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Author | : Péter Zilahy |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781843312840 |
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The Last Window-Giraffe' is a playful and personal journey through the political unrest of the seventies and eighties. It was inspired by a Hungarian children's dictionary, entitled 'Window-Giraffe', which explained the whole world in simple terms; a world where everything was in order and all problems were easily solved. Popular across Europe for the best part of a decade, 'The Last Window-Giraffe' is a politically infused rendition of the original: quirky, astute and powerful. P ter Zilahy draws on his travels around the soft dictatorships of Eastern Europe, offering his acerbic observations on the often bizarre spectacle. In one instance he describes the carnival-like protests against the Milosevic regime in Belgrade simply and humorously. This reflects, like the format of the book, the manner in which the regime treat their people like children. NP] Filled with his own striking photographs, Zilahy gives fascinating insight into a whole other universe behind the Iron Curtain. 'The Last Window-Giraffe' is one of the most unusual, beguiling books you will ever read. For more information please see the book website: www.lastwindowgiraffe.anthempressblog.com
Author | : Peter Zilahy |
Publisher | : Bentang Pustaka |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 2008-10-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9789791227407 |
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Ketika seluruh rakyat turun ke jalan, dunia akan melihat betapa perubahan telah di ambang pintu. Sejarah membuktikannya berulang-ulang, tak terkecuali Yugoslavia 1996-1997. Muak dengan kediktatoran pemerintahan, yang puncaknya adalah tindakan pmerintah menganulir kemenangan partai oposisi Zajedno, seluruh rakyat dari berbagai kelompok melancarkan protes. Mereka berbaris melalui rute-rute dan waktu yang telah disepakati. Aksi-aksi tersebut mulai menjadi sebuah keseharian dengan akibat-akibat logis seperti pecahnya keluarga karena perbedaan pandangan politis atau bahkan korban tewas. Situasi itu dipotret secara unik dalam novel kamus ini. Zilahy bukan sekedar memaparkan secara detail, melainkan juga memainkan setiap kata secara cerdas sehingga memancing decak kagum. Dan, seakan melengkapi peran kata sebagai pelukis fakta, ditampilkan foto-foto cantik hasil bidikannya. Kini, sempurna sudah novel kamus ini menghadirkan situasi chaotic Yugoslavia ke hadapan Anda. [Mizan, Bentang, Novel, Indonesia]
Author | : Peter Zilahy |
Publisher | : Sandorf Passage |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2023-09-05 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9789533514352 |
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Peter Zilahy's The Last Window-Giraffe takes its title from the fact that the first and last letters of the Hungarian alphabet match the first letters for the words "window" and "giraffe." This genre-defying book, originally written in Hungarian, has been translated into twenty-two languages and is often cited as one of the inspirations for the Orange Revolution in the Ukraine. On the surface, this autobiographical fiction rendered by Zilahy's incisive x-ray vision--a heady mix of history, memoir, and farce of the highest order--is about the protests in Belgrade in 1996. But viewed through a wider lens it serves up the absurdity of all manner of authoritarianism that resonates as much today as it first did upon publication in 1999.
Author | : Ronja Bodola |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 2017-06-26 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 3110378035 |
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This book challenges the focus on pictoriality as central constituent of visual culture from the perspective of literary studies, which in the wake of an ‘intermedial turn’ so far focused on the ways texts relate to pictures and visual media either in praesentia (e.g. word and image studies) or in absentia (e.g. ekphrasis). Instead, it emphasizes literature’s participation in visual culture at large and focuses on three areas of investigation: (1) the depiction of, for instance, visual perceptions in the literary mode of description, which is paramount to formatting the mental aspect of visual culture; (2) the readerly practice of visualising situations and events of the fictional world, which mediates between those mentefacts and techniques of writing; (3) textual visibilities which are grounded in materiality. The volume explores these three areas from a systematically integrated perspective and the essays include in-depth treatments of seminal examples taken from Western literatures (primarily English and German, but also French and American literature) from early modern times to the present. This book’s aim is to work out literature’s active role in shaping visual culture, thus demonstrating its relevance for “image studies”.
Author | : Penny Redshaw |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 100 |
Release | : 2017-09-30 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780646973647 |
Download Motivating Giraffe Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A colourful collection of motivational cartoon images, featuring a giraffe and his friends.
Author | : Roald Dahl |
Publisher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 95 |
Release | : 2008-09-04 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 0141963468 |
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"The Pelican spread his huge white wings and flew down on to the road beside me. 'Hop in,' he said, opening his enormous beak . . ." MEET BILLY. A kid with a dream. He wants to turn an old wooden house into an incredible sweetshop full of treats! AND MEET THE LADDERLESS WINDOW-CLEANING COMPANY: Monkey, Pelican (Pelly) and Giraffe (who needs ladders when you've got a giraffe?!). They have just landed a big break cleaning all six hundred and seventy-seven windows of the mansion owned by the richest man in all of England! All they need now is a little help from Billy. Can these unlikely new friends make Billy's wildest dreams come true and take him on an adventure he'll never forget . . .?
Author | : Lauren St. John |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 2008-05-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1440638640 |
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When Martine’s home in England burns down, killing her parents, she must go to South Africa to live on a wildlife game preserve, called Sawubona, with the grandmother she didn’t know she had. Almost as soon as she arrives, Martine hears stories about a white giraffe living in the preserve. But her grandmother and others working at Sawubona insist that the giraffe is just a myth. Martine is not so sure, until one stormy night when she looks out her window and locks eyes with Jemmy, a young silvery-white giraffe. Why is everyone keeping Jemmy’s existence a secret? Does it have anything to do with the rash of poaching going on at Sawubona? Martine needs all of the courage and smarts she has, not to mention a little African magic, to find out. First-time children’s author Lauren St. John brings us deep into the African world, where myths become reality and a young girl with a healing gift has the power to save her home and her one true friend.
Author | : Lucie Papineau |
Publisher | : Capstone |
Total Pages | : 40 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9781404812925 |
Download No More Melons for Gilda the Giraffe Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
When her spots are blown away by a strong wind, Gilda the giraffe enlists the aid of her friends to help her fly while she searches for them.
Author | : Juris Dilevko |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 554 |
Release | : 2011-03-17 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1598849093 |
Download Contemporary World Fiction Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This much-needed guide to translated literature offers readers the opportunity to hear from, learn about, and perhaps better understand our shrinking world from the perspective of insiders from many cultures and traditions. In a globalized world, knowledge about non-North American societies and cultures is a must. Contemporary World Fiction: A Guide to Literature in Translation provides an overview of the tremendous range and scope of translated world fiction available in English. In so doing, it will help readers get a sense of the vast world beyond North America that is conveyed by fiction titles from dozens of countries and language traditions. Within the guide, approximately 1,000 contemporary non-English-language fiction titles are fully annotated and thousands of others are listed. Organization is primarily by language, as language often reflects cultural cohesion better than national borders or geographies, but also by country and culture. In addition to contemporary titles, each chapter features a brief overview of earlier translated fiction from the group. The guide also provides in-depth bibliographic essays for each chapter that will enable librarians and library users to further explore the literature of numerous languages and cultural traditions.
Author | : Viviane Elbee |
Publisher | : Albert Whitman & Company |
Total Pages | : 35 |
Release | : 2018-11-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 0807577669 |
Download Teach Your Giraffe to Ski Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
When the snow begins to fall and your giraffe takes to the slopes, a rollicking adventure ensues! Your giraffe wants to learn how to ski—but but not on the bunny hill. She wants to go down the big scary slope! Enjoy this riotous journey as the narrator tries to reign their giraffe in—and learns something about courage along the way.