![]() ![]() It was adapted to the screen by Mario Camus in 1999. ![]() His most acclaimed novel is probably La ciudad de los prodigios (The City of Marvels, 1986), about the social and urban evolution of Barcelona between the Universal Expositions of 18. A year later he was awarded the Critic Prize. ![]() He describes the union fights from the beginning of the 20th century, showing the social, cultural and economic reality of the Barcelona at the time. The novel is considered a precursor to the social change in the Spanish post-Franco society and the first novel of the transition to democracy. In 1975 he published his very successful first novel, La verdad sobre el caso Savolta (The Truth about the Savolta Case), where he shows his ability to use different resources and styles. He maintained an intense relationship with novelists Juan Benet and Juan García Hortelano, poet Pere Gimferrer and writer (and neighbour) Félix de Azúa. Eduardo Mendoza Garriga studied law in the first half of the 1960s and lived in New York between 19, working as interpreter for the United Nations. ![]()
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![]() Joining scientists experimenting with cutting-edge technology and the latest archaeological techniques, and tracing Gudrid’s steps on land and in the sagas, The Far Traveler reconstructs a life that spanned-and expanded-the bounds of the then-known world. Then, in 2001, a team of scientists discovered what may have been this pioneering woman’s last house, buried under a hay field in Iceland, just where the epic tales suggest it could be. ![]() ![]() Even after archaeologists found a Viking longhouse in Newfoundland, no one believed that the details of Gudrid’s story were true. She landed in the New World and lived there for three years, giving birth to a baby before sailing home. ![]() The remarkable story of Gudrid, the female explorer who sailed from Iceland to the New World a millennium ago.įive hundred years before Columbus, a Viking woman named Gudrid sailed off the edge of the known world. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I vowed that I would not continue my writing career without finishing what I set out to do all those years ago. ![]() The night I returned, I dreamed the entire plot to, "Where the Deer Dwell." It was a work in process for those many years until it was published in 2012. I began my first novel twenty-five years ago, after my first grown-up adventure: a trip to San Francisco. Like any obsession, it is exceedingly difficult to quit. I've been dreaming up stories and putting pen to paper since I learned to write the alphabet. I am a lover of books - these treasures that stack up endlessly before us, each one asking to be read. I usually pass on books right away after reading, but this one I'll hold on to for a little longer and revisit the pages I've made a list of as "go-backs." The note enclosed with the book giveaway from Dorothy is very special. I want to thank the author, Dorothy Gravelle, and I believe she cares very much about sharing this book. I also appreciate the amount of research that must have gone in to the writing of the book. The characters were well developed and the world around was something I could "see." It's a wonderful idea to have the main character forced into this world that she would only be able to dream about otherwise. But I was drawn to the giveaway and I made a commitment to reading if I won. I usually don't read supernatural or fantasy or science fiction. ![]() ![]() ![]() The popularity of ABNKKBSNPLAko in particular is attributed to an element of nostalgia. The success of Bob Ong's book among Filipinos has been attributed to its conversational tone which uses humor to point out various absurdities inherent to Filipino culture. By 2013 it had sold over 240,000 copies, at which time a 12th anniversary edition was published. The book was a surprise hit in 2001, quickly selling out its first run of 500 copies. ![]() The title is meant to be read phonetically as "Aba, nakakabasa na pala ako?!", which can be roughly translated as "Wow, I can actually read now?!" The novel details what are supposedly the childhood memories of the author, from his earliest days as a student until his first few years at work. ABNKKBSNPLAko?! is a 2001 autobiography by Filipino author Bob Ong - his first and most popular work. ![]() ![]() ![]() Hanna Alkaf graduated from Northwestern University with a degree in journalism and has since worked a number of writing jobs. This also includes Publishers Weekly and Kirkus Reviews. ![]() Additionally, it received numerous positive reviews from a variety of American publications. In addition, she battles not only the physical obstacles but also her inner-self on this journey to reunite with her mother.įurthermore, The Weight of Our Sky was published last year under US publisher Simon & Schuster Book’s Salaam Reads imprint. It is a story about a 16-year old girl with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) during the May 13 riots. The Weight of Our Sky is the debut novel from Hanna Alkaf which has already gained lots of attention. The Weight of Our Sky by Hanna Alkaf Image credit: Secondly, it tackles the subject of mental illnesses which can be a heavy subject on its own. Firstly, it talks about the May 13 incident which saw riots happening in the Kuala Lumpur area. Malaysian author Hanna Alkaf is making us proud with her recent achievement in winning a Freeman Book Award! Her debut young adult novel tackles two very heavy topics but does it really well. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Read about which file to download and how to transfer them to your ereader. You may also be interested in our Kobo FAQ.Īdvanced epub â An advanced format that uses the latest technology not yet fully supported by most ereaders. Also download the Kindle cover thumbnail to see the cover in your Kindleâs library. Its themes reflect concerns growing in the society of the day, like the cruelty of vivisection, degenerationism, and the theory of evolution.Ĭompatible epub â All devices and apps except Kindles and Kobos.