An accidental tête-à-tête in a café leads to a week-long courtship. One day, while on vacation alone in Yalta, he spies a woman walking along an embankment, behind her runs a white spitz. He is, from a certain vantage point, contemptible. Prior to his chance encounter with Anna, Dmitri is (other than his habitual unfaithfulness) utterly conventional in appearance he has a good job, passable children, diverting hobbies with friends. This is a story about an affair, but that, in my opinion, is of secondary interest when reckoned against the subtle feeling with which Chekhov describes, and later implicitly questions, Dmitri Dmitrich Gurov’s transformation from a man for whom “bitter experience” taught that “every intimacy … grows into a major task” to one who loved Anna Sergeevna “as one ought to-for the first time in his life.” The one thing Russian writer Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) – better known these days for theatrical works like Uncle Vanya and The Cherry Orchard – perfectly captures here is that bright, brief moment when everything with one’s new beloved expands outward with rosy promise.
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All her later novels have made the New York Times bestseller list. The Poisonwood Bible, which was her fourth novel, sold more than four million copies, was chosen for Oprah Winfrey's book club and was voted an all-time favourite of reading groups in Britain. How we feel about that is the question in the book." We've inherited this history of terrible things done, that enriched us in the US and Europe by pillaging the former colonies. For Kingsolver, it is an "allegory of the captive witness. The story is told through the voices of his wife and four daughters, who are "occupied as if by a foreign power", and implicated in his pursuits without ever having chosen them. As an American Baptist missionary drags his family to the Belgian Congo (later Zaire), his bullying evangelism is paralleled by cold-war jockeying for mineral wealth, amid plagues of ants and floods, lethal green mamba bites and blood diamonds smuggled from breakaway Katanga. It took another decade before Kingsolver combined her childhood memories of place with her later awareness of history, in a far-reaching parable of responsibility and redemption, The Poisonwood Bible (1998). And they hope to recruit Haven and her friends into their elite club. The ridiculously young and beautiful people running the Lexington (who call themselves "The Outfit") are in the business of collecting souls, working for the devil himself. The position seems too good to be true-which, of course, they find out not far into the book, it is. Haven is a smart, quiet, driven high school student who lands a prestigious work-study position at the opulent Lexington Hotel in Chicago, along with her best friend Dante and their brilliant, shy-guy classmate Lance. But aside from that bit of unoriginality, which I know the author generally has little if any control over, this was a fast and fun and not unoriginal read. 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When Joss is asked to write a story about how her life might have turned out if a pivotal moment in it never happened, she thinks of the day she met both Braden and Ellie Carmichael. what if she never met Braden and Ellie Carmichael on that fateful day when she was only twenty-two years old? It's a life Joss never expected to have, and one she's grateful for every day.īut. Joss and Braden Carmichael are blissfully married living in their townhouse on Dublin Street with their three beautiful children. A paperback compilation of three On Dublin Street series novellas. Ana’s impetuous streak occasionally invites danger. She is sustained by her indomitable aunt Yaltha, who is searching for her long-lost daughter, as well as by other women, including her friend Tabitha, who is sold into slavery after she was raped, and Phasaelis, the shrewd wife of Herod Antipas. Here, Ana’s pent-up longings intensify amid the turbulent resistance to the Roman occupation of Israel, partially led by her charismatic adopted brother, Judas. Their marriage unfolds with love and conflict, humor and pathos in Nazareth, where Ana makes a home with Jesus, his brothers, James and Simon, and their mother, Mary. He becomes a floodgate for her intellect, but also the awakener of her heart. When she meets the eighteen-year-old Jesus, each is drawn to and enriched by the other’s spiritual and philosophical ideas. Defying the expectations placed on women, she engages in furtive scholarly pursuits and writes secret narratives about neglected and silenced women. She yearns for a pursuit worthy of her life, but finds no outlet for her considerable talents. Raised in a wealthy family in Sepphoris with ties to the ruler of Galilee, Ana is rebellious and ambitious, a relentless seeker with a brilliant, curious mind and a daring spirit. The decisions that she makes will have tremendous consequences not just for Sarat but for her family and her country, rippling through generations of strangers and kin alike. Eventually Sarat is befriended by a mysterious functionary, under whose influence she is turned into a deadly instrument of war. But not everyone at Camp Patience is who they claim to be. When her father is killed and her family is forced into Camp Patience for displaced persons, she begins to grow up shaped by her particular time and place. But even she knows that oil is outlawed, that Louisiana is half underwater, and that unmanned drones fill the sky. Sarat Chestnut, born in Louisiana, is only six when the Second American Civil War breaks out in 2074. Omar El Akkad's debut novel, American War, is an unlikely mash-up of unsparing war reporting and plot elements familiar to readers of the recent young-adult dystopian series The Hunger Games and Divergent." -Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times An audacious and powerful debut novel: a second American Civil War, a devastating plague, and one family caught deep in the middle-a story that asks what might happen if America were to turn its most devastating policies and deadly weapons upon itself. As haunting a postapocalyptic universe as Cormac McCarthy created] in The Road, and as devastating a look as the fallout that national events have on an American family as Philip Roth did in The Plot Against America. Of course, hate quickly slides into love as both realise that they share something rare. While Zuri hates Darius’s self-satisfied attitude and inability to adapt to the ways of the block, Darius hates how Zuri’s provincial perspective boxes him into her preconceived stereotypes of privilege. These two mix like oil and water: both see the other as judgmental and arrogant. who recently relocated to a palace-like mansion on Zuri’s block, a neighbourhood that is quickly gentrifying in the wake of the Brooklyn cool aesthetic. Opposite her is Darius, the youngest in a family of wealthy African Americans native to Washington, D.C. This iteration brings us Zuri, a Haitian-Dominican who is proud of her heritage, her four sisters, and her neighbourhood. If you have yet to frolic in the Jane Austen universe, Pride by Ibi Zoboi tells the story of two lovers from contrasting walks of life as they move from casual curiosity, to full-blown hate, and finally to forever and ever love. In light of the ‘diverse classics’ scandal, Pride: A Pride and Prejudice Remix is a welcome lesson on how to engage the white canon in productive ways. In Why I Am No Longer Talking to Black People About Race, Renni Eddo-Lodge briefly mentions how literature’s biggest stories change in the hands of Black retellers. She went on a fellowship to France to study at the Sorbonne but soon moved on to Brandeis University in the United States, where she received a Ph.D. She studied at length in Qur'anic schools as well as at state schools and received a bachelor's degree in political science from Muhammad V University in Rabat. Mernissi was born in 1940 in Fez, Morocco. She has gained prominence in part by critiquing key concepts, such as the veil and the seclusion of women from public space and participation in the public sphere, which conservative elements in many Islamic societies consider fundamental to Islamic morality. Mernissi has focused her career on expanding the ideas and general topics broached first in her dissertation. Fatima Mernissi is a world-renowned Moroccan sociologist who has written numerous books on the misogynistic way women are viewed in the Middle East and elsewhere. Reprinted in 2023 with the help of original edition published long back. 396 Unique Leather Bound Edition having Spine and corners bind with leather with Golden Leaf Printing on round spine. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. 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