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Author : Udoinyang Mbat
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789783065598
Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (655 download)
Download or read book Dream in Exile written by Udoinyang Mbat and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ariel Dorfman
Publisher : Melbourne Univ. Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0522861857
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (228 download)
Download or read book Feeding on Dreams written by Ariel Dorfman and published by Melbourne Univ. Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dorfman portrays, through visceral scenes and powerful intellect, the personal and political maelstroms underlying his migrations from Buenos Aires, on the run from Pinochet's death squads, to safe houses in Paris and Amsterdam, and eventually to America, his childhood home. The toll on Dorfman's wife and two sons, the 'earthquake of language' that is bilingualism, and his eventual questioning of his allegiance to past and party - all these crucibles of a life in exile are revealed with wry and startling honesty. Feeding on Dreams is a passionate reminder that 'we are all exiles', that we are all 'threatened with annihilation if we do not find and celebrate the refuge of common humanity', as Dorfman did during his 'decades of loss and resurrection'.
Author : Ian Bell
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0805028072
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Dreams of Exile written by Ian Bell and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1993 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nineteen ninety-four marks the centennial of the death of the man George Steiner saluted as "among the the last of the pure storytellers". With public interest sure to intensify, this new biography of Robert Louis Stevenson--already praised for its insight and verve--could not be more timely.
Author : Ma Jian
Publisher : Catapult
ISBN 13 : 1640092412
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (4 download)
Download or read book China Dream written by Ma Jian and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2019-05-07 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blending fact and fiction, this darkly comic fable “may be the purest distillation yet of Mr. Ma’s talent for probing the country’s darkest corners and exposing what he regards as the Communist Party’s moral failings” (Mike Ives, The New York Times). Called “Red Guards meet Kurt Vonnegut . . . powerful!" by Margaret Atwood on Twitter, China Dream is an unflinching satire of totalitarianism. Ma Daode, a corrupt and lecherous party official, is feeling pleased with himself. He has an impressive office, three properties, and multiple mistresses who text him day and night. After decades of loyal service, he has been appointed director of the China Dream Bureau, charged with replacing people's private dreams with President Xi Jinping's great China Dream of national rejuvenation. But just as he is about to present his plan for a mass golden wedding anniversary celebration, his sanity begins to unravel. Suddenly plagued by flashbacks of the Cultural Revolution, Ma Daode's nightmare visions from the past threaten to destroy his dream of a glorious future. Exposing the damage inflicted on a nation's soul when authoritarian regimes, driven by an insatiable hunger for power, seek to erase memory, rewrite history, and falsify the truth, China Dream is a dystopian vision of repression, violence, and state–imposed amnesia that is set not in the future, but in China today.
Author : Haifa Zangana
Publisher : The Feminist Press at CUNY
ISBN 13 : 1558616519
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (586 download)
Download or read book Dreaming of Baghdad written by Haifa Zangana and published by The Feminist Press at CUNY. This book was released on 2009-08-01 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “With passion and commitment,” an exiled Iraqi woman recounts her time organizing resistance to Saddam Hussein and imprisonment in Abu Ghraib (Nawal El Saadawi, author of Zeina). In 1970s Iraq, the Ba’ath Party was at the height of its influence in the Middle East and popularity throughout the West. But a group of activists recognized the disastrous potential of the regime as its charismatic leader, Saddam Hussein, came to power. Haifa Zangana was among those who resisted Saddam’s rule, a small group of whom were captured and imprisoned at Abu Ghraib. Now, from a distance of time and place, Zangana writes about her incarceration, the agonizing loss of comrades to torture and death in prison, her safe yet haunted life so far away from friends, family, and her beloved country, and the ways memory conspires to make us forget. In this poetic, emotionally-tinged memoir, the author of Women on a Journey: Between Baghdad and London “drags politics down from the realm of the abstract into the mud, fear, and loneliness of personal experience and psychological ruin that is life under dictatorship” (Christian Parenti, author of The Freedom: Shadows and Hallucinations in Occupied Iraq).
