The Shrouded Woman
Author | : María Luisa Bombal |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 1948 |
ISBN-10 | : UTEXAS:059173024387475 |
ISBN-13 | : |
Rating | : 4/5 (75 Downloads) |
Principal character lies awaiting her own funeral.
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Author | : María Luisa Bombal |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 1948 |
ISBN-10 | : UTEXAS:059173024387475 |
ISBN-13 | : |
Rating | : 4/5 (75 Downloads) |
Principal character lies awaiting her own funeral.
Author | : María Luisa Bombal |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2008-09-16 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780374531362 |
ISBN-13 | : 0374531366 |
Rating | : 4/5 (62 Downloads) |
House of Mist stands as one of the first South American novels written in the style that was later called magical realism. Of this story of a young bride struggling with her marriage to an aloof landowner—and the mysteries surrounding their life together—in a house deep in the lush Chilean woods, Penelope Mesic wrote in the Chicago Tribune that Bombal showed "bold disregard for simple realism in favor of a heightened reality in which the external world reflects the internal truth of the characters' feeling . . . mingling . . . fantasy, memory and event." "One of the most outstanding representations of the avant-garde in Latin America." -Women Writers of Spanish America
Author | : María Luisa Bombal |
Publisher | : Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Total Pages | : 124 |
Release | : 2003-12-31 |
ISBN-10 | : 0374528241 |
ISBN-13 | : 9780374528249 |
Rating | : 4/5 (41 Downloads) |
"It is with particular interest... that we greet the publication of New Islands, a slim book of evocative, haunting stories by Maria Luisa Bombal, a Chilean writer whose creative period was basically confined to the 1930's and 40's and whose work, although small in volume, was rich in its effects, anticipating the magic realism found in so much of today's Latin American fiction." - The New York Times
Author | : Diane Harding |
Publisher | : BLKDOG Publishing |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2020-10-08 |
ISBN-10 | : |
ISBN-13 | : |
Rating | : 4/5 ( Downloads) |
Always in the Dark: One Woman's Search for Answers from a Family Shrouded in Secrets is a deeply moving memoir that tells of secrets, scandal and survival. After her parents emigrated post war, Diane spends her idyllic and cosy childhood in Cape Town, which is ruined at the age of three after the arrival of a visitor. Her roller coaster existence and mother’s mental breakdown when she is eight adds to her confusion. Her father works for Cadbury’s and after securing a transfer with the company, the family move back to England when she is fourteen. With each new move, of which there are many, Diane prays that happiness will return to her parents’ marriage. It is obvious her home life is a weird one and it is only after her mother’s death that she rummages through her secret box and unearths a wealth of staggering information she does not know exists. But Diane is a young child when it all begins and the fact she has lived her life to the point of naivety is beyond baffling. And because of the hurt and embarrassment her shocking revelation is not something she wants to share with her husband. The search for the truth sends Diane on numerous missions to talk to many people only to discover that she is the last to know about her dysfunctional family. Her goal is to hear an apology for her ruined childhood.
Author | : Peter Cameron |
Publisher | : Catapult |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 2021-10-19 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781646220786 |
ISBN-13 | : 1646220781 |
Rating | : 4/5 (86 Downloads) |
A couple find themselves at a fading, grand European hotel full of eccentric and sometimes unsettling patrons in this "faultlessly elegant and quietly menacing" allegorical story that examines the significance of shifting desires and the uncertainty of reality (Garth Greenwell, author of Cleanness). An unnamed American couple travels to a strange, snowy European city to adopt a baby. It’s a difficult journey that leaves the wife, who is struggling with cancer, desperately weak, and her husband worries that her illness will prevent the orphanage from releasing their child. On arrival, the couple checks into the cavernous and eerily deserted Borgarfjaroasysla Grand Imperial Hotel where the bar is always open and the lobby populated with an enigmatic cast of characters ranging from an ancient, flamboyant chanteuse to a debauched businessman to an enigmatic faith healer. Nothing is as it seems in this baffling, frozen world, and the more the couple struggles to claim their baby, the less they seem to know about their marriage, themselves, and life itself. For readers of Ian McEwan, Elizabeth Strout, and Iris Murdoch, What Happens at Night is a "masterpiece" (Edmund White) poised on the cusp of reality, told by "an elegantly acute and mysteriously beguiling writer" (Richard Eder, The Boston Globe).
