Curfew

Author : Jayne Cowie
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2022-03-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780593336786

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Curfew by Jayne Cowie Pdf

Think The Handmaid's Tale but with the women in charge, set in a world where all men are electronically tagged and placed under strict curfew, and the murder investigation threatening to undo it all. Imagine a near-future Britain in which women dominate workplaces, public spaces, and government. Where the gender pay gap no longer exists and motherhood opens doors instead of closing them. Where women are no longer afraid to walk home alone, to cross a dark parking lot, or to catch the last train. Where all men are electronically tagged and not allowed out after 7 p.m. But the curfew hasn’t made life easy for all women. Sarah is a single mother who happily rebuilt her life after her husband, Greg, was sent to prison for breaking curfew. Now he’s about to be released, and Sarah isn’t expecting a happy reunion, given that she’s the reason he was sent there. Her teenage daughter, Cass, hates living in a world that restricts boys like her best friend, Billy. Billy would never hurt anyone, and she’s determined to prove it. Somehow. Helen is a teacher at the local school. Secretly desperate for a baby, she’s applied for a cohab certificate with her boyfriend, Tom, and is terrified that they won’t get it. The last thing she wants is to have a baby on her own. These women don’t know it yet, but one of them is about to be violently murdered. Evidence will suggest that she died late at night and that she knew her attacker. It couldn’t have been a man because a CURFEW tag is a solid alibi. Isn’t it?

Author : José Donoso
Publisher : Grove Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0802133819

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Curfew by José Donoso Pdf

Curfew takes place during one twenty-four hour period in January 1985. Matilde Neruda, widow of the Nobel Prize-winning poet, has just passed away, and various factions are rallying to turn the event to their advantage: for Pinochet's junta, it represents a chance to assert political authority, while for the intellectuals who had basked in the Nerudas' light, it is an opportunity to grab the spoils of the estate. Against this backdrop of complex, often conflicting motivations, Donoso weaves a portrait of a society struggling to fashion a daily existence for itself, and of an intelligentsia vainly attempting to salvage the remnants of glory days long gone by. But Curfew is also a story of the tragic love between Judit Torre, an upper-middle-class radical who wants to escape her bitter past; and Mañntilde;ungo Vera, a native son returning after a successful career as a European pop singer. In the zone between documentary-like realism and grotesque absurdity, Joséeacute; Donoso evokes the suffocating atmosphere of a country under dictatorship, and its quietly devastating effect on the actions of those who live there.

Author : Donni LeBoeuf
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 12 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Curfew
ISBN : MINN:31951D02881519X

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Curfew, an Answer to Juvenile Delinquency and Victimization? by Donni LeBoeuf Pdf

Author : John Tobin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1807
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : UCAL:B3278545

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The Curfew by John Tobin Pdf

Author : Vibhuti Narain Rai
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2016-02-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9789385890734

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Curfew In The City by Vibhuti Narain Rai Pdf

A moving story of a Muslim household of beedi workers stuck in a claustrophobic city, this novella narrates how curfew affects simple and ordinary lives. With administrative authorities fanning insecurities, the book unmasks cold, calculated greed and blind senseless hatred that always waits for the opportune moment to tear apart the mask to reveal the actual faces, real and primal.

Author : Jagdish Prasad Singh
Publisher : Mittal Publications
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : India
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Curfew by Jagdish Prasad Singh Pdf

Author : John Tobin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1807
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:590984121

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The curfew: a play by John Tobin Pdf

Author : John Tobin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1807
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0019614562

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The Curfew ... The Fourth Edition by John Tobin Pdf

Author : Jesse Ball
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2011-06-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307739858

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The Curfew by Jesse Ball Pdf

William and Molly lead a life of small pleasures, riddles at the kitchen table, and games of string and orange peels. All around them a city rages with war. When the uprising began, William’s wife was taken, leaving him alone with their young daughter. They keep their heads down and try to remain unnoticed as police patrol the streets, enforcing a curfew and arresting citizens. But when an old friend seeks William out, claiming to know what happened to his wife, William must risk everything. He ventures out after dark, and young Molly is left to play, reconstructing his dangerous voyage, his past, and their future. An astounding portrait of fierce love within a world of random violence, The Curfew is a mesmerizing feat of literary imagination.

