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Tjieng Tjang Tjerries and Other Stories documents the unique dialect and lives of the Gansbaai fishing community. Phillips’ stories reflect the natural disorder of daily life and explores how the impact of love and loss defines – and divides – families and communities. An award-winning collection of short stories and sketches set in the Overberg district. In the author’s own words: “This book is a collection of my soul, who I am as a human being, and how I connect to the people I come from.” “An...
| Автор | Jolyn Phillips |
Luuleraamat heidab pilgu koolielu erinevatele tahkudele, püüdes vaadata läbi õpilase silmade. Raamat sai 2014. a Kultuurkapitali aastapreemia laste- ja noorsookirjanduse kategoorias. Loeb Ingrid Margus.
| Автор | Contra |
Raaiselkind is ´n verhaal wat die kruis van outisme genadeloos oopvlek. Sentraal in hierdie aangrypende gegewe staan twee onvergeetlike vrouekarakters: Ingrid Dorfling, ma van Alexander, wat die grense van wanhoop versit in haar verbete stryd om die kind wat hulle hele gesinlewe ontwrig “mens” te laat word. En in die proses omtrent alles wat kosbaar is, verloor. Parallel met Ingrid staan Miriam – oppasma – wat met haar kinderlike godsvertroue en aardse wysheid die enigste is wat tot...
| Автор | Annelie Botes |
The coastal settlement of Slangkop, near Cape Town, comes alive over weekends when mercurial Chas Fawkes holds court at Midden House. Invited to one of his legendary parties, shy, plump librarian Nina Browne is smitten and becomes first his secretary, then his lover. But things are not as they seem on the glittering surface, as Nina in turn is loved and watched over by Chas’s childhood playmate, the hermit-like environmentalist William. When Chas’s estranged alcoholic wife Dolly briefly returns,...
| Автор | Finuala Dowling |
CNA-prys (1992), M-Net-prys (1992), Helgaard Steyn-prys. Kroniek uit die doofpot (1991) is die aangrypende en onthutsende verhaal van ’n swart polisieman se soeke na geregtigheid en dis gebaseer op die werklikheid. Ten spyte van sy armoedige kinderlewe op ’n plaas in die Vrystaat, verwesenlik Tumelo John Moleko sy droom om by die polisie aan te sluit. En uiteindelik kan hy ’n huis en motor vir sy gesin bekostig en in sy eie tuin werk: Dus, die lewe van ’n gewone, eerbare man. Op ’n dag word...
| Автор | John Miles |
Een Sondagmiddag in die herfs van 1918 kom ’n driejarige uit Vredenhoek se wingerd die Erasmus-familie se binnekring ingestap. Niemand herken hom nie. Die kind kan self nie sê waar hy vandaan kom nie. En dié wat weet, wil nie praat nie. So bly dit vir twintig jaar lank. Altyddeur smag Laurens Erasmus om te weet wie hy werklik is. Want hoe kan mens iemand wees as jy nie weet waar jy vandaan kom nie? Nie eers die buurdogter Carijn den Hagen, wat daardie eerste dag in die wingerd haar hand na hom...
| Автор | Helene de Kock |
Having fled his family's farm at eighteen with a promise never to return, Guy Pehrsson is drawn back into his past when he receives his grandfather's ominous letter, "Trouble here. Come home when you can." He returns to discover a place both wholly familiar and barely recognizable and is cast into the center of an interracial land dispute with the exigencies of war.<br /><br />Widely acclaimed when first published in the eighties, the timeless novel...
| Автор | Will Weaver |
Romaan on suur ajastuüldistus, eesti kirjanduse üks esimesi sügavalt kosmopoliitseid teoseid. Põhiosa tegevusest toimub Riias, taustaks on 1968. aasta sündmused Prahas. Viivi Luigele omaselt on raamat kirjutatud intensiivses ja samas aistitavalt poeetilises keeles. Teos tõusis juba oma esmailmumisel kitsast eesti kultuuriruumist kõrgemale, tabas ajastunärvi, tegi võimsaid üldistusi lähtudes Euroopa ajaloost ja on tänaseks tõlgitud 14 keelde. Loeb Tiina Mälberg.
