Author: Rodrigo Rey Rosa
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300196091
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 107
Book Description
A bookseller becomes infatuated with an alluring woman who shoplifts from his store and finds himself entangled in her mystery, until, disoriented, the border between rational and irrational blurs.
Severina
Author: Rodrigo Rey Rosa
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300208499
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 91
Book Description
A new translation of the Guatemalan author whom Roberto Bolaño called “the most rigorous writer of my generation, the most transparent…the most luminous of all.” “Right from the start I picked her for a thief, although that day she didn’t take anything. . . . I knew she’d be back,” the narrator/bookseller of Severina recalls in this novel’s opening pages. Imagine a dark-haired book thief as alluring as she is dangerous. Imagine the mesmerized bookseller secretly tracking the volumes she steals, hoping for insight into her character, her motives, her love life. In Rodrigo Rey Rosa’s hands, this tale of obsessive love is told with almost breathless precision and economy. The bookstore owner is soon entangled in Severina’s mystery: seductive and peripatetic, of uncertain nationality, she steals books to actually read them and to share with her purported grandfather, Señor Blanco. In this unsettling exploration of the alienating and simultaneously liberating power of love, the bookseller’s monotonous existence is rocked by the enigmatic Severina. As in a dream, the disoriented man finds that the thin border between rational and irrational is no longer reliable. Severina confirms Rey Rosa’s privileged place in contemporary world literature.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300208499
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 91
Book Description
A new translation of the Guatemalan author whom Roberto Bolaño called “the most rigorous writer of my generation, the most transparent…the most luminous of all.” “Right from the start I picked her for a thief, although that day she didn’t take anything. . . . I knew she’d be back,” the narrator/bookseller of Severina recalls in this novel’s opening pages. Imagine a dark-haired book thief as alluring as she is dangerous. Imagine the mesmerized bookseller secretly tracking the volumes she steals, hoping for insight into her character, her motives, her love life. In Rodrigo Rey Rosa’s hands, this tale of obsessive love is told with almost breathless precision and economy. The bookstore owner is soon entangled in Severina’s mystery: seductive and peripatetic, of uncertain nationality, she steals books to actually read them and to share with her purported grandfather, Señor Blanco. In this unsettling exploration of the alienating and simultaneously liberating power of love, the bookseller’s monotonous existence is rocked by the enigmatic Severina. As in a dream, the disoriented man finds that the thin border between rational and irrational is no longer reliable. Severina confirms Rey Rosa’s privileged place in contemporary world literature.
The Roman Empress Ulpia Severina
Author: Margherita Cassia
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3031286510
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
Of the twelve Augustae who lived during the fifty years of the so-called “military anarchy” (235-284 A.D.), Ulpia Severina, wife of the “Illyrian” emperor Aurelian (270-275 AD), is certainly one of the most enigmatic and less known. The book focuses on Ulpia Severina, who, even though never mentioned by name in literary sources, has been studied almost exclusively from the perspective of the numerous coins issued in her name and is the subject of many interesting honorific inscriptions that had not been thoroughly examined or adequately valued until this study. This exceptional situation, represented by the sole presence of Ulpia Severina on the throne of Rome, deserves more attention than it has received. The pages of the university history textbooks dedicated to the reconstruction of a fifty-year phase of Roman-imperial history must be, if not rewritten, at least integrated in order to give the deserved space to this empress and, therefore, to the so-called “interregnum,” which lasted at least two months, between the death of Aurelian and the advent of emperor Tacitus.
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3031286510
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
Of the twelve Augustae who lived during the fifty years of the so-called “military anarchy” (235-284 A.D.), Ulpia Severina, wife of the “Illyrian” emperor Aurelian (270-275 AD), is certainly one of the most enigmatic and less known. The book focuses on Ulpia Severina, who, even though never mentioned by name in literary sources, has been studied almost exclusively from the perspective of the numerous coins issued in her name and is the subject of many interesting honorific inscriptions that had not been thoroughly examined or adequately valued until this study. This exceptional situation, represented by the sole presence of Ulpia Severina on the throne of Rome, deserves more attention than it has received. The pages of the university history textbooks dedicated to the reconstruction of a fifty-year phase of Roman-imperial history must be, if not rewritten, at least integrated in order to give the deserved space to this empress and, therefore, to the so-called “interregnum,” which lasted at least two months, between the death of Aurelian and the advent of emperor Tacitus.
