Nevertheless Sparkian Tales In Bulawayo

Author : Strachan, Shane
Publisher : amabooks
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2018-09-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780797492578

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Nevertheless: Sparkian Tales in Bulawayo by Strachan, Shane Pdf

August 1937: Nineteen-year-old Muriel Spark is making her way from Edinburgh to Southern Rhodesia in search of a new life with her husband-to-be. What she discovers is a country of divides, the sharpest between husband and wife. When the world goes to war around her, she must find and follow her literary destiny to survive. November 2016: Duncan, a young Scottish doctor from Aberdeen, unknowingly traces Spark’s steps in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe and similarly faces up to the reality of life in the edge. Nevertheless is a series of short fictions published in celebration of Muriel Spark’s centenary in 2018, with support from Creative Scotland. Best known as the author of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Dame Muriel Spark was a poet, writer of fiction, criticism and literary biography, and was at the top of her profession, internationally, for more than half a century.

Author : Ryan VANCE,Michael Lee RICHARDSON
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2019-01-31
Category : English fiction
ISBN : 1912489147

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We Were Always Here by Ryan VANCE,Michael Lee RICHARDSON Pdf

Author : Muriel Spark
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2001-07-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780385503648

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Aiding and Abetting by Muriel Spark Pdf

In Aiding and Abetting, the doyenne of literary satire has written a wickedly amusing and subversive novel around the true-crime case of one of England’s most notorious uppercrust scoundrels and the “aiders and abetters” who kept him on the loose. When Lord Lucan walks into psychiatrist Hildegard Wolf’s Paris office, there is one problem: she already has a patient who says he’s Lucan, the fugitive murderer who bludgeoned his children’s nanny in a botched attempt to kill his wife. As Dr. Wolf sets about deciding which of her patients, if either, is the real Lucan, she finds herself in a fierce battle of wills and an exciting chase across Europe. For someone is deceiving someone, and it may be the good doctor, who, despite her unorthodox therapeutic method (she talks mainly about her own life), has a sinister past, too. Exhibiting Muriel Spark’s boundless imagination and biting wit, Aiding and Abetting is a brisk, clever, and deliciously entertaining tale by one of Britain’s greatest living novelists.

Author : Muriel Spark
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 101 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780811221337

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The Ballad of Peckham Rye by Muriel Spark Pdf

A slender satirical gem from the “master of malice and mayhem” (The New York Times) The Ballad of Peckham Rye is a wickedly farcical tale of an English factory town turned upside-down by a Scot who may or may not be in league with the Devil. Dougal Douglas is hired to do “human research” into the lives of the workers, Douglas stirs up mutiny and murder.

Author : Mary Paulson-Ellis
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781447293934

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The Other Mrs Walker by Mary Paulson-Ellis Pdf

Waterstones Scottish Book of the Year. The Other Mrs Walker is the beguiling debut from Mary Paulson-Ellis, for fans of Kate Atkinson and Sarah Waters. Somehow she'd always known that she would end like this. In a small square room, in a small square flat. In a small square box, perhaps. Cardboard, with a sticker on the outside. And a name . . . An old lady dies alone and unheeded in a cold Edinburgh flat on a snowy Christmas night. A faded emerald dress hangs in her wardrobe; a spilt glass of whisky pools on the floor. A few days later a middle-aged woman arrives back in the city she thought she’d left behind, her future uncertain, her past in tatters. She soon finds herself a job at the Office for Lost People, tracking down the families of those who have died neglected and alone. But what Margaret Penny cannot yet know, is just how entangled her own life will become in the death of one lonely stranger . . . 'One of the strongest debuts of the year' Herald 'Full of twists and turns' Independent 'A wonderful, inventive debut . . . I can't wait to see what this author has up her sleeve next' Fanny Blake, Daily Mail

Author : N.S. Zulu
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-29
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781928538226

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Kwaba Mnyama Kukhanya by N.S. Zulu Pdf

