Author : Su Tong
Publisher : Random House
Page : 15 pages
File Size : 12,88 MB
Release : 2011-11-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1448125863
You don't expect some guy making small talk on a train to turn into a real friend, but that was just the kind of friend Papa Qi was. And afterwards, Saturday became Papa Qi's visiting day. Every Saturday. Part of the Storycuts series, this short story was previously published in the collection Madwoman on the Bridge.`
Author : Su Tong
Publisher : Random House
Page : 15 pages
File Size : 44,4 MB
Release : 2011-11-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1448125898
Tan Feng was my one and only friend in Sichuan. He was the same age as me: about eight or nine. Tan Feng's family lived next door to us, and their other kids were all girls, so you can imagine how they spoiled their only boy. They really adored him, but they didn't know what he got up to. Tan Feng stole things. Part of the Storycuts series, this short story was previously published in the collection Madwoman on the Bridge.
Author : Su Tong
Publisher : Random House
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 49,68 MB
Release : 2011-11-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1448125820
The train was late, and the wind was blowing Meng's coat open in the snow. With no sign of his cousin, he needed somewhere to stay the night. An old man enticed him to a second-rate hostel, and despite his annoyance, Meng couldn't shake the feeling that he'd seen this place, and the old man, before. Part of the Storycuts series, this short story was previously published in the collection Madwoman on the Bridge.
Author : Su Tong
Publisher : Random House
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 42,82 MB
Release : 2011-11-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1448125901
Weeping Willow was a place that survived by serving long-distance drivers, with petrol, food and girls. The truck driver was badly shaken as he arrived there in the dark and rain, but more shaken when he left. Part of the Storycuts series, this short story was previously published in the collection Madwoman on the Bridge.
Author : Caroline Overington
Publisher : Random House Australia
Page : 41 pages
File Size : 50,28 MB
Release : 2012-10-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1742757014
A captivating short story of one man's journey into a cult and out the other side by bestselling author, Caroline Overington... Paul Bannerman is the newly elected deputy premier of Victoria, and he has a story to tell. For politics hasn't always been his life. Thirty years ago he was a young university student without a sense of purpose or any real ambition. Until a chance meeting one morning with the infamous Brother Ruhamah gives him the direction he seeks - straight into the cult of the Jesus People...
Author : Su Tong
Publisher : Random House
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 23,78 MB
Release : 2011-11-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 144812588X
Bao Qing was a classic example of what people in Maqiao meant when they spat out the word 'intellectual'. Coming home to his old town for the holidays was just as much trouble as not coming home, for this was a town where his old schoolmate Fatcat had every local business in his pocket. And Fatcat considered the returning 'professor' a celebrity. Bao Qing was about to get an invitation he could not refuse. Part of the Storycuts series, this short story was previously published in the collection Madwoman on the Bridge.
Author : Louise Wareham
Publisher : Akashic Books
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 40,8 MB
Release : 2004-05-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1888451637
From a Conneticut sanitarium, 24 year-old Betsy Scott tells her doctor a story about the destructive secrets in an outwardly successful family. Since You Ask is about the the origins of sexual compulsion, and the way in which one young woman attempts to overcome it. Born on the island of Antigua, Betsy and her brothers - the drug addict Raymond and the cool, detached Eric - are relocated to Manhatten. There, Betsy begins series of secret affairs that take her into increasingly dark situations.
Author : M C Scott
Publisher : Random House
Page : 27 pages
File Size : 19,24 MB
Release : 2011-11-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1448126177
Set during the turmoil of the brutal Christian conversion of the Norse, this short story is the coming of age tale of Arne Thoreson. Thoreson, whose condemnation of Christianity is born out of respect for his lineage, is the son of Thore, feeder of ravens, and Ranveig, a Singer witch. When adversity befalls Orkney, Arne must not only assert his defiant rejection of Christianity, but take decisive action to thwart the Christ-Wolf, Olaf Trygvason. Part of the Storycuts series.
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Page : 1038 pages
File Size : 12,70 MB
Release : 1881
Category : Art
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Author : Su Tong
Publisher : Penguin Group Australia
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 25,55 MB
Release : 2018-06-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1760144525
Who would have anticipated that Petulia, stripped of her silk gowns, would be forced to denounce the Red Delight Pavilion? Or believed that Autumn Grace would cry in desperation as nuns shave off her locks? After years working side-by-side, their sudden goodbye was the first sign of a changing society. Still, the scent of rouge filling their memories keeps them close, despite the twists and turns that life throws at them. Until one day, the promise of love and stability becomes a temptation neither can deny. . .