Author : Ivan Bootham
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 10 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (154 download)
Download or read book Dreams from Exile written by Ivan Bootham and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Cristina García
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 0307798003
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)
Download or read book Dreaming in Cuban written by Cristina García and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2011-06-08 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Impressive . . . [Cristina García’s] story is about three generations of Cuban women and their separate responses to the revolution. Her special feat is to tell it in a style as warm and gentle as the ‘sustaining aromas of vanilla and almond,’ as rhythmic as the music of Beny Moré.”—Time Cristina García’s acclaimed book is the haunting, bittersweet story of a family experiencing a country’s revolution and the revelations that follow. The lives of Celia del Pino and her husband, daughters, and grandchildren mirror the magical realism of Cuba itself, a landscape of beauty and poverty, idealism and corruption. Dreaming in Cuban is “a work that possesses both the intimacy of a Chekov story and the hallucinatory magic of a novel by Gabriel García Márquez” (The New York Times). In celebration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the novel’s original publication, this edition features a new introduction by the author. Praise for Dreaming in Cuban “Remarkable . . . an intricate weaving of dramatic events with the supernatural and the cosmic . . . evocative and lush.”—San Francisco Chronicle “Captures the pain, the distance, the frustrations and the dreams of these family dramas with a vivid, poetic prose.”—The Washington Post “Brilliant . . . With tremendous skill, passion and humor, García just may have written the definitive story of Cuban exiles and some of those they left behind.”—The Denver Post
Author : Susan M. Obijiski
Publisher : Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency
ISBN 13 : 1681815842
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (818 download)
Download or read book Dreams of the Exile written by Susan M. Obijiski and published by Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency. This book was released on 2016-03-15 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dreams of the Exile is the final book in the Legacy of Dreams series that began with Dreams of the Many and Dreams of the Few. Dreams of the Exile rejoins actor Brody Murphy in a dream created by his protégé, Casey Wheeler. In an effort to protect his wife and son from a legacy of alcoholism and abuse, Brody remains in Casey’s dream, and while the world mourns his absence, he faces the inevitable destruction of his virtual world. Brody’s wife Vanessa fights to protect her unborn child and her son, and tries to understand why Brody abandoned his family. Casey has forgotten his mentor, and can’t help his father and friends find a way into the dream to bring Brody home. As the dream unhinges, Brody faces the physical manifestation of his dead father. To get out of the dream alive and sane, he must come to grips with his family history. Will Casey remember his mentor? Can Brody’s friends find a way into Brody’s dream before it’s too late? Will Brody be lost to the dream and death? And, can Vanessa forgive her husband’s choice? Dreams of the Exile is a story of struggle, devotion, and love. It’s also a reminder that we are all connected and that we must face our fears to achieve our dreams.
Author : Jacques Doukhan
Publisher : Review and Herald Pub Assoc
ISBN 13 : 9780828014243
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (142 download)
Download or read book Secrets of Daniel written by Jacques Doukhan and published by Review and Herald Pub Assoc. This book was released on 2000 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Understand Daniel as never before. Drawing from his research in ancient Jewish sources and knowledge of the original language, Doukhan recreates the world of Babylon, explains obscure allusions, and finds hidden patterns within the prophecies that clarify their meaning.
Author : Ian Bell
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1466891661
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)
Download or read book Dreams of Exile written by Ian Bell and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2015-03-03 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Fiction is to grown men what play is to the child," Robert Louis Stevenson once said in a statement that perfectly captures the magic of his own fiction. Immensely popular during is brief life--he died in 1894 at the age of forty-four--he has never lacked for readers since. In the century that followed his death, many biographies have been written, each with its own R.L.S.: the sickly, dreaming child; the Bohemian dandy outraging Victorian Edinburgh; the romantic wanderer leading his donkey through the wilds of the Cevennes; the frail genius doomed to die young. For some, he is the man of action avid for experience, filled with wanderlust; for others, the writer of stories beloved by children and familiar from innumerable film ad television dramas. Still others know him as the essayist whose skills matched William Hazlitt's and the novelist to whom even Henry James deffered. All of these are R.L.S., but none is the full Stevenson. Now, in this new and acclaimed biography, Ian Bell attempts to see Stevenson whole, to trace the line of descent form the son of Calvinist engineers to the man who ended his days as Tusitala among the Samoan islanders. Understanding that for Stevenson geography mattered, Bell sets out to discover the complete man through the places he lived and the people he lived among as well as through the books that poured from him during his all-too-short literary life. As such, Dreams of Exile is both literary biogrpahy and travel narrative. It follows Stevenson's development as an artist and as a man by following his often chaotic progress from continent to continent, in good health and in bad, in poverty and in wealth. Along the way, it reveals his often tortured relations with his family, his robust sexuality, and the mystery of his stormy marriage to a woman many years his senior. But perhaps Bell's most important contribution is to rescue R.L.S. from the many conflicting and often romanticized images that have continued to surround him, and in the process to make a telling case for Stevenson's genius as a writer.
