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Author : Marina Sonkina
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Short stories, Canadian
ISBN : 155071564X
Author : Marina Sonkina
Publisher : Guernica Editions
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781550713343
The resistance of the human spirit in face of time, disloyalty, and oblivion is the theme of Marina Sonkina's new collection of short stories. Her seemingly naïve and helpless protagonists inhabit disparate social stations, geographical locales and cultures; all are persons displaced in their own lives. But in their struggles for survival, they discover the redeeming and dangerous power of unconditional love - the only weapon available to them. Strange and incomprehensible to everyone, love makes its sudden appearance to an eight-year-old hunchbacked boy in the title story of Lucia's Eyes. As he brings the gifts of his artistic imagination to Lucia, a refugee from the Spanish Civil War, the bleak and cruel reality of Stalin's Russia dissolves into magic ... In 'Runic Alphabet' a Polish-Canadian painter plants a tree that brings to life memories of a woman long dead who remains the only true love of his life. In 'Carmelita' an aging man from Winnipeg, vacationing in Mexico, falls in love with a young Mexican painter. In 'Christmas Tango' a jobless drifter in snowy Montreal discovers tango, inadvertently transforming his own life and the lives of those who come in contact with him. In 'Tractorina' a hard-working crane-operator, retired in post-Gorbachev Russia, is driven into a rose-tinted abyss by her stepson. In 'Angels Ascending and Descending' a young girl is initiated into the mysterious symbolism of Russian Orthodox church architecture by a priestly man who hardly lives up to the spiritual heights he preaches. Full of unexpected turns and twists, sadness, joy and humour, these stories reflect life, itself always a surprise, and always a miracle.
Author : Arthur Japin
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2007-02-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307279675
Based on a woman who appeared briefly in Casanova’s legendary diaries, here is an elegant and moving story of love denied and transformed from the author of The Two Hearts of Kwasi Boachi. • "Intelligent, poignant, and yes, sexy.... A literary page-turner for those with a brain as well as a heart." —San Francisco Chronicle Lucia works as a servant girl in Italy and is engaged to be married. But after the pox disfigures her face, she flees in shame without telling her lover. Years later, as a reknowned Amsterdam courtesan who never goes out without her veil, Lucia is at the theater when she recognizes her long-lost fiancé, Giacomo Casanova; and she cannot resist the opportunity to encounter him again. Based on a woman who appeared briefly in Casanova’s legendary diaries, Lucia emerges as a brilliant woman who becomes every bit his match. In Lucia’s Eyes is an elegant and moving story of love denied and transformed.
Author : Marjorie Lowry Christie Pickthall
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2021-08-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4064066360429
"Buck Brennan was a bit taken in the wind, as he would have said. And that night he woke to a low moaning like the wind, a voice of grief so faint, so uncomprehending, it was not human. He took a light and went to the schoolroom. The girl was there, a bare thing of the night, her eyes luminous as its stars. She was squatting at the foot of the blackboard, making this sound of uncomplaining loss. Brennan knew what she wanted. She wanted her little lucky-bag, and was afraid to touch it. He took it down, looked into it; his clue was not there: unless a little bone collar stud with two or three hairs wrapped around the shank was a clue? The hairs gleamed in the light, reddish—fair. . . . He closed the little smelly thing, and gave it to the girl. Felt, the next instant, her hands, her tears, on his great bare feet! So she was a human being, not unattractive, and wildly grateful. He laid a hand like a lion's paw on her: but she melted from him, and he did not follow. She was not his; like the house, she belonged. . . To what, to whom? To a ghost, a shadow, bringing bright hair and a halo of lilac print, that looked at Buck with the eyes of a fate he might never learn. He went back to the bedroom, looked long at Franca, asleep and smiling. And began to feel that here, perhaps, was all the clue he needed..." 'Angels' Shoes and other stories' is a collection of short stories by Marjorie Pickthall.
