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Author: Bharati Sen Publisher: ISBN: 9781946504487 Category : Short stories, Indic (English) Languages : en Pages : 0
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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 perspective. The focus is on ordinary people, and have themes and motifs of women's rights, marital problems, matriarchies, and patriarchies. In general, they are about the living and breathing families in the Kolkata, India of the past and the present.
Author: Bharati Sen Publisher: ISBN: 9781946504487 Category : Short stories, Indic (English) Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
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 perspective. The focus is on ordinary people, and have themes and motifs of women's rights, marital problems, matriarchies, and patriarchies. In general, they are about the living and breathing families in the Kolkata, India of the past and the present.
Author: João Guimarães Rosa Publisher: ISBN: 9781777130428 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 262
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A reissue of Barbara Shelby Merello's 1968 English translation of João Guimarães Rosa's 'Primeiras Estórias, ' with the short stories restored to Rosa's original order.
Author: Lynne Reid Banks Publisher: ISBN: 9781903015636 Category : Canadians Languages : en Pages : 0
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Lesley lives in Canada and thinks life is just great, she has got friends, she likes school and they are very comfortably off. But then her father makes a fateful decision, the whole family is going to emigrate to Israel and lead a more fully Jewish life. Lesley is horrified and very resistant. However, once she gets to her new country and a very different life, she begins to find it stimulating and enjoyable. A strange relationship with Palestinian boy Mustafa, who lives on the other side of the Jordan river, is a big part of the new Lesley. A very exciting book, set in the 1960s about life in a pioneering new country.
Author: Kij Johnson Publisher: Small Beer Press ISBN: 1618731319 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 166
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In this delightful dive into the bygone world of Kenneth Grahame’s The Wind in the Willows staunch Mole, sociable Water Rat, severe Badger, and troublesome and ebullient Toad of Toad Hall are joined by a young mole lady, Beryl, and her dear friend, Rabbit. There are adventures, kidnappings, lost letters, and family secrets—lavishly illustrated throughout by award-winning artist Kathleen Jennings. Praise for Kij Johnson: “The Fox Woman immediately sets the author in the front rank of today’s novelists.” —Lloyd Alex-ander “Johnson has a singular vision and I’m going to be borrowing (stealing) from her.” —Sherman Alexie “Johnson’s language is beautiful, her descriptions of setting visceral, and her characters compellingly drawn.” —Publishers Weekly (starred re-view) “Johnson would fit quite comfortably on a shelf with Karen Russell, Erin Morgen-stern and others who hover in the simultaneous state of being both “literary” and “fantasy” writ-ers.” —Shelf Awareness Kij Johnson’s stories have won the Sturgeon, World Fantasy, and Nebula awards. She has taught writing and has worked at Dark Horse, Microsoft, and Real Networks. She has run bookstores, worked as a radio announcer and engineer, edited cryptic crosswords, and waitressed in a strip bar. Kathleen Jennings was raised on fairytales in western Queensland. She trained as a lawyer and filled the margins of her notes with pen-and-ink illustrations. She has been nominated for the World Fantasy award and has received several Ditmar Awards. She lives in Brisbane, Australia.
Author: Pierre Y. Julien Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1107462770 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 527
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Completely updated and with three new chapters, this analysis of river dynamics is invaluable for advanced students, researchers and practitioners.
Author: Jordan Salama Publisher: Catapult ISBN: 1646221613 Category : Travel Languages : en Pages : 225
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An exhilarating travelogue for a new generation about a journey along Colombia’s Magdalena River, exploring life by the banks of a majestic river now at risk, and how a country recovers from conflict. "Richly observed." —Liesl Schillinger, The New York Times Book Review An American writer of Argentine, Syrian, and Iraqi Jewish descent, Jordan Salama tells the story of the Río Magdalena, nearly one thousand miles long, the heart of Colombia. This is Gabriel García Márquez’s territory—rumor has it Macondo was partly inspired by the port town of Mompox—as much as that of the Middle Eastern immigrants who run fabric stores by its banks. Following the river from its source high in the Andes to its mouth on the Caribbean coast, journeying by boat, bus, and improvised motobalinera, Salama writes against stereotype and toward the rich lives of those he meets. Among them are a canoe builder, biologists who study invasive hippopotamuses, a Queens transplant managing a failing hotel, a jeweler practicing the art of silver filigree, and a traveling librarian whose donkeys, Alfa and Beto, haul books to rural children. Joy, mourning, and humor come together in this astonishing debut, about a country too often seen as only a site of war, and a tale of lively adventure following a legendary river.
Author: Kevin Wallick Publisher: ISBN: 9781721851805 Category : Languages : en Pages : 296
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Growing up poor in the 1940's farming along the Spoon River, the Wallick children learned to look out for each other, using their imaginations and playfulness to soften the edges of lives filled with hard work and an alcoholic parent, escaping to the safety of the woods, streams, and river whenever possible. The adventures of Chuck, his seven siblings, and neighborhood kids galore in the countryside and farmstead capture the innocent, but often dangerous, mischief of the time. The facts of the stories told are as true as memories allow with just the details filled in with imagination and seasoned by the flavors of the land. Chuck Wallick came close to getting killed many times over his life, ten by my count with more than once the others present as witness thinking he was sure enough dead. Other times things were close to going the other way and might have easy enough. That I am his son and passing on his stories as told me is something of a spoiler, but the protagonist of these stories survives and makes it through his trials having lived fuller than most and with stories matched by only a few.
Author: Olivia Laing Publisher: Canons ISBN: 9781786891587 Category : Ouse River Valley (England) Languages : en Pages : 0
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To the River is the story of the Ouse, the Sussex river in which Virginia Woolf drowned in 1941. One idyllic, midsummer week over sixty years later, Olivia Laing walked. Woolf's river from source to sea. The result is a passionate investigation into how history resides in a landscape and how ghosts never quite leave the place they love.
Author: Bharati Sen
Author: Bharati Sen
Author: João Guimarães Rosa
Author: Wilson Harris
Author: Lynne Reid Banks
Author: Kij Johnson
Author: Kelly D. Alley
Author: Pierre Y. Julien
Author: Jordan Salama
Author: Kevin Wallick
Author: Olivia Laing