The Love Queen of the Amazon
Author: Cecile Pineda
Publisher: Wings Press
ISBN: 1609401808
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
This hilarious novel is a feminist spoof on the mostly-male magical realists of the "Boom" generation.
Publisher: Wings Press
ISBN: 1609401808
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
This hilarious novel is a feminist spoof on the mostly-male magical realists of the "Boom" generation.
Conquered and Seduced
Author: Lyn Randal
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 146034961X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
Claiming the runaway! Two years ago former gladiatrix Severina had no choice but to flee from ex-soldier Livius Lucan. Their relationship was fuelled by fiery passion, but secrets from her past threatened his safety—a risk she couldn’t take. Now she needs this noble Roman’s help. But his solution is one she’s unprepared for—marriage! Lucan is determined to conquer and seduce this runaway woman—and claim the wedding night he never had!
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 146034961X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
Claiming the runaway! Two years ago former gladiatrix Severina had no choice but to flee from ex-soldier Livius Lucan. Their relationship was fuelled by fiery passion, but secrets from her past threatened his safety—a risk she couldn’t take. Now she needs this noble Roman’s help. But his solution is one she’s unprepared for—marriage! Lucan is determined to conquer and seduce this runaway woman—and claim the wedding night he never had!
Official Gazette
Author: Philippines
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Philippines
Languages : en
Pages : 1148
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Philippines
Languages : en
Pages : 1148
Book Description
South-African Butterflies
Author: Roland Trimen
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Butterflies
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Butterflies
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
History of Rome and of the Roman People from Its Origin to the Establishment of the Christian Empire
Reports of Cases Determined in the Supreme Court of the Philippine Islands
Author: Philippines. Supreme Court
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 806
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 806
Book Description
Aurelian and the Third Century
Author: Alaric Watson
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415301879
Category : Electronic books
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Aurelian and the Third Century provides a re-evaluation, in the light of recent scholarship, of the difficulties facing the Roman empire in the AD 260s and 270s, concentrating upon the reign of the Emperor Aurelian and his part in summoning them. With introduction examining the situation in the mid third century, the book is divided into two parts: * Part 1: deals chronologically with the military and political events of the period from 268 to 276 * Part 2: analyzes the other achievements and events of Aurelian's reign and assesses their importance. A key supplement to the study of the Roman Empire.
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415301879
Category : Electronic books
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Aurelian and the Third Century provides a re-evaluation, in the light of recent scholarship, of the difficulties facing the Roman empire in the AD 260s and 270s, concentrating upon the reign of the Emperor Aurelian and his part in summoning them. With introduction examining the situation in the mid third century, the book is divided into two parts: * Part 1: deals chronologically with the military and political events of the period from 268 to 276 * Part 2: analyzes the other achievements and events of Aurelian's reign and assesses their importance. A key supplement to the study of the Roman Empire.
Matters of Life and Longing
Author: Anne Line Dalsgaard
Publisher: Museum Tusculanum Press
ISBN: 9788772899015
Category : Birth control
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
This book presents and describes Northeast Brazilian women's motives for accepting and often actively seeking sterilization. It centers on individual subjects and their life-worlds but shows, too, that immersion in lived phenomenological worlds does not preclude the study of political economy. The book is written in a lucid and accessible language and will be of interest to a wide and varied audience, including both graduate and undergraduate students. This book merited an Honorable Mention in the competition for the Eileen Basker Memorial Prize in Gender and Health 2004
Publisher: Museum Tusculanum Press
ISBN: 9788772899015
Category : Birth control
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
This book presents and describes Northeast Brazilian women's motives for accepting and often actively seeking sterilization. It centers on individual subjects and their life-worlds but shows, too, that immersion in lived phenomenological worlds does not preclude the study of political economy. The book is written in a lucid and accessible language and will be of interest to a wide and varied audience, including both graduate and undergraduate students. This book merited an Honorable Mention in the competition for the Eileen Basker Memorial Prize in Gender and Health 2004