Lovers On All Saints Day

Author : Juan Gabriel Vásquez
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2015-05-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781408860427

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The All Saints' Day Lovers by Juan Gabriel Vásquez Pdf

An extraordinarily rich and powerful collection of seven, thematically linked stories from the acclaimed prize-winning author of The Sound of Things Falling 'The narrative escalates, the mystery deepens, and the scope of the story widens with each page ... Terrific' Khaled Hosseini, Books of the Year 'One of the most original new writers of Latin American literature' Mario Vargas Llosa A Colombian writer is witness to a murder which will mark him forever. A woman sits alone in her house, waiting for her husband to return, while he lies in another woman's bed twenty kilometres away. Through blood-soaked betrayal, a love affair, murder and long-meditated revenge, Vásquez achieves an extraordinary unity of emotion, morality and landscape with these fragmented lives. Achingly sad and beautifully crafted, The All Saints' Day Lovers is a remarkable and intense collection of stories that explores the depths of relationships, loneliness and cruelty.

Author : Juan Gabriel Vasquez
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2016-07-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781594634277

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Lovers on All Saints' Day by Juan Gabriel Vasquez Pdf

From the award-winning, bestselling author of The Sound of Things Falling and Reputations, a brilliant collection of stories that showcases why he is one of the best writers—in any language—working today. Lovers on All Saints' Day is an emotional book that haunts, moves, and seduces. Juan Gabriel Vásquez, the brilliant novelist, now brings his keen eye and rich prose to the themes of love and memory in these seven powerful stories. Vásquez achieves an extraordinary unity of emotion with these fragmented lives. A Colombian writer is witness to a murder that will mark him forever. A woman sits alone in her house, waiting for her husband to return from an expedition to find wood for their stove, while he lies in another woman’s bed a few miles away, unable to heal the wound in his own marriage. In these stories, there are love affairs, revenge, troubled pasts, and tender moments that reveal a person’s whole history in a few sentences. Set in Europe (the scene of Vásquez’s own self-imposed exile from Latin America) and never before available in English, this collection evokes a singular mood and a tone, and showcase Vásquez’s hypnotic writing. Vásquez is a humane, deeply insightful writer, and these stories leave one feeling transformed from the experience of reading them, with a greater vision of humanity and society, a greater understanding of relationships and of love.

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Electronic
ISBN : WISC:89002222776

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Index Volume to the Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare Pdf

Author : Charlee Jacob
Publisher : Crossroad Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2022-07-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Myth of Falling by Charlee Jacob Pdf

There is an old myth that says if one dreams of falling and goes all the way to the sudden end, this one will never wake up. For writer Charlee Jacob that form of dream death never came. She'd strike rocks and get up again. However, in other nightmares she's died almost every conceivable (and inconceivable) way, including being murdered. A child of relentless bullying, family violence, and stonings in the street...wife of starvation, psychological degredation, and abandonment, she put her fury and pain into writing. Her horrific fiction is extreme, often as lyrical as it is monstrous. Having written for nearly twenty years, illness completely disabled her. The Myth Of Falling is a collection of frequently gruesome fiction, cruelty, sexual deviance, and essays of living with horror. She's fallen, hit bottom, and got up again.

Author : Juan Gabriel Vásquez
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781408852873

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Reputations by Juan Gabriel Vásquez Pdf

As Colombia's famed political cartoonist, Javier Mallarino, strolls through downtown Bogotá in the hours before a public celebration of his career in the grand Teatro Colón, he contemplates the start of his professional life, and how he set down his oils and took up a pen to begin drawing caricatures for a living. But the celebration has far-reaching consequences: as he leaves the theatre a figure from his past, now a young woman, emerges from the crowd outside and forces Mallarino to confront an incident that took place in his home half a lifetime ago, calling into question his reputation and the value of his life's work. Vásquez's terse, poetic prose contrasts starkly with the intense and sharply focused content of this beautifully structured novel. Questioning the power of memory and the media, and their ability to distort, inform and destroy, Vásquez plays with the past and the present, challenging our perception of the truth.

