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Popular Music from Vittula

Author : Mikael Niemi
Publisher : Seven Stories Press
ISBN 13 : 1609802888
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book Popular Music from Vittula written by Mikael Niemi and published by Seven Stories Press. This book was released on 2011-01-04 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Popular Music from Vittula tells the fantastical story of a young boy's unordinary existence, peopled by a visiting African priest, a witch in the heart of the forest, cousins from Missouri, an old Nazi, a beautiful girl with a black Volvo, silent men and tough women, a champion-bicyclist music teacher with a thumb in the middle of his hand—and, not least, on a shiny vinyl disk, the Beatles. The story unfolds in sweltering wood saunas, amidst chain thrashings and gang warfare, learning to play the guitar in the garage, over a traditional wedding meal, on the way to China, during drinking competitions, while learning secret languages, playing ice hockey surrounded by snow drifts, outsmarting mice, discovering girls, staging a first rock concert, peeing in the snow, skiing under a sparkling midnight sky. In the manner of David Mitchell’s Black Swan Green, Mikael Niemi tells a story of a rural Sweden at once foreign and familiar, as a magical childhood slowly fades with the seasons into adult reality.

To Cook a Bear

Author : Mikael Niemi
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 014313390X
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (431 download)

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Download or read book To Cook a Bear written by Mikael Niemi and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-01-12 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER | A SUNDAY TIMES UK BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR | SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA CRIME FICTION IN TRANSLATION AWARD “So much to relish here . . . and the writing is just lovely!” —Diane Setterfield, New York Times bestselling author of The Thirteenth Tale and Once Upon a River A fantastic tale set in the far north of Sweden in 1852 following a runaway Sami boy and his mentor, the famous pastor Laestadius, as they investigate a murder in their village along with the mysteries of life. Jussi, a runaway, becomes Laestadius's faithful son and disciple, and the two set out on botanical treks filled with philosophical discussions where Jussi learns all about plants and nature; and also how to read and write and about spirituality. But their quiet days are interrupted when a maid goes missing in the forest. When she is found dead, the locals suspect a predatory bear is at large. The constable is quick to offer a reward for capturing it, but Laestadius sees other traces that point to a far worse killer on the loose. After another maid is severely injured, Jussi and the pastor work to track down the murderer, unaware of the evil that is closing in on them. For it is revivalist times, and impassioned faith spreads like wildfire among the locals. While Laestadius's powerful Sunday sermons grant salvation to farmers and workers, they gain him enemies among local rulers, who see profits dwindle as people choose revival over alcohol. A completely absorbing and unforgettable novel, To Cook a Bear both entertains and burrows deep down into the great philosophical questions of life.

Popular Music

Author : Mikael Niemi
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0007145500
Total Pages : 25 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Popular Music written by Mikael Niemi and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2003 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘A wonderfully warm tale of weddings, funerals, marathon sauna contests – and the incomparable thrill of your first kiss, from the Nick Hornby of the Arctic.’ Marina Warner, Sunday Times

The Music Lesson

Author : Katharine Weber
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312252854
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (528 download)

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Download or read book The Music Lesson written by Katharine Weber and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2000-01-02 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Patricia Dolan is alone with a stolen Vermeer painting in an Irish cottage by the sea. How she got here is part of the story she tells us: about her father, a Boston cop; the numbing loss of her daughter; and her charming Irish cousin, who has led her to this high-stakes crime. Her vigil becomes a tale of love, regret, and transformation. As Patricia immerses herself in the passions of her Irish heritage, she discovers what has been hidden beneath the surface of her own life--and what she must do to preserve the things she values most.

Highway 61 Revisited

Author : Gene Santoro
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195154819
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)

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Download or read book Highway 61 Revisited written by Gene Santoro and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2004 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of the pervasive influence of jazz on all forms of American music, this work maps the unexpected musical and cultural links between Louis Armstrong, Willie Nelson, Bob Dylan, Herbie Hancock and many others.