This book is about short stories and essays which talk about the social impact of Covid-19 and hard lockdown restrictions in South Africa. In iZulu the short stories and essays found in this book introduce us to the evolving and living conditions that people live in during the lockdown. The themes addressed in this book show the ways in which South Africans were affected due to the deplorable social conditions under the strict rules of the lockdown. The major themes addressed in this book, include among others, the challenges faced by the teachers and learners in schools, having to adopt to the new modes of teaching and learning (online teaching) and the issue of government disregarding the cultures, customs, beliefs, and traditions of Black people during the lockdown. The life experienced by the poor Black people is revealed in such a way that each writer writes about the background of the story built under this time of social crisis of the lockdown. Each author created his own place where the events took place in the story he invented and thereafter re-created the characters showing how they got along because of the situation of social pressure.

Author : Vakunta, Peter Wuteh
Publisher : Langaa RPCIG
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2015-09-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9789956762316

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Tori Shweet for Cameroon Pidgin English by Vakunta, Peter Wuteh Pdf

Tori Shweet for Cameroon Pidgin English is a compendium of short stories written in Cameroon's most widely spoken lingua franca commonly called Cameroon Pidgin English (CPE). The grassfields of Cameroon serves as the nursery where these culturally enriched stories are nurtured. The collection comprises animal trickster tales, bird survival tales and human-interest stories. In conformity with the philosophy of French novelist, Stendhal, this anthology of short stories is a mirror that reflects the folklore and mores of the ethnic groups that constitute the grassland region of Cameroon. It serves as a window to the worldview, mindset and value systems of the grafi.

Author : Daniel Mandishona
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2018-03-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781779223340

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White Gods Black Demons by Daniel Mandishona Pdf

Irony and humour have always been used to counter frustration, despair and to expose double standards. In these ten sharply polished stories, Mandishona explores the dark comedy that lies just beneath the surface of tragedy in Zimbabwean society in the last decade. His perceptions leave few untouched: politicians, new farmers, exiles, stranded queues and inflation that renders the currency worthless... Truth and morality are dispensable in a society where wealth is rewarded with respect, integrity marred by untruth, rumour displaces fact, and power is only interested in its own survival. Mandishona holds a mirror up to reality and without equivocation asks us to look at what is real: the likeness or the distortion and what it is we want to see.

Author : Chinodya, Shimmer
Publisher : Weaver Press
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2018-04-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781779223159

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Can We Talk and Other Stories by Chinodya, Shimmer Pdf

Shimmer Chinodya, winner of the 1989 Commonwealth Writers Prize (Africa region) is one of Zimbabwe's foremost fiction writers. This collection of short stories reveals his development as a writer of passionate questioning integrity. The first stories, 'Hoffman Street' and 'The Man who Hanged Himself' capture the bewildered innocence of a child's view of the adult world, where behaviour is often puzzling and contradictory; stories such as 'Going to See Mr B.V.' provide the transition between the world of the adult and that of the child where the latter is required to act for himself in a situation where illusions founder on a narrow reality. 'Among the Dead' and 'Brothers and Sisters' look wryly at the self-conscious, self-centred, desperately serious world of young adulthood while 'Playing your Cards', 'The Waterfall', 'Strays' and 'Bramson' introduce characters for whom ambition, disillusion, and disappointment jostle for attention in a world where differences of class, culture, race and morality come to the fore. Finally, in 'Can we Talk' we conclude with an abrasive, lucid, sinewy voice which explores the nature of estrangement. The charge is desolation. Can we Talk and Other Stories speaks of the unspoken and unsaid. The child who watches but does not understand, the young man who observes but cannot participate, the man who stands outside not sure where his desires and ambitions lead, the older man, estranged by his own choices. 'Can we Talk' is not a question but a statement that insists on being heard, and demands a reassessment of our dreams.

