The Sea Cloak

Author : Nayrouz Qarmout
Publisher : Comma Press
ISBN 13 : 1912697068
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sea Cloak written by Nayrouz Qarmout and published by Comma Press. This book was released on 2019-08-22 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sea Cloak is a collection of 11 stories by the author, journalist, and women’s rights campaigner, Nayrouz Qarmout. Drawing from her own experiences growing up in a Syrian refugee camp, as well as her current life in Gaza, these stories stitch together a patchwork of different perspectives into what it means to be a woman in Palestine today. Whether following the daily struggles of orphaned children fighting to survive in the rubble of recent bombardments, or mapping the complex, cultural tensions between different generations of refugees in wider Gazan society, these stories offer rare insights into one of the most talked about, but least understood cities in the Middle East. Taken together, the collection affords us a local perspective on a global story, and it does so thanks to a cast of (predominantly female) characters whose vantage point is rooted, firmly, in that most cherished of things, the home.

Author : Andrea Spalding
Publisher : Orca Book Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1554694426
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Behind the Sorcerer's Cloak written by Andrea Spalding and published by Orca Book Publishers. This book was released on 2006-09-01 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The four volumes of Andrea Spalding's Summer of Magic Quartet are among her most exciting work. The White Horse Talisman was nominated for the Silver Birch, Hackmatack and Manitoba Readers' Choice Awards. Dance of the Stones was also a Silver Birch nominee. Heart of the Hill left one of her four characters in grave danger. Now, as the Dark Being discovers our planet and takes one of the children hostage, the others must restore the balance between light and dark, but at what cost?

Author : Atef Abu Saif
Publisher : Comma Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Book of Gaza written by Atef Abu Saif and published by Comma Press. This book was released on 2015-06-12 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Under the Israeli occupation of the '70s and '80s, writers in Gaza had to go to considerable lengths to ever have a chance of seeing their work in print. Manuscripts were written out longhand, invariably under pseudonyms, and smuggled out of the Strip to Jerusalem, Cairo or Beirut, where they then had to be typed up. Consequently, fiction grew shorter, novels became novellas, and short stories flourished as the city's form of choice. Indeed, to Palestinians elsewhere, Gaza became known as 'the exporter of oranges and short stories'. This anthology brings together some of the pioneers of the Gazan short story from that era, as well as younger exponents of the form, with ten stories that offer glimpses of life in the Strip that go beyond the global media headlines; stories of anxiety, oppression, and violence, but also of resilience and hope, of what it means to be a Palestinian, and how that identity is continually being reforged; stories of ordinary characters struggling to live with dignity in what many have called 'the largest prison in the world'.

Author : William Sarabande
Publisher : Domain
ISBN 13 : 0553268899
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beyond the Sea of Ice written by William Sarabande and published by Domain. This book was released on 1987-11-01 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stunningly visual, extraordinarily detailed, powerfully dramatic, here is the first volume of a remarkable new series . . . The First Americans. When humans first walked the world, when nature ruled the earth and sky, a proud tribe is threatened by a series of natural disasters. A bold young hunter named Torka, who lost his wife and child to a killer mammoth, leads the survivors over the glacial tundra on a desperate eastward odyssey to the save their clan. Through attacks of savage animals and encounters with strangers not unlike themselves, they must brave the hardships of a foreign landscape and learn to live in an exotic new world of mystery and danger. They must travel toward the land where the sun rises for a new day for their clan—and an awesome future for the American.

Author : Erik E. Hanberg
Publisher : Erik Hanberg
ISBN 13 : 0982714564
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lead Cloak written by Erik E. Hanberg and published by Erik Hanberg. This book was released on 2013-10-15 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the future, privacy is a thing of the past. "Staggeringly smart… Hanberg's expertly honed storytelling is sleek and fast… [an] entertaining tale." —Kirkus Reviews Nevada, 2081. Colonel Byron Shaw safeguards the world’s innermost secrets. From a control center in Area 51, he monitors the expansive surveillance system that once saved him certain death at the hands of ruthless kidnappers. But not everyone trusts technology that peers through strangers’ eyes, so it’s no shock when a guerrilla attack nearly wipes out the network and spills his blood. Tasked with tracking down the terrorist cell, Byron sets off on a globe-spanning chase that brings him to the outer edge of Earth’s atmosphere. But as he infiltrates their ranks, a growing suspicion about the system that preserved his own life could sabotage civilization. Torn between duty and doubt, one man’s decision could rewire humanity’s future. The Lead Cloak is a tech-savvy sci-fi adventure novel. If you like high-stakes action, thought-provoking dystopian themes, and gripping twists, then you’ll love Erik Hanberg’s cerebral page-turner.

