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Book Synopsis The Tent of Orange Mist by : Paul West
Download or read book The Tent of Orange Mist written by Paul West and published by Scribner Book Company. This book was released on 1995 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In December 1937 the city of Nanking, China, falls to brutal Japanese invaders. Thus begins a compelling drama wherein the teenaged daughter of an eminent scholar is forced to work as a prostitute. Short-listed for the National Book Critics Circle Fiction Prize, "The Tent of Orange Mist" illuminates the plight of intellectuals and artists during profound social and cultural upheaval.
Download or read book Latro in the Mist written by Gene Wolfe and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2003-03-19 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This omnibus of two acclaimed novels is the story of Latro, a Roman mercenary who was fighting in Greece when he received a head injury that deprived him of his short-term memory but gave him in return the ability to see and converse with the supernatural creatures, the gods and goddesses, who invisibly inhabit the classical landscape. Latro forgets everything when he sleeps. Writing down his experiences every day and reading his journal anew each morning gives him a poignantly tenuous hold on himself, but his story's hold on readers is powerful indeed.
Book Synopsis A History of Pain by : Michael Berry
Download or read book A History of Pain written by Michael Berry and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work probes the restaging, representation, and reimagining of historical violence and atrocity in contemporary Chinese fiction, film, and popular culture. It examines five historical moments including the Musha Incident (1930) and the February 28 Incident (1947).
Download or read book Tangerine written by Edward Bloor and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2006 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 12-year-old Paul who is visually impaired starts to play soccer for his school, and begins to remember the incident that lost him his sight.
Book Synopsis Understanding Paul West by : David W. Madden
Download or read book Understanding Paul West written by David W. Madden and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Secret Spaces of Childhood by : Elizabeth N. Goodenough
Download or read book Secret Spaces of Childhood written by Elizabeth N. Goodenough and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2010-03-23 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether it's real or imaginary, every child has a secret space, and this remarkable book explores them all. For some it's a treehouse or a hidden spot beneath a bush; for others it's a private psychic refuge--a favorite book, or a dollhouse that becomes a stage for a young imagination. As the more than four dozen pieces collected here reveal, such spaces play a key role in a child's development and retain a symbolic power that resonates throughout our adult lives. No reader will put this book down without experiencing a rush of familiar memories and new insights into that bygone world. Poet Diane Ackerman evokes that "parallel universe behind the eyes / which no one shared, or dare discover"; Paul Brodeur recalls the "fort" where he and his brother defended Cape Cod against invaders in World War II; Nobelist Wole Soyinka offers a poignant verse portrait of Africa's lost children; and Paul West remembers youthful encounters with his eccentric neighbors Edith and Osbert Sitwell. Elsewhere, Robert Coles summons up memories of his first years as a doctor and a wise young patient who taught him a lesson he has never forgotten, and Mary Galbraith shows how childhood loss is transformed into art in Ludwig Bemelmans's classic Madeline. And these are just a few of the gems in a treasury that includes Anne Frank, the controversial photographs of Sally Mann and the crudely eloquent drawings of young South African refugees, clinical case studies and profoundly personal imagery. A perceptive, thought-provoking work for general readers, Secret Spaces of Childhood opens a wonderful window on the world of the young. Elizabeth Goodenough is Lecturer in Comparative Literature, the Residential College, University of Michigan.
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Download or read book Tree of Heaven written by R. C. Binstock and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1938, in China during the Japanese occupation of Nanking, a Japanese army captain saves a Chinese woman from rape. She becomes his servant, then his mistress, but the affair ends badly for both. He is branded immoral by his troops, she a traitor by her people.
Book Synopsis The Garden of Evening Mists by : Tan Twan Eng
Download or read book The Garden of Evening Mists written by Tan Twan Eng and published by Hachette Books. This book was released on 2012-09-04 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This “elegant and haunting novel of war, art and memory" (The Independent) award-winning novel from the acclaimed author of The Gift of Rain follows the only Malaysian survivor of a Japanese wartime camp as she begins working for an exiled former gardener of the Emporer. Malaya, 1951. Yun Ling Teoh, the scarred lone survivor of a brutal Japanese wartime camp, seeks solace among the jungle-fringed tea plantations of Cameron Highlands. There she discovers Yugiri, the only Japanese garden in Malaya, and its owner and creator, the enigmatic Aritomo, exiled former gardener of the emperor of Japan. Despite her hatred of the Japanese, Yun Ling seeks to engage Aritomo to create a garden in memory of her sister, who died in the camp. Aritomo refuses but agrees to accept Yun Ling as his apprentice "until the monsoon comes." Then she can design a garden for herself. As the months pass, Yun Ling finds herself intimately drawn to the gardener and his art, while all around them a communist guerilla war rages. But the Garden of Evening Mists remains a place of mystery. Who is Aritomo and how did he come to leave Japan? And is the real story of how Yun Ling managed to survive the war perhaps the darkest secret of all?
Download or read book Sad Peninsula written by Mark Sampson and published by Dundurn.com. This book was released on 2014-09-06 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The lives of Eun-Young, a former Korean "comfort woman," and Michael, a troubled young Canadian ESL teacher, become intertwined through love, conflict, and history. Their stories collide when Michael falls in love with a woman named Jin, who challenges stereotypes of race and gender and bridges the past with the present.
Download or read book The Far Field written by Edie Meidav and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2001 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "It's 1936, the world is sliding into war, and Henry Fyre Gould has left behind the salons of New York City for the British colony of Ceylon, the tear-shaped island off the coast of India. Driven by an arrogant faith in his ideals and convinced of his heroic destiny, he storms into the village of Rajottama, determined to build a model Buddhist society."--Jacket.
Download or read book The Dry Danube written by Paul West and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2000 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Presents Hitler's 'memoir' of the years he spent as a failed art student in Vienna, just before World War One."--Jacket.
Download or read book A Checklist of Paul West written by and published by Ultramarine Publishing. This book was released on 1992 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book O.K. written by Paul West and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2000 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Resounding with all the excitement and romance of the Wild West, this thrilling historical novel about Doc Holliday and the notorious Earps recreates--in heart-stopping detail--the famous shoot-out at the OK Corral.
Download or read book Crawl Space written by Edie Meidav and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2006-06-13 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By turns epic and intimate, reflective and slyly humorous, Meidav's new novel limns the gray zone between past and future, and it poignantly describes one man's tragic attempt to come to terms with the past.
Download or read book Dark Rising written by Greig Beck and published by St. Martin's Paperbacks. This book was released on 2011-08-02 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a massive amount of gamma radiation is detected somewhere beneath the desert of Iran, the world is on edge. Is it a nuclear weapon—or worse? Alex Hunter and his highly trained incursion team is on a mission to find out. When they arrive at the ruins of Persepolis, they find an underground facility but no lab, no weapons, no scientists—not even radiation. A black hole has taken everything... Meanwhile, Iran is preparing for the return of the prophet. Israel is threatening nuclear war. And the details about Alex's special U.S. military venture—code name: Arcadian—have been stolen. Then another gamma spike is detected...and someone, or something, is draining the fluids from the bodies of Iranian soldiers in the desert. Now it's up to Alex to follow the traces of radiation all the way to the ancient caves of Arak, where he'll come face to face with a creature from his darkest nightmares. Is it game-over for Alex and his team? Or are greater forces at work as the world reaches its natural end—and mankind casts its final judgment?
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