The Tea girl of Hummingbird Lane
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The Tea girl of Hummingbird Lane
Auteurs :
See, Lisa Auteur du texte
Editeur :
Publication
New York : Scribner, 2018
Année de parution :
2018
Description physique :
371 p. : couv. ill. en coul. : 21 cm
A la Source de Printemps, sur le mont Nannuo, la culture du thé rythme la vie des habitants depuis toujours. Loin de connaître les progrès sans précédent qui se propagent au reste du pays, les Akha perpétuent des méthodes de récolte archaïques et des principes religieux très strictes. Li-yan, première personne de sa famille à savoir lire et écrire, rejette les traditions qui ont jusqu alors façonné son existence. Sur le point de débuter la formation qui fera d elle la prochaine sage-femme de la vallée, elle décide de poursuivre ses études malgré les réticences de la communauté. Malheureusement, lorsqu elle doit faire face à une grossesse non désirée, la loi akha tombe, et Li-yan n'a d'autre choix que tout abandonner jusqu'à son enfant, qu'elle dépose sur les marches d'un orphelinat, accompagnée d'une galette de thé. Les années passant, le souvenir de cette tragédie la hante, tandis qu'à des milliers de kilomètres, une jeune femme se lance à la recherche de ses racines...
In their remote mountain village, Li-yan and her family align their lives around the seasons and the farming of tea. For the Akha people, ensconced in ritual and routine, life goes on as it has for generationsữntil a stranger appears at the village gate in a jeep, the first automobile any of the villagers has ever seen. The strangers arrival marks the first entrance of the modern world in the lives of the Akha people. Slowly, Li-yan, one of the few educated girls on her mountain, begins to reject the customs that shaped her early life. When she has a baby out of wedlock♯conceived with a man her parents consider a poor choice♯she rejects the tradition that would compel her to give the child over to be killed, and instead leaves her, wrapped in a blanket with a tea cake tucked in its folds, near an orphanage in a nearby city. As Li-yan comes into herself, leaving her insular village for an education, a business, and city life, her daughter, Haley, is raised in California by loving adoptive parents. Despite her privileged childhood, Haley wonders about her origins. Across the ocean Li-yan longs for her lost daughter. Over the course of years, each searches for meaning in the study of Puer, the tea that has shaped their familys destiny for centuries.
In their remote mountain village, Li-yan and her family align their lives around the seasons and the farming of tea. For the Akha people, ensconced in ritual and routine, life goes on as it has for generationsữntil a stranger appears at the village gate in a jeep, the first automobile any of the villagers has ever seen. The strangers arrival marks the first entrance of the modern world in the lives of the Akha people. Slowly, Li-yan, one of the few educated girls on her mountain, begins to reject the customs that shaped her early life. When she has a baby out of wedlock♯conceived with a man her parents consider a poor choice♯she rejects the tradition that would compel her to give the child over to be killed, and instead leaves her, wrapped in a blanket with a tea cake tucked in its folds, near an orphanage in a nearby city. As Li-yan comes into herself, leaving her insular village for an education, a business, and city life, her daughter, Haley, is raised in California by loving adoptive parents. Despite her privileged childhood, Haley wonders about her origins. Across the ocean Li-yan longs for her lost daughter. Over the course of years, each searches for meaning in the study of Puer, the tea that has shaped their familys destiny for centuries.