Nowhere Man

Author : Aleksandar Hemon
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 1400076366
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nowhere Man written by Aleksandar Hemon and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2009-12-23 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this stylistically adventurous, brilliantly funny tour de force-the most highly acclaimed debut since Nathan Englander's-Aleksander Hemon writes of love and war, Sarajevo and America, with a skill and imagination that are breathtaking. A love affair is experienced in the blink of an eye as the Archduke Ferdinand watches his wife succumb to an assassin's bullet. An exiled writer, working in a sandwich shop in Chicago, adjusts to the absurdities of his life. Love letters from war torn Sarajevo navigate the art of getting from point A to point B without being shot. With a surefooted sense of detail and life-saving humor, Aleksandar Hemon examines the overwhelming events of history and the effect they have on individual lives. These heartrending stories bear the unmistakable mark of an important new international writer.

In Conversation

Author : Mike Palmquist
Publisher : Macmillan Higher Education
ISBN 13 : 1319412386
Total Pages : 1172 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (194 download)

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Download or read book In Conversation written by Mike Palmquist and published by Macmillan Higher Education. This book was released on 2022-09-14 with total page 1172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Conversation helps you think critically about why you’re writing and who you’re writing to while preparing you for all the kinds of writing you need to do.

The Beauty and the Sorrow

Author : Peter Englund
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307739287
Total Pages : 594 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book The Beauty and the Sorrow written by Peter Englund and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2012-09-04 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An intimate narrative history of World War I told through the stories of twenty men and women from around the globe--a powerful, illuminating, heart-rending picture of what the war was really like. In this masterful book, renowned historian Peter Englund describes this epoch-defining event by weaving together accounts of the average man or woman who experienced it. Drawing on the diaries, journals, and letters of twenty individuals from Belgium, Denmark, France, Great Britain, Germany, Austria, Hungary, Italy, Australia, New Zealand, Russia, Venezuela, and the United States, Englund’s collection of these varied perspectives describes not a course of events but "a world of feeling." Composed in short chapters that move between the home front and the front lines, The Beauty and Sorrow brings to life these twenty particular people and lets them speak for all who were shaped in some way by the War, but whose voices have remained unheard.

Writing Music

Author : Jeffrey Ousborne
Publisher : Bedford Books
ISBN 13 : 9781319020156
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book Writing Music written by Jeffrey Ousborne and published by Bedford Books. This book was released on 2017-10-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critically explore the central questions connected to music like what is it? how do we make it? and why do we love it? through carefully chosen readings by musicians, psychologists, philosophers, and others as Writing Music helps you learn to write vividly about music.

Swedish Mentality

Author : Åke Daun
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271071915
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Swedish Mentality written by Åke Daun and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 1996-01-12 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is there a distinctly Swedish national character? Are Swedes truly shy, unemotional, conflict-avoiding, melancholy, and dour? Swedish Mentality, the English translation of the hugely successful book published in Sweden in 1989, considers the reality behind the myth. The author, Åke Daun, is a respected ethnologist who is sometimes referred to as the "guru" of Swedish character. In recent years, it has become popular to discuss Swedishness and Swedish identity. The advent of the European Union and the increasing presence of immigrant refugees in Sweden have fueled public debate on the distinctiveness of Swedish culture. Daun, however, goes beyond stereotype, drawing upon statistics gathered over more than a decade of research. The result is an entertaining and engagingly written book. Throughout, Daun quotes from interviews with native Swedes and immigrants as well as from travel accounts, folklore, and proverbs. We learn why some Swedes might prefer to walk up a flight of stairs rather than share an elevator with a neighbor and why some gain satisfaction from walking alone in the woods or going fishing. Daun describes a range of factors influencing Swedish character, including population composition, rural background, and even climate. He recognizes behavioral variations related to gender, age, class, and region, and he considers subtleties of individual character as well. Swedish Mentality should interest a wide array of readers, whether of Swedish descent or not.

The Neo-Aramaic Dialect of the Assyrian Christians of Urmi (4 vols)

Author : Geoffrey Khan
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004313931
Total Pages : 1921 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book The Neo-Aramaic Dialect of the Assyrian Christians of Urmi (4 vols) written by Geoffrey Khan and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-06-10 with total page 1921 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work is a detailed documentation of the Neo-Aramaic dialect spoken by Assyrian Christians in the region of Urmi (northwestern-Iran). It consists of four volumes. Volumes 1 and 2 are descriptions of the grammar of the dialect, including the phonology, morphology and syntax. Volume 3 contains a study of the lexicon, consisting of a series of lists of words in various lexical fields and a full dictionary with etymologies. Volume 4 contains transcriptions and translations of oral texts, including folktales and descriptions of culture and history. The Urmi dialect is the most important dialect among the Assyrian Christian communities, since it forms the basis of a widely-used literary form of Neo-Aramaic.

