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After a failed push for political reform, the T’ang era’s greatest prose-writer, Liu Tsung-yuan, was exiled to the southern reaches of China. Thousands of miles from home and freed from the strictures of court bureaucracy, he turned his gaze inward and chronicled his estrangement in poems. Liu’s fame as a prose writer, however, overshadowed his accomplishment as a poet. Three hundred years after Liu died, the poet Su Tung-p’o ranked him as one of the greatest poets of the T’ang, along with Tu...
| Автор | Liu Tsung-yuan |
In this anthology, Vietnamese writers describe their experience of what they call the American War and its lasting legacy through the lens of their own vital artistic visions. A North Vietnamese soldier forms a bond with an abandoned puppy. Cousins find their lives upended by the revelation that their fathers fought on opposite sides of the war. Two lonely veterans in Hanoi meet years after the war has ended through a newspaper dating service. A psychic assists the search for the body of a...
| Автор | Группа авторов |
This is the first US publication of the book. Hanna Krall is an internationally acclaimed Polish writer and Holocaust survivor, specializing in the history of the Holocaust in occupied Poland. She is one of the key leading figures of the Polish reportage literary style, and her books regularly sell around twenty thousand copies in their native language. She has been translated into seventeen languages. Chasing the King of Hearts was internationally acclaimed and a bestseller in Poland; it also...
| Автор | Hanna Krall |
“….An expansive, eclectic, and innovative novel.”—Women's Review of Books A modern-day Things Fall Apart, The Amputated Memory explores the ways in which an African woman’s memory preserves, and strategically forgets, moments in her tumultuous past as well as the cultural past of her country, in the hopes of making a healthier future possible. Pinned between the political ambitions of her philandering father, the colonial and global...
| Автор | Marjolijn de Jager |
Two Dreams draws together the best of Shirley Geok-lin Lim’s short fiction from nearly three decades, most of it never before available in the United States, and includes important new work. The setting of these sometimes wryly funny, sometimes heartbreaking stories shifts from the war-torn, tradition-bound Malaysia of Lim’s childhood to the liberating, but confusing and often harsh United States of her adulthood. Her memory is undiluted by nostalgia, her ear is perfectly...
| Автор | Shirley Geok-lin Lim |
This contemporary African classic tells the story of seven unforgettable Kenyan women as it traces more than sixty years of turbulent national history. Like their country, this group of old women is divided by ethnicity, language, class, and religion. But around the charcoal fire at the Refuge, the old-age home they share in Nairobi, they uncover the hidden personal histories that connect them as women: stories of their struggles for self-determination; of conflict, violence, and loss, but also...
| Автор | Marjorie Oludhe Macgoye |
The sole novel of beloved Chicana author Estela Portillo Trambley, Trini is the epic story of one girl's journey across borders and into womanhood. Born in the rural region of the Tarahumara (Raramuri) people in Mexico, Trini shares her family's struggle to squeeze a living out of her beautiful but inhospitable land. But she is sustained by the rich traditions of her Mestiza heritage, the adopted traditions of the Tarahumara, and by her own intelligence and spirit. As a young woman,...
| Автор | Estella Portillo Trambley |
With this critically acclaimed 1940 memoir, pioneering Japanese writer and activist Ayako Ishigaki made history. Restless Wave is the first book written in English by a Japanese woman, introducing Western readers to a largely unknown world; a unique voice; and a writer of great talent, integrity and courage. In exquisite prose, Ishigaki recalls coming of age in a privileged family and rebelling against strict codes of women’s behavior. She also traces the political awakening that would...
| Автор | Ayako Tanaka Ishigaki |
Die ehemalige Wanderhure Marie führt als Frau des Burghauptmanns Michel ein angenehmes Leben am Rhein. In Böhmen aber tobt ein Krieg, in dem Michel nach einem Scharmützel für tot erklärt wird. Marie, die nach zehn Ehejahren endlich schwanger geworden ist, gilt nun als Witwe. Doch sie glaubt nicht an Michels Tod und geht, als Marketenderin verkleidet, auf die Suche nach ihm. Nach vielen Irrfahrten stehen sie sich auf gegnerischen Seiten gegenüber. Ob sie zueinander finden werden?
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
• Author has a cult following in the US and an international reputation. • More than 15,000 sold in English. • Widely reviewed on first publication: “[Wicomb’s] prose is vigorous, textured, lyrical. . . . a sophisticated storyteller.” –Bharati Mukherjee, New York Times Book Review “Wicomb deserves a wide American audience, on a par with the fabulous reception her white countrymen Nadine Gordimer and J. M. Coetzee have...
| Автор | Zoe Wicomb |
A Texas oilman. A brilliant female archaeologist. An unknown world underneath the Vatican. In 1939, a team of workers beneath the Vatican unearthed an early Christian grave. This surprising discovery launched a secret quest that would last decades – a quest to discover the long-lost burial place of the Apostle Peter. From earliest times, Christian tradition held that Peter – a lowly fisherman from Galilee, whom Christ made leader of his Church – was executed in Rome by Emperor Nero and buried...
| Автор | John O'Neill |
August 2019 saw numerous commemorations of the year 1619, when what was said to be the first arrival of enslaved Africans occurred in North America. Yet in the 1520s, the Spanish, from their imperial perch in Santo Domingo, had already brought enslaved Africans to what was to become South Carolina. The enslaved people here quickly defected to local Indigenous populations, and compelled their captors to flee. Deploying such illuminating research, The Dawning of the Apocalypse is a riveting...
