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City of Joy, City of Paradoxes
Kolkata, in West Bengal, India, is nicknamed "The City Of Joy." Contrary to its name, it is a city of paradoxes. The stories in this collection provide fascinating glimpses into a panorama of baffling variety, its rich contrast of the simple and the sophisticated, the ancient and the modern. The characters are mostly drawn from the women of Kolkata, and seek to put the challenges of being a woman in India in a broader...
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Who says you can't go home again?
Sylvia can't imagine why anyone would ever try. She had left rural Newfoundland as a scrawny, shy girl who was too smart for her own good. When she dragged herself home for her cousin's wedding, she couldn't believe how much had changed-or how much had stayed the same.
Ten years older but no less fixated on an exit strategy, Sylvia returns to confront the person she left behind: her younger self. When she left,...
43) Blindsiders
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22 short-short Blindsiders and a short Blindsider art mystery introducing Italian Inspector Paolo Frascati of the Ministry of Art and Culture.
44) The Big Gumbo
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In 1891, newlyweds Rannei and Arne Bergstrom arrive in New York City full of hope and awe. They've left behind family, friends, and civilization in Norway in search of fertile farmland and a place to start a family.
A fellow passenger on the train west convinces Arne to try his hand at sheep-ranching on The Big Gumbo, an inhospitable piece of earth in South Dakota. Arne is enchanted with the notion of taming the unforgiving landscape, but Rannei dreads...
45) Grand Menteur
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The secret world of Mauritian street-gangs is not for the faint of heart. Fraught with peril and mischief, its inner workings are a mystery to the daughter of one of its most valued members: Serge, the Grand Menteur. A liar of exceptional caliber whose sole responsibility is to purposefully confuse police with alibis, the Menteur fears for the criminal future he has unwittingly introduced into his daughter's life, when her clear knack for violence...
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In this hypnotic epic novel, Mo Yan, the most critically acclaimed Chinese writer of this generation, takes us on a journey to a conjured province of contemporary China known as the Republic of Wine-a corrupt and hallucinatory world filled with superstitions, gargantuan appetites, and surrealistic events. When rumors reach the authorities that strange and excessive gourmandise is being practiced in the city of Liquorland (so named for the staggering...
47) Painted Fires
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Painted Fires, first published in 1925, narrates the trials and tribulations of Helmi Milander, a Finnish immigrant, during the years approaching the First World War. The novel serves as a vehicle for McClung's social activism, especially in terms of temperance, woman suffrage, and immigration policies that favour cultural assimilation. In her afterword, Cecily Devereux situates Painted Fires in the context of McClung's feminist fiction and her interest...
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For seven centuries, Vikings raided and settled the coast of Scotland and the Hebrides Islands. During that time, the Norsemen and Gaels formed a unique culture as they intermarried and shared belief systems, folklore, and traditions. In this groundbreaking work, the author looks at five pieces of Scottish folklore and illuminates the influence of Norse myths in each.
In Tiel's Saga and four additional tales, the book reveals the crossovers in...
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AS WE LOOK BACK ON OUR LIVES ...
As we look back on our lives, there is usually that one special person that we lovingly recall who touched our lives in a very special way. For me, it was my beloved Mother that after having been told by her doctor that she did not have long to live, spent precious time with her then twelve-year-old son. The stories she told me, some about the family and others from the Bible, I discovered later, were to prepare me...
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Ireland in the mid-twentieth century, and Julia and Lydia Esdaile live with their widowed father, Willis, at Knockfane, a country house and farm where the Protestant Esdaile family have lived for centuries. When Willis inexplicably banishes his only son and heir, Edward, he concocts a complex plan to protect and preserve Knockfane for succeeding generations. But time passes, and Willis dies, and soon his intentions are threatened and thwarted by unforeseen...
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Set in the late 1970's England this story follows a disillusioned, educated and introspective young man of mixed heritage as he strives to find acceptance and meaning in his life. He submerges himself into the affairs of a marginalized people who are engaged in a daily struggle to cope with the crime-ridden sub-society in which they are trapped; victims and prey alike. He is befriended and tolerated by most, especially by Errol and Golem, even though...
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A renowned Russian ballerina is stranded in Puerto Rico as a revolution tears her homeland apart - and she finds herself in the middle of another uprising. In a truly multicultural story and a daring example of global fiction, Rosario Ferré uses her prodigious talents to deliver an unforgettable tale of love, politics, and the power of female expression. Based loosely on a real episode in the life of famous prima ballerina Anna Pavlova, Flight of...
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Numerous authentic images of cross on archaeological findings, monuments, cult structures and traditional clothes of different peoples of the world, put in chronological order, serve to show how this symbol spread around the globe. The author comes to conclusion that cross is a graphic symbol of human conquest of the planet and subjugation of other humans, as well as a symbol of urge to know. The author also expresses hope that cross, as a religious...
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They are virtual brothers, Arkady and Alyosha, young pioneers in Stalin's postwar world, marching to the clarion call of socialism, to the stirring beat of the drums. The future, they are assured, is bright and beautiful. But what, then, are those endless miles of barbed wire they encounter everywhere along their route?
This is the moving, two-generational tale of two families, those of Yakov Zinger and Pyotr Yevdokimov, fathers of the two young...
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Part epistolary novel laced with flights of magic realism escapist fantasy, part bellettrist polemic debating a shopping list of culture war topics, Last Refuge of a Scoundrel is an unusual, multifaceted and densely textured book meant to linger on your palate long after you put it down. Much of the action revolves around a bitter, protracted homeowner’s association dispute in north San Diego County, alternately, hilarious and enraging. It's a novel...
58) The Journey
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The year was 1966. Interfaith marriages in India were a taboo. They were rare and often provoked violence.
The Journey is the telling of one such love; of the trials and tribulations faced by a Muslim boy and a Hindu girl, both mired in a forbidden love.
The novel delves into the complexities of interfaith marriages and unravels the resentment and intolerance of individuals in particular and society in general.
59) The Last Suttee
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"You must come at once, if you want to stop the suttee from happening again..." This phone message summons Kumud Kuthiyala back to Neela Nagar, the blue town of her youth, and the shackled life she thought she had left behind forever... As a nine-year-old, Kumud witnessed the brutal and horrifying suttee ritual when her beloved aunt immolated herself on the burning pyre of her dead husband. Years later, Kumud summoned the courage to escape the isolated...
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Mo Yan, China's most critically acclaimed author, has changed the face of his country's contemporary literature with such daring and masterly novels as Red Sorghum, The Garlic Ballads, and The Republic of Wine. In this collection of eight astonishing stories-the title story of which has been adapted to film by the award-winning director of Red Sorghum Zhang Yimou-Mo Yan shows why he is also China's leading writer of short fiction.
His passion for...
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