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| Author | : Monica Ali |
| Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
| Total Pages | : 242 |
| Release | : 2006 |
| Genre | : Portugal |
| ISBN | : 0743293037 |
A Portuguese village awaits the return of a prodigal son, which causes various desires and disappointments to collide.
| Author | : Monica Ali |
| Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
| Total Pages | : 241 |
| Release | : 2007-06-05 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0743293045 |
A new collection of short stories set in the Alentejo province of Portugal features a range of colorful characters, linked by a vivid sense of place and time, including Teresa, a beautiful young girl from the village engaged to a suitable man, who yearns to see the world, and Vasco, a café owner who is losing business to the new Internet café down the road. By the author of Brick Lane. Reprint. 60,000 first printing.
| Author | : Monica Ali |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : |
| Release | : 2007-08-01 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781407404769 |
Tells the story of the Portuguese village of Mamarrosa told through the lives of those who live there and those who are passing through - men and women, children and old people, locals, tourists and expatriates.
| Author | : Monica Ali |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 299 |
| Release | : 2007 |
| Genre | : Large type books |
| ISBN | : 9780753177983 |
For some, the Portuguese village of Mamarrosa is a place from which to escape; for others it is a place to run from trouble. Vasco, a cafT owner who has never recovered from the death of his wife, clings to a notion that his years in the USA make him superior to the other villagers. One English tourist makes Mamarrosa the subject of her fantasy of a new life, while for a young engaged couple, it is where their dreams finally fall apart. At the book's opening an old man reflects on his life in this seemingly tranquil setting, and anticipates the return of Marco Afonso Rodrigues, the prodigal son of the village. When he does finally appear, villagers, tourists and expatriates are brought together, and their passions and disappointments must inevitably collide.
| Author | : Monica Ali |
| Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
| Total Pages | : 374 |
| Release | : 2012-07-05 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 147110009X |
She was the most famous woman in the world. She died tragically, too young, in a terrible accident. The world mourned. Monica Ali, the beloved author of Brick Lane, explores the extraordinary question: what if she hadn't died? Lydia lives in a nondescript town somewhere in the American Midwest. She's a nice, normal woman - if strikingly beautiful. She lives a nice, normal life: her friends are normal, her job is normal, her hobbies are normal. Her friends and boyfriend adore her. But her past is shrouded in mystery. Who is Lydia? Where does she come from? And why is her English accent so posh? Lydia is a woman with secrets. Extraordinary secrets. She might even be the most famous woman on the planet... a woman whose death the world mourned by millions. Who is she? *~*~* Praise for Untold Story*~*~* 'A beautiful, gripping accomplishment, a treat for the heart and the head, and will be a joy to readers who believe in the possibility that a book can transform your basic sense of life' Andrew O'Hagan 'A terrific, clever, multi-layered and subtle book (and let's not forget - hugely entertaining)' Joanne Harris 'Haunting and intensely readable, this is something between a thriller and a ghost story' Lady Antonia Fraser 'A startlingly intelligent, perceptive and entertaining piece of fiction. It's quite brilliant' Henry Sutton, Daily Mirror 'Thoughtful, compassionate... a suspenseful and gripping read' Suzi Feay, Financial Times 'Ali's third-person princess is a very convincing and sympathetic figure... extremely skilfully done' Tibor Fischer, Observer
| Author | : Monica Ali |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 226 |
| Release | : 2006 |
| Genre | : Portugal |
| ISBN | : 9780739483640 |
This is the story of a village in Portugal, told through the lives of men and women whose families have lived there for generations and some who are passing through. For Teresa, a beautiful girl not yet twenty, Mamarrosa is a place from which to escape. For the dysfunctional Potts family, it is a way of running from trouble. Vasco, a café owner who has never recovered from the death of his American wife, clings to a notion that his years away from the village, in the States, make him superior. One English tourist fantasizes about making a new life here; for her compatriots, a young engaged couple, this is where their dreams fall apart. The village awaits the homecoming of its prodigal son, now a symbol of the fast-changing world. When he finally returns, villagers, tourists, and expatriates are brought together, and their jealousies and disappointments inevitably collide.--From publisher description.
| Author | : Jopi Nyman |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 259 |
| Release | : 2017-04-18 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 9004342060 |
This book examines contemporary literary representations of global mobility. It pays particular attention to refugee writing and displacement, migration and memory, and new European identities, and revises the field of postcolonial studies.
| Author | : Michael Perfect |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 207 |
| Release | : 2015-12-04 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1137307129 |
Contemporary Fictions of Multiculturalism analyses novels of the late 20th and early 21st centuries that explore ethnic and cultural diversity in London. It contributes to key, ongoing debates in literary and cultural studies and, in particular, to debates over the status and relevance of multiculturalism today.
| Author | : Eleanor Morse |
| Publisher | : Penguin |
| Total Pages | : 370 |
| Release | : 2013-01-03 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1101606207 |
An extraordinary novel of love, friendship, and betrayal for admirers of Abraham Verghese and Edwidge Danticat Eleanor Morse’s rich and intimate portrait of Botswana, and of three people whose intertwined lives are at once tragic and remarkable, is an absorbing and deeply moving story. In apartheid South Africa in 1977, medical student Isaac Muthethe is forced to flee his country after witnessing a friend murdered by white members of the South African Defense Force. He is smuggled into Botswana, where he is hired as a gardener by a young American woman, Alice Mendelssohn, who has abandoned her Ph.D. studies to follow her husband to Africa. When Isaac goes missing and Alice goes searching for him, what she finds will change her life and inextricably bind her to this sunburned, beautiful land. Like the African terrain that Alice loves, Morse’s novel is alternately austere and lush, spare and lyrical. She is a writer of great and wide-ranging gifts.
| Author | : Monica Ali |
| Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
| Total Pages | : 451 |
| Release | : 2009-06-16 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 141657168X |
Struggling to maintain his culinary integrity in a hotel restaurant, executive chef Gabriel Lightfoot finds his secret ambition to become the hotel's owner compromised by the murder of a porter and pressure from his girlfriend and investors.
