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The Second Coming of Mavala Shikongo

Author : Peter Orner
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0316075264
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book The Second Coming of Mavala Shikongo written by Peter Orner and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2009-05-30 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in Namibia just after independence in the early 1990s, Peter Orner's first novel is a chronicle of the long days, short loves, and cold nights at Goas, an all-boys Catholic primary school so deep in the veld that "even the baboons feel sorry for us." Though physically isolated in semi-desert beneath a relentless sun, the people of Goas create an alternate, more fertile universe through the stories they tell each other. The book's central character is Mavala Shikongo, a combat veteran who fought in Namibia's long war for independence against South Africa. She has recently returned to the school -- with a child, but no husband. Mavala is modern, restless, and driven, in sharp contrast to conservative Goas. All the male teachers (including a bumbling but observant volunteer from Cincinnati) try not to fall in love with her. Everyone fails -- immediately and miserably. This extraordinary first novel explores the history of a place through the stories of its people. But above all it's about the fleetingness of love and the endurance of fellowship.

Love and Shame and Love

Author : Peter Orner
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 031619154X
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (161 download)

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Download or read book Love and Shame and Love written by Peter Orner and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2011-11-07 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alexander Popper can't stop remembering. Four years old when his father tossed him into Lake Michigan, he was told, Sink or swim, kid. In his mind, he's still bobbing in that frigid water. The rest of this novel's vivid cast of characters also struggle to remain afloat: Popper's mother, stymied by an unhappy marriage, seeks solace in the relentless energy of Chicago; his brother, Leo, shadow boss of the family, retreats into books; paternal grandparents, Seymour and Bernice, once high fliers, now mourn for long lost days; his father, a lawyer and would-be politician obsessed with his own success, fails to see that the family is falling apart; and his college girlfriend, the fiercely independent Kat, wrestles with impossible choices. Covering four generations of the Popper family, Peter Orner illuminates the countless ways that love both makes us whole and completely unravels us. A comic and sorrowful tapestry of memory of connection and disconnection, Love and Shame and Love explores the universals with stunning originality and wisdom.

Last Car Over the Sagamore Bridge

Author : Peter Orner
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0316224634
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (162 download)

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Download or read book Last Car Over the Sagamore Bridge written by Peter Orner and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2013-08-06 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peter Orner zeroes in on the strange ways our memories define us: A woman's husband dies before their divorce is finalized; a man runs for governor of Illinois and loses much more than an election; two brothers play beneath the infamous bridge at Chappaquiddick. Employing the masterful compression for which he has been widely praised, Orner presents a kaleidoscope of individual lives viewed in startling, intimate close-up. Whether writing of Geraldo Rivera's attempt to reveal the contents of Al Capone's vault or of a father and daughter trying to outrun a hurricane, Orner illuminates universal themes. In stories that span considerable geographic ground -- from Chicago to Wyoming, from Massachusetts to the Czech Republic -- he writes of the past we can't seem to shake, the losses we can't make up for, and the power of our stories to help us reclaim what we thought was gone forever. "A ravishing collection, full of wisdom, grief, beauty, and especially surprise." -- Anthony Doerr, author of The Shell Collectors

Translocality in Contemporary City Novels

Author : Lena Mattheis
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030666875
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Translocality in Contemporary City Novels written by Lena Mattheis and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-04-20 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Translocality in Contemporary City Novels responds to the fact that twenty-first-century Anglophone novels are increasingly characterised by translocality—the layering and blending of two or more distant settings. Considering translocal and transcultural writing as a global phenomenon, this book draws on multidisciplinary research, from globalisation theory to the study of narratives to urban studies, to explore a corpus of thirty-two novels—by authors such as Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Dionne Brand, Kiran Desai, and Xiaolu Guo—set in a total of ninety-seven cities. Lena Mattheis examines six of the most common strategies used in contemporary urban fiction to make translocal experiences of the world narratable and turn them into relatable stories: simultaneity, palimpsests, mapping, scaling, non-places, and haunting. Combining and developing further theories, approaches, and techniques from a variety of research fields—including narratology, human geography, transculturality, diaspora spaces, and postcolonial perspectives—Mattheis develops a set of cross-disciplinary techniques in literary urban studies.

Hope Deferred

Author : Peter Orner
Publisher : Haymarket Books
ISBN 13 : 1642595535
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (425 download)

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Download or read book Hope Deferred written by Peter Orner and published by Haymarket Books. This book was released on 2023-06-15 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hope Deferred asks the question: How did Zimbabwe, a country with so much promise—a stellar education system, a growing middle class, a sophisticated economic infrastructure, a liberal constitution, and an independent judiciary—come so close to collapse? In their own words, Zimbabweans tell their stories of losing their homes, land, livelihoods, and families as a direct result of political violence. They describe being tortured in detention, firebombed at work, or beaten up or raped to “punish” votes for the opposition. Those forced to flee to neighboring countries recount their escapes: cutting through fences, swimming across crocodile-infested rivers, and entrusting themselves to human smugglers. This book includes. Zimbabweans of every age, class, and political conviction—from farm laborers and academics to doctors and artists—ordinary people surviving the fragmentation of a once-thriving nation.

