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The Water Diviner and Other Stories

Author : Ruvanee Pietersz Vilhauer
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 1609385993
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book The Water Diviner and Other Stories written by Ruvanee Pietersz Vilhauer and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2018-10-15 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this thought-provoking collection, Sri Lankan immigrants grapple with events that challenge perspectives and alter lives. A volunteer faces memories of wartime violence when she meets a cantankerous old lady on a Meals on Wheels route. A lonely widow obsessed with an impending apocalypse meets an oddly inspiring man. A maidservant challenges class divisions when she becomes an American professor’s wife. An angry tenant fights suspicion when her landlord is burgled. Hardened inmates challenge a young jail psychiatrist’s competence. A father wonders whether to expose his young son’s bully at a basketball game. A student facing poverty courts a benefactor. And in the depths of an isolated Wyoming winter, a woman tries to resist a con artist. These and other tales explore the immigrant experience with a piercing authenticity.

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ISBN 13 : 1609385985
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (93 download)

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The Water Diviner

Author : Andrew Anastasios
Publisher : Macmillan Publishers Aus.
ISBN 13 : 1743534299
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (435 download)

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Download or read book The Water Diviner written by Andrew Anastasios and published by Macmillan Publishers Aus.. This book was released on 2014-12-09 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Constantinople, 1919. Joshua Connor, an Australian farmer, arrives in Turkey to fulfil a pledge made on his wife's grave - to find the bodies of their three sons, lost in Gallipoli, and bring them home. In the enemy city Connor meets Orhan, a mischievous Turkish boy, and his mother Ayshe, who is struggling to keep her family hotel afloat and rebuild her life after the war. Connor can trace life-giving water under the earth, but finding his sons at Gallipoli seems impossible when faced with the gruesome landscape of sun-bleached bones and rotting uniforms. But a Turkish officer gives the broken father hope where there was none. - Connor's eldest son may be alive. As Connor risks his life travelling into the heart of Anatolia one question haunts him: If his son is alive why hasn't he come home? This novel tells the complete story of The Water Diviner and is based on the original screenplay by Andrew Anastasios and Andrew Knight. It is inspired by true events found within personal accounts and official records from the Great War.

Temples of Desire and other Stories

Author : K.R. Chandrahas
Publisher : Notion Press
ISBN 13 : 164650576X
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (465 download)

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Download or read book Temples of Desire and other Stories written by K.R. Chandrahas and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2019-08-12 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Temples of Desire and Other Stories have a compelling narrative that takes you through a multitude of intrigues and happenings, woven around the very social fibre of countryside India, gripping the reader like a vice. Sexual promiscuity and permissiveness, greed and integrity and blind beliefs, are the engines of stimulus that drive the behaviour of the characters of the five short stories from the author’s quiver. Read on, as the realisation dawns that she had become helpless and migratory like a stray chicken in the world of foxes.

A'Chu and Other Stories

Author : Emma Anderson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book A'Chu and Other Stories written by Emma Anderson and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Mask Collectors

Author : Ruvanee Pietersz Vilhauer
Publisher : Little A
ISBN 13 : 9781503903661
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book The Mask Collectors written by Ruvanee Pietersz Vilhauer and published by Little A. This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The alumni of an international boarding school have gathered at a campground in rural New Jersey when a scream breaks the silence of the woods. Classmates are shocked to find journalist Angie Osborne suddenly dead. The medical examiner's report isn't what anyone expects. Oddly, the death scene reminds anthropologist Duncan McCloud of a thovile, a Sri Lankan ritual he's spent years studying. When Duncan's new employer, a pharmaceutical giant, sends him overseas under shadowy pretenses, and his wife, Dr. Grace McCloud, starts to receive anonymous warnings to doubt everyone and everything, the threads of a sweeping conspiracy begin to unravel. Risking more than their own lives, Duncan and Grace embark on a treacherous journey through occult ceremonies and their own hidden pasts to discover a secret worth killing for"--Amazon.com.

Life Being the Best & Other Stories

Author : Kay Boyle
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780811210539
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Life Being the Best & Other Stories written by Kay Boyle and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1988 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirteen stories deal with three sisters, a young woman's dashed hopes, failed love, life's dissatisfactions, missed opportunities, and the search for identity.