Author : Muriel Spark
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : English fiction
ISBN : STANFORD:36105010467764

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The French Window, And, The Small Telephone by Muriel Spark Pdf

Author : Gil Ndi-Shang
Publisher : Spears Media Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Radio and Other Stories by Gil Ndi-Shang Pdf

On moving into a new apartment abroad in his Bavarian hometown, the narrator realises that some of his possessions and elements of his new neighbourhood open a window into a flurry of memories, serving as allegorical threads to his childhood, self-consciousness and discovery of the world. What begins as a personal narrative quickly cedes to a social archaeology, inviting the reader/listener on a homegoing journey in the backdrop of Cameroon’s tottering democratic trajectory. Modulated with poetry and music, The Radio tunes in to diaspora, home, nation, education, existence, religion as well as Mbum popular culture, showcasing creative re-appropriation and re-mixing of global trends and icons in specific communities.

Author : Okoro, Dike
Publisher : Cissus World Press
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2016-06-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780967951157

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Letter to Aisha and Other Stories by Okoro, Dike Pdf

These stories portray life as instances of change under a canopy of love, avarice, determination, redemption, and triumph. They are all vignettes of life in certain realistic and ephemeral ways. [Okoro] portrays realism and illusion as two sides of a coin which inevitably propel us into fantasy, and awareness. The stories have a certain speed. They seem to move and confront us with certain vagaries of life. We enjoy these vagaries even when they occur unexpectedly as in "The Cross Bearer", where we find out that the person falsely accused of impregnating a girl was finally released when the real culprit was discovered. In "Boma's Wedding" the plight of someone unknowingly falling in love and wanting to marry her own father becomes a kind of puzzle, a certain tragedy of errors, so to speak. The fact that in most of the stories the environment is Port Harcourt Nigeria makes it homely for Nigerian readership.The reader of these short stories will also enjoy the candor, the humor and the wit inherent in them, particularly when the story stops to delve into a dream sequence and finally back into the actual story mode. The metaphorical intention of the author agrees with the literary symbolism of each short story. This is a delight. - Oladipo Kalejaiye, PhD Head of Department, Theater Art & Culture, Lead City University, Ibadan, Nigeria.

Author : Muriel Spark
Publisher : Canongate Books
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2015-12-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781782117629

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The Takeover by Muriel Spark Pdf

In the cool, historic sanctuary of Nemi rests the spirit of Diana, the Benevolent-Malign Goddess whose priests once stalked the sacred grove. Now Hubert Mallindaine, self-styled descendent of the Italian huntress, has claimed spiritual rights to a villa at Nemi - a villa with a view to kill. But his protector, the indestructible millionaire Maggie Radcliffe, has withdrawn her patronage - and the supplicant sets out to appease his ancestress. With gruesome results . . .

Author : Lindiwe Nkutha
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 121 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2021-02-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781928433033

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69 Jerusalem Street by Lindiwe Nkutha Pdf

In her debut collection of short stories, Lindiwe Nkutha takes us through the minds of people you may overlook on an ordinary day: The wayward neighbour you vaguely remember seeing every day as a child until the day he vanished. The face you see every weekend at the local drinking hole, you exchange a polite nod but know little about, not even her name. The young woman who is caught between her faith and her love for a woman. Their lives are untidy, tainted with the pain, joy and violence as they share with us stories they wouldn't share with anyone else. Nkutha's words weave in and around the weights we drag behind us from one place to another, with a sensitivity and wit required for such vulnerabilities and intimate moments.

Author : Bekker, Jo-Ann
Publisher : Modjaji Books
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781928215783

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Asleep Awake Asleep by Bekker, Jo-Ann Pdf

The thirty-nine stories in Asleep Awake Asleep can be read as a hand-drawn narrative map, charting the course of a country’s turbulent history. Together they tell a coming of age and a coming to consciousness story, as Rip – child, adult, journalist, partner, mother – revisits milestones marked and signposts ignored or unseen. Set in the suburbs and newsrooms of South African towns and cities and their wilder surrounds, there are vignettes of relationships; tales of political assassinations, murder and betrayal, and questions asked about complicity and reparation.