Author : Juan Gabriel Vásquez
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2012-05-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781408834534

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The Informers by Juan Gabriel Vásquez Pdf

A brilliant debut from 'one of the most original new voices of Latin American literature' (Mario Vargas Llosa) 'For anyone who has read the entire works of Gabriel García Márquez, The Informers is a thrilling new discovery' Colm Toibin, Guardian 'One of this year's outstanding books' Financial Times When Gabriel Santoro publishes his first book, a biography of a Jewish family friend who fled Germany for Colombia shortly before World War Two, it never occurs to him that his father will write a devastating review in a national newspaper. Why does he attack him so viciously? Do the pages of his book unwittingly hide some dangerous secret? As Gabriel sets out to discover what lies behind his father's anger, he finds himself undertaking an examination of the guilt and complicity at the heart of Colombian society, as one treacherous act perpetrated in those dark days returns with a vengeance half a century later.

Author : Shirley, Jean
Publisher : Aegitas
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2015-06-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781772467383

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The handbook of the every day gipsy fortunetelling by Shirley, Jean Pdf

Discussing the role of fortune-telling in society, Ronald H. Isaacs, an American rabbi and author, opined, "Since time immemorial humans have longed to learn that which the future holds for them. Thus, in ancient civilization, and even today with fortune telling as a true profession, humankind continues to be curious about its future, both out of sheer curiosity as well as out of desire to better prepare for it..." This complete guide to the mystic arts includes everything from crystal gazing and reading tea leaves to tarot, astrology, divining with precious stones, oracles, and more. Line drawings and dozens of charts provide hours of entertainment and enlightenment.

Author : Sharri Whiting
Publisher : Patrick W. Nee
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2024-07-03
Category : Travel
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Top 10 Guide to Rome by Sharri Whiting Pdf

Welcome to Rome! From its legendary beginnings almost three thousand years ago, Rome grew to rule a vast empire. Today, it remains one of the greatest cities in the world. Powerful, dynamic, pulsating with life and history, Rome continues to be the inspiration of artists and writers- just as it has been for centuries. Rome is a city where ancient history is juxtaposed with contemporary culture on every corner. There is more to experience in just a few Roman blocks than in most other cities. It would be a disappointment to visti Rome and not take in the very best it has to offer. THE TOP 10 GUIDE TO ROME is designed in easy-to-read lists to help the average traveler navigate through Rome’s bustling attractions. Turn the pages and let it lead you through a tour of the city- and of history. Author Sharri Whiting ensures that you experience the city’s crown jewels: museums, panoramas, art, and culture. Whether you are visiting for a few days or a few weeks, on a business trip or a family vacation, THE TOP 10 GUIDE TO ROME is the only book you will need. THE TOP 10 TRAVEL GUIDES are designed to meet the needs of today’s sophisticated travelers. They highlight the best the world has to offer. They are available for other cities. Readers of THE TOP 10 GUIDE TO ROME might also be interested in THE TOP 10 GUIDE TO KEY ITALIAN PHRASES. Best wishes for an exciting visit to Rome.

Author : Oliver Goldsmith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : English literature
ISBN : OXFORD:590424600

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Goldsmith's Vicar of Wakefield, ed. by M. Macmillan by Oliver Goldsmith Pdf

Author : Oliver Goldsmith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Abduction
ISBN : HARVARD:32044097041925

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Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith Pdf

Author : Juan Gabriel Vasquez
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2013-08-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101605387

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The Sound of Things Falling by Juan Gabriel Vasquez Pdf

* National Bestseller and winner of the 2014 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award * Hailed by Edmund White as "a brilliant new novel" on the cover of the New York Times Book Review * Lauded by Jonathan Franzen, E. L. Doctorow and many others From a global literary star comes a prize-winning tour de force – an intimate portrayal of the drug wars in Colombia. Juan Gabriel Vásquez has been hailed not only as one of South America’s greatest literary stars, but also as one of the most acclaimed writers of his generation. In this gorgeously wrought, award-winning novel, Vásquez confronts the history of his home country, Colombia. In the city of Bogotá, Antonio Yammara reads an article about a hippo that had escaped from a derelict zoo once owned by legendary Colombian drug kingpin Pablo Escobar. The article transports Antonio back to when the war between Escobar’s Medellín cartel and government forces played out violently in Colombia’s streets and in the skies above. Back then, Antonio witnessed a friend’s murder, an event that haunts him still. As he investigates, he discovers the many ways in which his own life and his friend’s family have been shaped by his country’s recent violent past. His journey leads him all the way back to the 1960s and a world on the brink of change: a time before narco-trafficking trapped a whole generation in a living nightmare. Vásquez is “one of the most original new voices of Latin American literature,” according to Nobel Prize winner Mario Vargas Llosa, and The Sound of Things Falling is his most personal, most contemporary novel to date, a masterpiece that takes his writing—and will take his literary star—even higher.

