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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 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: King Burt the Not Bad is in a huff with his chief dragon-slayer, Knight Sir Louis. So when a stranger with piercing green eyes and a devastating smile arrives at Castle Sideways, King Burt is thrilled and demotes Louis to chief cleaner. But Louis is suspicious about the stranger, Squire Lyme, with his charming compliments and endless supply of green gummies ... with the help of his friends Reader Catalogue, Pearlin, his haiku-loving steed, Clunkalot as well as a few ogres and gnomes, our hero determines to get to the slimy bottom of things ...can Louis' calm courage once again save the day?
Book Synopsis Expulsion & Other Stories by : Marina Sonkina
Download or read book Expulsion & Other Stories written by Marina Sonkina and published by Essential Prose. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Expulsion & Other Stories consists of two parts: a novella followed by a group of short stories. But the main protagonists have one thing in common: they are all women coming of age in difficult times. In the short stories, set in post-Stalinist Russia, the women are confronted by dictatorship's mundane face -- a minor bureaucrat, a school teacher, a doctor. Nobody spells out the rules of survival to the young girls and women, yet each learns to play -- or pays the price, that of facing "expulsion". The novella "Face" shares a similar motif of expulsion but takes the reader to a different place -- the urban sprawl and property greed of modern Vancouver.
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Book Synopsis The Violin That Wanted to See the World by : Marina Sonkina
Download or read book The Violin That Wanted to See the World written by Marina Sonkina and published by MW Books. This book was released on 2011-01-14 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tired of playing the same music, the First Violin in an old orchestra decides to leave her beautiful Opera House and look for some new tunes in the unknown, fascinating, and frightening world that lay beyond. But could she ever imagine that she'd have to play at a gypsies' wedding?
