The Sound of Salt Forming: Short Stories by the Post-80`s Generation in China, Geng Song, Qingxiang Yang

Автор: Geng Song, Qingxiang Yang
Название: The Sound of Salt Forming: Short Stories by the Post-80`s Generation in China
ISBN: 0824856368 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780824856366
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: "Original edition published by Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press"--Title page verso.

Автор: Sypolt Natalie
Название: The Sound of Holding Your Breath: Stories
ISBN: 1946684570 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781946684578
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Описание: The residents of The Sound of Holding Your Breath could be neighbors, sharing the same familiar landscapes of twenty-first-century Appalachia—lake and forest, bridge and church, cemetery and garden, diner and hair salon. They could be your neighbors—average, workaday, each struggling with secrets and losses, entrenched in navigating the complex requirements of family in all its forms.Yet tragedy and violence challenge these unassuming lives: A teenage boy is drawn to his sister’s husband, an EMT searching the lake for a body. A brother, a family, and a community fail to confront the implications of a missing girl. A pregnant widow spends Thanksgiving with her deceased husband’s family. Siblings grapple with the death of their sister-in-law at the hands of their brother. And in the title story, the shame of rape ruptures more than a decade later.Accidents and deaths, cons and cover-ups, abuse and returning veterans—Natalie Sypolt’s characters wrestle with who they are during the most trying situations of their lives.

Автор: Richard Currey
Название: The Wars of Heaven
ISBN: 1939650054 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781939650054
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Описание: The lives of the working class in West Virginia--a train engineer, an epileptic, coal miners and outlaws, the fragile and dispossessed--are explored in this powerful yet tender collection of six short stories and a novella. They depict an isolated world of hardship, human endurance, and hard-won dignity and are a lyrical rendering of times and places now largely gone--but the stirring clarity of people and landscape can persist in the readers imagination.

Автор: Zen Hae
Название: The Red Bowl & Other Stories
ISBN: 602697802X ISBN-13(EAN): 9786026978028
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Описание: Zen Hae`s stories focus on Betawi people the original inhabitants of Jakarta. His characters, often presented in empathetic descriptions, are common people: scavengers, land brokers, traditional artists and the like; people whose lives and fates are constantly being tested in the face of massive development and modernity.

Автор: Linda Christanty
Название: The Final Party and Other Stories
ISBN: 6029144928 ISBN-13(EAN): 9786029144925
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Описание: The characters in Linda Christanty`s stories are placed in situations that force them to battle their inner demons. The achievement of personal insight, however, does not necessarily mean that her characters achieve redemption or resolution to their problems. Christanty explores the dark side of lives fraught with bitterness and gloom.

Автор: Acep Zamzam Noor
Название: Like Death Approaching & Other Poems
ISBN: 6029144804 ISBN-13(EAN): 9786029144802
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Описание: Acep Zamzam Noor`s poems wrap silence around images of death and failure. Beauty and, of course, life itself is transitory. They are things that quickly pass, reminds Noor. The reader, when trying to uncover the meaning of the poet`s surreal scenes, learns much about the meaning of his own existence.

Автор: Scruton, Roger
Название: Souls in the twilight
ISBN: 0825308844 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780825308840
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Цена: 21430.00 T
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Описание: As the lights that have guided us go out, people begin to wander in the twilight, seeking their place of belonging. In these stories, set in recent times, but before the blinding glare of social media, Roger Scruton describes the remembered landscapes of people who are not where they belong, and not quite where they wished to be. With unfailing lightness of touch, Scruton portrays characters who cannot let go of the past: Yusuf, set on a path of revenge that bears no relation to his teenage life; Bill who wanders the world in his imagination but cannot leave his suburban living room; Sarah, whose insane mission to save the Lebanese Christians brings disaster to the only person she loves; Veronica, whose determination to look the truth in the face wraps her young life in deception -- all of them lost to their surroundings and yet touchingly seeking a home in them. For lovers of the short story, these exquisite pictures of modern people will be cherished for their insight and poetic drama.

Автор: Thea Bowering
Название: Love at Last Sight
ISBN: 1927063345 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781927063347
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Описание: "So I have always walked alleys alone, with my monster face, listening through a wall for the words that might cultivate me, that are contained within the homes of ex-lovers, the ones who caught a glimpse and ran away". In the neon-slick streets of Thea Bowerings imagination, monster girls and femme flaneurs roam, anthropologists eyes on barroom denizens, disguising themselves in mens clothing and embarking on doomed love affairs. Old World meets New World as the cafes and piazzas of Europes capitals intermingle with the dust and desolation of the 21st Century modern West. Strikingly modern while also filled with fin de siecle regret, Thea Bowerings first story collection is shot through with allusion and timeless themes given new life".

Автор: Umar Kayam
Название: Fireflies in Manhattan: Short Story
ISBN: 9798083849 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789798083846
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Описание: A collection of stories that represents three major stages in Umar Kayam`s literary career: stories about New York; about the 1965 Communist coup that remain unmatched for their sympathy towards innocent victims; and a series of stories about Lebaran, the time of the Moslem year where those who have been away from home are feeling homesick.

Автор: M.C. Joudrey
Название: Of Violence and Cliche
ISBN: 099176109X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780991761098
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Описание: After the accident, William begins to see things differently. In fact, he begins to see things no person expects to see, including an orange tabby cat that speaks but cant answer questions and a half naked, otherworldly woman who isnt a woman at all. They offer him reluctant aid wrapped in riddles, as William tries to make sense of his new world and the creatures that seem to either goad him or fill him with trepidation. In the midst of this paradoxical universe that has revealed itself to him, William works his way up the petty criminal ranks, making money by fighting in unsanctioned boxing matches. A seasoned fighter, he is both exalted and manipulated by Arnie, a man who deals in sex slavery. William becomes a not-so-unwilling pawn in an international human trafficking syndicate and all too clearly sees the value of a dollar measured against human life. He navigates societys underbelly while keeping his offensive game in check, not knowing if his next move will be his last. William is a character that is layered in complexity and virtue just as much as he is simple and base. His relationships with women are both paternal and hedonistic and its through these relationships that his fate among the shadows is determined.