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Baba Yaga Laid an Egg

Dubravka Ugresic
Baba Yaga Laid an Egg Book PDF

Author : Dubravka Ugresic
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2011-01-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780802197634

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Baba Yaga Laid an Egg by Dubravka Ugresic Pdf

“Multilayered narratives come together as an exploration of femininity, identity, mortality, and folklore’s wondrous powers.” —Booklist According to Slavic myth, Baba Yaga is a witch who lives in a house built on chicken legs and kidnaps small children. In Baba Yaga Laid an Egg, internationally acclaimed writer Dubravka Ugresic takes the timeless legend and spins it into a fresh and distinctly modern tale of femininity, aging, identity, and love. With barbed wisdom and razor-sharp wit, Ugresic weaves together the stories of four women in contemporary Eastern Europe: a writer who grants her dying mother’s final wish by traveling to her hometown in Bulgaria, an elderly woman who wakes up every day hoping to die, a buxom blonde hospital worker who’s given up on love, and a serial widow who harbors a secret talent for writing. Through the women’s fears and desires, and their struggles against invisibility, Ugresic presents a brilliantly postmodern retelling of an ancient myth that is infused with humanity and the joy of storytelling. “Ugresic’s postmodern take on myth, femininity, and aging provides a beautifully written window into Slavic literature.” —Publishers Weekly

Egg & Spoon

Gregory Maguire
Egg Spoon Book PDF

Author : Gregory Maguire
Publisher : Candlewick Press
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2014-09-09
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780763675820

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Egg & Spoon by Gregory Maguire Pdf

In this tour de force, master storyteller Gregory Maguire offers a dazzling novel for fantasy lovers of all ages. Elena Rudina lives in the impoverished Russian countryside. Her father has been dead for years. One of her brothers has been conscripted into the Tsar’s army, the other taken as a servant in the house of the local landowner. Her mother is dying, slowly, in their tiny cabin. And there is no food. But then a train arrives in the village, a train carrying untold wealth, a cornucopia of food, and a noble family destined to visit the Tsar in Saint Petersburg — a family that includes Ekaterina, a girl of Elena’s age. When the two girls’ lives collide, an adventure is set in motion, an escapade that includes mistaken identity, a monk locked in a tower, a prince traveling incognito, and — in a starring role only Gregory Maguire could have conjured — Baba Yaga, witch of Russian folklore, in her ambulatory house perched on chicken legs.

Lend Me Your Character

Dubravka Ugrešić
Lend Me Your Character Book PDF

Author : Dubravka Ugrešić
Publisher : Dalkey Archive Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1564783758

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Lend Me Your Character by Dubravka Ugrešić Pdf

"Splendidly ambitious . . . A brilliant, enthralling spread of story-telling and high-velocity reflections. In her indignation and in her sorrow Ugresic speaks for many people, many experiences. She is a writer to follow. A writer to be cherished." Susan Sontag"

Bony-Legs

Joanna Cole
Bony Legs Book PDF

Author : Joanna Cole
Publisher : Turtleback Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1986-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 080855283X

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Bony-Legs by Joanna Cole Pdf

For use in schools and libraries only. When a terrible witch vows to eat her for supper, a little girl escapes with the help of a mirror and comb given to her by the witch's cat and dog.

Nobody's Home

Dubravka Ugrešić
Nobody s Home Book PDF

Author : Dubravka Ugrešić
Publisher : Open Letter Books
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781934824009

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Nobody's Home by Dubravka Ugrešić Pdf

In her long career, Ugresic has published several novels (e.g., The Ministry of Pain), but she made her name with her essay collections, which have caused controversy and earned her the admiration of writers and critics abroad. In these latest musings, written over the course of several years, Ugresic leaves no stone unturned and no thought contained, doing what she does best: writing about the human condition through her own experience. Refusing to establish a central theme, she touches upon a wide range of topics: the paradox of multiculturalism, metaphors as our "defense against nightmares," the eerie similarities between capitalism and communism, and ways in which we try to rise hopelessly above our less-than-perfect existence. Along the way, she pays homage to the works of literature that have influenced her own creative process, in an effort to pay "a symbolic literary tax on narcissim" because "writing is not the humblest of vocations." Perhaps not, but Ugresic certainly knows how to balance being a critic with being criticized. Recommended for all libraries collecting cultural criticism.--Mirela Roncevic, Library Journal Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

The Museum of Unconditional Surrender

Dubravka Ugrešić
The Museum of Unconditional Surrender Book PDF

Author : Dubravka Ugrešić
Publisher : I.B. Tauris
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2001-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0811214931

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The Museum of Unconditional Surrender by Dubravka Ugrešić Pdf

Critically acclaimed experimental, literary fiction by the famous Croatian exile author.

Arabian Nights and Days

Naguib Mahfouz
Arabian Nights and Days Book PDF

Author : Naguib Mahfouz
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2016-06-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101974711

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Arabian Nights and Days by Naguib Mahfouz Pdf

The Nobel Prize-winning Egyptian writer Naguib Mahfouz refashions the classic tales of Scheherazade into a novel written in his own imaginative, spellbinding style. Here are genies and flying carpets, Aladdin and Sinbad, Ali Baba, and many other familiar stories from the tradition of The One Thousand and One Nights, made new by the magical pen of the acknowledged dean of Arabic letters, who plumbs their depths for timeless truths.

