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Farishta

Author : Patricia McArdle
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101515317
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Farishta written by Patricia McArdle and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-06-02 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An American diplomat is forced to confront the devastation of her past when she is assigned to remote northern Afghanistan. Twenty-one years ago, diplomat Angela Morgan witnessed the death of her husband during the bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Beirut. Devastated by her loss, she fled back to America, where she hid in the backwaters of the State Department and avoided the high-profile postings that would advance her career. Now, with that career about to dead-end and no true connections at home, she must take the one assignment available-at a remote British army outpost in northern Afghanistan. Unwelcome among the soldiers and unaccepted by the local government and warlords, Angela has to fight to earn the respect of her colleagues, especially the enigmatic Mark Davies, a British major who is by turns her staunchest ally and her fiercest critic. Frustrated at her inability to contribute to the nation's reconstruction, Angela slips out of camp disguised in a burka to provide aid to the refugees in the war-torn region. She becomes their farishta, or "angel," in the local Dari language-and discovers a new purpose for her life, a way to finally put her grief behind her. Drawing on the experiences of the author as a diplomat in Afghanistan, Farishta is a deeply moving and fast-paced story of a woman struggling to move beyond a past trauma, and finding a new community, a new love, and a new sense of self in the process.

Reading Rushdie

Author : M. D. Fletcher
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9789051837650
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (376 download)

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Download or read book Reading Rushdie written by M. D. Fletcher and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 1994 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Salman Rushdie is perhaps the most important writer of the present time. His significant and controversial literary interventions in debates on post-colonial culture and contemporary South Asian Islam are matched by the contribution he has made to postmodern literature in the West (culminating in the award to him in 1993 of the twenty-fifth-anniversary Booker of Bookers prize). This collection of articles focuses on Rushdie's five novels. The context is set by the introduction, The Politics of Salman Rushdie's Fiction, which discusses the political stance of Rushdie's fiction, the various influences on his work, and the textual strategies and techniques he employs, for political expression and cultural critique. The postmodern/post-colonial interface, the carnivalesque, and satire are major themes treated here and in the articles that follow, which also provide diverse other perspectives on Rushdie's thought and method. A number of essays have been commissioned specially for this volume. An appendix listing selected writings by Rushdie and articles on the Satanic Verses Affair is followed by a comprehensive bibliography annotating critical studies of Rushdie's work.

Utterly Other Discourse

Author : Ellen G. Friedman
Publisher : Dalkey Archive Press
ISBN 13 : 9781564780799
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (87 download)

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Download or read book Utterly Other Discourse written by Ellen G. Friedman and published by Dalkey Archive Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The British novelist and critic Christine Brooke-Rose (born 1923) is increasingly being regarded as one of the most significant writers of the contemporary period. In her dozen novels she has explored themes as diverse as biligualism (as a metaphor for alienation) and the influence of computer technology on the humanities. As these themes suggest, Brooke-Rose is sometimes perceived as a difficult writer, especially given the dazzling virtuosity of the linguistic wordplay that enlivens her later novels. "Utterly Other Discourse" (a phrase from her 1984 novel "Amalgamemnon") provides a valuable introduction to her work; in fifteen essays--some previously published, some written for this book--scholars from America, England, and Europe examine her work from a variety of critical angles.

A Sister to Honor

Author : Lucy Ferriss
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0698169042
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (981 download)

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Download or read book A Sister to Honor written by Lucy Ferriss and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-01-06 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New from the author of The Lost Daughter Afia Satar is studious, modest, and devout. The daughter of a landholding family in northern Pakistan, Afia has enrolled in an American college with the dream of returning to her country as a doctor. But when a photo surfaces online of Afia holding hands with an American boy, she is suddenly no longer safe—even from the family that cherishes her. Rising sports star Shahid Satar has been entrusted by his family to watch over Afia in this strange New England landscape. He has sworn to protect his beloved sister from the dangerous customs of America, from its loose morals and easy virtue. Shahid was the one who convinced their parents to allow her to come to the United States. He never imagined he’d be ordered to cleanse the stain of her shame... READERS GUIDE INCLUDED

The Silk Roads

Author : Vadime Elisseeff
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 9781571812216
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book The Silk Roads written by Vadime Elisseeff and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2000 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A look at the cultural, or intercultural, exchange that took place in the Silk Roads and the role this has played in the shaping of cultures and civilizations.