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
Kuhu unistused meid viivad? Milline on suurim lähedus ja eraldatus? Kas inimese elu määravad aeg ja tavad või miski muu? Seto kylaravitseja Darja, varalahkunud trubaduur Nick Drake ja vaimuvägilane Uku Masing – hetked ja lood sulavad nende kyismustega tegelevaks kolmainsuseks. Loevad Tambet Tuisk ja Helena Kesonen.
| Автор | Lauri Sommer |
This book is for everyone who is struggling or suffering along life’s path. Everyone has a life’s journey. This journey can be frightening and lonely. It may seem that this part of the journey will never end. This story is about a boy’s journey in life. He is alone and frightened by the jungle of life. He works his way out of the swampy jungle. The next part of his journey is a hill that he must climb. He must put in the hard work, time, and effort to put the past behind him and be able...
| Автор | Robin Caulkins Tanguay |
By turns terrifying and humorous, clear-eyed and deep-hearted, Twister brings us into the center of a storm as a small Midwestern town mourns the death of a young soldier. Rose, the soldier's fiercely independent mother, may or may not be losing her grip on reality, and we seek answers along with the constellation of family, friends, neighbors, and townspeople whose lives intertwine with hers. Each new viewpoint calls up singular memories and intrigue, raising stakes while the twister...
| Автор | Genanne Walsh |
Each of the realistic worlds Billy Kahora brings us in the short stories and novella that make up The Cape Cod Bicycle War and Other Stories explores the tensions and transitions of characters moving between youthful folly and a precarious adulthood. In the title story, immigrant workers with varying ambitions work at a Wendy’s in wintry Cape Cod. Sharing one house, they must also share, or rather compete for, bicycles—crucial transportation—which are in short supply. In other stories, a...
| Автор | Billy Kahora |
&amp;lt;p>&amp;lt;em>High Skies&amp;lt;/em> recounts the collision of devastating weather, Cold War suspicion, tense race relations, and the unintended consequences of good intentions in a small West Texas town in the 1950s, changing the futures of the families there and altering their perceptions of America. At the center of this perfect storm is Raymond &amp;amp;ldquo;Flyboy&amp;amp;rdquo; Seaker, a respected military veteran, now the vice...
| Автор | Tracy Daugherty |
llinor, a 35-year-old media consultant, has not been feeling herself; she’s not been feeling much at all lately. Far beyond jaded, she picks through an old diary and fails to recognise the woman in its pages, seemingly as far away from the world around her as she's ever been. But when her coworker vanishes overnight, an unusual new task is dropped on her desk. Off she goes to meet the Norwegian Postal Workers Union, setting the ball rolling on a strange and transformative six months.This is...
| Автор | Vigdis Hjorth |
Life regularly brings us so much of unexpected, and the most of it is unpleasant, and sometimes really terrifying, taking away all our strength and breaking us. And then, when we appear in an extremely desperate situation and suppose that it just could not been worse, we have take much harder trials and tests. Only when having lost everything, we start understanding and being aware of the real values of life, of what is significant and what only lasts for a certain time period.
| Автор | Влад Вас |
Mehis Heinsaare maagilise alatooniga lühiproosa. Raamat on pärjatud Betti Alveri kirjandusauhinnaga. Loeb Karin Tammaru.
| Автор | Mehis Heinsaar |
Elas kord mees, kellel oli armas tütar. Kurjale kasuemale aga mehe eelmisest abielust sündinud tütar ei meeldinud. Ta kiusas vaest last paljude kodutöödega ja soovis salaja temast lahti saada. Ühel päeval läks mees kodust ära ja kasuema andis lapsele ülesande: „Mine oma tädi, minu õe juurde ja palu talt pluusi õmblemiseks niiti ja nõela.“ Naise õde oli tegelikult Baba-Jagaa, hirmuäratav nõid. Vene muinasjutt
| Автор | Sergei Aksakov |
A tale of border warfare, military and erotic, set in the twenty-third century, where the women rule the kingdom and the men play war games. This is the fictional memoir of Wat Dryhope – edited, annotated and commented upon. History has come to an end, war is regulated as if it's all a game. But Wat, the History Maker himself, does not play entirely by the rules, and when a woman, Delilah Puddock, joins the fray, this 'utopian' history is further enlivened. Alasdair Gray...
| Автор | Alasdair Gray |
Since 1981, when Alasdair Gray's first novel Lanark was published by Canongate, his characters have aged as fast as their author. The Ends of Our Tethers shows the high jinks of many folk in the last stages of physical, moral and social decrepitude – a sure tonic for the young. The first work of fiction in over six years by one of Britain's most original and brilliant writers, this wonderful (and very funny) new collection reaffirms Gray's position as a master of the short...
| Автор | Alasdair Gray |
A beautiful collection – charming, witty and touching – these stories give voice to a variety of different characters: from the little girl who wants to look 'subtle' for her father's funeral, a child who has an email pen pal on Jupiter and an old lady who becomes a star through 'zimmerobics'. Often writing in a vibrant Glaswegian vernacular, Donovan deftly gives her characters authenticity with a searing power, aided and abetted by tender subtlety.
| Автор | Anne Donovan |