In The Castle Of My Skin

Author : George Lamming
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0241296080
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In the Castle of My Skin written by George Lamming and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2017-05-25 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'They won't know you, the you that's hidden somewhere in the castle of your skin' Nine-year-old G. leads a life of quiet mischief crab catching, teasing preachers and playing among the pumpkin vines. His sleepy fishing village in 1930s Barbados is overseen by the English landlord who lives on the hill, just as their 'Little England' is watched over by the Mother Country. Yet gradually, G. finds himself awakening to the violence and injustice that lurk beneath the apparent order of things. As the world he knows begins to crumble, revealing the bruising secret at its heart, he is spurred ever closer to a life-changing decision. Lyrical and unsettling, George Lamming's autobiographical coming-of-age novel is a story of tragic innocence amid the collapse of colonial rule. 'Rich and riotous' The Times 'Its poetic imaginative writing has never been surpassed' Tribune

Author : Jessica Day George
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408831988
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tuesdays at the Castle written by Jessica Day George and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A magical castle with a life of its own ... and a plucky princess who will defend it at all cost

Author : George Lamming
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472064670
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Natives of My Person written by George Lamming and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This allegorical novel tells the story of a journey of a slave ship toward San Christobal during the early colonial period.

Author : George Lamming
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472064700
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Emigrants written by George Lamming and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compelling and intricate novel of emigration and the effects of colonialism on a people

Author : Shirley Jackson
Publisher : Lightyear Press
ISBN 13 : 9780899685328
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book We Have Always Lived in the Castle written by Shirley Jackson and published by Lightyear Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Merricat Blackwood protects her sister, Constance, from the curiosity and hostility of the villagers after murders occur on the family estate.

Author : George Lamming
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472066551
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Season of Adventure written by George Lamming and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Caribbean novelist George Lamming's classic novel of magic, politics, and cultural identity

Author : Kiersi Burkhart
Publisher : Carolrhoda Lab ®
ISBN 13 : 1541546814
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Castle of Lies written by Kiersi Burkhart and published by Carolrhoda Lab ®. This book was released on 2019-05-07 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thelia isn't in line to inherit the crown, but she's been raised to take power however she can. She's been friends with Princess Corene her whole life, and she's scheming to marry Bayled, the heir to the throne. But her plans must change when an army of elves invades the kingdom. Thelia, her cousin Parsifal, and Corene become trapped in the castle. An elf warrior, Sapphire, may be Thelia's only hope of escape, but Sapphire has plans of their own. Meanwhile, an ancient magic is awakening within the castle, with the power to destroy the whole kingdom. Can Thelia find a way to protect her future—and her life?

Author : George Lamming
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472064663
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Pleasures of Exile written by George Lamming and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of the effects of colonialism on those who are held in check

Author : Linda Heller
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0689874340
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Castle on Hester Street written by Linda Heller and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-10-23 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Julie's grandmother deflates many of her husband's tall tales about their journey from Russia to America and their life on Hester Street.

Author : Jessica Shattuck
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062563688
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Women in the Castle written by Jessica Shattuck and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2017-03-28 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • FEATURING AN EXCLUSIVE NEW CHAPTER GoodReads Choice Awards Semifinalist "Moving . . . a plot that surprises and devastates."—New York Times Book Review "A masterful epic."—People magazine "Mesmerizing . . . The Women in the Castle stands tall among the literature that reveals new truths about one of history’s most tragic eras."—USA Today Three women, haunted by the past and the secrets they hold Set at the end of World War II, in a crumbling Bavarian castle that once played host to all of German high society, a powerful and propulsive story of three widows whose lives and fates become intertwined—an affecting, shocking, and ultimately redemptive novel from the author of the New York Times Notable Book The Hazards of Good Breeding. Amid the ashes of Nazi Germany’s defeat, Marianne von Lingenfels returns to the once-grand castle of her husband’s ancestors, an imposing stone fortress now fallen into ruin following years of war. The widow of a resister murdered in the failed July 20, 1944, plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler, Marianne plans to uphold the promise she made to her husband’s brave conspirators: to find and protect their wives, her fellow resistance widows. First Marianne rescues six-year-old Martin, the son of her dearest childhood friend, from a Nazi reeducation home. Together, they make their way across the smoldering wreckage of their homeland to Berlin, where Martin’s mother, the beautiful and naive Benita, has fallen into the hands of occupying Red Army soldiers. Then she locates Ania, another resister’s wife, and her two boys, now refugees languishing in one of the many camps that house the millions displaced by the war. As Marianne assembles this makeshift family from the ruins of her husband’s resistance movement, she is certain their shared pain and circumstances will hold them together. But she quickly discovers that the black-and-white, highly principled world of her privileged past has become infinitely more complicated, filled with secrets and dark passions that threaten to tear them apart. Eventually, all three women must come to terms with the choices that have defined their lives before, during, and after the war—each with their own unique share of challenges. Written with the devastating emotional power of The Nightingale, Sarah’s Key, and The Light Between Oceans, Jessica Shattuck’s evocative and utterly enthralling novel offers a fresh perspective on one of the most tumultuous periods in history. Combining piercing social insight and vivid historical atmosphere, The Women in the Castle is a dramatic yet nuanced portrait of war and its repercussions that explores what it means to survive, love, and, ultimately, to forgive in the wake of unimaginable hardship.