil Holden i njegova žena Beka sele se s četvorogodišnjom kćerkicom u Šangaj. To je grad u usponu, novo središte zlatne groznice, grad prilika i iskušenja, gde se burno stvara bogatstvo i raspadaju brakovi. Bilova advokatska firma smešta porodicu Holden u Rajsko naselje – raskošan stambeni blok pun „drugih supruga“ – prelepih devojaka koje izdržavaju bogati tuđi muževi, kakva je i Ðinđin Li, bivša nastavnica zaljubljena u ukrštene reči i klizaljke. Posle jednog strašnog događaja Beka i Holi vraćaju se u London – a Bil i Ðinđin se zbližavaju. Bil želi da bude bolji čovek od milionera koji izdržava Ðinđin Li kao drugu suprugu. Bolji od svakog muškarca koji vara svoju ženu. Beka je njegov najbolji prijatelj. Ali na kraju, može li on Ðinđin dati nešto drugačije – može li joj pružiti ljubav koju zaslužuje? I može li istovremeno voleti i svoju ženu?
Moja omiljena supruga je priča o muškarcu i ženi našeg doba, o njihovim borbama, radostima i skrivenim čežnjama. Iznad svega, to je knjiga o tome gde prestaju seks, pustolovina i opsesije, a počinje istinska ljubav.