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A collection of 80 traditional short stories and legends from the local oral tradition. These folk tales offer insights into the history, culture and beliefs of the people of the Maldives and into the world they live in.
Author : Xavier Romero-Frías
Publisher : Nordic Institute of Asian Studies
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 14,74 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9788776941048
A collection of 80 traditional short stories and legends from the local oral tradition. These folk tales offer insights into the history, culture and beliefs of the people of the Maldives and into the world they live in.
Author : Xavier Romero-Frías
Publisher :
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 24,9 MB
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Ethnology
ISBN : 9788472548015
Author : Angela McAllister
Publisher : World Full Of
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 48,9 MB
Release : 2022-05-03
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0711266476
50 classic nature stories from Angela McAllister are brought to life with sumptuous illustrations from Hannah Bess Ross, making this an anthology to treasure for a lifetime and celebrating nature and getting outdoors.
Author : Marina Warner
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 577 pages
File Size : 25,43 MB
Release : 2012-03-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0674065077
Our foremost theorist of myth, fairytale, and folktale explores the magical realm of the imagination where carpets fly and genies grant prophetic wishes. Stranger Magic examines the profound impact of the Arabian Nights on the West, the progressive exoticization of magic, and the growing acceptance of myth and magic in contemporary experience.
Author : Xavier Romero-Frías
Publisher : Nordic Institute of Asian Studies
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,32 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9788776941055
A collection of 80 traditional short stories and legends from the local oral tradition. These folk tales offer insights into the history, culture and beliefs of the people of the Maldives and into the world they live in.
Author : Margaret Mayo
Publisher : Franklin Watts
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 23,45 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Fairy tales
ISBN : 9781846165290
In these 14 magical stories from around the world, you can read about the princess who climbs out of a lemon, the king who wants only to touch the moon, and the three golden apples which can bring a princess back to life.
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Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 41,81 MB
Release : 2020-08-04
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0231551630
In this anthology, Vietnamese writers describe their experience of what they call the American War and its lasting legacy through the lens of their own vital artistic visions. A North Vietnamese soldier forms a bond with an abandoned puppy. Cousins find their lives upended by the revelation that their fathers fought on opposite sides of the war. Two lonely veterans in Hanoi meet years after the war has ended through a newspaper dating service. A psychic assists the search for the body of a long-vanished soldier. The father of a girl suffering from dioxin poisoning struggles with corrupt local officials. The twenty short stories collected in Other Moons range from the intensely personal to narratives that deal with larger questions of remembrance, trauma, and healing. By a diverse set of authors, including many veterans, they span styles from social realism to tales of the fantastic. Yet whether describing the effects of Agent Orange exposure or telling ghost stories, all speak to the unresolved legacy of a conflict that still haunts Vietnam. Among the most widely anthologized and popular pieces of short fiction about the war in Vietnam, these works appear here for the first time in English. Other Moons offers Anglophone audiences an unparalleled opportunity to experience how the Vietnamese think and write about the conflict that consumed their country from 1954 to 1975—a perspective still largely missing from American narratives.
Author : Sonia Nimir
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 38,78 MB
Release : 2021-11-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1623710804
WINNER OF THE PRESIGIOUS ETISALAT AWARD AN ADVENTURE-FILLED HISTORICAL-FOLKLORIC NOVEL ABOUT A PALESTINIAN GIRL WHO DEVELOPS GREAT HEALING SKILLS AND TRAVELS AROUND THE REGION, SOMETIMES DRESSED AS A MAN Sonia Nimr’s award-winning Wondrous Journeys in Strange Lands is a richly imagined feminist-fable-plus-historical-novel that tells an episodic travel narrative, like that of the great 14th century Moroccan traveler Ibn Battuta, through the eyes of a clever and irrepressible young Palestinian woman. The story begins hundreds of years ago, when our hero—Qamr—is born as an outcast, at the foot of a mountain in Palestine, near her father’s strange, isolated village. Qamr’s mother must solve the mystery of why only boys are born in this odd, conservative village. Then, in 1001 Nights style, this tale moves into another. Qamr’s parents die and a prince with many wives wants to marry her. Qamr takes her favorite book, Wondrous Journeys in Strange Lands, and flees through Gaza, to Egypt, where she is captured, enslaved, and sold to the sister of the mad king in Egypt. After escaping, she flees to study with a polymath in Morocco. But when it’s discovered she’s a girl, she must leave again, disguising herself as a boy pirate to sail the Mediterranean. Through all her fast-paced battles, mysteries, and adventures, Qamr never finds a home, but she does manage to create a family.
Author : Sekihan Kin
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 11,37 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0231153112
The Curious Tale of Mandogi's Ghost incorporates Korean folk tales, ghost stories, and myth into a phenomenal depiction of epic tragedy. Written by a zainichi, a permanent resident of Japan who is not of Japanese ancestry, the novel tells the story of Mandogi, a young priest living on the island of Cheju-do. Mandogi becomes unwittingly involved in the Four-Three Incident of 1948, in which the South Korean government brutally suppressed an armed peasant uprising and purged Cheju-do of communist sympathizers. Although Mandogi is sentenced to death for his part in the riot, he survives (in a sense) to take revenge on his enemies and fully commit himself to the resistance. Mandogi's indeterminate, shapeshifting character is emblematic of Japanese colonialism's outsized impact on both ruler and ruled. A central work of postwar Japanese fiction, The Curious Tale of Mandogi's Ghost relates the trauma of a long-forgotten history and its indelible imprint on Japanese and Korean memory.
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Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 32,24 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Tales
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