The Shroud Maker

Author : Ahmed Masoud
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2018-05-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781786825308

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The Shroud Maker by Ahmed Masoud Pdf

Hajja Souad, an 80-year old Palestinian woman living on the besieged Gaza Strip, knows about business. She has survived decades of wars and oppression through making shrouds for the dead. A compelling black comedy that delves deep into the intimate life of ordinary Palestinians, the play weaves a highly distinctive path through Palestine's turbulent past and present. The Shroud Maker toured the UK as a one-woman comedy, with one female actress playing all the roles, in the tradition of a Palestinian story-teller. The Shroud Maker was part of @70: Celebration of Contemporary Palestinian Culture, a week-long festival of theatre, dance, films and talks commemorating the Palestinian experience of dispossession and loss of a homeland. It weaves comic fantasy and satire with true stories told first hand to the writer, and offers a vivid portrait of Palestinian life in Gaza underscored with gallows humour.

Author : Kate Ellis
Publisher : Piatkus
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781405515092

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The Shroud Maker by Kate Ellis Pdf

'A beguiling author who interweaves past and present' The Times A year on from the mysterious disappearance of Jenny Bercival, DI Wesley Peterson is called in when the body of a strangled woman is found floating out to sea in South Devon. The discovery mars the festivities of the Palkin Festival, held each year to celebrate the life of John Palkin, a fourteenth-century Mayor of Tradmouth who made his fortune from trade and piracy. It seems like death and mystery have returned to haunt the town. When archaeologist Neil Watson makes a grim discovery on the site of Palkin's warehouse, it looks as if history might have inspired a killer. It is only by delving into the past that Wesley can come close to uncovering the truth . . . Whether you've read the whole series, or are discovering Kate Ellis's DI Wesley Peterson novels for the first time, this is the perfect page-turner if you love reading Elly Griffiths and Ann Cleeves. PRAISE FOR KATE ELLIS: 'I loved this novel . . . a powerful story of loss, malice and deception' Ann Cleeves 'Haunting' Independent 'Unputdownable'Bookseller 'The chilling plot will keep you spooked and thrilled to the end' Closer 'A gripping read' Best 'A fine storyteller, weaving the past and present in a way that makes you want to read on' Peterborough Evening Telegraph

Author : Bonnie Morgan
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2019-12-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780228000273

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Ordinary Saints by Bonnie Morgan Pdf

From their everyday work in kitchens and gardens to the solemn work of laying out the dead, the Anglican women of mid-twentieth-century Conception Bay, Newfoundland, understood and expressed Christianity through their experience as labourers within the family economy. Women's work in the region included outdoor agricultural labour, housekeeping, childbirth, mortuary services, food preparation, caring for the sick, and textile production. Ordinary Saints explores how religious belief shaped the meaning of this work, and how women lived their Christian faith through the work they did. In lived religious practices at home, in church-based voluntary associations, and in the wider community, the Anglican women of Conception Bay constructed a female theological culture characterized by mutuality, negotiation of gender roles, and resistance to male authority, combining feminist consciousness with Christian commitment. Bonnie Morgan brings together evidence from oral interviews, denominational publications, census data, minute books of the Church of England Women's Association, headstone epitaphs, and household art and objects to demonstrate the profound ties between labour and faithfulness: for these rural women, work not only expressed but also shaped belief. Ordinary Saints, with its focus on gender, labour, and lived faithfulness, breaks new ground in the history of religion in Canada.

Author : Coleman Barks
Publisher : Hampton Roads Publishing
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2016-10-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781612833736

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Rumi's Little Book of Love and Laughter by Coleman Barks Pdf

Rowdy, ecstatic, and sometimes stern, these teaching stories and fables reveal new and very human properties in Rumi's vision. Included here are the notorious “Latin parts” that Reynold Nicholson felt were too unseemly to appear in English in his 1920s translation. For Rumi, anything that human beings do—however compulsive—affords a glimpse into the inner life. Here are more than 40 fables or teaching stories that deal with love, laughter, death, betrayal, and the soul. The stories are exuberant, earthy, and bursting with vitality—much like a painting by Hieronymus Bosch or Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. The characters are guilty, lecherous, tricky, ribald, and finally possessors of opened souls. Barks writes: "These teaching stories are a kind of scrimshaw—intricately carved, busy figures, confused and threatening, and weirdly funny. This is an entertaining collection from one of the greatest spiritual poets of all time, rendered by his most popular translator. “The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along.”--Rumi

Author : Paul Sills
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2000-02-01
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781617748004

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Paul Sills' Story Theater by Paul Sills Pdf

The creator of Story Theater, the original director of Second City, and one of the greatest popularizers of improvisational theater, Paul Sills has assembled some of his favorite adaptations from world literature. Includes: The Blue Light and Other Stories, A Christmas Carol (Dickens), Stories of God, Rumi.

