Author : Jane Smiley
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 15,21 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1400040604
As her husband's obsessions with science take a darker turn on the eve of World War II, Margaret Mayfield is forced to consider the life she has so carefully constructed. By the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Thousand Acres.
Author : Josep Maria de Sagarra
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,19 MB
Release : 2015-11-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 091467126X
Private Life holds up a mirror to the moral corruption in the interstices of the Barcelona high society Sagarra was born into. Boudoirs of demimonde tramps, card games dilapidating the fortunes of milquetoast aristocrats - and how they scheme to conceal them - fading manors of selfish scions, and back rooms provided by social-climbing seamstresses are portrayed in vivid, sordid, and literary detail. The novel, practically a roman-à-clef for its contemporaries, was a scandal in 1932. The 1960's edition was bowdlerized by Franco's censors. Part Lampedusa, part Genet, this translation will bring an essential piece of 20th-century European literature to the English-speaking public.
Author : Philippe Ariès
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 658 pages
File Size : 41,96 MB
Release : 1987
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674400047
Library has Vol. 1-5.
Author : Ronald Mathias Lockley
Publisher :
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 18,73 MB
Release : 1964
Category : Rabbits
ISBN : 9780552092128
Author : Ran Chen
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 17,34 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Education
ISBN : 0231131968
Set against a backdrop of the decades that included the Cultural Revolution and the Tian'anmen Square Incident, A Private Life portrays the effect of that social change and political turbulence on the protagonists inner life as she moves from childhood to early maturity.
Author : Alejandro Zambra
Publisher : Open Letter Books
Page : 105 pages
File Size : 15,2 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1934824240
Worried that his wife Veronica will not return home from an art class, Julian imagines his stepdaughter Daniela's future without her mother and tells her an improvisional bedtime story.
Author : Yunxiang Yan
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 44,79 MB
Release : 2003-03-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0804764115
For seven years in the 1970s, the author lived in a village in northeast China as an ordinary farmer. In 1989, he returned to the village as an anthropologist to begin the unparalleled span of eleven years’ fieldwork that has resulted in this book—a comprehensive, vivid, and nuanced account of family change and the transformation of private life in rural China from 1949 to 1999. The author’s focus on the personal and the emotional sets this book apart from most studies of the Chinese family. Yan explores private lives to examine areas of family life that have been largely overlooked, such as emotion, desire, intimacy, privacy, conjugality, and individuality. He concludes that the past five decades have witnessed a dual transformation of private life: the rise of the private family, within which the private lives of individual women and men are thriving.
Author : Ratika Kapur
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 48,18 MB
Release : 2015-12-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1408873664
Renuka Sharma is a dutiful wife, mother, and daughter-in-law holding the fort in a modest rental in Delhi while her husband tries to rack up savings in Dubai. Working as a receptionist and committed to finding a place for her family in the New Indian Dream of air-conditioned malls and high paid jobs at multi-nationals, life is going as planned until the day she strikes up a conversation with an uncommonly self-possessed stranger at a Metro station. Because while Mrs Sharma may espouse traditional values, India is changing all around her, and it wouldn't be the end of the world if she came out of her shell a little, would it? With equal doses of humour and pathos, The Private Life of Mrs Sharma is a sharp-eyed examination of the clashing of tradition and modernity, from a dramatic new voice in Indian fiction.
Author : Philippe Ari`es
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 712 pages
File Size : 26,9 MB
Release : 1987
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674399747
Library has Vol. 1-5.
Author : P.-J. Stahl
Publisher :
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 37,36 MB
Release : 1877
Category : Animals
ISBN :
