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Download or read book The Rain God written by Arturo Islas and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2021-01-19 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Rain God is a lost masterpiece that helped launch a legion of writers. Its return, in times like these, is a plot twist that perhaps only Arturo Islas himself could have conjured. May it win many new readers." — Luis Alberto Urrea, bestselling author of The House of Broken Angels and The Hummingbird’s Daughter "Rivers, rivulets, fountains and waters flow, but never return to their joyful beginnings; anxiously they hasten on to the vast realms of the Rain God." A beloved Southwestern classic—as beautiful, subtle and profound as the desert itself—Arturo Islas's The Rain God is a breathtaking masterwork of contemporary literature. Set in a fictional small town on the Texas-Mexico border, it tells the funny, sad and quietly outrageous saga of the children and grandchildren of Mama Chona the indomitable matriarch of the Angel clan who fled the bullets and blood of the 1911 revolution for a gringo land of promise. In bold creative strokes, Islas paints on unforgettable family portrait of souls haunted by ghosts and madness--sinners torn by loves, lusts and dangerous desires. From gentle hearts plagued by violence and epic delusions to a child who con foretell the coming of rain in the sweet scent of angels, here is a rich and poignant tale of outcasts struggling to live and die with dignity . . . and to hold onto their past while embracing an unsteady future.
Download or read book Rain Gods written by James Lee Burke and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-07-14 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “America’s best novelist” (The Denver Post) brings back one of his most fascinating characters—Texas sheriff Hackberry Holland, cousin to lawman Billy Bob Holland—in this heart-pounding bestseller. In a heat-cracked border town, the bodies of nine illegal aliens—women and girls, killed execution-style—are unearthed in a shallow grave. Haunted by a past he can’t shake and his own private demons, Hack attempts to untangle the grisly case, which may lead to more bloodshed. Damaged young Iraq vet Pete Flores, who saw too much before fleeing the crime scene, and his girlfriend, Vikki Gaddis, are running for their lives. Sorting through the lowlifes who are hunting down Pete, and with Preacher Jack Collins, a Godfearing serial killer for hire, in the mix, Hack is caught up in a terrifying race for survival—for Pete, Vikki, and himself.
Book Synopsis The Rain God: A Desert Tale by : Arturo Islas
Download or read book The Rain God: A Desert Tale written by Arturo Islas and published by . This book was released on with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Kabo and the Rain God by : Anthony Umelo
Download or read book Kabo and the Rain God written by Anthony Umelo and published by Heinemann. This book was released on 2002 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rain god is angry - someone has stolen the sacrifice. Kabo is blamed, and threatened with death. How can he prove that he is innocent? And how can he prevent war between the villages?
Download or read book 雨神赤松子 written by 董木雨彤 and published by Snowflake Books Ltd. This book was released on 2011 with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many popular legends and myths have been passed on within Chinese communities since the earliest historical times. More than 100 gods and goddesses have featured in these tales such as the Rain God. This series of illustrated children's books of Chinese legends aims to stimulate the unlimited imagination and creativity in every child.
Book Synopsis Consuto and the Rain God by : Philip L. Levin
Download or read book Consuto and the Rain God written by Philip L. Levin and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2008-05 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this delightful Chinese fairy tale, an old soothsayer matches wits with a dragon rain god. The dragon's envy becomes his downfall as Consuto's patience and wisdom win the love of the people. Children and adults will delight in the fable's clever ideas and imagery. Illustrated by photos taken by the author and a friend on their journeys through China, the pictures reflect on the merging of past and present, characteristic of today's China.
Book Synopsis Representation of Friendship in "The Rain God" by Arturo Islas by : Kerstin Köck
Download or read book Representation of Friendship in "The Rain God" by Arturo Islas written by Kerstin Köck and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2015-09-18 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essay from the year 2008 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,3, University of Stuttgart (English Department of Literary Studies), course: Proseminar, language: English, abstract: The following essay will examine the contrast between friendship and the construct of family in Arturo Islas’ novel "The Rain God". In the story the reader is confronted with the comradeship between the characters Juanita and Lola. Their friendship endures a really difficult situation, Lola's adulterous affair. Additionally, there is this construct of family which is highly dysfunctional and held together by only a few members. The course of the narrative shows that friendship becomes of higher value than family relations. The short essay explores this by analyzing the characters and how they are represented in relation to one another.
