The Dream Archipelago

Author : Christopher Priest
Publisher : Titan Books (US, CA)
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2014-04-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781781169476

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The Islanders by Christopher Priest Pdf

A stunning literary SF novel from the multiple award winning Christopher Priest. A tale of murder, artistic rivalry and literary trickery; a Chinese puzzle of a novel where nothing is quite what it seems; a narrator whose agenda is artful and subtle; a narrative that pulls you in and plays an elegant game with you. The Dream Archipelago is a vast network of islands. The names of the islands are different depending on who you talk to, their very locations seem to twist and shift. Some islands have been sculpted into vast musical instruments, others are home to lethal creatures, others the playground for high society. Hot winds blow across the archipelago and a war fought between two distant continents is played out across its waters. THE ISLANDERS serves both as an untrustworthy but enticing guide to the islands, an intriguing, multi-layered tale of a murder and the suspect legacy of its appealing but definitely untrustworthy narrator.

Author : Christopher Priest
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Science fiction, English
ISBN : 0575084367

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The Dream Archipelago by Christopher Priest Pdf

In a world at war, the Dream Archipelago is a neutral zone, and therefore an alluring prospect to the young men on both sides of the conflict. In this interlinked collection of short stories and novellas, Christopher Priest explores war, relationships and forms of reality. Each tale is a truimph of quiet, steady craftsmanship, a model of ingenious design and subtle implication, and as a group they further enrich each other by interlocking cleverly, symmetrically and sometimes sinisterly.

Author : Christopher Priest
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2010-12-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780575086821

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The Dream Archipelago by Christopher Priest Pdf

In a world at war, the Dream Archipelago is a neutral zone, and therefore an alluring prospect to the young men on both sides of the conflict. In this interlinked collection of short stories and novellas, Christopher Priest explores war, relationships and forms of reality. Each tale is a truimph of quiet, steady craftsmanship, a model of ingenious design and subtle implication, and as a group they further enrich each other by interlocking cleverly, symmetrically and sometimes sinisterly. Christopher Priest is a genre-leading author of SFF fiction. His novel, THE PRESTIGE, won a number of awards and was adapted into a critically acclaimed, Oscar-nominated film directed by Christopher Nolan (TENET, INCEPTION) starring Hugh Jackman (THE GREATEST SHOWMAN, X-MEN), Christian Bale (THE BIG SHORT, BATMAN BEGINS), Michael Caine (THE ITALIAN JOB) and Scarlett Johansson (MARRIAGE STORY, THE AVENGERS).

Author : Christopher Priest
Publisher : Titan Books (US, CA)
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2016-09-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781785653049

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The Gradual by Christopher Priest Pdf

Alesandro Sussken is a composer living in Glaund, a fascist state constantly at war with another equally faceless opponent. His brother is sent off to fight; his family is destroyed by grief. Occasionally Alesandro catches glimpses of islands in the far distance from the shore, and they feed into the music he composes. But all knowledge of the other islands is forbidden by the military junta, until he is unexpectedly sent on a cultural tour. And what he discovers on his journey will change his perceptions of his home, his music and the ways of the islands themselves. Bringing him answers where he could not have foreseen them. A rich and involving tale playing with the lot of the creative mind, the rigours of living under war and the nature of time itself, this is multi award-winning, master storyteller Christopher Priest at his absolute best.

Author : Christopher Priest
Publisher : Titan Books (US, CA)
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2014-04-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781781169445

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The Adjacent by Christopher Priest Pdf

The eagerly anticipated new novel from “one of the master illusionists of our time.” (Wired) In the near future, Tibor Tarent, a freelance photographer, is recalled from Anatolia to Britain when his wife, an aid worker, is killed—annihilated by a terrifying weapon that reduces its target to a triangular patch of scorched earth. A century earlier, Tommy Trent, a stage magician, is sent to the Western Front on a secret mission to render British reconnaissance aircraft invisible to the enemy. Present day. A theoretical physicist develops a new method of diverting matter, a discovery with devastating consequences that will resonate through time.

Author : Christopher Priest
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1999-09-06
Category : Science fiction, English
ISBN : 0684861526

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The Dream Archipelago by Christopher Priest Pdf

Author : R.J. Cole
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2011-04-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781450291880

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The Archipelago of Dreams by R.J. Cole Pdf

All adventures have humble beginnings, and Roberts voyage is no exception. While on a harmless road trip with his family, he stopped off to have a picnic with some of his wifes great-aunts. One of the auntsa known fortunetellerpulled out her runes, and for some reason Robert felt pulled to her. She read his fortune that innocent day, but his reading would change his life forever. While crossing a darkened lake nestled in the Wisconsin North Woods, Robert falls into the Otherworld of the Spirit of Man. He leaves his body behind, allowing his spirit to travel freely, with the guidance of a wizard mentor. The balance that keeps humankind from destroying itself has been fatally tipped, and Robert is our only hope for survival. He must search for a Healer who can mend the rift before its too late. The Archipelago of Dreams uses the medium of symbolic fantasy to explore the Waking Dreamthe dream that is human life. Robert has found a link to his dream self, and it is in this dreamlike state that he must accomplish his mission. He cannot do it alone. With the help of a wizard, a tree warrior, and an ancient dream Healer, humanity can be saved. But will the rift be mended, or will Robert be trapped in the spirit realm forever?

