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Author: Sygurd Wiśniowski Publisher: ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 348
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"Novels hitherto published in [this series] have all been long out of print. Some were never widely read, even when first published. All, however, have had a reputation among students of New Zealand literature. "Tikera" has not. It was published as long ago as 1877, but virtually no New Zealander has read it. It is not mentioned in any history of New Zealand literature. Although it is the best New Zealand novel of its period, it had no influence on the development of writing in this country. Why? Because "Tikera" was written, and published, in Polish. This is the first translation into English. A Polish novel about New Zealand might have been a mere curiosity. Tkera is much more. Through the candid eyes of a young Polish seaman we see the country at the time of the Anglo-Maori Wars. We see the dingy waterfront pubs in the old-looking young town of Auckland, life in a Maori village which was debating whether to join the war, a New Plymouth dividing its attention between military campaigns and dubious commercial speculation, the unlovely attitudes of settlers towards the Maoris, and especially towards Maori women. Although Wisniowski was in New Zealand in the 1860s, he did not visit the war districts. This part of his novel is imaginary. But he knew his Anglo-Saxon colonists and draws an often irreverent view of their society." -- Inside front cover.
Author: Sygurd Wiśniowski Publisher: ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 348
Book Description
"Novels hitherto published in [this series] have all been long out of print. Some were never widely read, even when first published. All, however, have had a reputation among students of New Zealand literature. "Tikera" has not. It was published as long ago as 1877, but virtually no New Zealander has read it. It is not mentioned in any history of New Zealand literature. Although it is the best New Zealand novel of its period, it had no influence on the development of writing in this country. Why? Because "Tikera" was written, and published, in Polish. This is the first translation into English. A Polish novel about New Zealand might have been a mere curiosity. Tkera is much more. Through the candid eyes of a young Polish seaman we see the country at the time of the Anglo-Maori Wars. We see the dingy waterfront pubs in the old-looking young town of Auckland, life in a Maori village which was debating whether to join the war, a New Plymouth dividing its attention between military campaigns and dubious commercial speculation, the unlovely attitudes of settlers towards the Maoris, and especially towards Maori women. Although Wisniowski was in New Zealand in the 1860s, he did not visit the war districts. This part of his novel is imaginary. But he knew his Anglo-Saxon colonists and draws an often irreverent view of their society." -- Inside front cover.
Author: Heather Louise Phillips-Morrison Publisher: Austin MacAuley ISBN: 9781788235006 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 32
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Tikera is a black and white Alaskan Malamute puppy that makes the transition from being with his mummy and siblings to going to his Forever Home. Tikera tells the story of how he met his Forever Mummy and the journey to his Forever Home.
Author: Alice Feeney Publisher: Flatiron Books ISBN: 1250266114 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 309
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INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “Feeney lives up to her reputation as the “queen of the twist”...This page-turner will keep you guessing.” —Real Simple Think you know the person you married? Think again... Things have been wrong with Mr and Mrs Wright for a long time. When Adam and Amelia win a weekend away to Scotland, it might be just what their marriage needs. Self-confessed workaholic and screenwriter Adam Wright has lived with face blindness his whole life. He can’t recognize friends or family, or even his own wife. Every anniversary the couple exchange traditional gifts--paper, cotton, pottery, tin--and each year Adam’s wife writes him a letter that she never lets him read. Until now. They both know this weekend will make or break their marriage, but they didn’t randomly win this trip. One of them is lying, and someone doesn’t want them to live happily ever after. Ten years of marriage. Ten years of secrets. And an anniversary they will never forget. Rock Paper Scissors is the latest exciting domestic thriller from the queen of the killer twist, New York Times bestselling author Alice Feeney.
Author: Raymond Patton Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN: 1350498653 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 281
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Exploring how Polish writers positioned themselves as neither colonized nor colonizers, In-Between Empire analyses their literary works on empire during the 19th and 20th centuries to explore how they negotiated their in-between position in the global imperial hierarchy. Leveraging this vantage point, they claimed the unique ability to represent the South to the West, constructing a Polish national identity in conversation with both imperial and anti-imperial currents, and influencing international discourse on colonialism and its legacy. Written at the nexus of historical and literary studies of imperial and colonial discourse, Patton centres Poland and Eastern Europe in debates that have frequently excluded these perspectives. Showing how these Polish writers attempted to portray anticolonial solidarity with non-European victims of colonialism, yet also employed European colonial tropes, each writer demonstrated a distinctive ability to identify the tensions and flaws of imperialism, whilst simultaneously reconciling those tensions to themselves as 'exceptional Europeans', innocent of colonialism, by alternating between metropolitan and peripheral perspectives. In doing so, they informed transnational discourses and policies on colonialism, decolonization, the Cold War and beyond.
Author: John Kaye Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc. ISBN: 0802192068 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 280
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From the acclaimed author of Stars Screaming, “a fine new novel . . . [that] pulls some of the dregs of Manson’s dark legacy into the light” (The Oregonian). It’s 1986. Devastated by the death of his fiancée, private eye Gene Burk becomes obsessed with an unsolved mystery from his days with the LAPD: the death of up-and-coming rockabilly star Bobby Fuller. While attempting to reconstruct the circumstances that led to Fuller’s demise, Gene is unexpectedly contacted by a woman from his fiancée’s hometown, a survivor of the Manson Family who needs his help to escape her past. As Gene travels back in history to the moment Manson partied alongside Bobby Fuller and the Beach Boys, he lays bare Los Angeles in the sixties, its relative innocence and its seedy underbelly, and uncovers how those currents have shaped not just history but his own life and those of the people he loves. “Masterfully creating and sustaining a palpable, pure, elegiac paean to lost hopes and dreams, Kaye seems to suggest that the human impulse toward yearning and hopefulness can exist unmarred by and side by side with rampant corruption and pure evil” (Booklist, starred review). “A looming thundercloud of a book; it begins in a Southern California that seems permanently infused with sunshine and ends in one that has been forever submerged beneath the dark surf of a noirish nightmare.” —The New York Times Book Review “A great baggy monster of a book, shifting shape, made up of tales of murder, desertion and love, as full of life as the city it describes.” —The Washington Post
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