Rainbirds

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Publisher : Soho Press
ISBN 13 : 1641290188
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (412 download)

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Book Synopsis Rainbirds by : Clarissa Goenawan

Download or read book Rainbirds written by Clarissa Goenawan and published by Soho Press. This book was released on 2019-03-19 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in an imagined town outside Tokyo, Clarissa Goenawan’s dark, spellbinding literary debut follows a young man’s path to self-discovery in the wake of his sister’s murder. Ren Ishida has nearly completed his graduate degree at Keio University when he receives news of his sister’s violent death. Keiko was stabbed one rainy night on her way home, and there are no leads. Ren heads to Akakawa to conclude his sister’s affairs, failing to understand why she chose to turn her back on the family and Tokyo for this desolate place years ago. But then Ren is offered Keiko’s newly vacant teaching position at a prestigious local cram school and her bizarre former arrangement of free lodging at a wealthy politician’s mansion in exchange for reading to the man’s ailing wife. He accepts both, abandoning Tokyo and his crumbling relationship there in order to better understand his sister’s life and what took place the night of her death. As Ren comes to know the eccentric local figures, from the enigmatic politician who’s boarding him to his fellow teachers and a rebellious, captivating young female student, he delves into his shared childhood with Keiko and what followed. Haunted in his dreams by a young girl who is desperately trying to tell him something, Ren realizes that Keiko Ishida kept many secrets, even from him.

Season of the Rainbirds

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Publisher : Anchor Canada
ISBN 13 : 0385678010
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (856 download)

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Book Synopsis Season of the Rainbirds by : Nadeem Aslam

Download or read book Season of the Rainbirds written by Nadeem Aslam and published by Anchor Canada. This book was released on 2013-03-26 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first novel by the author of Maps for Lost Lovers: a powerful and exquisitely written story set in a small town in Pakistan after the murder of a corrupt and prominent local judge. When a sack of letters that were thought to have disappeared in a train crash nineteen years earlier reappears under mysterious circumstances, the inhabitants of a secluded Pakistani village wait anxiously to see what secrets may come to light. Could the letters hold any information about Judge Anwar's murder? As Aslam traces the murder investigation over the next eleven days, he explores the impact that these two events have on a variety of people in the town--from the surviving family of the judge to a journalist reporting on the delivery of the mail packet. With great attention to detail and beautiful scenes that explore the daily rhythms of life in Pakistan, Aslam creates an exotic and timeless world whose traditional rituals are played out against an ominous backdrop of faraway civil wars, assassinations, changing regimes, and religious tensions.

The Crying of Rainbirds

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Publisher : Peepal Tree Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Crying of Rainbirds written by Noel D. Williams and published by Peepal Tree Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Torn between despair over 'the rancid taste of life on the island' and attachment to the 'irresistible, green island days', the characters in these short stories inhabit a Caribbean they find it impossible to live in, yet impossible to live without. They dream of being inviolable and whole, but live in situations which are frequently on the edge of disorder and personal threat. Yet there is nothing wearily pessimistic about the tone of this collection. Williams's stories, like his characters, are intensely alive. Their individual voices button-hole us and won't let us go. Their tales are sad, but what passion they have in their pursuit of meaning! "In Williams' brilliant final story... the urge to find release and return is given mystical and memorable expression..." Liberation N.D. Williams is Guyanese and lives in New York. In 1976 his novel Ikael Torass won the prestigious Casa de las Americas prize.

Surfaces of Strangeness

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Publisher : Victoria University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780864734563
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (345 download)

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Book Synopsis Surfaces of Strangeness by : Simone Oettli-van Delden

Download or read book Surfaces of Strangeness written by Simone Oettli-van Delden and published by Victoria University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Granger's Index to Poetry

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1878 pages
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TLA Film and Video Guide

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Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0312243308
Total Pages : 768 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (122 download)

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Book Synopsis TLA Film and Video Guide by : David Bleiler

Download or read book TLA Film and Video Guide written by David Bleiler and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1999 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *Detailed indexes by star, director, genre, country of origin, and theme *Lavishly illustrated with over 450 photos *Comprehensive selection of international cinema from over 50 countries *Over 9,000 films reviewed *Up-to-date information on video availability and pricing *Appendices with award listings, TLA Bests, and recommended films

Index to Poetry and Recitations

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 2176 pages
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Appleton's Magazine

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 856 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (29 download)

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Rainbird's Revenge

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Publisher : Rosetta Books
ISBN 13 : 0795315074
Total Pages : 143 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book Rainbird's Revenge written by M. C. Beaton and published by Rosetta Books. This book was released on 2011-10-31 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The conclusion to the delightful series set in a London townhouse, from the New York Times–bestselling author! The house at 67 Clarges Street in fashionable Mayfair has seen many guests, all looked after by the quirky staff of servants. When the house’s owner, the Duke of Pelham, finally returns, he is grimly determined to find a suitable wife—but completely unprepared for what the season has to offer. The duke’s title alone has always brought him more than his share of feminine attention, and while he claims to not believe in love, he has never been spurned by a lady. The duke’s self-imposed search is soon disrupted by the arrival in London of Miss Jenny Sutherland, a spoiled but beautiful country girl whose vanity is her tragic flaw. According to her guardian Aunt Letitia, lack of competition has made Jenny put on airs; in London, she will get the set-down she sorely deserves. Indeed, at her first important London party, Jenny’s blatant disdain for the duke leads to disaster. But no one has counted on the intervention of John Rainbird, the house’s shrewd and resourceful butler. The result is a mischievous scheme that will insure Jenny’s social success and determine the fate of the close-knit family of servants at 67 Clarges Street . . .