The Satanic Verses

Author : Salman Rushdie
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312270827
Total Pages : 580 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book The Satanic Verses written by Salman Rushdie and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2000-12 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just before dawn one winter's morning, a hijacked jetliner explodes above the English Channel. Through the falling debris, two figures, Gibreel Farishta, the biggest star in India, and Saladin Chamcha, an expatriate returning from his first visit to Bombay in fifteen years, plummet from the sky, washing up on the snow-covered sands of an English beach, and proceed through a series of metamorphoses, dreams, and revelations.

Inlets of the Soul

Author : Pierre François
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004484949
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Inlets of the Soul written by Pierre François and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-11-01 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The relationship of myth to literature has largely been overshadowed in contemporary theory by perspectives of a linguistic or sociological orientation and by relativist, sometimes negatory, stances on all searches for meaning. This book attempts to show that myth criticism and critical theories of more recent provenance are not irreconcilable. While taking into consideration some of the more influential tenets of structuralist, post-structuralist, Marxist and feminist theory, it applies a post-Jungian ('archetypal') approach to illustrating the perennial nature of a particular myth (the Fall of Man) in two main traditions (Mesopotamian and Christian) and in the contemporary novel in English. The discussions of five major novels by William Golding, Patrick White, Martin Amis, Salman Rushdie, and Wilson Harris not only serve to expand the mythological insights achieved in the first part of the book; they also suggest the incommensurability of imaginal, novelistic life with mythology's age-old intuitions about the human condition. Myth criticism emerges from this book as an irreplaceable vantage-point from which man's lapsarian predicament can be scrutinized synchronically as archaic wisdom, contemporary anxiety, and post-colonial commitment to the building of a new human city.

Being English

Author : Sayan Chattopadhyay
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000507211
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Being English written by Sayan Chattopadhyay and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2021-11-29 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book critically examines the cultural desire for anglicisation of the Indian middle class in the context of postcolonial India. It looks at the history of anglicised self-fashioning as one of the major responses of the Indian middle class to British colonialism. The book explores the rich variety of nineteenth- and twentieth-century writings that document the attempts by the Indian middle class to innovatively interpret their personal histories, their putative racial histories, and the history of India to appropriate the English language and lay claim to an “English” identity. It discusses this unique quest for “Englishness” by reading the works of authors like Michael Madhusudan Dutt, Rabindranath Tagore, Cornelia Sorabji, Nirad C. Chaudhuri, Dom Moraes, and Salman Rushdie. An important intervention, this book will be of interest to scholars and researchers of postcolonial studies, Indian English literature, South Asian studies, cultural studies, and English literature in general.

Katherine Hall Page Presents Malice Domestic 11: Murder Most Conventional

Author : Verena Rose
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 147942160X
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (794 download)

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Download or read book Katherine Hall Page Presents Malice Domestic 11: Murder Most Conventional written by Verena Rose and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2016-04-25 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Malice Domestic cozy anthology series returns with a new take on cozy mysteries in the Agatha Christie tradition. Here are 22 original stories (and one modern classic reprint) set at conventions, conferences, and gatherings of all kinds! Included are: Conventional Wisdom, by Marcia Talley Djinn And Tonic, by Neil Plakcy The Vanishing Wife, by Victoria Thompson The Right to Bare Arms, by John Gregory Betancourt Message in a Bottle, by Su Kopil Anonymous, by Kate Flora What Goes Around, by B.K. Stevens The Hair of the Dog, by Charles Todd The Best-Laid Plans, by Barb Goffman A Dark and Stormy Light, by Gigi Pandian The Clue in the Blue Booth, by Hank Phillippi Ryan Wicked Writers, by Frances McNamara Coverture, by KB Inglee Dark Secrets, by Kathryn Leigh Scott Tarnished Hope, by KM Rockwood Not Forgotten, by L.C. Tyler Boston Bouillabaisse, by Nancy Brewka-Clark Killing Kippers, by Eleanor Cawood Jones Elemental Chaos, by M Evonne Dobsonv Outside the Box, by Ruth Moose The Perfect Pitch, by Marie Hannan-Mandel Two Birds with One Stone, by Rhys Bowen A Gathering of Great Detectives, by Shawn Reilly Simmon

The Making of London

Author : S. Groes
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230306012
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book The Making of London written by S. Groes and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-12-04 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: London has become the focus of a ferocious imaginative energy since the rise of Thatcher. The Making of London analyses the body of work by writers who have committed their writing to the many lives of a city undergoing complex transformations, tracing a major shift in the representation of the capital city.