Am I Alone Here?

Author : Peter Orner
Publisher : Catapult
ISBN 13 : 1936787261
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (367 download)

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Download or read book Am I Alone Here? written by Peter Orner and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2016-10-25 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This National Book Critics Circle Award is “an entrancing attempt to catch what falls between: the irreducibly personal, messy, even embarrassing ways reading and living bleed into each other, which neither literary criticism nor autobiography ever quite acknowledges.” —The New York Times “Stories, both my own and those I’ve taken to heart, make up whoever it is that I’ve become,” Peter Orner writes in this collection of essays about reading, writing, and living. Orner reads and writes everywhere he finds himself: a hospital cafeteria, a coffee shop in Albania, or a crowded bus in Haiti. The result is a book of unlearned meditations that stumbles into memoir. Among the many writers Orner addresses are Isaac Babel and Zora Neale Hurston, both of whom told their truths and were silenced; Franz Kafka, who professed loneliness but craved connection; Robert Walser, who spent the last twenty-three years of his life in a Swiss insane asylum, working at being crazy; and Juan Rulfo, who practiced the difficult art of silence. Virginia Woolf, Eudora Welty, Yasunari Kawabata, Saul Bellow, Mavis Gallant, John Edgar Wideman, William Trevor, and Václav Havel make appearances, as well as the poet Herbert Morris--about whom almost nothing is known. An elegy for an eccentric late father, and the end of a marriage, Am I Alone Here? is also a celebration of the possibility of renewal. At once personal and panoramic, this book will inspire readers to return to the essential stories of their own lives.

Maggie Brown & Others

Author : Peter Orner
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0316516139
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book Maggie Brown & Others written by Peter Orner and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2019-07-02 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this powerful and virtuosic collection of interlocking stories, each one "a marvel of concision and compassion" (Washington Post), a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist and "master of his form" (/~i~New York Times) takes the short story to new heights. Through forty-four compressed gems, Peter Orner, a writer who "doesn't simply bring his characters to life, he gives them souls" (NYT Book Review), chronicles people whose lives are at inflection points, gripping us with a series of defining moments. Whether it's a first date that turns into a late-night road trip to a séance in an abandoned airplane hangar, or a family's memories of the painful mystery surrounding a neglected uncle's demise, Orner reveals how our fleeting decisions between kindness and abandonment chase us across time. These stories are anchored by a poignant novella that delivers not only the joys and travails of a forty-year marriage, but an entire era in a working-class New England city. Bristling with the crackling energy of life itself, Maggie Brown & Others marks the most sustained achievement to date for "a master of his form" (New York Times). A New York Times Notable Book A Chicago Tribune Notable Book An Oprah Magazine Best Book of 2019 Kirkus Reviews Best Short Fiction of 2019 Longlisted for the Simpson/Joyce Carol Oates Prize

Soul of a Lion

Author : Barbara Bennett
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 1426206542
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (262 download)

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Download or read book Soul of a Lion written by Barbara Bennett and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2010 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An English professor at North Carolina State University, the author spent a sabbatical as a hands-on volunteer, working with lions, leopards, and other wild creatures at Harnas Wildlife Foundation in Namibia. This title is based on her incredible experiences there.

Esther Stories

Author : Peter Orner
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780618128730
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (287 download)

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Download or read book Esther Stories written by Peter Orner and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2001 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering considerable geographic ground--from Nova Scotia to Mississippi--the stories in this debut collection explore the impact of life's essential moments. Winner of the 2000 James Michener-Copernicus Society of America Award from the Iowa Writers' Workshop.

The God of War

Author : Marisa Silver
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416563172
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book The God of War written by Marisa Silver and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-04-14 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prompted by the burden of responsibility he has assumed for his mentally handicapped younger brother, twelve-year-old Ares Ramirez is drawn into a dark and dangerous world of drugs, violence, and sex for which he is not prepared. By the author of Babe in Paradise and No Direction Home. Reprint. 50,000 first printing.

Toward the Geopolitical Novel

Author : Caren Irr
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231536313
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Toward the Geopolitical Novel written by Caren Irr and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2013-12-17 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Caren Irr's survey of more than 125 novels outlines the dramatic resurgence of the American political novel in the twenty-first century. She explores the writings of Chris Abani, Susan Choi, Edwidge Danticat, Junot Díaz, Dave Eggers, Jeffrey Eugenides, Aleksandar Hemon, Hari Kunzru, Dinaw Mengestu, Norman Rush, Gary Shteyngart, and others as they rethink stories of migration, the Peace Corps, nationalism and neoliberalism, revolution, and the expatriate experience. Taken together, these innovations define a new literary form: the geopolitical novel. More cosmopolitan and socially critical than domestic realism, the geopolitical novel provides new ways of understanding crucial political concepts to meet the needs of a new century.