Author : Robert W. Fieseler
Publisher : Liveright Publishing
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2018-06-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781631491658

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Tinderbox: The Untold Story of the Up Stairs Lounge Fire and the Rise of Gay Liberation by Robert W. Fieseler Pdf

Winner • Edgar Award (Best Fact Crime) Winner • Lambda Literary's Judith A. Markowitz Award for Emerging LGBTQ Writers Finalist • Housatonic Book Award (Nonfiction) Finalist • Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction A Stonewall Honor Book in Nonfiction (American Library Association) Best Book of the Year: Kirkus Reviews, Library Journal and Shelf Awareness An essential work of American civil rights history, Tinderbox mesmerizingly reconstructs the 1973 fire that devastated New Orleans’ subterranean gay community. Buried for decades, the Up Stairs Lounge tragedy has only recently emerged as a catalyzing event of the gay liberation movement. In revelatory detail, Robert W. Fieseler chronicles the tragic event that claimed the lives of thirty-one men and one woman on June 24, 1973, at a New Orleans bar, the largest mass murder of gays until 2016. Relying on unprecedented access to survivors and archives, Fieseler creates an indelible portrait of a closeted, blue- collar gay world that flourished before an arsonist ignited an inferno that destroyed an entire community. The aftermath was no less traumatic—families ashamed to claim loved ones, the Catholic Church refusing proper burial rights, the city impervious to the survivors’ needs—revealing a world of toxic prejudice that thrived well past Stonewall. Yet the impassioned activism that followed proved essential to the emergence of a fledgling gay movement. Tinderbox restores honor to a forgotten generation of civil-rights martyrs.

Author : David Ney,Ephraim Radner
Publisher : Lexham Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2022-01-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781683595540

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All Thy Lights Combine by David Ney,Ephraim Radner Pdf

We do not simply interpret God's word. His word interprets us. Figural interpretation has been a trademark of Anglican devotions from the beginning. Anglican readers—including Tyndale, Cranmer, Hooker, and Lewis—have been figural readers of the Bible. By paying attention to how words, images, and narratives become figures of others in Scripture, these readers sought to uncover how God's word interprets all of reality. Every verse shines the constellation of God's story. Edited by David Ney and Ephraim Radner, the essays in All Thy Lights Combine explore how the Anglican tradition has employed figural interpretation to theological, Christological, and pastoral ends. The prayer book is central; it immerses Christians in the words of Scripture and orders them by the word. With guided prayers for morning and evening, this book invites readers to be re--formed by God's word. Become immersed in the riches of the Anglican interpretive tradition.

Author : Anna Harrison
Publisher : Liturgical Press
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2022-09-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780879071899

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Thousands and Thousands of Lovers by Anna Harrison Pdf

Thousands and Thousands of Lovers examines the spiritual significance of community to the Cistercian nuns of Helfta—a concern that lies at the heart of the monastery’s literature. Focusing on a woefully understudied resource and the largest body of female-authored writings in the thirteenth century, this book offers insight into the religious preoccupations of a theologically expert and intellectually vibrant cloister to reveal a subtle interplay between communal practice and private piety, other-directed attention, and inward-religious impulse. It considers the nuns’ attitudes toward community among themselves and with their household members as well as with souls in purgatory and the saints.

Author : ANONYMOUS
Publisher : BEYOND BOOKS HUB
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2023-06-19
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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EVERYBODY'S BOOK OF LUCK by ANONYMOUS Pdf

Everybody's Book of Luck by Anonymous takes you on an enlightening expedition through the many dimensions of luck and fortune. Explore the various beliefs, traditions, and superstitions surrounding luck from cultures around the world, and delve into the human tendency to seek patterns and meaning in seemingly random events. With Everybody's Book of Luck, you'll discover how different societies interpret luck and learn about rituals designed to invite good fortune. Thought-provoking and often surprising, this book offers a fascinating look at how the concept of luck shapes our worldviews and lives.