Cat In The Agraharam And Other Stories

Author : Dilip Kumar
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780810141568

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Cat in the Agraharam and Other Stories by Dilip Kumar Pdf

This collection of stories from celebrated author Dilip Kumar offers a distinct perspective on everyday life in the South Indian cities of Coimbatore and Chennai. The stories set in the Sowcarpet neighborhood of Chennai give readers a glimpse into the orthodox world of Gujarati Vaishnavas, transplants from the northwestern region of Kutch, who find themselves living usually at odds—and occasionally in harmony—with the Tamil-speaking community. The volume is introduced by its award-winning translator, Martha Ann Selby, who worked closely with the author. The universal appeal of these stories is rooted in their utterly truthful local specificity as they explore complex themes of abduction and restoration, humiliation and despair, and related issues of identity and wholeness. Known by Tamil readers for his description and detail, Dilip Kumar also writes with humor and a deep compassion for his characters, highlighting their strengths in the face of degradation and strife. His perspective and insight build on his own status as a northerner in this southern setting for whom Tamil is a second language—much like his characters.

Author : Robin Hemley,Xu Xi
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781350076563

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The Art and Craft of Asian Stories by Robin Hemley,Xu Xi Pdf

An all-in-one craft guide and anthology, this is the first creative writing book to find inspiration and guidance in the diverse literary traditions of Asia. Including exemplary stories by leading writers from Japan, China, India, Singapore and beyond as well as those from Asian diasporas in Europe and America, The Art and Craft of Asian Stories offers an exciting take on the traditional how-to writing guide by drawing from a rich new trove of short stories beyond the western canon which readers may never have encountered before. Whilst still taking stock of the traditional elements of story such as character, viewpoint and setting, Xu and Hemley let these compelling stories speak for themselves to offer readers new ideas and approaches which could enrich their own creative work. Structured around the themes encountered in the stories, such as race and identity, history and power, family and aspirations, this text is a vital companion for writers at all levels keen to develop and find new perspectives on key elements of their craft. Written by two internationally successful writers and teachers, each chapter contains complete short stories and writing exercises for practice and inspiration.

Author : Rob Kelland
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Cats
ISBN : 0856921025

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A Cat May Look at a King & Other Stories to Tell Your Cat by Rob Kelland Pdf

Author : Annecy Báez
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015070772846

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My Daughter's Eyes by Annecy Báez Pdf

"A collection of fourteen interrelated stories about young Dominican women living in the Bronx as they deal with the choices they make in their everyday life"--Page 4 of cover.

Author : Sara Swan Miller
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1999-03
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0395957524

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Three Stories You Can Read to Your Cat by Sara Swan Miller Pdf

A cat hears three stories about a dull rainy day, a yummy bug, and a good day of destruction in the house.

Author : Sunanda
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1996-10-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8170583268

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Kiki and Other Stories by Sunanda Pdf

Stories for children about cats, based on the Mother's talks.

Author : Dhan Gopal Mukherji
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2023-07-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9354475582

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THE CAT WHO BECAME KING AND OTHER STORIES FROM INDIA by Dhan Gopal Mukherji Pdf

Delightful, funny and thoughtful stories from India come back to life in this collection.There is the cat who is made king but then has to flee the forest because he becomes a bit too fat. Madhukara the bee gathers honey, but has to learn when to stop.The bunny is given many boons by a sage-till he learns that he does not need to be big and fierce in order to be brave.The conceited fly believes everyone is afraid of him and goes around annoying all the animals but meets his match in Hathi the elephant. Noted children's writer Dhan Gopal Mukherji gave his own unique twist to traditional Indian tales.Teeming with creatures big and small-from the fly to the mighty tiger-each one of these stories teaches gently and humorously the values of kindness, bravery, and shows that wisdom resides everywhere. Brought together in one volume for the first time, The Cat Who Became King is a collection to be savoured and treasured forever.

Author : Marek Bienczyk
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2008-02-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780810124752

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Tworki by Marek Bienczyk Pdf

In Tworki, a village just southwest of Warsaw, there is a psychiatric hospital and in that hospital, the patients and their caretakers are hidden from the war just outside their iron gates. Our hero, Jurek, answers an ad in the paper for a job there and finds himself keeping the books alongside a knockout strawberry blonde named Sonia. They and their group of friends—vital young people like Marcel, an initial rival for Jurek; Olek, Sonia’s chosen love; and Janka, with whom Jurek becomes involved—do their jobs, picnic on the weekends, and dance in the gardens on the grounds of the hospital. Jurek speaks often of, and even in, verse, whether he is talking to his friends or in letters to a distant and admiring cousin. He and his friends live lives that defy the discord and destruction of the war in Europe, striving to rediscover or save whatever beauty they can. Much of this beauty is embodied by Sonia, who is beloved of all the friends and patients at the asylum. But the revitalizing spring they all hope will come for Poland is not to arrive this year. Despite the relative safety of their odd surroundings, the world and the war soon come for the friends. Olek’s absences are longer and unexplained. Marcel is not what he seems, and he and his wife mysteriously disappear, she says, to the gas. And the perfection that Sonia embodies cannot ultimately be kept, by the friends, by the nation, or even by Sonia herself.

