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Book Synopsis Tractorina's Travels by : Marina Sonkina
Download or read book Tractorina's Travels written by Marina Sonkina and published by MW Books. This book was released on 2009-04 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marina Sonkina's stories give us unexpected characters in surreal situations presented with unflinching verisimilitude in prose that is at once forceful, lyrical and filled with scepticism. We follow an old woman through the Gorbachev days of perestroika in Moscow into a rose-tinted abyss. A philandering Parisian American linguist married to a Belgian tapestry weaver conducts an affair on the Pacific Coast of America and discovers that the only human being he can love is a blind boy. A Californian flower-child swings her mini-skirted hips through an island ashram in the Bahamas - because she can, to demonstrate the healing power of (free) love, and without the slightest idea of the upheaval she causes. In Stalinist Moscow, a woman gives birth in a hospital Franz Kafka and George Orwell would both sadly recognize as all too real. This is not the stuff of European fiction, nor of the multicultural mainstream in North America post-20th century writing. This is more like Mavis Gallant in reverse, a shrewdly observant fictive sensibility self-transplanted to the New World from the old. The fact that English is Sonkina's most recent language (after Russian, Italian, and French) gives her writing the linguistic piquancy of a fusion cuisine. These stories don't taste like borscht or pea soup. They taste like fillets of elk in a hot paprika sauce.
Book Synopsis Lucia's Eyes and Other Stories by : Marina Sonkina
Download or read book Lucia's Eyes and Other Stories written by Marina Sonkina and published by Guernica Editions. This book was released on 2011 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The resistance of the human spirit in face of time, disloyalty, and oblivion is the theme of Marina Sonkina's new collection of short stories. Her seemingly naïve and helpless protagonists inhabit disparate social stations, geographical locales and cultures; all are persons displaced in their own lives. But in their struggles for survival, they discover the redeeming and dangerous power of unconditional love - the only weapon available to them. Strange and incomprehensible to everyone, love makes its sudden appearance to an eight-year-old hunchbacked boy in the title story of Lucia's Eyes. As he brings the gifts of his artistic imagination to Lucia, a refugee from the Spanish Civil War, the bleak and cruel reality of Stalin's Russia dissolves into magic ... In 'Runic Alphabet' a Polish-Canadian painter plants a tree that brings to life memories of a woman long dead who remains the only true love of his life. In 'Carmelita' an aging man from Winnipeg, vacationing in Mexico, falls in love with a young Mexican painter. In 'Christmas Tango' a jobless drifter in snowy Montreal discovers tango, inadvertently transforming his own life and the lives of those who come in contact with him. In 'Tractorina' a hard-working crane-operator, retired in post-Gorbachev Russia, is driven into a rose-tinted abyss by her stepson. In 'Angels Ascending and Descending' a young girl is initiated into the mysterious symbolism of Russian Orthodox church architecture by a priestly man who hardly lives up to the spiritual heights he preaches. Full of unexpected turns and twists, sadness, joy and humour, these stories reflect life, itself always a surprise, and always a miracle.
Book Synopsis Knight Sir Louis and the Dragon of Doooooom! by : The Brothers McLeod
Download or read book Knight Sir Louis and the Dragon of Doooooom! written by The Brothers McLeod and published by Michael O'Mara Books. This book was released on 2021-05-13 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A hilarious tale told with wonderfully bonkers illustrations and all sorts of inventive storytelling ways, the second in series for young readers who love funny books.
Book Synopsis Knight Sir Louis and the Sorcerer of Slime by : The Brothers McLeod
Download or read book Knight Sir Louis and the Sorcerer of Slime written by The Brothers McLeod and published by Michael O'Mara Books. This book was released on 2022-06-09 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third in the hilarious highly illustrated series about Knight Sir Louis - a calm courageous hero in a rather bonkers world - this time battling with his friends against the terrifying Sorcerer of Slime ...
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Book Synopsis Travels with Ted and Ned by : Hesburgh
Download or read book Travels with Ted and Ned written by Hesburgh and published by . This book was released on 2003-09-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