Author : Josep Pla
Publisher : Archipelago
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2020-12-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781939810724

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Salt Water by Josep Pla Pdf

Peter Bush, winner of the Ramon Llull Prize for Literary Translation, brings to English this most prolific and influential of Catalan writers. Dripping with a panache that can turn in a comic instant to the most conciliatory humility, Josep Pla's foray into the land and sea most familiar to him will plunge readers head-first into its mysterious (and often tasty!) depths. Here are adventures and shipwrecks, raspy storytellers and the fishy meals that sustain them. After describing the process of beating an octopus with branches to soften up its flesh, Pla writes, "These are dishes that must be seen as a last resort." Pla inflects the mundane with the hidden rhythms of power sculpting culture, so that a hot supper is never just food--it embodies economic precarity and environmental erosion along with its own peculiar flavor. A lifetime of reporting on current events gave Pla the necessary skills to describe the world in all its gritty, funny, invigorating detail.

Author : Juan Carlos Onetti
Publisher : Archipelago
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781939810472

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A Dream Come True by Juan Carlos Onetti Pdf

A Dream Come True collects the complete stories of Juan Carlos Onetti, presenting his existentialist, complex, and ironic style over the course of his writing career. Onetti was praised by Latin America's greatest authors, and regarded as an inventor of a new form and school of writing. Juan Carlos Onetti's A Dream Come True depicts a sharp, coherent, literary voice, encompassing Onetti's early stages of writing and his later texts. They span from a few pages in "Avenida de Mayo - Diagonal - Avenida de Mayo" to short novellas, like the celebrated detective story "The Face of Disgrace" and "Death and the Girl," an existential masterpiece that explores the complexity of violence and murder in the mythical town of Santa María. His stories create a world of writing which is both universal and highly local, mediating between philosophical characters and the quotidian melodrama of Uruguayan villages.

Author : Tomas Gonzalez
Publisher : Archipelago
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2020-08-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781939810601

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Difficult Light by Tomas Gonzalez Pdf

Grappling with his son's death, the painter David explores his grief through art and writing, etching out the rippled landscape of his loss. Over twenty years after his son's death, nearly blind and unable to paint, David turns to writing to examine the deep shades of his loss. Despite his acute pain, or perhaps because of it, David observes beauty in the ordinary: in the resemblance of a woman to Egyptian portraits, in the horseshoe crabs that wash up on Coney Island, in the foam gathering behind a ferry propeller; in these moments, González reveals the world through a painter's eyes. From one of Colombia's greatest contemporary novelists, Difficult Light is a formally daring meditation on grief, written in candid, arresting prose.

Author : Mia Couto,Scholastique Mukasonga,Paulina Chiziane,Cedric Nunn,David Brookshaw
Publisher : Archipelago
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780914671183

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Imagine Africa by Mia Couto,Scholastique Mukasonga,Paulina Chiziane,Cedric Nunn,David Brookshaw Pdf

Imagine Africa and its theme of "Revolution" is introduced by Georges Lory who opens the collection with his essay, "Poets to your quills, Africa is taking off". Through a collage of poems, essays, fiction, and visual art, Imagine Africa gives us a glimpse of a kaleidoscopic contemporary Africa.

Author : Christopher Priest
Publisher : Gateway
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2011-10-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780575114999

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The Affirmation by Christopher Priest Pdf

Peter Sinclair is tormented by bereavement and failure. In an attempt to conjure some meaning from his life, he embarks on an autobiography, but he finds himself writing the story of another man in another, imagined, world, whose insidious attraction draws him even further in ... THE AFFIRMATION is at once an original thriller and a haunting study of schizophrenia; it has a compulsive, dream-like quality.

Author : Christopher Priest
Publisher : Pan
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Short stories, English
ISBN : 0330260480

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An Infinite Summer by Christopher Priest Pdf

Author : Antonio Tabucchi
Publisher : Archipelago
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2019-05-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781939810168

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Message from the Shadows by Antonio Tabucchi Pdf

This new, expanded collection of Antonio Tabucchi's stories collects the best short fiction from the Italian author recognized as one of the masters of the form. Message From the Shadows is a new collection featuring Antonio Tabucchi's finest short stories, spanning the breadth of his career. These playful tales explore Tabucchi's signature themes, from his inventive, lyrical meditations on language, art, and philosophy, to his fascination with the passage of time, and the mystery of storytelling.

Author : Nicolas Lietzau
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 826 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3982216737

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Dreams of the Dying (Enderal, Book 1) by Nicolas Lietzau Pdf

In a tropical island empire where wealth defines worth, a troubled mercenary and a dying magnate's nightmares hold the keys to preventing a catastrophe.