Every club needs to take a field trip, and Tanpopo's Gardening Committee is no exception. Koki gets a tip that his elusive older brother may be living incognito in Hokkaido, so the rest of the group packs their bags and heads north with him. Tanpopo ...

It sure isn't easy being a working-class girl attending the most posh high school in town. Even more difficult is starting up a Gardening Committee in a place where every bit of flora and fauna is artificial (wouldn't want to flare up the aristocrati...

For Tanpopo Yamazaki, life at the elitist Meio Academy seems way out of her league. The daughters of wealthy families snub her, other students make light of the fact that she actually tested into Meio instead of relying on family connections, and the...

It all comes down to this grand finale ! Simmering eomtions reach a crescendo in this final volume. Will Mitsuko choose the younger Reiji of her former lover, the mercurial conductor named Bartholomew ? Reiji is finally on the verge of attaining t...

The conflict heats up between Reiji and Bartholomew ! Torn between her troubled student Reiji and the manipulative conductor Batholomew, Mitsuko struggles with her conflicting loyalties and emotions. Then Reiji's estranged, adoptive mother unexpec...

Love complicates a friendship and a rival turns violent. On the verge of their violin competition, Nachi confesses her love to Reiji, throwing him into confusion. Then Nachi finds herself forced to confront the abuse within her family. Aoi, Reiji'...

Reiji uncovers the truth about Hane's secert past ! Bartholomew, conductor of New York Philarmonic, has taken a liking to Reiji and wants him to join the orchestra when they play throughout Europe. But when the young violonist learns that his new ...

The personal stakes are high when Reiji and his rival face off ! Reiji has one chance to get to New York ans see his sister Miruka : he must win the spot os soloist with the Hakuto Philharmonic. His rival, Aoi, is determined to take that honor awa...

Rivalries and emotions put Reiji's dream in deadly peril ! Following his sister Miruka's move to America, Reiji finds himself in a terrible slump, unable to play. His teacher Mitsuko thinks some time off from the violin may be what he needs. But w...

A musical prodigy, his teacher and the dark secrets that bind them. For Reiji, a gifted young violinist, success may be the key to escaping from his miserable home-life and rescuing his sister from that environment. But talent can only take him so f...

Après  Soudain le Minotaure (Prix Anne-Hébert 2003), Marie Hélène Poitras livre douze histoires mettant en scène des personnages hypersensibles au bord de la désillusion, tous à la recherche d'une sorte de grâce, que seuls les plus chanceux ...

Quand je t'ai regardée t'éveiller, j'ai tout de suite su que je t'accompagnerais, sans te tenir la main, mais en t'indiquant des routes de traverse. Parfois des raccourcis. Surtout des détours. Ouvrage de fiction et de réflexion sur la créat...