Author : Rudyard Kipling
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2018-09-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1727466349

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The Cat That Walked by Himself by Rudyard Kipling Pdf

Kipling wrote some of the best animal stories for children, including his Jungle Books and Just So stories. His language is rich, inventive, and sonorous. He is regarded as a major innovator in the art of the short story; his children's books are classics of children's literature. Originally collected in Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories in 1902, The Cat that Walked by Himself is one of the best-loved cat tales ever written. It is a story of the beginning of domesticated life: Man meets Woman and they move into a cave and set up the first household. Dog, Horse, and Cow come out of the Wild Woods and become tame. But Cat refuses, "I am not a friend and I am not a servant. I am the Cat who walks by himself and all places are alike to me." Woman makes a bargain with Cat to allow him to come into the cave and sit by the fire and drink milk. But when night comes, he is once again the Cat that walks by himself. Includes a unique illustration!

Author : Tahir Shah
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2023-12-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1915311241

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Two Cats & Other Stories by Tahir Shah Pdf

Stories are all around us. They're in the TV and movies we so adore, in the video games we play, and of course in the books we read. They're in newspapers and magazines, too; in the conversations we share with old friends, and with new ones. They're on our mobile phones, in aeroplanes, in submarines, and even in our dreams. Our obsession with, and craving for, stories rests squarely with the way we are so absorbed by them, just as it does with the way we don't need to continually consider how and why they work. Most of the time, when reading or listening to stories, we forget that these tales have been shaped through the passage of time. Like pebbles in a river smoothed by rushing waters, they were honed through centuries of telling and retelling. The stories contained in this anthology are a fragment of a tradition that has shaped humanity, just as it has been shaped by humanity. At The Scheherazade Foundation we regard stories and storytelling as an achievement of our species equal in significance to the development of language, art, and architecture. We invite you to dip into the tales in this small treasury - gleaned as they are from various corners of the world - to reflect about them, and to consider the wisdom they hold.

Author : & Other Cat Stories
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2023-11-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780008619947

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The Cat that Walked by Himself and Other Cat Stories (Collins Classics) by & Other Cat Stories Pdf

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.

Author : Alvin Schwartz
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0060208503

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Stories to Tell a Cat by Alvin Schwartz Pdf

A collection of cat stories drawn from folklore, some realistic and some fanciful.

Author : Georges Hyvernaud
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0810160315

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The Cattle Car by Georges Hyvernaud Pdf

In this first English translation of Hyvernaud's novel, the narrator, who has come back to France after imprisonment in Germany, is preoccupied with the near impossibility of writing a novel about his experiences; at the same time, he attempts to function normally in a world that seems to have changed radically. The Cattle Car is devoid of heroics, portraying the protagonist as a man without a future, the ordinary guy who moves quietly among objects, without making any sort of commotion, a man who daydreams other people's lives. In Letter to a Little Girl, which precedes The Cattle Car, Hyvernaud writes openly to his daughter of his own five years of wartime imprisonment. It is proper that at least once in his life each man] really experience the world's cruelty. That he touch bottom, he writes, refusing pity. It is a right that one has, the right to know how hard it is, how difficult and dangerous, to conduct the human adventure. Those who must be pitied are those who are protected from everything, who elude everything - the men with gloved hands. As he tries to explain what happened in wartime Europe, he concludes, Human beings are like that, a mixture of good and bad.... Believe in man and believe in life.

Author : Da Ngan
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2009-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781931896481

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An Insignificant Family by Da Ngan Pdf

Beginning in Vietnam shortly after the end of the American war this volume follows the life of Nguyen Thi My Tiep, a woman writer and a revolutionary, whose girlhood is spent as a guerrilla fighter, and whose post-war life becomes a search for personal liberation and individual love.

Author : Yasmine Zahran
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09
Category : Pets
ISBN : 190853155X

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The Golden Tail by Yasmine Zahran Pdf

There is no shortage of literature about cats. Their lives, their psychology, and the way they touch their human friends emotionally and spiritually have all been popular themes through the ages. But rarely if ever do we encounter accounts where the author intuits the minds of her feline friends with such remarkable grace and intimacy. True stories, but fleshed with a passionate humanity and understanding, these tales will stay with you--haunting echoes of personal tragedy and joy that are at once searing and uplifting.