The Dynamics of English in Namibia

Author : Anne Schröder
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027259674
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Download or read book The Dynamics of English in Namibia written by Anne Schröder and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2021-09-15 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The English language as spoken in Namibia has virtually been overlooked in most textbooks, handbooks, and surveys of varieties of English around the world, or else has only been mentioned in passing. However, this variety of English has recently attracted the attention of several researchers and the present volume brings together most scholars actively involved in the research on English in Namibia from various linguistic fields to present their current research. It covers a wide range of linguistic issues, such as empirical analyses on various levels of linguistic description and use, as well as the application of diverse methodologies, from questionnaire surveys, sociolinguistic interviews and focus group discussions, to corpus linguistics, linguistic landscaping, and digital ethnography. This book represents the first comprehensive collection of articles and in-depth discussions of this emerging variety of World Englishes.

The Eternal Audience of One

Author : Rémy Ngamije
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1982164425
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (821 download)

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Download or read book The Eternal Audience of One written by Rémy Ngamije and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-08-10 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Reminiscent of Zadie Smith and Michael Chabon, this ... coming-of-age tale follows a young man who is forced to flee his homeland of Rwanda during the Civil War and make sense of his reality"--

The Fear

Author : Peter Godwin
Publisher : Hachette+ORM
ISBN 13 : 0316123315
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (161 download)

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Download or read book The Fear written by Peter Godwin and published by Hachette+ORM. This book was released on 2011-03-23 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Journalist Peter Godwin has covered wars. As a soldier, he's fought them. But nothing prepared him for the surreal mix of desperation and hope he encountered when he returned to Zimbabwe, his broken homeland. Godwin arrived as Robert Mugabe, the country's dictator for 30 years, has finally lost an election. Mugabe's tenure has left Zimbabwe with the world's highest rate of inflation and the shortest life span. Instead of conceding power, Mugabe launched a brutal campaign of terror against his own citizens. With foreign correspondents banned, and he himself there illegally, Godwin was one of the few observers to bear witness to this period the locals call The Fear. He saw torture bases and the burning villages but was most awed as an observer of not only simple acts of kindness but also churchmen and diplomats putting their own lives on the line to try to stop the carnage. The Fear is a book about the astonishing courage and resilience of a people, armed with nothing but a desire to be free, who challenged a violent dictatorship. It is also the deeply personal and ultimately uplifting story of a man trying to make sense of the country he can't recognize as home.

Skinner's Drift

Author : Lisa Fugard
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743273338
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (432 download)

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Download or read book Skinner's Drift written by Lisa Fugard and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-03-06 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this beautiful and brutal debut novel, the new South Africa comes to life with its violent history, as Eva van Rensburg confronts her dying father with a terrible secret from her childhood.

Say You're One Of Them

Author : Uwem Akpan
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 0748116613
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (481 download)

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Download or read book Say You're One Of Them written by Uwem Akpan and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2010-06-03 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nothing interests Maman today, not even Jean, her favorite child ... She acts dumb, bewitched, like a goat that the neighborhood children have fed sorghum beer.' These extraordinary stories centre on African conflicts as seen through the eyes of children and describes their resilience and endurance in heartbreaking detail. From child trafficking to inter-religious conflicts, Uwem Akpan reveals in beautiful prose the resilience and endurance of children faced with the harsh consequences of deprivation and terror.

Chicago Noir

Author : Neal Pollack
Publisher : Akashic Books
ISBN 13 : 1936070243
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Chicago Noir written by Neal Pollack and published by Akashic Books. This book was released on 2005-09-01 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “If ever a city was made to be the home of noir, it’s Chicago. These writers go straight to Chicago’s noir heart” (Aleksandar Hemon, National Book Award finalist and New York Times–bestselling author of The Lazarus Project). Chicago’s rough-and-tumble tough-guy reputation may have been replaced in recent years by the image of a tourist- and family-friendly town—but that original city isn’t gone. The hard-bitten streets once represented by James Farrell and Nelson Algren may have shifted locales, and they may be populated by different ethnicities, but Chicago is still a place where people struggle to survive and where, for many, crime is the only means for their survival. The stories in Chicago Noir reclaim that territory, in tales of hired killers and jazz men, drunks and dreamers, corrupt cops and ticket scalpers and junkies, of a place where hard cases face their sad fates, and pay for their sins in blood. Brand new stories by Neal Pollack, Achy Obejas, Alexai Galaviz-Budziszewski, Adam Langer, Joe Meno, Peter Orner, Kevin Guilfoile, Bayo Ojikutu, Jeffery Renard Allen, Luciano Guerriero, Claire Zulkey, Andrew Ervin, M.K. Meyers, Todd Dills, C.J. Sullivan, Daniel Buckman, Amy Sayre-Roberts, and Jim Arndorfer. “Chicago Noir is a legitimate heir to the noble literary tradition of the greatest city in America.” —Stephen Elliott, author of Happy Baby