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The Colors of the Untamed Woman - A novel of emancipation, carried by the power of art and the strength of a woman who refuses to be silenced.

The Colors of the Untamed Woman - A novel of emancipation, carried by the power of art and the strength of a woman who refuses to be silenced.

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Année : 2025
Pages : 451
Reliure : Paperback

SAIGON, 1936.

A bustling colonial city.
A young woman destined for silence.
A fateful encounter that will change everything.

Võ Thiên Hà is only eighteen when she is married to Isaac Lévy, a French art dealer decades her senior. In a society where family honor dictates women's destinies, she believes she is condemned. But amidst the canvases, colors, and the smell of turpentine, another world opens up to her: that of creation.
Painting becomes her way of existing, loving, resisting.
And this intimate act, initially timid, transforms into an act of emancipation.

A historical novel set in colonial Indochina, blending love and resistance.
At the intersection of the personal and the political, Les Couleurs de l’Insoumise tells the story of a Vietnamese woman who, in the 1930s, dares to assert her voice and refuses both exoticism and silence.

For whom?
- For readers of historical novels set in Indochina and Southeast Asia
- For those who love sagas of strong and rebellious women
- For fans of historical romances set in troubled times
- For those who believe that art can become a weapon of freedom

A compelling heroine, a vibrant era
- Hà: a young Vietnamese woman constrained by traditions, who finds her path and courage in painting.
- Isaac: a flamboyant and respectful French art dealer, who opens the doors to an unexpected world for Hà.
- Sài Gòn: a colonial city in full transformation, marked by repression, censorship, and rebellion.

Themes at the heart of the novel:
- The condition of women in colonial Asia
- Arranged marriage and the unexpected birth of a respectful romance
- The role of art as a tool for emancipation
- Colonial repression and early protests in Sài Gòn
- Exile, identity, and the quest for one's own voice

Les Couleurs de l’Insoumise is not just a love story: it is an intimate and historical fresco where every color becomes an act of rebellion.

➡️ Step into 1930s Sài Gòn and let yourself be carried away by the voice of a woman who refuses to be silenced.

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