Author : Kathleen Baldwin
Publisher : Tor Teen
ISBN 13 : 1466849282
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)
Download or read book Exile for Dreamers written by Kathleen Baldwin and published by Tor Teen. This book was released on 2016-05-24 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exile for Dreamers is the second captivating installment in the Stranje House series for young adults by award-winning author Kathleen Baldwin. #1 New York Times bestselling author Meg Cabot calls this romantic Regency adventure “completely original and totally engrossing.” It’s 1814. Napoleon has escaped his imprisonment on Elba. Britain is at war on four fronts. And at Stranje House, a School for Unusual Girls, five young ladies are secretly being trained for a world of spies, diplomacy, and war.... Tess Aubreyson can’t run far enough or fast enough to escape the prophetic dreams that haunt her. Dreams bring nothing but death and grief, and Tess refuses to accept that any good can come from the Sight—the curse that destroyed her mother. But when danger threatens Stranje House, Tess’s disturbing dreams become the only means of saving Lord Ravencross, the man she loves, and her fellow students. Tess’s traitorous friend, a former student at Stranje House, has returned to England, intent on paving the way for Napoleon’s invasion. Can the young ladies of Stranje House prevail once more? Or is England destined to fall into the hands of the power-mad dictator? Fans of genre-blending, romance, and action will love this second installment of the Stranje House series that began with A School for Unusual Girls. “Enticing from the first sentence.” —New York Times Book Review "This alternative history series will appeal to fans of Gail Carriger's works and The Cecelia and Kate novels by Patricia C. Wrede and Caroline Stevermer." —School Library Journal on A School for Unusual Girls At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Author : Belén Fernández
Publisher : OR Books
ISBN 13 : 1682191893
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (821 download)
Download or read book Exile written by Belén Fernández and published by OR Books. This book was released on 2019-06-27 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Che Guevara left Argentina at 22. At 21, Belén Fernández left the U.S. and didn’t look back. Alone, far off the beaten path in places like Syria and Tajikistan, she reflects on what it means to be an American in a largely American-made mess of a world. After growing up in Washington, D.C. and Texas, and then attending Columbia University in New York, Belén Fernández ended up in a state of self-imposed exile from the United States. From trekking—through Europe, the Middle East, Morocco, and Latin America—to packing avocados in southern Spain, to close encounters with a variety of unpredictable men, to witnessing the violent aftermath of the 2009 coup in Honduras, the international travel allowed her by an American passport has, ironically, given her a direct view of the devastating consequences of U.S. machinations worldwide. For some years Fernández survived thanks to the generosity of strangers who picked her up hitchhiking, fed her, and offered accommodations; then she discovered people would pay her for her powerful, unfiltered journalism, enabling—as of the present moment—continued survival. In just a few short years of publishing her observations on world politics and writing from places as varied as Lebanon, Italy, Uzbekistan, Syria, Mexico, Turkey, Honduras, and Iran, Belén Fernández has established herself as a one of the most trenchant observers of America’s interventions around the world, following in the footsteps of great foreign correspondents such as Martha Gellhorn and Susan Sontag.
Author : Malika Mokeddem
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813919942
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (199 download)
Download or read book Of Dreams and Assassins written by Malika Mokeddem and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of Dreams and Assassins is the urgent and rhythmic fourth novel of Malika Mokeddem, her second to appear in English. Born in Algeria to a Bedouin family that had only recently become sedentary, Mokeddem was raised on the stories of her grandmother, who encouraged her education at a time when girls did not go to school. Though raised in a tolerant version of Islam, Mokeddem nevertheless felt the weight of custom and tradition. Of Dreams and Assassins, though not strictly autobiographical, evokes through the beauty and vastness and oppressive heat of the desert Mokeddem's early yearning for freedom. Through its heroine, Kenza, and her simultaneous rebellion and immersion in the literary classics at a boarding school, the novel dramatizes the possibilities for women to express their identities. Kenza is an exile, first in her own society and later in France. Born during a visit to Montpellier in the year of Algerian independence, she returns with her mother to Oran to find her father has taken another wife. Her mother leaves alone, never to return. Kenza's subsequent search for herself through the mother she doesn't know, told in a frank first-person narrative, mirrors the struggle of Algerian women to make a place in a society that has stripped them of their rights in spite of their crucial participation in the war for independence. Kenza's suffocating childhood in the house of her boisterous, leering father is broken only by summers in the desert, where the dates "become golden brown and gleam like little clusters of suns that mock the children." Eventually, Kenza, like Mokeddem herself, leaves her home to go to school in Montpellier, because she can no longer tolerate life in Algeria. Of Dreams and Assassins is a protest, against the subjugation of women in Algeria and the violence of the last ten years, perpetrated by fundamentalist Muslim guerrillas. In exile, Kenza puts her hope in métissage, the blending of cultures embodied by the character of Slim, her friend and confidant, who lives happily with his mixed-race origins. Kenza's story dramatizes Mokeddem's belief that the future of Algeria lies in its women and in education; only through liberation and education can the pain of Kenza's exile be redeemed.