The Penguin Book of Migration Literature

Author : Dohra Ahmad
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0525505164
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)

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Download or read book The Penguin Book of Migration Literature written by Dohra Ahmad and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-09-17 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: [Ahmad's] "introduction is fiery and charismatic... This book encompasses the diversity of experience, with beautiful variations and stories that bicker back and forth." --Parul Sehgal, The New York Times The first global anthology of migration literature featuring works by Mohsin Hamid, Zadie Smith, Marjane Satrapi, Salman Rushdie, and Warsan Shire, with a foreword by Edwidge Danticat, author of Everything Inside A Penguin Classic Every year, three to four million people move to a new country. From war refugees to corporate expats, migrants constantly reshape their places of origin and arrival. This selection of works collected together for the first time brings together the most compelling literary depictions of migration. Organized in four parts (Departures, Arrivals, Generations, and Returns), The Penguin Book of Migration Literature conveys the intricacy of worldwide migration patterns, the diversity of immigrant experiences, and the commonalities among many of those diverse experiences. Ranging widely across the eighteenth through twenty-first centuries, across every continent of the earth, and across multiple literary genres, the anthology gives readers an understanding of our rapidly changing world, through the eyes of those at the center of that change. With thirty carefully selected poems, short stories, and excerpts spanning three hundred years and twenty-five countries, the collection brings together luminaries, emerging writers, and others who have earned a wide following in their home countries but have been less recognized in the Anglophone world. Editor of the volume Dohra Ahmad provides a contextual introduction, notes, and suggestions for further exploration.

Everyday People

Author : Jennifer Baker
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501134957
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Everyday People written by Jennifer Baker and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-08-28 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A delight and highly recommended.” —Booklist “Showcases the truth and fullness of people of color.” —Book Riot In the tradition of Best American Short Stories comes Everyday People: The Color of Life, a dazzling collection of contemporary short fiction. Everyday People is a thoughtfully curated anthology of short stories that presents new and renowned work by established and emerging writers of color. It illustrates the dynamics of character and culture that reflect familial strife, political conflict, and personal turmoil through an array of stories that reveal the depth of the human experience. Representing a wide range of styles, themes, and perspectives, these selected stories depict moments that linger—crossroads to be navigated, relationships, epiphanies, and times of doubt, loss, and discovery. A celebration of writing and expression, Everyday People brings to light the rich tapestry that binds us all. The contributors are an eclectic mix of award-winning and critically lauded writers, including Mia Alvar, Carleigh Baker, Nana Brew-Hammond, Glendaliz Camacho, Alexander Chee, Mitchell S. Jackson, Yiyun Li, Allison Mills, Courttia Newland, Denne Michele Norris, Jason Reynolds, Nelly Rosario, Hasanthika Sirisena, and Brandon Taylor. Some of the proceeds from the sale of Everyday People will benefit the Rhode Island Writers Colony, a nonprofit organization founded by the late Brook Stephenson that provides space for speculation, production, and experimentation by writers of color.

Not a Thing to Comfort You

Author : Emily Wortman-Wunder
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 1609386825
Total Pages : 147 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Not a Thing to Comfort You written by Emily Wortman-Wunder and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2019-10-15 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a lightning death on an isolated peak to the intrigues of a small town orchestra, the glimmering stories in this debut collection explore how nature—damaged, fierce, and unpredictable—worms its way into our lives. Here moths steal babies, a creek seduces a lonely suburban mother, and the priorities of a passionate conservationist are thrown into confusion after the death of her son. Over and over, the natural world reveals itself to be unknowable, especially to the people who study it most. These tales of scientists, nurses, and firefighters catalog the loneliness within families, betrayals between friends, and the recurring song of regret and grief.

Happy Like This

Author : Ashley Wurzbacher
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 1609386833
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Happy Like This written by Ashley Wurzbacher and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2019-10-15 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The characters in Happy Like This are smart girls and professional women—social scientists, linguists, speech therapists, plant physiologists, dancers—who search for happiness in roles and relationships that are often unscripted or unconventional. In the midst of their ambivalence about marriage, monogamy, and motherhood and their struggles to accept and love their bodies, they look to other women for solidarity, stability, and validation. Sometimes they find it; sometimes they don’t. Spanning a wide range of distinct perspectives, voices, styles, and settings, the ten shimmering stories in Happy Like This offer deeply felt, often humorous meditations on the complexity of choice and the ambiguity of happiness.

The Diviners

Author : Margaret Laurence
Publisher : New Canadian Library
ISBN 13 : 1551992434
Total Pages : 562 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (519 download)

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Download or read book The Diviners written by Margaret Laurence and published by New Canadian Library. This book was released on 2008-11-19 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The culmination and completion of Margaret Laurence’s celebrated Manawaka cycle, The Diviners is an epic novel. This is the powerful story of an independent woman who refuses to abandon her search for love. For Morag Gunn, growing up in a small Canadian prairie town is a toughening process – putting distance between herself and a world that wanted no part of her. But in time, the aloneness that had once been forced upon her becomes a precious right – relinquished only in her overwhelming need for love. Again and again, Morag is forced to test her strength against the world – and finally achieves the life she had determined would be hers. The Diviners has been acclaimed by many critics as the outstanding achievement of Margaret Laurence’s writing career. In Morag Gunn, Laurence has created a figure whose experience emerges as that of all dispossessed people in search of their birthright, and one who survives as an inspirational symbol of courage and endurance. The Diviners received the Governor General’s Award for Fiction for 1974.

