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Author: Léonora Miano Publisher: U of Nebraska Press ISBN: 0803215673 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 0
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What is Africa’s own “heart of darkness”? It is what confronts Ayané when, after three years abroad, she returns to the Central African village of her birth. Now an “outsider” with foreign ways distrusted by her fellow villagers, she must face alone the customs and superstitions that bind this clan of men and women. When invading militia organize a horrific ceremony that they claim will help reunite Africa, Ayané is forced to confront the monstrosity of the act that follows, as well as the responsibility that all the villagers must bear for silently accepting evil done in their name. Through Ayané’s unwilling witness, Léonora Miano probes the themes of submission and responsibility and questions the role of Africans in the suffering of their fellows. Also exploring African identity, Dark Heart of the Night is a profoundly disturbing novel in its evocation of the darkest side of people driven by their instinct to survive.
Author: Léonora Miano Publisher: U of Nebraska Press ISBN: 0803215673 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
What is Africa’s own “heart of darkness”? It is what confronts Ayané when, after three years abroad, she returns to the Central African village of her birth. Now an “outsider” with foreign ways distrusted by her fellow villagers, she must face alone the customs and superstitions that bind this clan of men and women. When invading militia organize a horrific ceremony that they claim will help reunite Africa, Ayané is forced to confront the monstrosity of the act that follows, as well as the responsibility that all the villagers must bear for silently accepting evil done in their name. Through Ayané’s unwilling witness, Léonora Miano probes the themes of submission and responsibility and questions the role of Africans in the suffering of their fellows. Also exploring African identity, Dark Heart of the Night is a profoundly disturbing novel in its evocation of the darkest side of people driven by their instinct to survive.
Author: Syrie James Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 110161885X Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 434
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The minute I saw the letter, I knew it was hers. There was no mistaking it: the salutation, the tiny, precise handwriting, the date, the content itself, all confirmed its ancient status and authorship… Samantha McDonough cannot believe her eyes--or her luck. Tucked in an uncut page of a two-hundred-year old poetry book is a letter she believes was written by Jane Austen, mentioning with regret a manuscript that "went missing at Greenbriar in Devonshire." Could there really be an undiscovered Jane Austen novel waiting to be found? Could anyone resist the temptation to go looking for it? Making her way to the beautiful, centuries-old Greenbriar estate, Samantha finds it no easy task to sell its owner, the handsome yet uncompromising Anthony Whitaker, on her wild idea of searching for a lost Austen work--until she mentions its possible million dollar value. After discovering the unattributed manuscript, Samantha and Anthony are immediately absorbed in the story of Rebecca Stanhope, daughter of a small town rector, who is about to encounter some bittersweet truths about life and love. As they continue to read the newly discovered tale from the past, a new one unfolds in the present--a story that just might change both of their lives forever.
Author: Craig Johnson Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 0525426957 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 306
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The thirteenth novel in Craig Johnson's beloved New York Times bestselling Longmire series, the basis for the hit Netflix series Longmire Sheriff Walt Longmire is enjoying a celebratory beer after a weapons certification at the Wyoming Law Enforcement Academy when a younger sheriff confronts him with a photograph of twenty-five armed men standing in front of a Challenger steam locomotive. It takes him back to when, fresh from the battlefields of Vietnam, then-deputy Walt accompanied his mentor Lucian to the annual Wyoming Sheriff's Association junket held on the excursion train known as the Western Star, which ran the length of Wyoming from Cheyenne to Evanston and back. Armed with his trusty Colt .45 and a paperback of Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express, the young Walt was ill-prepared for the machinations of twenty-four veteran sheriffs, let alone the cavalcade of curious characters that accompanied them. The photograph--along with an upcoming parole hearing for one of the most dangerous men Walt has encountered in a lifetime of law enforcement--hurtles the sheriff into a head-on collision of past and present, placing him and everyone he cares about squarely on the tracks of runaway revenge.
Author: Alan Dean Foster Publisher: Del Rey ISBN: 0307416976 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 357
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No matter how long or how hard they strive, no matter how extensive their education as a species, no matter what they experience of the small heavens and larger hells they create for themselves, it seems that humans are destined to see their technological accomplishments always exceed their ability to understand themselves.
Author: Sally Christie Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1501102966 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 432
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Court intriguers are beginning to sense that young King Louis XV, after seven years of marriage, is tiring of his Polish wife. The race is on to find a mistress for the royal bed. The King's scheming ministers push Louise, the eldest of the aristocratic Nesle sisters, into the arms of the King. Over the following decade, of the five Nesle sisters-- Louise, Pauline, Diane, Hortense, and Marie-Anne-- four will become mistresses to King Louis XV. All will conspire, betray, suffer, and triumph in a desperate fight for both love and power.
Author: François Place Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher ISBN: 9781567922929 Category : Languages : en Pages : 78
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In a Rundown waterfront market, an English explorer and top-hatted dandy named Archibald Leopold Ruthmore discovers a remarkable object - a human molar the size of a fist. Deeply incised like scrimshaw, the tooth yields up its secrets slowly; at last its markings prove to be a map to the Land of the Giants. So, in September 1849, Ruthmore begins his voyage from Liverpool to Burma, the first leg of the adventure of a lifetime: an unprecedented trip up the Black River, through a rainforest full of headhunters, and into the valley of a race of gentle, sweet-tempered colossi. The giants care for Ruthmore as they might a child. There are only nine of them, each thousands of years old. They are covered from head to foot with a dizzying maze of complex lines, curves, spirals, and speckles. These are not tattoos but images that appear on their skin spontaneously, illustrating their experience of trees, plants, animals, rivers, oceans, stars, and each other. These stylized images are their wordless, idiomatic language: thoughts made flesh. After ten months among the giants, Ruthmore begins the long trip home to England, his notebooks full of drawings and observations. Then he makes a tragic mistake: he publishes an account of his travels, and unwittingly brings about the giants' destruction. The Last Giants is a moral tale, a parable about the often painful and exploitative consequences of the encounter between the "advanced" and the "primitive." But this is no strident op-ed piece dressed up as a children's picture book. This is a hauntingly beautiful work of art by one of France's most sophisticated and subtle graphic storytellers.
Author: John Coleman Darnell Publisher: Saint-Paul ISBN: 9783525530559 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 714
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In Egypt, from the Old to the New Kingdom, enigmatic texts were created on the basis of non-standardized lists of characters and phonetic signs, the exact principles of which are still unclear to this day. For the first time, this study examines in detail the three most comprehensive known inscription texts from the New Kingdom, which were discovered in the tombs of Tutenchamun, Ramses VI and Ramses IX. Darnell shows that these three texts have a theological, iconographic and formal connection, and calls them collectively the "Book of the Solar-Osirian Unity". Differentiated and lively, he presents the content and theological peculiarities of these texts that deal with the afterlife with each other and in relation to other enigmatic texts of the new as well as the Middle and Old Kingdom.
Author: E. Martin Publisher: Springer ISBN: 0230511902 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 300
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Elizabeth Martin explores the impact of globalization on the language of French advertising, showing that English and global imagery play an important role in tailoring global campaigns to the French market, with media companies undeterred by the attempts through legislation to curb language mixing in the media.
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