Author : Catherynne M. Valente
Publisher : Wildside Press
ISBN 13 : 9780809510870
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Yume No Hon written by Catherynne M. Valente and published by Wildside Press. This book was released on 2006-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the mind of Ayako, an old woman in exile on a mountain in medievalJapan, nothing is certain, and nothing holds a familiar shape for long. This isa map of a psyche exalted and destroyed by solitude, and on its contortedsurface Shinto philosophy, Greek mathematics, Hawaiian goddesses, Egyptianlegend, quantum physics, and Babylonian myth meet and merge... InCatherynne M. Valente's second novel since the critically acclaimed TheLabyrinth, language and myth construct a strange new geography of theself. This is The Book of Dreams: open it and walk the shadowy paths ofthis extraordinary landscape.
Author : Richard Arnold Singer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (51 download)
Download or read book Dreams in Exile written by Richard Arnold Singer and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ngugi wa Thiong'o
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0307378950
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (73 download)
Download or read book Dreams in a Time of War written by Ngugi wa Thiong'o and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2010-03-09 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born in 1938 in rural Kenya, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o came of age in the shadow of World War II, amidst the terrible bloodshed in the war between the Mau Mau and the British. The son of a man whose four wives bore him more than a score of children, young Ngũgĩ displayed what was then considered a bizarre thirst for learning, yet it was unimaginable that he would grow up to become a world-renowned novelist, playwright, and critic. In Dreams in a Time of War, Ngũgĩ deftly etches a bygone era, bearing witness to the social and political vicissitudes of life under colonialism and war. Speaking to the human right to dream even in the worst of times, this rich memoir of an African childhood abounds in delicate and powerful subtleties and complexities that are movingly told.
Author : Lauren Hilgers
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0451496159
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (514 download)
Download or read book Patriot Number One written by Lauren Hilgers and published by Crown. This book was released on 2018-03-20 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2018 BY New York Times Critics • Wall Street Journal • Kirkus Reviews Christian Science Monitor • San Francisco Chronicle Finalist for the PEN Jacqueline Bograd Weld Biography Award Shortlisted for the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize The deeply reported story of one indelible family transplanted from rural China to New York City, forging a life between two worlds In 2014, in a snow-covered house in Flushing, Queens, a village revolutionary from Southern China considered his options. Zhuang Liehong was the son of a fisherman, the former owner of a small tea shop, and the spark that had sent his village into an uproar—pitting residents against a corrupt local government. Under the alias Patriot Number One, he had stoked a series of pro-democracy protests, hoping to change his home for the better. Instead, sensing an impending crackdown, Zhuang and his wife, Little Yan, left their infant son with relatives and traveled to America. With few contacts and only a shaky grasp of English, they had to start from scratch. In Patriot Number One, Hilgers follows this dauntless family through a world hidden in plain sight: a byzantine network of employment agencies and language schools, of underground asylum brokers and illegal dormitories that Flushing’s Chinese community relies on for survival. As the irrepressibly opinionated Zhuang and the more pragmatic Little Yan pursue legal status and struggle to reunite with their son, we also meet others piecing together a new life in Flushing. Tang, a democracy activist who was caught up in the Tiananmen Square crackdown in 1989, is still dedicated to his cause after more than a decade in exile. Karen, a college graduate whose mother imagined a bold American life for her, works part-time in a nail salon as she attends vocational school, and refuses to look backward. With a novelist’s eye for character and detail, Hilgers captures the joys and indignities of building a life in a new country—and the stubborn allure of the American dream.
