Author: Dwaboyea E. S. KandakaiPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
The Village Son
Author: Dwaboyea E. S. KandakaiPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
The Village Son
Author: Houchang D ModanlouPublisher:
ISBN: 9781716919701
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Iranian village to a university professor in the United States of America in this memoir. As a boy, his unruly behavior was sedated by scholastic challenges as a remedy. At age twelve, he left home for junior high school in a provincial capital. At first, a lack of self-esteem led him to stumble, but he soon found the courage to tackle his subjects with vigor. He became more curious about the world around him and began to yearn for a new life despite his financial limitations. Against all odds, he became one of the top students in Iran and earned a scholarship to study medicine in Europe. Even though he was culturally and socially naïve by European standards, an Italian family in Rome helped him thrive. The author never shied away from the challenges of learning Italian, and the generosity of Italy and its people became part and parcel of his formative years. By the time he left for the United States of America, he knew he could accomplish whatever he imagined.
The Giver Quartet
Author: Lois LowryPublisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0547887205
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 405
Book Description
Unlike the other Birthmothers in her utopian community, teenaged Claire forms an attachment to her baby and sets out to find him when he is removed from the community.
A Village with My Name
Author: Scott TongPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022633905X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
An “immensely readable” journey through modern Chinese history told through the experiences of the author’s extended family (Christian Science Monitor). When journalist Scott Tong moved to Shanghai, his assignment was to start the first full-time China bureau for “Marketplace,” the daily business and economics program on public radio stations across the US. But for Tong the move became much more: an opportunity to reconnect with members of his extended family who’d remained there after his parents fled the communists six decades prior. Uncovering their stories gave him a new way to understand modern China’s defining moments and its long, interrupted quest to go global. A Village with My Name offers a unique perspective on China’s transitions through the eyes of regular people who witnessed such epochal events as the toppling of the Qing monarchy, Japan’s occupation during WWII, exile of political prisoners to forced labor camps, mass death and famine during the Great Leap Forward, market reforms under Deng Xiaoping, and the dawn of the One Child Policy. Tong focuses on five members of his family, who each offer a specific window on a changing country: a rare American-educated girl born in the closing days of the Qing Dynasty, a pioneer exchange student, a toddler abandoned in wartime who later rides the wave of China’s global export boom, a young professional climbing the ladder at a multinational company, and an orphan (the author’s daughter) adopted in the middle of a baby-selling scandal fueled by foreign money. Through their stories, Tong shows us China anew, visiting former prison labor camps on the Tibetan plateau and rural outposts along the Yangtze, exploring the Shanghai of the 1930s, and touring factories across the mainland—providing a compelling and deeply personal take on how China became what it is today. “Vivid and readable . . . The book’s focus on ordinary people makes it refreshingly accessible.” —Financial Times “Tong tells his story with humor, a little snark, [and] lots of love . . . Highly recommended, especially for those interested in Chinese history and family journeys.” —Library Journal (starred review)
It Doesn't Take a Village
Author: Stephen P. DixonPublisher: Ceshore Publishing Company
ISBN: 9781585010141
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Perhaps in other countries the village concept works, but if the village cannot save our children, who can?
The Outlook
Author: Lyman AbbottPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 924
Book Description
Mathurá
Author: Frederic Salmon GrowsePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mathura (India : District)
Languages : en
Pages : 546
Book Description
Antiques
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Collectors and collecting
Languages : en
Pages : 1198
Book Description
Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution
Author: Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American EthnologyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
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