Book Description
An exercise in fear, as a killer makes a bold prison escape, then takes refuge on a farm -- only to change forever the lives he threatens...
Author : Melba Marlett
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 57 pages
File Size : 12,62 MB
Release : 2018-05-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1479417661
An exercise in fear, as a killer makes a bold prison escape, then takes refuge on a farm -- only to change forever the lives he threatens...
Author : Dima Wannous
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 14,81 MB
Release : 2020-08-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 052565514X
**Finalist for the 2018 International Prize for Arabic Fiction** A timely and haunting novel from an exciting new voice in international literature, set in present-day Syria In her therapist's waiting room in Damascus, Suleima meets a strange and reticent man named Naseem, and they soon begin a tense affair. But when Naseem, a writer, flees Syria for Germany, he sends Suleima the unfinished manuscript of his novel. To Suleima's surprise, she and the novel's protagonist are uncannily similar. As she reads, Suleima's past overwhelms her and she has no idea what to trust--Naseem's pages, her own memory, or nothing at all? Narrated in alternating chapters by Suleima and the mysterious woman portrayed in Naseem's novel, The Frightened Ones is a boundary-blurring, radical examination of the effects of oppression on one's sense of identity, the effects of collective trauma, and a moving window into life inside Assad's Syria.
Author : Mrs. Melba Balmat Grimes Marlett
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Page : pages
File Size : 40,57 MB
Release : 1956
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Author : Dima Wannous
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,81 MB
Release : 2021-05-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1784707996
Out of the blue, Suleima's lover sends her a book he has written. Might this be the moment she finally feels she can understand him? An electrifying new voice from contemporary Syria on life in a climate of fear Suleima and Nassim first meet in their therapist’s tiny waiting room in Damascus. In the city’s atmosphere of surveillance and anxiety, they begin a tenuous relationship. Some years later, after civil war breaks out, Nassim leaves Syria for Germany. He doesn’t ask Suleima to come with him; instead, from thousands of miles away, he sends her a book he has written, a novel about a woman whose experiences are very close to her own. As Suleima reads, her past overwhelms her. Time begins to fold in on itself, her sense of identity unravels, she has no idea what to trust – Naseem’s pages, her own memory – both – or neither? As she attempts to solve the mystery of her lover’s manuscript, she must confront what has happened to her family, to her country, and start to make sense of who she is and what she has become. Bold, contemporary, and told with captivating immediacy, The Frightened Ones is an intimate reckoning of living with fear from an electrifying new voice.
Author : Melba Marlett
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Page : 216 pages
File Size : 22,10 MB
Release : 1956
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Author : Peter Orullian
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 946 pages
File Size : 19,23 MB
Release : 2012-01-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780765364692
A sprawling, complex tale of magic and destiny that won't disappoint its readers. This auspicious beginning for author Peter Orullian will have you looking forward to more.--Terry Brooks.
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Page : 80 pages
File Size : 38,69 MB
Release : 1905
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Author : Thomas Henry Burrowes
Publisher :
Page : 962 pages
File Size : 41,38 MB
Release : 1878
Category : Education
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Author : Julian Barnes
Publisher : Vintage Canada
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 48,19 MB
Release : 2010-05-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0307368440
"I don’t believe in God, but I miss him." So begins Julian Barnes’s brilliant new book that is, among many things, a family memoir, an exchange with his brother (a philosopher), a meditation on mortality and the fear of death, a celebration of art, an argument with and about God and a homage to the writer Jules Renard. Barnes also draws poignant portraits of the last days of his parents, recalled with great detail, affection and exasperation. Other examples he takes up include writers, "most of them dead and quite a few of them French," as well as some composers, for good measure. The grace with which Barnes weaves together all of these threads makes the experience of reading the book nothing less than exhilarating. Although he cautions us that "this is not my autobiography," the book nonetheless reveals much about Barnes the man and the novelist: how he thinks and how he writes and how he lives. At once deadly serious and dazzlingly playful, Nothing to Be Frightened Of is a wise, funny and constantly surprising tour of the human condition.
Author : Henry Watterson
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Page : 660 pages
File Size : 20,32 MB
Release : 1898
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