The Woods

Author : Janice Obuchowski
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 1609388755
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book The Woods written by Janice Obuchowski and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2022-11-10 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Woods explores the lives of people in a small Vermont college town and its surrounding areas—a place at the edge of the bucolic, where the land begins to shift into something untamed. In the tradition of Elizabeth Strout’s Olive Kitteridge and Sherwood Anderson’s Winesburg, Ohio, these stories follow people who carry private griefs but search for contentment. As they try to make sense of their worlds, grappling with problems—worried about their careers, their marriages, their children, their ambitions—they also sift through the happiness they have, and often find deep solace in the landscape. What do we find in the woods? An uplifting of spirit or a quieting of sorrow. A sense of being haunted by the past. Sometimes rougher, more violent things: abandoned quarries and feral cats, black bears, brothers caught up in an escalating war, a ghost who wishes to pass on her despair, monsters who boom with hollow ecstatic laughter. But also songbirds: the hermit thrush and the winter wren. Rushing rivers glossy with froth. A nineteenth-century inn that’s somehow gotten by all these years. And far within, a vegetal twilight and constant dusk that feels outside of time. This remarkable debut illuminates the ways we all carry within ourselves aspects stark, beautiful, wild, and unknowable.

No Use Pretending

Author : Thomas A. Dodson
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 1609389182
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book No Use Pretending written by Thomas A. Dodson and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2023-10-04 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The characters in these stories have been forced into conditions of life that they find unbearable, and the stories chart their often tragically misguided attempts to relieve their suffering via connections with other people or through the pursuit of addictive attachments (to opiates in one story, to sleep in another). This collection encompasses diverse genres, from ecologically informed realism to a Kafkaesque fairy tale, from fabulist “weird fiction” to an episode from The Odyssey that becomes a meditation on what distinguishes human beings from animals. These stories invite the reader to reconsider moral and ideological certainties, to take a fresh look at such issues as fracking and drone warfare. In one story, a petroleum engineer discovers that one of his wastewater wells may be causing earthquakes, and in another the pilot of an Air Force drone seeks to reconcile his conflicting roles as protector and executioner, husband and soldier. The scientist and the serviceman are both presented with problems that have no easy or obvious solutions, situations that force them to confront the messy, compromising complexity of being human.

Everything Flirts

Author : Sharon Wahl
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 1609389980
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Everything Flirts written by Sharon Wahl and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2024-11-05 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the heart of the stories in Everything Flirts are some of life’s trickiest questions: Why is it so hard to make the first move on a date? How do we find the person we will love? If you finally find a person to love, how do you convince them to love you back? With a mixture of humor and reverence, Sharon Wahl hijacks classic works of philosophy and turns their focus to love. The philosopher Wittgenstein helps us consider the limits of language: Does there exist an argument, a logical deduction, that will cause another person to love us? The philosopher Zeno’s laws of motion stipulate that we can only ever cross half of any distance. This principle is applied to a first date, where making a first move becomes more and more impossible because the movie this couple goes to see is a depressing mood-killer. A woman afraid of love applies Bentham’s utilitarian principles to find her perfect match, testing every man she meets until she finds one who aces every one of her tests. Nonetheless, she wonders: Is he right for her? Is she ready to fall in love forever? The sublime and the ridiculous come together to playfully examine why love just might be a topic too hard for philosophers to explain.

The Man in the Banana Trees

Author : Marguerite Sheffer
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 1609389964
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book The Man in the Banana Trees written by Marguerite Sheffer and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2024-11-05 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The stories in The Man in the Banana Trees take place in the past, present, and future—from the American Gulf South to the orbit around Jupiter. We meet teachers and students, ghosts and aliens. An ice cream consultant in the year 2036 predicts a devastating flavor trend and a disgruntled New England waiter investigates a mysterious tanker crash. Although wildly varied in setting, length, and genre, a thread of the fantastic unites these stories, as characters struggle to understand that thing lurking at the edge of their perception: something sinister, or maybe—miraculous.

You Never Get It Back

Author : Cara Blue Adams
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 1609388135
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book You Never Get It Back written by Cara Blue Adams and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2021-12-15 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The linked stories in Cara Blue Adams’s precise and observant collection offer elegantly constructed glimpses of the life of Kate, a young woman from rural New England, moving between her childhood in the countryside of Vermont and her twenties and thirties in the northeast, southwest, and South in pursuit of a vocation, first as a research scientist and later as a writer. Place is a palpable presence: Boston in winter, Maine in summer, Virginia’s lush hillsides, the open New Mexico sky. Along the way, we meet Kate’s difficult bohemian mother and younger sister, her privileged college roommate, and the various men Kate dates as she struggles to define what she wants from the world on her own terms. Wryly funny and shot through with surprising flashes of anger, these smart, dreamy, searching stories show us a young woman grappling with social class, gender, ambition, violence, and the distance between longing and having.