A War of Eyes and Other Stories
Author : Wanda Coleman
Publisher :
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 49,98 MB
Release : 1988
Category : African Americans
ISBN :
Author : Wanda Coleman
Publisher :
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 49,98 MB
Release : 1988
Category : African Americans
ISBN :
Author : Russell Charles Leong
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 11,88 MB
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0295802723
Russell Charles Leong shows an astonishing range in this new collection of stories. From struggling war refugees to monks, intellectuals to sex workers, his characters are both linked and separated by their experiences as modern Asians and Asian Americans. In styles ranging from naturalism to high-camp parody, Leong goes beneath stereotypes of immigrant and American-born Chinese, hustlers and academics, Buddhist priests and street people. Displacement and marginalization — and the search for love and liberation — are persistent themes. Leong’s people are set apart, by sexuality, by war, by AIDS, by family dislocations. From this vantage point on the outskirts of conventional life, they often see clearly the accommodations we make with identity and with desire. A young teen-ager, sold into prostitution to finance her brothers’ education, saves her hair trimmings to burn once a year in a temple ritual, the one part of her body that is under her own control. A documentary film producer, raised in a noisy Hong Kong family, marvels at the popular image of Asian Americans as a silenced minority. Traditional Chinese families struggle to come to terms with gay children and AIDS.
Author : Joe Haldeman
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 13,56 MB
Release : 2006-08-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1101157895
6 years of stories from the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author. Here are fifteen stories-never before collected-that tread upon familiar Haldeman territory, as well as explore the outer reaches of his phenomenal imagination.
Author : Anne Fine
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 125 pages
File Size : 30,77 MB
Release : 2001-07-05
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0141944277
Kitty Killin is not only a good storyteller, but also the World's Greatest Expert when it comes to mothers having new and unwanted boyfriends. Particularly when there's a danger they might turn into new and unwanted stepfathers...
Author : Frank D. McSherry
Publisher : Pocket Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 16,25 MB
Release : 1990
Category : American fiction
ISBN : 9780671702489
Contains ten fiction stories, each of which focuses on the actions of one or more women during the Civil War, written by a variety of women authors including Louisa May Alcott, Kate Chopin, and Eudora Welty.
Author : Sŏn-jak Cho
Publisher : Jain Publishing Company
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 45,64 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0895818280
Cho Sun Jak is a prolific South Korean writer of many novels and short stories. Many of his works have been adapted successfully as TV dramas and films, but very few of his works have been available in English till now. He presents an honest and frank view of the reality behind the successful development of modern Korea, with humor and sensitivity. The well-known novella, "The Preview," depicts the Korean War through the eyes of a young boy, and the other stories in this collection reflect the aftermath of the war, the desperate lives of the poor, the corruption of moral values, and the pathos of the lives of good-hearted prostitutes. The translations capture well the atmosphere and values of the period in which the stories were written. Detailed notes clarify linguistic points and the social and cultural context.
Author : Chopra Vinita
Publisher : BecomeShakespeare.com
Page : 119 pages
File Size : 13,87 MB
Release : 2019-01-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9388573498
The author, on the one hand, has written simple yet thoughtprovoking stories about minor turbulences in the work-life balance of working women, and on the other, has given a heartrending account of those who had to sacrifice their personal needs and aspirations for the sake of others. An empathetic connection with those, who are physically challenged, has been established in two of the stories. Some stories, written in the backdrop of the lives of civil servants, make an interesting and informative reading. ************* Poor girl was swinging in the pendulum of hope and expectations on one end to disappointments and rejections on the other. It seemed nobody cared for her feelings. She was unable to gauge her own mother’s intentions. I, as an outsider, felt that there were some selfish and ulterior motives behind the seemingly genuine failures of the sincere attempts to get her married. ************* They do not know how zebra is different from a giraffe. They have not seen the hues of nature. How green is the green of the leaves and what it is like when the leaves turn yellow in autumn! They have not seen the radiance of the rising sun or the glow of the full moon. They have not experienced the pleasure of seeing the gigantic mountains or the vast oceans or the meandering clouds.
Author : L. Adams Beck
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 49,38 MB
Release : 2023-08-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3387013922
Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
Author : Frances Noyes Hart
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 29,57 MB
Release : 2023-08-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3368911805
Reproduction of the original.
Author : Liam Callanan
Publisher : Four Way Books
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 11,23 MB
Release : 2016-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1935536826
Listen is a book where characters ask readers to do just that: listen to their stories, especially because many aren't the type of people who often get listened to - even though they should. These characters' trials, missed connections, and sundry challenges are full of surprises - some good, some bad, some funny, some wise, and some all this at once. Perhaps most surprising of all, there's tenderness here and a lot of heart - which often gets the collection's characters into a lot of trouble.