Rainbird's Revenge

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Publisher : Macmillan Reference USA
ISBN 13 : 9780816147052
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (47 download)

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Book Synopsis Rainbird's Revenge by : Marion Chesney

Download or read book Rainbird's Revenge written by Marion Chesney and published by Macmillan Reference USA. This book was released on 1990 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Large Print Romance.

DVD & Video Guide 2005

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Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 9780345449955
Total Pages : 1636 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (499 download)

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Book Synopsis DVD & Video Guide 2005 by : Mick Martin

Download or read book DVD & Video Guide 2005 written by Mick Martin and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2004 with total page 1636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wondering what video to rent tonight? This bestselling, fact-packed guide is the only sourcebook you and your family will ever need. Mick Martin and Marsha Porter steer you toward the winners and warn you about the losers. DVD & Video Guide 2004 covers it all-more films than any other guide, plus your favorite serials, B-Westerns, made-for-TV movies, and old television programs! Each entry, conveniently alphabetized for easy access, includes a summary, fresh commentary, the director, major cast members, the year of release, and the MPAA rating, plus a reliable Martin and Porter rating-from Five Stars to Turkey-so you'll never get caught with a clunker again!

DVD & Video Guide 2004

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Publisher : Arrow
ISBN 13 : 9780345449931
Total Pages : 1636 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (499 download)

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Download or read book DVD & Video Guide 2004 written by Mick Martin and published by Arrow. This book was released on 2003 with total page 1636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring more than 400 new entries among reviews and ratings of 18,000 movies, this guide to films that are available on video and DVD includes brand-new DVD listings, director and star indexes, and much more. Original.

Video Movie Guide 1998

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ISBN 13 : 9780345407931
Total Pages : 1598 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (79 download)

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Download or read book Video Movie Guide 1998 written by Mick Martin and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 1598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reviews thousands of movies and rates each film according to a five-star rating system, and features cross-indexing by title, director, and cast.

AB Bookman's Weekly

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1716 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (2 download)

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Video Movie Guide 2002

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Publisher : Fawcett
ISBN 13 : 9780345421005
Total Pages : 1604 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book Video Movie Guide 2002 written by Mick Martin and published by Fawcett. This book was released on 2001 with total page 1604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This bestselling video guide to films, serials, TV movies, and old TV series available on video is completely updated with the newest releases. Containing more than 18,000 listings, this revised edition includes 400 new entries that are detailed with a summary, commentary, director, cast members, MPAA rating, and authors' rating.

Step Across This Line

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Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1588362795
Total Pages : 578 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (883 download)

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Book Synopsis Step Across This Line by : Salman Rushdie

Download or read book Step Across This Line written by Salman Rushdie and published by Random House. This book was released on 2002-09-10 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From one of the great novelists of our day, a vital, brilliant new book of essays, speeches and articles essential for our times. Step Across This Line showcases the other side of one of fiction’s most astonishing conjurors. On display is Salman Rushdie’s incisive, thoughtful and generous mind, in prose that is as entertaining as it is topical. The world is here, captured in pieces on a dazzling array of subjects: from New York’s Amadou Diallo case to the Wizard of Oz, from U2 to fifty years of Indian writing, from a tribute to Angela Carter to the struggle to film Midnight’s Children. The title essay was originally delivered at Yale as the 2002 Tanner lecture on human values, and examines the changing meaning of frontiers in the modern world -- moral and metaphorical frontiers as well as physical ones. The collection chronicles Rushdie’s intellectual journeys, but it is also an intimate invitation into his life: he explores his relationship to India through a moving diary of his first visit there in over a decade, “A Dream of Glorious Return.” Step Across This Line also includes “Messages From the Plague Years,” a historic set of letters, articles and reflections on life under the fatwa. Gathered together for the first time, this is Rushdie’s humane, intelligent and angry response to a grotesque threat, aimed not just at him but at free expression itself. Step Across This Line, Salman Rushdie’s first collection of non-fiction in a decade, has the same energy, imagination and erudition as his astounding novels -- along with some very strong opinions.

New Soundings in Postcolonial Writing

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004329277
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book New Soundings in Postcolonial Writing written by Janet Wilson and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-08-29 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Soundings in Postcolonial Writing is a collection of critical and creative writing in honour of the postcolonial critic, editor and anthologist Bruce King. There are essays on topics relating to Caribbean authors (Derek Walcott, Simone and Andre Schwarz-Bart); diaspora writers in England (Zadie Smith, Andrea Levy, Michael Ondaatje), South East Asian writing in English (Arun Kolatkar, recent Pakistani fiction, Anita Desai) and New Zealand, Canadian and Pacific writers (Albert Wendt, Patricia Grace, Bill Manhire, Joseph Boyden, Greg O’Brien). The creative writing section features new work by David Dabydeen, Fred D’Aguiar, Arvind Mehrotra, Jeet Thayil, Meena Alexander, Keki Daruwalla, Adil Jussawalla, Tabish Khair, Susan Visvanathan and others, reflecting King’s pioneering work on Indian poetry in English, and his many friendships.