The Forest of Hours

Author : Kerstin Ekman
Publisher : Random House UK
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book The Forest of Hours written by Kerstin Ekman and published by Random House UK. This book was released on 1998 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Skord is a magical being who is neither man nor animal. He finds himself in a woodland with no memory, no past and no language, but over the next five hundred years he observes the people he meets there, and gradually begins to understand civilization.

Sweet Lamb of Heaven: A Novel

Author : Lydia Millet
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393285553
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (932 download)

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Download or read book Sweet Lamb of Heaven: A Novel written by Lydia Millet and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2016-05-03 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Longlisted for the National Book Award for Fiction: Blending domestic thriller and psychological horror, this compelling page-turner follows a mother fleeing her estranged husband. Lydia Millet’s previous work has been shortlisted for the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Likewise greeted with rapturous praise, Sweet Lamb of Heaven is a first-person account of a young mother, Anna, fleeing her cold and unfaithful husband, a businessman who’s just launched his first campaign for political office. When Ned chases Anna and their six-year-old daughter from Alaska to Maine, the two go into hiding in a run-down motel on the coast. But the longer they stay, the less the guests in the dingy motel look like typical tourists—and the less Ned resembles a typical candidate. As his pursuit of Anna and their child moves from threatening to criminal, Ned begins to alter his wife’s world in ways she never could have imagined. A double-edged and satisfying story with a strong female protagonist, a thrilling plot, and a creeping sense of the apocalyptic, Sweet Lamb of Heaven builds to a shattering ending with profound implications for its characters—and for all of us.

Apollo

Author : Salomon Reinach
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Apollo written by Salomon Reinach and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Collective Identity and Integration Policy in Denmark and Sweden

Author : Marilena Geugjes
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3658339721
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (583 download)

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Download or read book Collective Identity and Integration Policy in Denmark and Sweden written by Marilena Geugjes and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-08-16 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses the interrelationship between practices of collective self-interpretation, in this case national identity construction, and integration policies, using the example of Denmark and Sweden. Though both countries are considered to be socially progressive and modern, not least by themselves, the author makes the novel and provocative argument that both Denmark and Sweden are caught in a (discourse) paradox when it comes to integration policy, which stands in the way of successful immigrant integration. The author uses an innovative approach to reconstruct the Danish and the Swedish national identity by using social studies schoolbooks and novels as research material, thereby adding an interdisciplinary dimension to the book. About the author Marilena Geugjes is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Applied Sciences in Wiesbaden, Germany. She earned her doctorate in Political Science at Heidelberg University. Her research focuses on migration and integration policy, local politics, and the role of the police.

Media and Glocal Change

Author : Thomas Hylland Eriksen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789871183265
Total Pages : 493 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (832 download)

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Download or read book Media and Glocal Change written by Thomas Hylland Eriksen and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 493 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Primary Classical Language of the World

Author : Devaneya Pavanar
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781976310638
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book The Primary Classical Language of the World written by Devaneya Pavanar and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-09-12 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Tamil' is one of those words whose origin and root-meaning are wrapped up in mystery. All that we can say at present without any fear of contradiction is, that it is a pure Tamil word being current as the only name of the language of the Tamils, from the days that preceded the First Tamil Academy established at Thenmadurai on the river pahruli in the submerged continent. After some of the Vedic Aryans migrated to the South, Tamil got the descriptive name 'Tenmoli' lit. 'the southern language', in contradistinction to the Vedic language or Sanskrit which was called 'Vadamoli', lit. 'the northern language'. The word 'Tamil' or 'Tamilan' successively changed into 'Dramila', 'Dramila', 'Dramida' and 'Dravida' in North India and at first denoted only the Tamil language, as all the other Dravidian dialects separated themselves from Tamil or came into prominence one by one only after the dawn of the Christian era. That is why Sanskrit and Tamil came to be known as Vadamoi and Tenmoli respectively. This distinction could have arisen only when there were two languages standing side by side, one in the North and the other in the South, both coming in contact with each other. The Buddhist Tamil Academy which flourished in the 5th century at Madurai went by the name of 'Travida Sangam'.