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Author | : Susan Palwick |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 2007-03-06 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780765349514 |
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A compelling new contemporary fantasy novel from the award-winning author of Flying in Place
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Publisher | : Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Total Pages | : 161 |
Release | : 2014-09-09 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 146688066X |
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I Am the Beggar of the World presents an eye-opening collection of clandestine poems by Afghan women. Because my love's American, blisters blossom on my heart. Afghans revere poetry, particularly the high literary forms that derive from Persian or Arabic. But the poem above is a folk couplet—a landay, an ancient oral and anonymous form created by and for mostly illiterate people: the more than 20 million Pashtun women who span the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan. War, separation, homeland, love—these are the subjects of landays, which are brutal and spare, can be remixed like rap, and are powerful in that they make no attempts to be literary. From Facebook to drone strikes to the songs of the ancient caravans that first brought these poems to Afghanistan thousands of years ago, landays reflect contemporary Pashtun life and the impact of three decades of war. With the U.S. withdrawal in 2014 looming, these are the voices of protest most at risk of being lost when the Americans leave. After learning the story of a teenage girl who was forbidden to write poems and set herself on fire in protest, the poet Eliza Griswold and the photographer Seamus Murphy journeyed to Afghanistan to learn about these women and to collect their landays. The poems gathered in I Am the Beggar of the World express a collective rage, a lament, a filthy joke, a love of homeland, an aching longing, a call to arms, all of which belie any facile image of a Pashtun woman as nothing but a mute ghost beneath a blue burqa.
Author | : Nancy Kress |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 479 |
Release | : 2009-05-13 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0061931950 |
Download Beggars in Spain Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In a world where the slightest edge can mean the difference between success and failure, Leisha Camden is beautiful, extraordinarily intelligent ... and one of an ever-growing number of human beings who have been genetically modified to never require sleep. Once considered interesting anomalies, now Leisha and the other "Sleepless" are outcasts -- victims of blind hatred, political repression, and shocking mob violence meant to drive them from human society ... and, ultimately, from Earth itself. But Leisha Camden has chosen to remain behind in a world that envies and fears her "gift" -- a world marked for destruction in a devastating conspiracy of freedom ... and revenge.
Author | : Elie Wiesel |
Publisher | : Schocken |
Total Pages | : 230 |
Release | : 1997-05-27 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0805210520 |
Download A Beggar in Jerusalem Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
When the Six-Day War began, Elie Wiesel rushed to Israel. "I went to Jerusalem because I had to go somewhere, I had to leave the present and bring it back to the past. You see, the man who came to Jerusalem then came as a beggar, a madman, not believing his eyes and ears, and above all, his memory." This haunting novel takes place in the days following the Six-Day War. A Holocaust survivor visits the newly reunited city of Jerusalem. At the Western Wall he encounters the beggars and madmen who congregate there every evening, and who force him to confront the ghosts of his past and his ties to the present. Weaving together myth and mystery, parable and paradox, Wiesel bids the reader to join him on a spiritual journey back and forth in time, always returning to Jerusalem.
Author | : M. V. Carey |
Publisher | : Random House Books for Young Readers |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
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Download The Three Investigators in The Mystery of the Scar-faced Beggar Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A wallet dropped by a scar-faced beggar sets the three investigators on the trail of bank robbers.
Author | : Susan Palwick |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 582 |
Release | : 2007-06-12 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780312866020 |
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An ambitious near-future SF novel of climate change, artificial intelligence, and human feeling
Author | : Selby Wynn Schwartz |
Publisher | : Liveright Publishing |
Total Pages | : 178 |
Release | : 2023-01-24 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1324092327 |
Download After Sappho: A Novel Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2022 BOOKER PRIZE A Guardian Best Book of the Year A New York Times Editors' Choice Selection “A work of stirring genius, a catalogue of intimacies and inventions, desires and dreams." —Jacob Brogan, Washington Post An exhilarating debut from a radiant new voice, After Sappho reimagines the intertwined lives of feminists at the turn of the twentieth century. “The first thing we did was change our names. We were going to be Sappho,” so begins this intrepid debut novel, centuries after the Greek poet penned her lyric verse. Ignited by the same muse, a myriad of women break from their small, predetermined lives for seemingly disparate paths: in 1892, Rina Faccio trades her needlepoint for a pen; in 1902, Romaine Brooks sails for Capri with nothing but her clotted paintbrushes; and in 1923, Virginia Woolf writes: “I want to make life fuller and fuller.” Writing in cascading vignettes, Selby Wynn Schwartz spins an invigorating tale of women whose narratives converge and splinter as they forge queer identities and claim the right to their own lives. A luminous meditation on creativity, education, and identity, After Sappho announces a writer as ingenious as the trailblazers of our past. “This book is splendid: Impish, irate, deep, courageous. . . . Brava!”—Lucy Ellmann, author of Ducks, Newburyport
Author | : Susan Palwick |
Publisher | : Tor Books |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 2010-04-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1429959703 |
Download Flying in Place Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Once in a while, a first novel arrives like a bolt of lightning, commanding attention with an explosion of power, grace, and light. Flying in Place is such a book. As unflinching as The Lovely Bones, as startling as Beloved, it is a work to bear witness--with bravery and compassion--for the experience of millions of readers and their loved ones. Emma is twelve, a perfectly normal girl, in a perfectly normal home. With a perfectly normal father...who comes into her bedroom every night in the hours before dawn. Emma will do anything to escape. From the visits. From the bodies. From the breathing. Even go walking on the ceiling--which is where Emma meets Ginny, the sister who died before she was born. Ginny, who knows things. Ginny, who can fly.... At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Author | : Susan Palwick |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 2013-05-14 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0765327589 |
Download Mending the Moon Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
After a charismatic woman's murdered while vacationing in Mexico, her adopted son Jeremy and her friends are invited by the teenaged murderer's mother to his memorial service after he drowns himself.
Author | : Renée Sarojini Saklikar |
Publisher | : Harbour Publishing |
Total Pages | : 365 |
Release | : 2021-06-12 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 0889714037 |
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One afternoon, in an old house in an abandoned village on the outskirts of Perimeter, in the place they call Pacifica, Bramah and the beggar boy find fragments of an ancient text in an oak box. Hunched over scraps of parchment and broken computer disks, they blow the dust off a cover, and so our story begins. Steeped in the tradition of fairy tales, The Heart of This Journey Bears All Patterns (THOT J BAP) features a world in which a small band of resisters and survivors meet heartbreak and destruction with rhymes and resourceful skills such as soap and glass making, and a belief in the supernatural. Many things happen—some good, but most bad—including five eco-catastrophes and a viral bio-contagion. Shapeshifting in and out of it all is the nimble Bramah, a female locksmith, part human, part goddess—brown, brave and beautiful. Ten years in the making and described as “truly ambitious” by Stephen Collis, this work by award-winning poet Renée Sarojini Saklikar spans continents and centuries. Bramah and the Beggar Boy is the first instalment of the multi-part series.