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A Hundred Suns
A Hundred Suns
Author: Karin Tanabe
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...  more »
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ISBN-13: 9781250231475
ISBN-10: 1250231477
Publication Date: 4/7/2020
Pages: 384
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3 stars, based on 2 ratings
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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A Hundred Suns by Karin Tanabe is set in the history of the Michelin empire and the political climate that led to the rise of communism in Vietnam in the 1930s. I wish the history had been a more integral part of this story, which is more a conflict between two manipulative women, their privileged lifestyle, and their back stories. For a book in this setting, I expected more of the history.

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