| Автор | Gerald Horne |
All the makings of your favorite adventure story – drama, intrigue, promise, love, hope, and heartache spanning two thousand years…and YOU are a part of it! Timeless: A History of the Catholic Church is a fresh retelling of the history of the Church. In this easy-to-read, not-your-average history book, Steve Weidenkopf introduces you to the vivid, dynamic story of God’s work in the world since Pentecost. Along the way, you will meet the weird, wonderful, and always fascinating heroes and...
| Автор | Steve Weidenkopf |
This book examines changing perceptions of sex between men in early Victorian Britain, a significant yet surprisingly little explored period in the history of Western sexuality. Looking at the dramatic transformations of the era—changes in the family and in the law, the emergence of the world's first police force, the growth of a national media, and more—Charles Upchurch asks how perceptions of same-sex desire changed between men, in families, and in the larger society. To illuminate these...
| Автор | Charles Upchurch |
This thought-provoking book, the first of its kind in the English language, reexamines the fifty-year-old nation of Israel in terms of its origins as a haven for a persecuted people and its evolution into a multi- cultural society. Arguing that the mono-cultural regime built during the 1950s is over, Baruch Kimmerling suggests that the Israeli state has divided into seven major cultures. These seven groups, he contends, have been challenging one other for control over resource distribution and...
| Автор | Baruch Kimmerling |
Political awareness of the tensions in U.S.-Mexico relations is rising in the twenty-first century; the American history of its treatment of illegal immigrants represents a massive failure of the promises of the American dream. This is the untold history of the United States Border Patrol from its beginnings in 1924 as a small peripheral outfit to its emergence as a large professional police force that continuously draws intense scrutiny and denunciations from political activism groups. To tell...
| Автор | Kelly Lytle Hernandez |
England im Jahre 1327. Es ist der Tag nach Allerheiligen. In der Stadt Kingsbridge trifft sich im Schatten der Kathedrale das Volk. Vier Kinder flüchten vor dem Trubel in den nahe gelegenen Wald. Dort werden sie Zeugen eines Kampfes – und eines tödlichen Geheimnisses. Merthin, ein Nachfahre von Jack Builder, dem Erbauer der Kathedrale, hat dessen Genie und rebellische Natur geerbt. Sein starker Bruder Ralph strebt den Aufstieg in die Ritterschaft an. Caris, Tochter eines Wollhändlers, hat den...
| Автор | Кен Фоллетт |
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's dramatic life story has captured the imagination of millions, and his progressive politics have brought hope and excitement to Brazil—and the world. This compelling work is the first major English-language biography of the metalworker who became president of Latin America's largest and most powerful country. In a clearly written, vividly detailed narrative, Richard Bourne describes Lula's childhood hardships in an impoverished family, his days as a...
| Автор | Richard Bourne |
This book illuminates various aspects of a central but unexplored area of American history: the midcentury Japanese American experience. A vast and ever-growing literature exists, first on the entry and settlement of Japanese immigrants in the United States at the turn of the 20th century, then on the experience of the immigrants and their American-born children during World War II. Yet the essential question, «What happened afterwards?» remains all but unanswered in historical literature....
| Автор | Greg Robinson |
Both a riveting courtroom drama and a real-life thriller, <i>A Just Defiance</i> tells the story of four young black South Africans who were arrested for a string of political murders in 1987. In gripping prose, Peter Harris—the white lawyer who defended the men—describes how he came to understand, while constructing the case to save the defendants from the death penalty, the chain of events that led them to undergo training at ANC camps in Angola and return to their homeland to...
| Автор | Peter Harris |
After invading Tunisia in 1881, the French installed a protectorate in which they shared power with the Tunisian ruling dynasty and, due to the dynasty’s treaties with other European powers, with some of their imperial rivals. This «indirect» form of colonization was intended to prevent the violent clashes marking France’s outright annexation of neighboring Algeria. But as Mary Dewhurst Lewis shows in <i>Divided Rule</i>, France’s method of governance in Tunisia actually created a...
| Автор | Mary Dewhurst Lewis |
This is the new «pocket» version of the classic <i>California Place Names</i>, first published by California in 1949. Erwin G. Gudde's monumental work, which went through several editions during its author's lifetime, has now been released in an expanded and updated edition by William Bright. The abridged version, originally called <i>1000 California Place Names</i>, has grown to a dynamic <i>1500 California Place Names</i> in Bright's hands....
| Автор | William Bright |
In <i>Beyond the Metropolis</i>, Louise Young looks at the emergence of urbanism in the interwar period, a global moment when the material and ideological structures that constitute «the city» took their characteristic modern shape. In Japan, as elsewhere, cities became the staging ground for wide ranging social, cultural, economic, and political transformations. The rise of social problems, the formation of a consumer marketplace, the proliferation of streetcars and streetcar...
| Автор | Louise Young |
In the early part of the twentieth century, migrants made their way from rural homes to cities in record numbers and many traveled west. Los Angeles became a destination. Women flocked to the growing town to join the film industry as workers and spectators, creating a «New Woman.» Their efforts transformed filmmaking from a marginal business to a cosmopolitan, glamorous, and bohemian one. By 1920, Los Angeles had become the only western city where women outnumbered men. In <i>Go West,...
| Автор | Hilary Hallett |