Author: Tahar Ben Jelloun Publisher: Arcadia Books ISBN: 1908129069 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 165
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From 'Morocco's greatest living author' (The Guardian) comes a heartbreaking novel about parents and children, the powerful pull of home and the yearning for tradition and family. Mohammed has spent the past 40 years working in France. As he approaches retirement, he takes stock of his life - his devotion to Islam and to his assimilated children - and decides to return to Morocco, where he spends his life's savings building the biggest house in the village and waiting for his children and grandchildren to come and be with him.
Author: Tahar Ben Jelloun Publisher: ISBN: Category : Immigrants Languages : en Pages : 165
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Mohammed has spent the past forty years working in France. As he approaches retirement, he takes stock of his life - his devotion to Islam and to his assimilated children - and decides to return to Morocco, where he spends his life's savings building the biggest house in the village and waiting for his children and grandchildren to come be with him.
Author: Tahar Ben Jelloun Publisher: Hachette UK ISBN: 1908129069 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 137
Book Description
From 'Morocco's greatest living author' (The Guardian) comes a heartbreaking novel about parents and children, the powerful pull of home and the yearning for tradition and family. Mohammed has spent the past 40 years working in France. As he approaches retirement, he takes stock of his life - his devotion to Islam and to his assimilated children - and decides to return to Morocco, where he spends his life's savings building the biggest house in the village and waiting for his children and grandchildren to come and be with him.
Author: Shirley Jackson Publisher: ISBN: Category : Castles Languages : en Pages : 188
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We Have Always Lived in the Castle is a deliciously unsettling novel about a perverse, isolated, and possibly murderous family and the struggle that ensues when a cousin arrives at their estate.
Author: Shirley Jackson Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc ISBN: 9780822212263 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 86
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THE STORY: The home of the Blackwoods near a Vermont village is a lonely, ominous abode, and Constance, the young mistress of the place, can't go out of the house without being insulted and stoned by the villagers. They have also composed a nasty s
Author: Edward Hollis Publisher: Catapult ISBN: 1619025620 Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 363
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A brilliant, ambitious follow–up to The Secret Lives of Buildings, in which Hollis turns his focus from the great architectural constructions of the past to the now–vanished chambers they once contained. The rooms we live in are always more than just four walls. As we decorate these spaces and fill them with objects and friends, they shape our lives and become the backdrop to our sense of self. one day, the structures will be gone, but even then, traces of the stories and the memories they contained will persist. In this dazzling work of imaginative reconstruction, edward Hollis takes us to the sites of great abodes now lost to history and piecing together the fragments that remain, re–creates their vanished chambers. From Rome's palatine to the old palace of Westminster and the petit Trianon at Versailles, from the sets of MGM studios in Hollywood to the pavilions of the Crystal palace and the author's own grandmother's sitting room, The Memory Palace is a glittering treasure trove of luminous forgotten places and the alluring people who lived in them.
Author: Deborah Blumenthal Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ISBN: 0618159606 Category : Criminals Languages : en Pages : 40
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A girl and her father help plan the annual winter carnival in Saranac Lake Village, New York, as the girl's uncle and other prisoners work together to build its centerpiece, the ice palace.
Author: Norman Eisen Publisher: Crown ISBN: 0451495802 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 454
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A sweeping yet intimate narrative about the last hundred years of turbulent European history, as seen through one of Mitteleuropa’s greatest houses—and the lives of its occupants When Norman Eisen moved into the US ambassador’s residence in Prague, returning to the land his mother had fled after the Holocaust, he was startled to discover swastikas hidden beneath the furniture in his new home. These symbols of Nazi Germany were remnants of the residence’s forgotten history, and evidence that we never live far from the past. From that discovery unspooled the twisting, captivating tale of four of the remarkable people who had called this palace home. Their story is Europe’s, and The Last Palace chronicles the upheavals that transformed the continent over the past century. There was the optimistic Jewish financial baron, Otto Petschek, who built the palace after World War I as a statement of his faith in democracy, only to have that faith shattered; Rudolf Toussaint, the cultured, compromised German general who occupied the palace during World War II, ultimately putting his life at risk to save the house and Prague itself from destruction; Laurence Steinhardt, the first postwar US ambassador whose quixotic struggle to keep the palace out of Communist hands was paired with his pitched efforts to rescue the country from Soviet domination; and Shirley Temple Black, an eyewitness to the crushing of the 1968 Prague Spring by Soviet tanks, who determined to return to Prague and help end totalitarianism—and did just that as US ambassador in 1989. Weaving in the life of Eisen’s own mother to demonstrate how those without power and privilege moved through history, The Last Palace tells the dramatic and surprisingly cyclical tale of the triumph of liberal democracy.
Author: cristina lattaro Publisher: Babelcube Inc. ISBN: 1547533048 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 817
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In Belcolle, a village in the north of the Italian region of Lazio, four old musicians guard a special place, Villa Tornaboni, to ensure themselves an unnatural eternity. Duilia Liberati, a realtor, receives the mandate to sell the estate and reaches Belcolle with her young secretary. The peculiar symbiosis between the young man and the estate attracts the ire of the old ladies who see their slice of heaven threatened, leading them to use their peculiar powers to contain the danger. In the background, two organizations that have been fighting each other from time immemorial. In the foreground, the people living in Belcolle, many of whom have fragments of their story linked with Villa Tornaboni and its old owner. A paranormal tale with elements of crime, sprinkled with science fiction, mythology, and esoterism. A layered and complex text, that in its initial part continuously introduces characters and mysteries to later solve them one by one.
Author: Tahar Ben Jelloun
Author: Tahar Ben Jelloun
Author: Tahar Ben Jelloun
Author: Shirley Jackson
Author: Shirley Jackson
Author: Edward Hollis
Author: Deborah Blumenthal
Author: Norman Eisen
Author: John Mason Good
Author: cristina lattaro