Author : Thomas Hudson (grocer.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1820
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:590510170

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Comic songs. Collection the first (-thirteenth). by Thomas Hudson (grocer.) Pdf

Author : Laurie Lico Albanese
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2022-10-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781250278562

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Hester by Laurie Lico Albanese Pdf

Named a Most Anticipated Book for Fall 2022 by Goodreads • Washington Post • New York Post • BuzzFeed • PopSugar • Business Insider • An October 2022 Indie Next List Pick • An October 2022 LibraryReads Pick "A hauntingly beautiful––and imagined––origin story to The Scarlet Letter." ––People WHO IS THE REAL HESTER PRYNNE? Isobel Gamble is a young seamstress carrying generations of secrets when she sets sail from Scotland in the early 1800s with her husband, Edward. An apothecary who has fallen under the spell of opium, his pile of debts have forced them to flee Glasgow for a fresh start in the New World. But only days after they've arrived in Salem, Edward abruptly joins a departing ship as a medic––leaving Isobel penniless and alone in a strange country, forced to make her way by any means possible. When she meets a young Nathaniel Hawthorne, the two are instantly drawn to each other: he is a man haunted by his ancestors, who sent innocent women to the gallows––while she is an unusually gifted needleworker, troubled by her own strange talents. As the weeks pass and Edward's safe return grows increasingly unlikely, Nathaniel and Isobel grow closer and closer. Together, they are a muse and a dark storyteller; the enchanter and the enchanted. But which is which? In this sensuous and hypnotizing tale, a young immigrant woman grapples with our country's complicated past, and learns that America's ideas of freedom and liberty often fall short of their promise. Interwoven with Isobel and Nathaniel's story is a vivid interrogation of who gets to be a "real" American in the first half of the 19th century, a depiction of the early days of the Underground Railroad in New England, and atmospheric interstitials that capture the long history of "unusual" women being accused of witchcraft. Meticulously researched yet evocatively imagined, Laurie Lico Albanese's Hester is a timeless tale of art, ambition, and desire that examines the roots of female creative power and the men who try to shut it down.

Author : Virginia Penny
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1863
Category : Women
ISBN : UOM:39015060800144

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The Employments of Women by Virginia Penny Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : House of Anansi
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2012-04-07
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781770891784

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The Unmemntioable by Anonim Pdf

Shortlisted for the Kobzar Literary Award. The Unmemntioable joins letters that should not be joined. There is, in this word, an act of force. Of devastation. The unmentionable is love, of course. But in Moure’s poems, love is bound to a duty: to comprehend what it was that the immigrants would not speak of. Now they are dead; their children and grandchildren know but an anecdotal pastiche of Ukrainian history. On Saskatoon Mountain in Alberta where they settled, only the chatter of the leaves remains of their presence. What was not spoken is sealed over, unmemntioable. There is no one left to contact in the Old Country. Can the unmemntioable retain its silence, yet be eased into words? Can experience still be spoken?

Author : Virginia Penny
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Sexual division of labor
ISBN : MINN:31951002102818T

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Five Hundred Employments Adapted to Women by Virginia Penny Pdf

"The object of this work is to show women where the productive fields of labor are, and to enable every one to find the kind of employment best adapted to her tastes. It embraces the results of over three years' constant labor in perfecting its details. -- Miss Penny."--Title page.

Author : Thomas Hudson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1818
Category : Songs, English
ISBN : UOM:39015059901283

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Comic Songs by Thomas Hudson Pdf

Author : Katherine Carlman
Publisher : Baker's Plays
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Christian drama
ISBN : 0874401682

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The Sixth Station by Katherine Carlman Pdf

Author : Gaudi
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781787380479

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African Kaiser by Gaudi Pdf

At the turn of the twentieth century, European colonial powers scrambled in Africa for trade, land and political advantage. When the First World War broke out, they were forced to contend with one another not just in trenches on the Western Front, but in East Africa’s swamps and savannahs. In that unforgiving landscape, General Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck and a small cadre of hardened German officers fought as equals with their African troops against the Allies, creating the first truly integrated army of the modern age.​ African Kaiser is the fascinating tale of a forgotten guerrilla campaign: of rhino charges and artillery duels with scavenged naval guns; of hunted German battleships hidden up unmapped river deltas; of a desperate army in the wilderness, cut off from the world, enduring starvation, malaria, and dysentery; and of the remarkable intercontinental voyage of Zeppelin L59, whose improbable 4,000 mile journey to the Equator and back made aviation history. But mostly, it is the incredible true story of General von Lettow-Vorbeck, the only undefeated German commander of the Great War.

Author : Justin Butcher
Publisher : Hodder & Stoughton
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2018-11-29
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781473673687

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Walking to Jerusalem by Justin Butcher Pdf

2017 marked three important anniversaries for the Palestinian people: 100 years since the Balfour Declaration; 50 years since the Six-day War; and ten years since the Blockade of Gaza. As an act of penance, solidarity and hope, actor and musician Justin Butcher - along with ten other companions for the full route, plus another hundred joining him for various stretches along the way - walked from London to Jerusalem. This book is the record of his journey: a combination of walking journal, travel writing and pilgrim stories. It's less of a travel guide to walking across Europe and more an exploration of the many strands radiating from the Holy Land and its narrative, weaving paths across place and history, through the lives of Justin's fellow-walkers - and, of course, his own life. Between the route itinerary and the themes of Balfour and Christian Zionism, Weizmann and cordite, colonialism, Jerusalem Syndrome and Desert spirituality, Justin charts a chronicle of serendipity: happenstances hilarious, infuriating and occasionally numinous - or, as pilgrims might say, encounters with the Divine.

Author : N. D'Anvers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Artists, British
ISBN : YALE:39002088674867

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Thomas Gainsborough by N. D'Anvers Pdf