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Author | : Lewis DeSoto |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 345 |
Release | : 2012-12-04 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0062270559 |
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Märit Laurens is a young woman of British descent who comes to live with her husband, Ben, on their newly purchased farm along the border of South Africa. Shortly after her arrival, violence strikes at the heart of Märit's world. Devastated and confused but determined to run the farm on her own, Märit finds herself in a simmering tug of war between the local Afrikaner community and the black workers who live on the farm, both vying for control over the land in the wake of tragedy. Märit's only supporter is her black housekeeper, Tembi, who, like Märit, is alone in the world. Together, the women struggle to hold on to the farm, but the quietly encroaching civil war brings out conflicting loyalties that turn the fight for the farm into a fight for their lives. Thrilling to read, A Blade of Grass is a wrenching story of friendship and betrayal and of the trauma of the land that has shaped post-colonial Africa.
Author | : John Christopher |
Publisher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2009-04-02 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0141192011 |
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A thought experiment in future-shock survivalism' Robert MacFarlane 'Gripping ... of all science fiction's apocalypses, this is one of the most haunting' Financial Times WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ROBERT MACFARLANE A post-apocalyptic vision of the world pushed to the brink by famine, John Christopher's science fiction masterpiece The Death of Grass includes an introduction by Robert MacFarlane in Penguin Modern Classics. At first the virus wiping out grass and crops is of little concern to John Custance. It has decimated Asia, causing mass starvation and riots, but Europe is safe and a counter-virus is expected any day. Except, it turns out, the governments have been lying to their people. When the deadly disease hits Britain, society starts to descend into barbarism. As John and his family try to make it across country to the safety of his brother's farm in a hidden valley, their humanity is tested to its very limits. A chilling psychological thriller and one of the greatest post-apocalyptic novels ever written, The Death of Grass shows people struggling to hold on to their identities as the familiar world disintegrates - and the terrible price they must pay for surviving. John Christopher (1922-2012) was the pen name of Samuel Youd, a prolific writer of science fiction. His novels were popular during the 1950s and 1960s, most notably The Death Of Grass (1956), The World in Winter (1962), and Wrinkle in the Skin (1965), all works depicting ordinary people struggling in the midst of apocalyptic catastrophes. In 1966 he started writing science-fiction for adolescents; The Tripods trilogy, the Prince in Waiting trilogy (also known as the Sword of the Spirits trilogy) and The Lotus Caves are still widely read today. Ifyou enjoyed The Death of Grass, you might like John Wyndham's The Day of the Triffids, also available in Penguin Modern Classics.
Author | : Benjamin Leopold Farjeon |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 80 |
Release | : 1872 |
Genre | : English fiction |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : B. L. Farjeon |
Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2023-05-16 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 3368823388 |
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Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.
Author | : Benjamin Leopold Farjeon |
Publisher | : Library of Alexandria |
Total Pages | : 698 |
Release | : 2020-09-28 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1465593551 |
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Author | : Benjamin Leopold Farjeon |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 68 |
Release | : 2019-11-15 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9783337866679 |
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Author | : H. R. Maly |
Publisher | : Balboa Press |
Total Pages | : 167 |
Release | : 2013-07 |
Genre | : Family & Relationships |
ISBN | : 1452575975 |
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A Blade of Grass: A Journey Transcending Grief and Loss is the story of a father's journey with his fifteen-year-old son, Daniel, who dies of cancer. It captures the agony, courage, and love a family experiences during a three-year battle trying to save him. It is rich with vivid flashbacks detailing how a father, devastated by the loss of a son, struggles through untenable life situations and finally re-invents himself as a means of personal survival. Confronting alcoholism, deep anger, and resentment toward his church and his God, he emerges with a profound clarity of purpose in life, supported by a deepened spirituality based on love and forgiveness. The author shares insights gained through meditation and the use of powerful affirmations, which provide the backdrop of how he moved beyond the morass of confusion and doubt to a life of serenity and peace.
Author | : Wayne Kyle Spitzer |
Publisher | : Hobb's End Books |
Total Pages | : 16 |
Release | : 2019-08-12 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
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Three futuristic landscapers battle nature, fatigue, and each other on a terraformed Mars ... The medical rocket is wasted—its consoles smashed, its stores emptied—to the extent that we have collapsed outside its open hatch in total exhaustion and despair. Worse, the air is filled with the roar of machinery—a roar with a band-saw edge—one we know all too well for it is the sound of Cap’s Big Track coming closer every second. And then he has arrived, riding his tractor like a chariot, goading it forward into the clearing, motoring directly toward us until Taylor jumps up in a panic and sprints for the next bridge—his dark skin shining, his heels kicking up sod—as the Captain veers toward him suddenly and seems to gun the engine. And then I am running, shouting at him to stop, as Taylor vanishes beneath the blades and the Big Track jounces, once, twice, the Captain laughing and throwing back his head, the iron tracks seeming to catch—until blood begins spewing like grass clippings from the mulch-vents and all I can hear is my friend screaming—gargling—dying beneath the Cap’s iron beast.
Author | : Benjamin Leopold Farjeon |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 366 |
Release | : 1899 |
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Author | : Gladis De Pree |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1987 |
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