The Colonel's Daughter and Other Stories

The Colonel's Daughter and Other Stories
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Publisher : Random House
Total Pages : 194
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ISBN-10 : 9780099284277
ISBN-13 : 0099284278
Rating : 4/5 (77 Downloads)

Synopsis The Colonel's Daughter and Other Stories by : Rose Tremain

From the author of The Gustav Sonata At the moment that Colonel Browne is standing in the shallow end of the swimming pool of the Hotel Alphenrose, preparing for his late afternoon dip, his daughter Charlotte, carrying a suitcase, is getting out of her car back in England, preparing to rob the ancestral home. It is not just another day- it is the culmination of hundreds of days, hundreds of disappointments and misunderstandings, and thousands of very small lies... Over a million Rose Tremain books sold 'A writer of exceptional talent ... Tremain is a writer who understands every emotion' Independent I 'There are few writers out there with the dexterity or emotional intelligence to rival that of the great Rose Tremain' Irish Times 'Tremain has the painterly genius of an Old Master, and she uses it to stunning effect' The Times 'Rose Tremain is one of the very finest British novelists' Salman Rushdie 'Tremain is a writer of exemplary vision and particularity. The fictional world is rendered with extraordinary vividness' Marcel Theroux, Guardian

The Colonel

The Colonel
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Publisher : Haus Publishing
Total Pages : 231
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ISBN-10 : 9781907822896
ISBN-13 : 1907822895
Rating : 4/5 (96 Downloads)

Synopsis The Colonel by : Mahmoud Dowlatabadi

A pitch black, rainy night in a small Iranian town. Inside his house the Colonel is immersed in thought. Memories are storming in. Memories of his wife. Memories of the great patriots of the past, all of them assassinated or executed. Memories of his children, who had joined the different factions of the 1979 revolution. There is a knock on the door. Two young policemen have come to summon the Colonel to collect the tortured body of his youngest daughter and bury her before sunrise. The Islamic Revolution, like every other revolution in history, is devouring its own children. And whose fault is that? This shocking diatribe against the failures of the Iranian left over the last fifty years does not leave one taboo unbroken.

The Colonel's Wife

The Colonel's Wife
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Publisher : Graywolf Press
Total Pages : 154
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ISBN-10 : 9781644451076
ISBN-13 : 1644451077
Rating : 4/5 (76 Downloads)

Synopsis The Colonel's Wife by : Rosa Liksom

A bold, dark-hued novel by a writer who “conjures beauty from the ugliest of things” (The Wall Street Journal) In the final twilit moments of her life, an elderly woman looks back on her years in the thrall of fascism and Nazism. Both her authoritarian tendencies and her ecstatic engagement with the natural world are vividly and terrifyingly evoked in The Colonel’s Wife, an astonishing and brave novel that resonates painfully with our own strained political moment. At once complex and hideous, sexually liberated and sympathetic to the darkest of political movements, the narrator describes her childhood as the daughter of a member of the right-wing Finnish Whites before World War II, and the way she became involved with and eventually married the Colonel, who was thirty years her senior. During the war, he came and went as they fraternized with the Nazi elite and retreated together into the deepest northern wilds. As both the marriage and the war turn increasingly dark and destructive, Rosa Liksom renders a complex and unsavory character in a prose style that is striking in its paradoxical beauty. Based on a true story, The Colonel’s Wife is both a brilliant portrayal of an individual psychology and a stark warning about the perils of nationalism.

The General's Daughter

The General's Daughter
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Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
Total Pages : 454
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ISBN-10 : 9780759522640
ISBN-13 : 0759522642
Rating : 4/5 (40 Downloads)

Synopsis The General's Daughter by : Nelson DeMille

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The gripping murder mystery about an upstanding military officer - the base commander's daughter - who's been leading an unsavory double life. When a professional military woman with a pristine reputation is found raped and murdered, a preliminary search turns up certain paraphernalia, and sex toys that point to a scandal of major proportions, The chief investigator is reluctant to take the case when he learns that his partner will be a woman with whom he had a tempestuous affair and an unpleasant parting. But duty calls and intrigue begins when they learn that several top-level people may have been involved with the "golden girl" - and many have wanted her dead. "DeMille is a master at keeping the reader hanging on to see what happens next." - Associated Press

The Facts on File Companion to the British Short Story

The Facts on File Companion to the British Short Story
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Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Total Pages : 545
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ISBN-10 : 9780816074969
ISBN-13 : 0816074968
Rating : 4/5 (69 Downloads)

Synopsis The Facts on File Companion to the British Short Story by : Andrew Maunder

A comprehensive reference to short fiction from Great Britain, Ireland, and the British Commonwealth. With approximately 450 entries, this A-to-Z guide explores the literary contributions of such writers as Joseph Conrad, James Joyce, D H Lawrence, Rudyard Kipling, Oscar Wilde, Katherine Mansfield, Martin Amis, and others.

Rose Tremain

Rose Tremain
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Publisher : Springer
Total Pages : 242
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9783319571294
ISBN-13 : 331957129X
Rating : 4/5 (94 Downloads)

Synopsis Rose Tremain by : Emilie Walezak

This comprehensive chronological introduction offers a detailed analysis of Rose Tremain’s novels and examines the critical reception of her work. It situates Tremain – listed by Granta magazine as one of the twenty most promising young British novelists in 1983 – in the landscape of contemporary British literature by demonstrating how the variety of her work touches upon major concerns of contemporary fiction. The book aims to satisfy the needs of students by providing an extensive reading of Tremain’s novels based on critical discussions of key notions in contemporary literary theory and cultural studies. It includes a comprehensive bibliography and overview of Tremain’s critical reception. It points up the suitability of Tremain’s novels as practical illustrations of major concepts in contemporary literary debates.

The Colonel's Lady

The Colonel's Lady
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Publisher : Revell
Total Pages : 416
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780800733414
ISBN-13 : 080073341X
Rating : 4/5 (14 Downloads)

Synopsis The Colonel's Lady by : Laura Frantz

In 1779, a search for her father brings Roxanna to the Kentucky frontier--but she discovers instead a young colonel, a dark secret...and a compelling reason to stay.