Author : Alessandro Baricco
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0375703950
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ocean Sea written by Alessandro Baricco and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2000-06-27 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Exotic...erotic... Ocean Sea is highly romantic and breathtakingly lyrical."--The New York Times Book Review With Silk, his first novel to appear in English, Alessandro Baricco immediately proved himself to be a magical storyteller. With Ocean Sea, he has been acclaimed as the successor to Italo Calvino, and a major voice in modern literature. In Ocean Sea, Alessandro Baricco presents a hypnotizing postmodern fable of human malady--psychological, existential, erotic--and the sea as a means of deliverance. At the Almayer Inn, a remote shoreline hotel, an artist dips his brush in a cup of ocean water to paint a portrait of the sea. A scientist pens love letters to a woman he has yet to meet. An adulteress searches for relief from her proclivity to fall in love. And a sixteen-year-old girl seeks a cure from a mysterious condition which science has failed to remedy. When these people meet, their fates begin to interact as if by design. Enter a mighty tempest and a ghostly mariner with a thirst for vengeance, and the Inn becomes a place where destiny and desire battle for the upper hand. Playful, provocative, and ultimately profound, Ocean Sea is a novel of striking originality and wisdom.

Author : Ge Fei
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1681370212
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Invisibility Cloak written by Ge Fei and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2016-10-11 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An NYRB Classics Original The hero of The Invisibility Cloak lives in contemporary Beijing—where everyone is doing their best to hustle up the ladder of success while shouldering an ever-growing burden of consumer goods—and he’s a loser. Well into his forties, he’s divorced (and still doting on his ex), childless, and living with his sister (her husband wants him out) in an apartment at the edge of town with a crack in the wall the wind from the north blows through while he gets by, just, by making customized old-fashioned amplifiers for the occasional rich audio-obsessive. He has contempt for his clients and contempt for himself. The only things he really likes are Beethoven and vintage speakers. Then an old friend tips him off about a special job—a little risky but just don’t ask too many questions—and can it really be that this hopeless loser wins? This provocative and seriously funny exercise in the social fantastic by the brilliantly original Ge Fei, one of China’s finest living writers, is among the most original works of fiction to come out of China in recent years. It is sure to appeal to readers of Haruki Murakami and other fabulists of contemporary irreality.

Author : Béla Balázs
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691162336
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cloak of Dreams written by Béla Balázs and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2013-12-26 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intriguing fairy tales by the librettist of Béla Bartók’s opera Bluebeard’s Castle A man is changed into a flea and must bring his future parents together in order to become human again. A woman convinces a river god to cure her sick son, but the remedy has mixed consequences. A young man must choose whether to be close to his wife's soul or body. And two deaf mutes transcend their physical existence in the garden of dreams. Strange and fantastical, these fairy tales of Béla Balázs (1884-1949), Hungarian writer, film critic, and famous librettist of Bluebeard's Castle, reflect his profound interest in friendship, alienation, and Taoist philosophy. Translated and introduced by Jack Zipes, one of the world's leading authorities on fairy tales, The Cloak of Dreams brings together sixteen of Balázs's unique and haunting stories. Written in 1921, these fairy tales were originally published with twenty images drawn in the Chinese style by painter Mariette Lydis, and this new edition includes a selection of Lydis's brilliant illustrations. Together, the tales and pictures accentuate the motifs and themes that run throughout Balázs's work: wandering protagonists, mysterious woods and mountains, solitude, and magical transformation. His fairy tales express our deepest desires and the hope that, even in the midst of tragedy, we can transcend our difficulties and forge our own destinies. Unusual, wondrous fairy tales that examine the world's cruelties and twists of fate, The Cloak of Dreams will entertain, startle, and intrigue.

Author : Anne Lesley Groell
Publisher : Roc
ISBN 13 : 9780451455451
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bridge of Valor written by Anne Lesley Groell and published by Roc. This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ingram Jenifleur and Thibault take on their first assignment as full-fledged members of the Assassins' Guild in the hire of the lord of Valor's Rest, an aristocratic bastion plagued by unnatural mishaps.

Author : Malachy Doyle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781845070823
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Una and the Sea-Cloak written by Malachy Doyle and published by . This book was released on 2005-09-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Martin can't believe his eyes when a strange girl staggers out of the sea. 'How can I go home now my sea-cloak is in tatters?' she cries. 'When I wore it I could fly, walk and swim to my home at the bottom of the sea.' Martin and his mother decide to help Una, and Martin searches far and wide for the things they need to repair Una's cloak: silver grasses...tiny green feathers...rare shells...Then comes the day when Una can at last fly away, and soon Martin begins to miss his new friend.