Īzw3 â Kindle devices and apps. Moreauâs island began as an article in the January, 1895 issue of Saturday Review. Moreau, a man who experiments in vivisection, and his assistant Montgomery. He comes to find that these creatures are the work of Dr. The Island of Doctor Moreau is the narration of Edward Prendick, a shipwrecked man who finds himself on a mysterious island full of humanoid animal creatures. Will you support our efforts with a donation? We rely on your support to help us keep producing beautiful, free, and unrestricted editions of literature for the digital age. Standard EbooksĤ3,957 words (2 hours 40 minutes) with a reading ease of 72.26 (fairly easy) Wells - Free ebook download - Standard Ebooks: Free and liberated ebooks, carefully produced for the true book lover. ![]() ![]() ![]() Historically, this condition became known as "shell shock," and it followed WWI veterans home, tormenting them long after they left the battlefields behind. Other cases of mental anguish displayed in All Quiet include Paul's depression over killing the French soldier and Albert's suicidal longing after learning his leg has been amputated. Kemmerick suffers even worse than Paul, mentally eroding to the point that he tries to leave the safety of the dugout: Kind of obvious how such a situation would degrade your mental health, isn't it? And there's nothing you can do about it-it's all up to chance, a game of rolling dice with the Grim Reaper. ![]() Worse, you never know when one of those shells will hit. ![]() Just imagine it: an entire week of no sleep because of the constant noise of bombs going off near. KAT: Didn't I tell you this was gonna be a bad one? During Paul's first stint on the Front, we begin to see the mental toll they have on the soldiers: This ain't PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder)-what we see in All Quiet on the Western Front is straight-up TSD.īeyond the physical violence, Milestone also focuses on the psychological trauma the weapons of WWI reaped. We're talking about the searing damage of wartime trauma. We're not even talking about unfriendly games of manipulation, gaslighting, or gossip. No, we're not talking about a friendly game of Boggle or Scrabble. ![]() ![]() In the US, Thomas is many things, as Barry’s mobile, ambiguous characters frequently are. That thinking just burns through your brain for a while. “That’s because we were thought worthless. “That’s why no one will talk,” reflects Thomas, feeling that what has happened is simply not accounted as a subject. ![]() Because we were nothing ourselves, to begin with” – is later amplified by the nightmarish tale he hears from a fellow Irishman whose passage to the New World ends with corpses floating in the bilges, immured and abandoned. His brief explanation of the aptitude he and those like him show for soldiery – “How we were able to see slaughter without flinching. It is the 1850s, and Thomas has arrived in Missouri by way of Quebec, a journey that is revealed only in snippets that lightly inflect the novel. And she had no stockings” – is more than matched by the horrors that he encounters in a US in the grip of self-creation, its expansionist violence underwritten by its adherence to the notion of manifest destiny. ![]() ![]() The traumatic chaos of what he has left behind in Sligo – his family dead from famine, his country “starved in her stocking feet. Days Without End, a fever dream of a novel that has much in common, particularly in terms of style, with Barry’s prize-winning The Secret Scripture, presents us with Thomas McNulty, who has crossed the Atlantic to rebuild his life. ![]() ![]() ![]() I left the Mennonite church and married the love of my life twenty years ago. Timidly at first, but then eagerly as I discovered a new relationship with Jesus Christ based on grace and not performance. As he grew in his faith, I reexamined mine and what Biblical womanhood looked like. ![]() On a furlough, I met my future husband – a new believer who wasn’t looking for a door mat in a wife but a partner. Work outside the walls of the compound was reserved for the men. I longed to make a difference but was limited to working on the mission compound – teaching, cooking, cleaning. All around me was heartache and disease and glaring need. ![]() I taught VBS on Indian reservations, led school for missionary children in Haiti and Africa. I became a missionary teacher and then a nurse and escaped to the mission field, the one avenue open to single women. I became a confused believer with a heart for Jesus but drowning under a sea of rules, regulations, and legalism. Faith, step parents and unquestioning obedience is a dangerous combination when mixed with mental illness, legalism, and heavy handed physical correction. My teen years took a drastic turn when my mom got saved, got married, and joined an ultra-conservative Mennonite church. Raised by a fun loving, atheist single mom who struggled with depression and mental illness, I spent my childhood backpacking around Europe, visiting yoga communes, eating vegan, living on a houseboat, then an old pony express outpost in the backwoods of Montana. ![]() ![]() ![]() I also enjoy the en face translation with the French on the left page and the English on the right page, the reader can be a full partner in the translation … or at least, one can presume to be one. ![]() ![]() Unassuming white, black, and gray tone covers 5×8 inches, and less than an inch thick this is the measure of a book that you can carry around, one thumb in the spine, until the pages come unglued. New Directions Paperbooks are the perfect size for my poetry reading habits. Ball can be more accurate and more plain spoken, but I still prefer Richard Ellmann’s Selected Writings: The Space Within (New Directions, 1968). of California P, 1994) provides a wide selection, including excerpts from the mescaline chronicles and a couple of notes on ideograms and art. If you are new to Henri Michaux, two translations of selected writings are readily available. ![]() Michaux: a writer I have tried to dislike–self-absorbed, self-fascinated, tripping on mescaline, driven to the semi-silence of the sign, flippant, sliding in and out of mockery, in and out of savage honesty, cloud writer of seamless syntax, a shape shifter, flight straight out of costume, writing the human nude. ![]() |