A Useless Young Man?


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A Useless Man


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With all the wit and brilliance of Chekhov, a distinctive collection of lyrical stories from Sait Faik Abasıyanık, “Turkey’s greatest short story writer” (The Guardian) Sait Faik Abasıyanık’s fiction traces the interior lives of strangers in his native Istanbul: ancient coffeehouse proprietors, priests, dream-addled fishermen, poets of the Princes’ Isles, lovers and wandering minstrels of another time. The stories in A Useless Man are shaped by Sait Faik’s political autobiography – his resistance to social convention, the relentless pace of westernization, and the ethnic cleansing of his city – as he conjures the varied textures of life in Istanbul and its surrounding islands. The calm surface of these stories might seem to signal deference to the new Republic’s restrictions on language and culture, but Abasıyanık’s prose is crafted deceptively, with dark, subversive undercurrents. “Reading these stories by Sait Faik feels like finding the secret doors inside of poems,” Rivka Galchen wrote. Beautifully translated by Maureen Freely and Alexander Dawe, A Useless Man is the most comprehensive collection of Sait Faik’s stories in English to date.







The Talk


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Who are you? Why do you do the things you do? What should you do with your life? Have you figured it out? Have you figured out how to figure it out? That’s what this book is for. I could give you my credentials—teacher, coach, youth leader, husband, father, former young person—but don’t trust me because of my credentials. In fact, don’t trust me at all. Who I am doesn’t matter; this is about you. Are you made for more than to be entertained? Do you act on your whims or in response to a calling? Do you take good risks? What are you prepared to suffer for them? Are you ready for manhood or womanhood? For parenthood? Are you prepared for the realities of education and work? The world is coming. Will you meet it with a strong identity or in a state of confusion? The Talk awaits. How will you answer? It’s up to you.







Huhito Fables Vol.40


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Warning: This fable may affect children's primary education. It should be purchased by a sensible adult over 18 years old. And please make your own version of the story and read it to your children. ..。:*..。:*..。:* Catalog of works *:。..*:。..*:。.. Prideful Pundit / A young man who aimed to become a magician / Objects that are the highlight of tourism / Horse, Donkey and Cow / Children born one after another / A monk who skipped austere training / Incomplete God and Imperfect God / Lonely Goat / Monkey, Fox and Sly Wisdom / Stones to be flowed away / Appealing Youth Part 1 Big Box and Fisherman / Three Nannies / Those who will go the way without asking or obeying others / Maintenance of Status Quo / Expensive Cloak / Mouse that has dabbled in feed of a cat / Cow that rebelled against a cow herder / Wolf who does not eat sheep / Old Man and Whiskey Barrel / Applause of Monkey / Appealing Youth Part 2 Pig's Tweet / A man scratched by a cat / Grim Reaper and God of Poverty / Wolf and Shepherd / Fisherman and Net of large mesh / Three Dogs / Excuse for Parenting / Hawk, Black Kite, and Pigeon / Widow and Cow / Eagle and Arrow / Appealing Youth Part 3 Sick Bee / Merchant and Sea / Birds in the aviary and a sly cat / Seven Little Birds / River Flooding / The beginning of the civil war / Prayer to God / Fruit Tree Roof / Solving of the problem / Beautiful Bird Feather / Appealing Youth Part 4 Rumor of Fox / Seagull and Prey / Goat who kept licking salt / Match that does not light / Mice that changed its body color / Farmer, Chicken and Duck / A wife scratching her husband's back / Debt of Debt Collector / A wife who turns on the fireplace in the summer and the fan in the winter / Moving of two scholars / Appealing Youth Part 5 ..。:*..。:*..。:*..。:*..。:*:。..*:。..*:。..*:。..*:。..*:。..







Hunt of the Kentusun


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Neil and Deke are both suffering from Gene's death and cannot seem to put it behind them no matter how much they try. Neil has reverted back to who he was before Hichester and Deke has drowned himself in work to hide his grief. When these two brothers are brought back together after years of being apart, there might be hope for the world. However, they are not little kids anymore which means that there are a hundred things that have changed... and dozens more puzzles, twists and sinister plots that have built up. Can the two brothers stick together long enough to defeat Nohte at his own game and find their rightful places in the world or will they let their lack of determination and their significant grief win?




Sozaboy


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Sozaboy powerfully describes the fate of a young, naive soldier thrown into the frontline of a civil war, from his first proud days of recruitment to the disillusionment and horrors that follow. Mene yearns for manhood. He dreams of gaining the glory that the ex-soldier in his village brags about, with his stories of hunting 'Hitla'. So when war breaks out and soldiers appear in Mene's isolated village, he sees his chance to finally wear a uniform. Too soon, however, Mene's innocence turns to terror. While witnessing the unfathomable, Mene must learn to evade the carnage of warfare if he wants to make it home alive... Writing in Nigerian Pidgin English, Ken Saro-Wiwa creates a unique window into the dark consequences of meaningless war. 'Haunting.' Guardian 'Sozaboy is not simply a great African novel, it is also a great anti-war novel, among the very best the twentieth century has produced.' William Boyd




A Young Man's Year


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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "A Young Man's Year" by Anthony Hope. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.