My Fine Feathered Friend

William Grimes
My Fine Feathered Friend Book PDF

Author : William Grimes
Publisher : North Point Press
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2002-03-25
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781466822139

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My Fine Feathered Friend by William Grimes Pdf

Boy Meets Bird. Boy Gets Bird. Boy Loses Bird An Urban Folktale. One day in the dead of winter, New York Times restaurant critic William Grimes looked out the window into his backyard in Queens and saw a chicken, jet black with a crimson comb. Wherever it had come from, it showed no sign of leaving, and it quickly made a place for itself among the society of resident stray cats. Before long, the chicken became the Chicken, and it began to arouse not only Grimes's protective impulses but also his curiosity. He discovered that chickens were domesticated first as fighters, not food; that egg-laying is triggered by exposure to light; that chickens were a fashion statement in Victorian days. He began to probe the mysteries of gallinaceous behavior, learning to distinguish a dust bath from a death dance and how to cater to his guest's eclectic palate. And when the Chicken began to repay his hospitality with five or six custom-laid eggs per week, Grimes had an answer to the age-old conundrum of which came first: the Chicken. And then one day, obeying some bird-brained logic of its own -- or perhaps the victim of fowl play -- the Chicken vanished, leaving Grimes eggless but with this funny, enlightening, and heartwarming tale to tell.

The Ministry of Pain

Dubravka Ugrešic
The Ministry of Pain Book PDF

Author : Dubravka Ugrešic
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2009-10-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780061986093

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The Ministry of Pain by Dubravka Ugrešic Pdf

Having fled the violent breakup of Yugoslavia, Tanja Lucic is now a professor of literature at the University of Amsterdam, where she teaches a class filled with other young Yugoslav exiles, most of whom earn meager wages assembling leather and rubber S&M clothing at a sweatshop they call the "Ministry." Abandoning literature, Tanja encourages her students to indulge their "Yugonostalgia" in essays about their personal experiences during their homeland's cultural and physical disintegration. But Tanja's act of academic rebellion incites the rage of one renegade member of her class—and pulls her dangerously close to another—which, in turn, exacerbates the tensions of a life in exile that has now begun to spiral seriously out of control.

Southern Selves

James Watkins
Southern Selves Book PDF

Author : James Watkins
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307427908

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Southern Selves by James Watkins Pdf

The memoirist seek to capture not just a self but an entire world, and in this marvelous anthology thirty-one of the South's finest writers—writers like Kaye Gibbons and Reynolds Price, Eudora Welty and Harry Crews, Richard Wright and Dorothy Allison—make their intensely personal contributions to a vibrant collective picture of southern life. In the hands of these superb artists, the South's rich tradition of storytelling is brilliantly revealed. Whether slave or master, intellectual or "redneck," each voice in this moving and unforgettable collection is proof that southern literature richly deserves its reputation for irreverent humor, exquisite language, a feeling for place, and an undying, often heartbreaking sense of the past.

Fox

Dubravka Ugrešić
Fox Book PDF

Author : Dubravka Ugrešić
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1940953766

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Fox by Dubravka Ugrešić Pdf

First new novel in almost a decade from one of Europe's most inventive, boundary-pushing, feminist authors.

Benny & Shrimp

Katarina Mazetti
Benny Shrimp Book PDF

Author : Katarina Mazetti
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2009-07-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101133200

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Benny & Shrimp by Katarina Mazetti Pdf

The bestselling "offbeat, down-to- earth love story"(The Observer, London)- now available in the United States An international sensation, this addictively readable tale asks the question: Why is it so impossible to get a relationship between two middle-aged misfits to work? The answer lies in the story of Shrimp, a young widowed librarian with a sharp intellect and a home so tidy that her jam jars are in alphabetical order; Benny, a gentle, overworked milk farmer who fears becoming the village's Old Bachelor; and an unlikely love that should not be as complicated as it seems. Reminiscent of the works of Carol Shields, this quirky, humorous, beautifully told novel breathes new life into the age-old conundrum that is love.

The Talking Eggs: A Folktale from the American South

Read
The Talking Eggs A Folktale from the American South Book PDF

Author : Read
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1992-08-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0395617960

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The Talking Eggs: A Folktale from the American South by Read Pdf

A Southern folktale in which kind Blanche, following the instructions of an old witch, gains riches, while her greedy sister makes fun of the old woman and is duly rewarded.

The Dead Ladies Project

Jessa Crispin
The Dead Ladies Project Book PDF

Author : Jessa Crispin
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2015-09-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780226278452

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The Dead Ladies Project by Jessa Crispin Pdf

When Jessa Crispin was thirty, she left Chicago and took off for Berlin. Half a decade later, she's still on the road, in search not so much of a home as of understanding.Fascinated by exile, Crispin travels an itinerary of of places that have drawn writers who needed to break free from their origins and start afresh.She reflects on Maud Gonne fomenting revolution, on Nora Barnacl, Rebecca West, Margaret Anderson and Jean Rhys.

Thank You for Not Reading

Dubravka Ugrešić
Thank You for Not Reading Book PDF

Author : Dubravka Ugrešić
Publisher : Dalkey Archive Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1564782980

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Thank You for Not Reading by Dubravka Ugrešić Pdf

In this collection of acerbic essays, Ugresic dissects the nature of the contemporary book industry, which she argues is so infected with the need to create and promote literature that will appeal to the masses--literally to everyone--that if Thomas Mann were writing nowadays, his books wouldn't even be published in the U.S. because they're not sexy enough. A playful and biting critique, Ugresic's essays hit on all of the major aspects of publishing: agents, subagents, and scouts, supermarket-like bookstores, Joan Collins, book fairs that have little to do with books, authors promoted because of sex appeal instead of merit, and editors trying to look like writers by having their photograph taken against a background of bookshelves. Thanks to cultural influences such as Oprah, "The Today Show," and Kelly Ripa, best-seller lists have become just a modern form of socialist realism, a manifestation of a society that generally ignores literature in favor of the next big thing.