Book Synopsis Seducing the Rain God by : Smriti Kumar Sinha
Download or read book Seducing the Rain God written by Smriti Kumar Sinha and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Looking for a Rain God and Other Short Stories from Africa by : Ian Gordon
Download or read book Looking for a Rain God and Other Short Stories from Africa written by Ian Gordon and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of short stories from Africa covering a range of subjects, from the conflict between traditional and new ways of life and values, to the role of women in society. The main introduction provides a background for discussion, as well as ideas for students to use in their own writing.
Book Synopsis A Guide to Looking for a Rain God and Other Short Stories from Africa (selected and Introduced by Ian Gordon) by : Meshack Owino
Download or read book A Guide to Looking for a Rain God and Other Short Stories from Africa (selected and Introduced by Ian Gordon) written by Meshack Owino and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Wrath of the Rain God by : Karla Arenas Valenti
Download or read book Wrath of the Rain God written by Karla Arenas Valenti and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2024-04-16 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nine-year-old twins Emma and Martín travel into a book of legends and where they must try to stop the rain god's flood.
Book Synopsis Notes on Ian Gordon's Looking for a Rain God and Other Short Stories from Africa by : Simon Okumba Miruka
Download or read book Notes on Ian Gordon's Looking for a Rain God and Other Short Stories from Africa written by Simon Okumba Miruka and published by East African Publishers. This book was released on 2000 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Study Guide to Looking for a Rain God and Other Short Stories from Africa by : Ezekiel Alembi
Download or read book A Study Guide to Looking for a Rain God and Other Short Stories from Africa written by Ezekiel Alembi and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Bride of the Rain God by : Theodore Arthur Willard
Download or read book Bride of the Rain God written by Theodore Arthur Willard and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis When Rain Gods Reigned by : Duane Anderson
Download or read book When Rain Gods Reigned written by Duane Anderson and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ones holding pots on their laps were called "gods of rain." They outlasted the other types and became known as "rain gods."".
Book Synopsis Looking for a Rain God by : Ian Gordon
Download or read book Looking for a Rain God written by Ian Gordon and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Olmec Art at Dumbarton Oaks by : Karl A. Taube
Download or read book Olmec Art at Dumbarton Oaks written by Karl A. Taube and published by Dumbarton Oaks. This book was released on 2004 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Olmec Art at Dumbarton Oaks presents the Olmec portion of the Robert Woods Bliss Collection of Pre-Columbian Art. It illustrates all thirty-nine Olmec art objects in color plates and includes many complementary and comparative black-and-white illustrations and drawings. The body of Pre-Columbian art that Robert Bliss carefully assembled over a half-century between 1912 and 1963, amplified only slightly since his death, is a remarkably significant collection. In addition to their aesthetic quality and artistic significance, the objects hold much information regarding the social worlds and religious and symbolic views of the people who made and used them before the arrival of Europeans in the New World. This volume is the second in a series of catalogues that will treat objects in the Bliss Pre-Columbian Collection. The majority of the Olmec objects in the collection are made of jade, the most precious material for the peoples of ancient Mesoamerica from early times through the sixteenth century. Various items such as masks, statuettes, jewelry, and replicas of weapons and tools were used for ceremonial purposes and served as offerings. Karl Taube brings his expertise on the lifeways and beliefs of ancient Mesoamerican peoples to his study of the Olmec objects in teh Bliss collection. His understanding of jade covers a broad range of knowledge from chemical compositions to geological sources to craft technology to the symbolic power of the green stone. Throughout the book the author emphasizes the role of jade as a powerful symbol of water, fertility, and particularly, of the maize plant which was the fundamental source of life and sustenance for the Olmec. The shiny green of the stone was analogous to the green growth of maize. This fundamental concept was elaborated in specific religious beliefs, many of which were continued and elaborated by later Mesoamerican peoples, such as the Maya. Karl Taube employs his substantial knowledge of Pre-Columbian cultures to explore and explicate Olmec symbolism in this catalogue.
