Marriage of the Palm Tree and Other Stories
Author : Charry Ada Onwuguzo
Publisher :
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 34,6 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Social Science
ISBN :
Author : Charry Ada Onwuguzo
Publisher :
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 34,6 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Social Science
ISBN :
Author : Cāsō
Publisher : Penguin Books India
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 26,57 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0143068687
The stories in Dolls' Wedding, by the finest short-story writer in modern Telugu, are nuanced, hard-hitting and marked by the total absence of sentimentality.
Author : Pam Durban
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 49,20 MB
Release : 1995-08-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780820317755
The seven stories in Pam Durban's widely praised debut collection are tales of family, of love and loss, of survival and affirmation. Durban's resonant prose subtly obliges her readers to experience the rush of icy water in a stream, the taste of greens freshly snatched from an overgrown garden, the dread weight of confusion and uncertainty. In "This Heat," the opening story, a mill worker faces the long-expected loss of her teenage son when his weak heart finally gives out. In the title story, which concludes the collection, a formidably eccentric woman abruptly leaves her daughter and granddaughter to answer a "calling" to do missionary work in Africa. Framed between these two stories is a gathering of characters made real and consequential by Durban's touch: a country singer more than a few big breaks short of stardom, a preadolescent boy lovestruck over his private swimming instructor, a father cut off from his children by haunting war memories, and others.
Author : Luz Gabás
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 633 pages
File Size : 45,47 MB
Release : 2015-10-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1504016807
Letters from the past transport a young Spanish woman into the mysterious lives of her father and her uncle during the waning years of colonial rule in Guinea When Clarence comes upon a series of letters from her family’s past, she starts to piece together the story of her father’s travels with his brother, and she becomes curious about her origins. Sifting through the clues and assembling the narrative, Clarence embarks on a journey to the exotic African isle of Fernando Poo, where the 2 brothers, Jacobo and Kilian, landed after fleeing their conventional, safe lives in the Spanish Pyrenees. A secret rests at the heart of this tale as it moves back and forth between generations and spaces. For Clarence, in 2003, the life that Jacobo and Kilian created 50 years ago on the island as 2 expatriate cocoa cultivators starts to unfold. The brothers explore a culture that is starkly different from Spain, and in the midst of discovering what it means to grow the perfect cocoa beans, they build a strong friendship—and learn the dangers and delights of forbidden love.
Author : Ed Robison
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 10,79 MB
Release : 2002-07-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1462807712
Author : Vivian Sihshu Yenika
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 33,85 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0595292240
This book deals with family experiences in a contemporary West African country.
Author : Brandy Luna
Publisher :
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 29,30 MB
Release : 2020-10-12
Category :
ISBN : 9780578240367
Palm tree: This type of tree is one that can endure heat at its hottest, and hurricanes at their strongest, and has the resiliency to snap back and stand tall. Here within these pages tells a true story of a girl who can very much relate to palm trees. The high winds of life as a child fiercely roared against her, making her feel as if she would break at any moment. But just as she surrendered to the God of all creation, and as He calmed her storm, she slowly eased into the way of life that she was created to live. Standing tall, and resilient. May you read through her journey and realize that you too have access to the saving grace she experienced and can stand tall and strong, like a palm tree. *For the protection and privacy of others, names in this story have been changed.*
Author : Denis Johnson
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 638 pages
File Size : 45,69 MB
Release : 2007-09-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780374279127
Once upon a time there was a war . . . and a young American who thought of himself as the Quiet American and the Ugly American, and who wished to be neither, who wanted instead to be the Wise American, or the Good American, but who eventually came to witness himself as the Real American and finally as simply the Fucking American. That’s me. This is the story of Skip Sands—spy-in-training, engaged in Psychological Operations against the Vietcong—and the disasters that befall him thanks to his famous uncle, a war hero known in intelligence circles simply as the Colonel. This is also the story of the Houston brothers, Bill and James, young men who drift out of the Arizona desert into a war in which the line between disinformation and delusion has blurred away. In its vision of human folly, and its gritty, sympathetic portraits of men and women desperate for an end to their loneliness, whether in sex or death or by the grace of God, this is a story like nothing in our literature. Tree of Smoke is Denis Johnson’s first full-length novel in nine years, and his most gripping, beautiful, and powerful work to date. Tree of Smoke is the 2007 National Book Award Winner for Fiction.
Author : David Herbert Lawrence
Publisher : Wordsworth Editions
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 19,13 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781853261954
These stories of myth and resurrection, of uncanny events and violent impulse, were with one exception written and published in the latter half of the 1920s.
Author : James Berry
Publisher : Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 11,77 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN :
The West Indian trickster Anancy Spiderman tries to persuade Sun-Spirit, Water-Spirit, Earth-Spirit, and Air-Spirit to create the world's first palm trees so that he can collect a reward from the king.