Author | : Ayaan Hirsi Ali |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 385 |
Release | : 2008-04 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780743289696 |
ISBN-13 | : 0743289692 |
Rating | : 4/5 (96 Downloads) |
In this profoundly affecting memoir from the internationally renowned author of The Caged Virgin, Ayaan Hirsi Ali tells her astonishing life story, from her traditional Muslim childhood in Somalia, Saudi Arabia, and Kenya, to her intellectual awakening and activism in the Netherlands, and her current life under armed guard in the West. One of today's most admired and controversial political figures, Ayaan Hirsi Ali burst into international headlines following an Islamist's murder of her colleague, Theo van Gogh, with whom she made the movie Submission. Infidel is the eagerly awaited story of the coming of age of this elegant, distinguished -- and sometimes reviled -- political superstar and champion of free speech. With a gimlet eye and measured, often ironic, voice, Hirsi Ali recounts the evolution of her beliefs, her ironclad will, and her extraordinary resolve to fight injustice done in the name of religion. Raised in a strict Muslim family and extended clan, Hirsi Ali survived civil war, female mutilation, brutal beatings, adolescence as a devout believer during the rise of the Muslim Brotherhood, and life in four troubled, unstable countries largely ruled by despots. In her early twenties, she escaped from a forced marriage and sought asylum in the Netherlands, where she earned a college degree in political science, tried to help her tragically depressed sister adjust to the West, and fought for the rights of Muslim immigrant women and the reform of Islam as a member of Parliament. Even though she is under constant threat -- demonized by reactionary Islamists and politicians, disowned by her father, and expelled from her family and clan -- she refuses to be silenced. Ultimately a celebration of triumph over adversity, Hirsi Ali's story tells how a bright little girl evolved out of dutiful obedience to become an outspoken, pioneering freedom fighter. As Western governments struggle to balance democratic ideals with religious pressures, no story could be timelier or more significant.
Author | : Sarah Ward |
Publisher | : Faber & Faber |
Total Pages | : 379 |
Release | : 2018-09-04 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780571332434 |
ISBN-13 | : 0571332439 |
Rating | : 4/5 (34 Downloads) |
The past won't stay buried forever.November, 1957: Six teenage girls walk in the churning Derbyshire mists, the first chills of winter in the air. Their voices carrying across the fields, they follow the old train tracks into the dark tunnel of the Cutting. Only five appear on the other side. October, 2014: a dying mother, feverishly fixated on a friend from her childhood, makes a plea: 'Find Valerie.' Mina's elderly mother had never discussed her childhood with her daughter before. So who was Valerie? Where does her obsession spring from?DC Connie Childs, off balance after her last big case, is partnered up with new arrival to Bampton, Peter Dahl. Following up on what seems like a simple natural death, DC Childs' old instincts kick in, pointing her right back to one cold evening in 1957. As Connie starts to broaden her enquiries, the investigation begins to spiral increasingly close to home.
Author | : María Luisa Bombal |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 245 |
Release | : 2008 |
ISBN-10 | : OCLC:1285564261 |
ISBN-13 | : |
Rating | : 4/5 (61 Downloads) |
Author | : Amalie Jahn |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 2013-10 |
ISBN-10 | : 0991071301 |
ISBN-13 | : 9780991071302 |
Rating | : 4/5 (01 Downloads) |
Mia Rosetti is used to being different especially since she can tell if people are good or evil just by looking at their auras. But when a mysterious and handsome stranger walks into her life without one, she starts questioning her power and begins a search to find the true purpose of her gift. What she doesn't know is that the aura-less Thomas harbors secrets of his own.
Author | : Lisa See |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 2017-03-21 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781501166310 |
ISBN-13 | : 150116631X |
Rating | : 4/5 (10 Downloads) |
A thrilling new novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa See explores the lives of a Chinese mother and her daughter who has been adopted by an American couple. Li-yan and her family align their lives around the seasons and the farming of tea. There is ritual and routine, and it has been ever thus for generations. Then one day a jeep appears at the village gate—the first automobile any of them have seen—and a stranger arrives. In this remote Yunnan village, the stranger finds the rare tea he has been seeking and a reticent Akha people. In her biggest seller, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, See introduced the Yao people to her readers. Here she shares the customs of another Chinese ethnic minority, the Akha, whose world will soon change. Li-yan, one of the few educated girls on her mountain, translates for the stranger and is among the first to reject the rules that have shaped her existence. When she has a baby outside of wedlock, rather than stand by tradition, she wraps her daughter in a blanket, with a tea cake hidden in her swaddling, and abandons her in the nearest city. After mother and daughter have gone their separate ways, Li-yan slowly emerges from the security and insularity of her village to encounter modern life while Haley grows up a privileged and well-loved California girl. Despite Haley’s happy home life, she wonders about her origins; and Li-yan longs for her lost daughter. They both search for and find answers in the tea that has shaped their family’s destiny for generations. A powerful story about a family, separated by circumstances, culture, and distance, Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane paints an unforgettable portrait of a little known region and its people and celebrates the bond that connects mothers and daughters.