Genie for Hire: A Biff Andromeda Mystery

Author : Neil S. Plakcy
Publisher : Samwise Books
ISBN 13 : 1393009093
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (93 download)

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Book Synopsis Genie for Hire: A Biff Andromeda Mystery by : Neil S. Plakcy

Download or read book Genie for Hire: A Biff Andromeda Mystery written by Neil S. Plakcy and published by Samwise Books. This book was released on 2021-09-23 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A centuries-old genie reinvents himself as a private eye in modern-day Miami. An ancient genie in a modern, buff body, Biff Andromeda can't use his magical powers for his own benefit, so he opens a detective agency in a Miami suburb. A damsel in distress, photographer Sveta Pshkov, hires him to retrieve a stolen set of boudoir photos she took of a Russian mobster's wife-snapped for her boyfriend's pleasure, not her husband's. Biff's investigation into the spreading tentacles of the Russian mafia turns personal when he realizes that the dangerous female genie he has loved and lost over centuries has a desperate stake in the outcome.

Postmodern Characters

Author : Aleid Fokkema
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004647228
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book Postmodern Characters written by Aleid Fokkema and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1991 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Bolalarga Tushunarli Islom

Author : Sardor Nabievich
Publisher : Litres
ISBN 13 : 5043688416
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (436 download)

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Download or read book Bolalarga Tushunarli Islom written by Sardor Nabievich and published by Litres. This book was released on 2022-05-15 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Shades of Empire in Colonial and Post-colonial Literatures

Author : C. C. Barfoot
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9789051833652
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (336 download)

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Download or read book Shades of Empire in Colonial and Post-colonial Literatures written by C. C. Barfoot and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 1993 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All The Essays In This Anthology Reflect The Growing Importance Of Literature And Cultures That Might Once Have Been Regarded As Marginal. This Book Affirms The Importance And Interest Of A Wide Variety Of Literatures Sharing A Language But Reflecting A Rich And Provocative Diversity Of Histories, Experiences And Attitudes To The Shared World Which Still Divides Us. Couple Of The Essays Look Into The Work Of Anita Desai And Salman Rushdie.

Black Cat Weekly #116

Author : Norman Spinrad
Publisher : Black Cat Weekly
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Black Cat Weekly #116 written by Norman Spinrad and published by Black Cat Weekly. This book was released on 2023-11-19 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On behalf of the staff, the contributors, and myself, I’d like to wish everyone a happy Thanksgiving. (You may all burst into traditional Thanksgiving carols, should you wish.) Here’s our holiday lineup: Mysteries / Suspense / Adventure: “The Restavek,” by Neil S. Plakcy [Michael Bracken Presents short story] “The Case of the Tipsy Turkey,” by Hal Charles [Solve-It-Yourself Mystery] “he Final Course,” by Stacy Woodson [Barb Goffman Presents short story] “Tiger Island,” by Carl Jacobi [short story] Tiger Island, by Jack Ritchie [serial novel, part 1 of 3] Science Fiction & Fantasy: “Baad-hin’jan and the Chickpea,” by Anna Tambour [short story] “The Music of the Sphere” by Norman Spinrad [short story] “Go To Sleep, My Darling,” by Winston K. Marks [short story] “The Statistomat Pitch,” by Chan Davis [short story] The Eagle’s Wing, by Francis Jarman [serial novel, part 1 of 4]

Spear Garden

Author : Thom Tate
Publisher : Thom Tate
ISBN 13 : 1310839867
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Spear Garden written by Thom Tate and published by Thom Tate. This book was released on 2015-12-17 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A high official is devising a coup inside Europe's last dictatorship. Meanwhile, while on a mission in Cuba, CIA operative, Blake MacKay discovers that a devastating new weapon is in the hands of an Al Qaeda arms dealer. As he unravels the clues to connect the two, a traitor from the inside will stop at nothing to keep him from succeeding.

Dickens and the Virtual City

Author : Estelle Murail
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319350862
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (193 download)

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Download or read book Dickens and the Virtual City written by Estelle Murail and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-10-14 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the aesthetic practices used by Dickens to make the space which we have come to know as the Dickensian City. It concentrates on three very precise techniques for the production of social space (counter-mapping, overlaying and troping). The chapters show the scapes and writings which influenced him and the way he transformed them, packaged them and passed them on for future use. The city is shown to be an imagined or virtual world but with a serious aim for a serious game: Dickens sets up a workshop for the simulation of real societies and cities. This urban building with is transferable to other literatures and medial forms. The book offers vital understanding of how writing and image work in particular ways to recreate and re-enchant society and the built environment. It will be of interest to scholars of literature, media, film, urban studies, politics and economics.