Author : Phil Rickman
Publisher : Atlantic Books
Page : 777 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780857896896

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Curfew by Phil Rickman Pdf

Every night for 400 years, a curfew bell has tolled from the church tower of Crybbe—superstitious ritual or sole defense against an ancient evil? In Crybbe, only strangers walk at twilight . . . For 400 years, the curfew bell has tolled nightly from the church tower of the small country town, Crybbe's only defense against the evil rising unbidden in its haunted streets. Radio reporter Fay Morrison came to Crybbe because she had no choice. Millionaire music tycoon Max Goff came because there was nothing left to conquer, except the power of the spirit. But he knew nothing of the town's legacy of dark magic—and nobody felt like telling him.

Author : Ben Okri
Publisher : Random House
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781448138531

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Stars Of The New Curfew by Ben Okri Pdf

To enter the world of Ben Okri's stories is to surrender to a new reality. Set in the chaotic streets of Lagos and the jungle heart of Nigeria, all the laws of cause and effect, fact and fiction, are suspended. It is a world where the lives of the powerless veer terrifyingly close to nightmare. In rich, lyrical, almost hallucinatory prose Ben Okri guides us through the fabulous and the mundane, the serene and the randomly violent. The unrelenting Nigerian heat and the implacable darkness of the black-out and the military curfew are the backdrops for his characters each finding their own ways to survive. We witness their dogged resistance to impotence, their unquenchable humour and their insistence on the possibility of love in the face of terror. Written with the lucid clarity and logic of dream, Stars of the New Curfew is a book of visionary imagination.

Author : Nancy Jean Loewen
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2015-12-21
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781515731580

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Siblings, Curfews, and How to Deal by Nancy Jean Loewen Pdf

Why can't I have a cell phone like my sister has? What if I don't like my new stepdad? Four diverse peer mentors answer more than 30 common questions about family life posed by tween girls, providing sound advice that's not only kid-friendly but also expert approved.

Author : Rose Hartwick Thorpe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : American poetry
ISBN : NYPL:33433074961404

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"Curfew Must Not Ring To-night" by Rose Hartwick Thorpe Pdf

Author : Elizabeth Laird
Publisher : Haymarket Books
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2016-02-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781608465835

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A Little Piece of Ground by Elizabeth Laird Pdf

A Little Piece Of Ground will help young readers understand more about one of the worst conflicts afflicting our world today. Written by Elizabeth Laird, one of Great Britain’s best-known young adult authors, A Little Piece Of Ground explores the human cost of the occupation of Palestinian lands through the eyes of a young boy. Twelve-year-old Karim Aboudi and his family are trapped in their Ramallah home by a strict curfew. In response to a Palestinian suicide bombing, the Israeli military subjects the West Bank town to a virtual siege. Meanwhile, Karim, trapped at home with his teenage brother and fearful parents, longs to play football with his friends. When the curfew ends, he and his friend discover an unused patch of ground that’s the perfect site for a football pitch. Nearby, an old car hidden intact under bulldozed building makes a brilliant den. But in this city there’s constant danger, even for schoolboys. And when Israeli soldiers find Karim outside during the next curfew, it seems impossible that he will survive. This powerful book fills a substantial gap in existing young adult literature on the Middle East. With 23,000 copies already sold in the United Kingdom and Canada, this book is sure to find a wide audience among young adult readers in the United States.

Author : Srishti Chaudhary
Publisher : Ebury Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Delhi (India)
ISBN : 0143445960

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Once Upon a Curfew by Srishti Chaudhary Pdf

It is 1974. Indu has inherited a flat from her grandmother and wants to turn it into a library for women. Her parents think this will keep her suitably occupied till she marries her fiancé, Rajat, who's away studying in London. But then she meets Rana, a young lawyer with sparkling wit and a heart of gold. He helps set up the library and their days light up with playful banter and the many Rajesh Khanna movies they watch together. When the Emergency is declared, Indu's life turns upside down. Rana finds himself in trouble, while Rajat decides it's time to visit India and settle down. As the Emergency pervades their lives, Indu must decide not only who but what kind of life she will choose.