Author : Cynthia Leonor Garza
Publisher : POW! Kids Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-07
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1576878279
Lucía zips through the playground in her cape just like the boys, but when theytell her "girls can't be superheroes," suddenly she doesn't feel so mighty. That'swhen her beloved abuela reveals a dazzling secret: Lucía comes from a family ofluchadoras, the bold and valiant women of the Mexican lucha libre tradition.Cloaked in a flashy new disguise, Lucía returns as a recess sensation! But whenshe's confronted with a case of injustice, Lucía must decide if she can stay true tothe ways of the luchadora and fight for what is right, even if it means breaking thesacred rule of never revealing the identity behind her mask. A story about courageand cultural legacy, Lucía the Luchadora is full of pluck, daring, and heart.
Author : Rob Keeley
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2012-11-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781780887661
Following the success of The Alien in the Garage, Rob Keeley’s new collection The (Fairly) Magic Show and other Stories comprises nine more children’s stories which combine fantasy elements with the reality of everyday life.
Author : Helena MarÕa Viramontes
Publisher : Arte Publico Press
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1611922267
The adolescent protagonist of the title story, like other girls in this pioneering collection, rebels against her father, refusing to go to Mass. Instead, dressed in her black Easter shoes and carrying her missal and veil, she goes to her abuelitaÍs house. Her grandmother has always accepted her for who she is and has provided a safe refuge from the anger and violence at home. The eight haunting stories included in this collection explore the social, economic and cultural impositions that shape womenÍs lives. Girls on the threshold of puberty rebel against their fathers, struggle to understand their sexuality, and in two stories, deal with the ramifications of pregnancy. Other women struggle against the limitations of marriage and the Catholic religion, which seek to keep them subservient to the men in their lives. Prejudice and the social and economic status of Chicanos often form the backdrop as women fightwith varying degrees of successto break free from oppression. Shedding light on the complex lives and experiences of Mexican-American girls and women, this bilingual edition containing the first-ever Spanish translation of ViramontesÍ debut collection, The Moths and Other Stories, will make this landmark work available to a wider audience.
Author : Vivian Sihshu Yenika
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780595292240
This book deals with family experiences in a contemporary West African country.
Author : Marjorie L. C. Pickthall
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2022-09-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547216988
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Angels' Shoes, and Other Stories" by Marjorie L. C. Pickthall. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Author : Ruth Mitchell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : Children
ISBN : OXFORD:590686794
Author : Timothy Shay Arthur
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : Children's poetry, American
ISBN : HARVARD:HW1YA9
Author : Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2022-09-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547213383
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Copy-Cat, and Other Stories" by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Author : Peter Spokes
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2018-02-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781788034005
A man journeys to Cornwall seeking a Ghost - and flowers; while another, visits an old Lifeboat Station where a long time ago, he lost his friends. Why would an obnoxious bully be so welcomed to spend the night at an old Museum?
Author : M. Shayne Bell
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2001-05-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780759524484
From the pen of acclaimed writer M. Shayne Bell, winner of the Writers of the Future Contest, here are futures to make come true . . . and also futures that should never come true -- but will.
Author : Amber Sparks
Publisher : Liveright Publishing
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2020-02-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781631496219
Amber Sparks holds her crown in the canon of the weird with this fantastical collection of “eye-popping range” (John Domini, Washington Post). Boldly blending fables and myths with apocalyptic technologies, Amber Sparks has built a cultlike following with And I Do Not Forgive You. Fueled by feminism in all its colors, her surreal worlds—like Kelly Link’s and Karen Russell’s—are all-too-real. In “Mildly Happy, With Moments of Joy,” a friend is ghosted by a text message; in “Everyone’s a Winner at Meadow Park,” a teen coming-of-age in a trailer park befriends an actual ghost. Rife with “sharp wit, and an abiding tenderness” (Ilana Masad, NPR), these stories shine an interrogating light on the adage that “history likes to lie about women,” as the subjects of “You Won’t Believe What Really Happened to the Sabine Women” will attest. Written in prose that both shimmers and stings, the result is “nothing short of a raging success, a volume that points to a potentially incandescent literary future” (Kurt Baumeister, The Brooklyn Rail).
