Download or read book The Sorrow of Angels written by Jón Kalman Stefánsson and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2013-08-01 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is three weeks since the boy came to town, carrying a book of poetry to return to the old sea captain - the poetry that did for his friend Bárður. Three weeks, but already Bárður's ghost has faded. Snow falls so heavily that it binds heaven and earth together. As the villagers gather in the inn to drink schnapps and coffee while the boy reads to them from Shakespeare's Hamlet, Jens the postman stumbles in half dead, having almost frozen to his horse. On his next journey to the wide open fjords he is accompanied by the boy, and both must risk their lives for each other, and for an unusual item of mail. The Sorrow of Angels is a timeless literary masterpiece; in extraordinarily powerful language it brings the struggle between man and nature tangibly to life. It is the second novel in Stefánsson's epic and elemental trilogy, though all can be read independently.
Download or read book The Heart of Man written by Jón Kalman Stefánsson and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2015-02-05 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After coming through the blizzard that almost cost them everything, Jens and the boy are far from home, in a fishing community at the edge of the world. Taken in by the village doctor, the boy once again has the sense of being brought back from the grave. But this is a strange place, with otherworldly inhabitants, including flame-haired Álfheiður, who makes him wonder whether it is possible to love two women at once; he had believed his heart was lost to Ragnheiður, the daughter of the wealthy merchant in the village to which he must now inexorably return. Set in the awe-inspiring wilderness of the extreme north, The Heart of Man is a profound exploration of life, love and desire, written with a sublime simplicity. In this conclusion to an audacious trilogy, Stefánsson brings a poet's eye and a philosopher's insight to a tale worthy of the sagasmiths of old.
Download or read book Angel Bones written by Ilyse Kusnetz and published by Alice James Books. This book was released on 2019-05-14 with total page 71 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Angel Bones has an introspective voice that maintains a bright understanding of the temporal. As we read, we are painfully aware the speaker is dying from cancer and death is imminent. The attempt to not only explain, but understand how to welcome and embrace death is a bittersweet calm. How can one leave willingly when there is so much left behind?
Download or read book Wild Geese Sorrow written by and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New translations of the poems left behind at the Angel Island Immigration Station.
Download or read book The Angel in My Pocket written by Sukey Forbes and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-05-19 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After losing her daughter Charlotte to a rare genetic disorder, life for Sukey Forbes is completely shattered. As devastated as she is, Forbes searches for ways to deal with her grief. She wants desperately to recover a full, meaningful life on the private island of Naushon where she and her family live. Forbes begins exploring her family's rich history of spiritual seekers, including her great-great-great grandfather, Ralph Waldo Emerson, who similarly lost a young child.
Download or read book Talking Into the Ear of a Donkey written by Robert Bly and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2011-05-24 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The poet conducts a self-examination of his life in poems that often address aging, memory, marriage, and living and dying well.
Download or read book Turkish Pears in August written by Robert Bly and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "First published in 2005 by Midnight Paper Sales in a letterpress edition of 150 copies. The present edition incorporates four poems and two illustrations that did not appear in the original edition"--T.p. verso.
Download or read book The Angel in the House written by Coventry Kersey D. Patmore and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book To Green Angel Tower written by Tad Williams and published by DAW. This book was released on 1994 with total page 822 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book Three of'Memory, Sorrow and Thorn'
Download or read book The Stone of Farewell written by Tad Williams and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2005-04-05 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Simon, a young kitchen boy and magician's apprentice, finds his dreams of great deeds and heroic wars becoming an all too shocking reality in a terrifying civil war.
Download or read book An Angel s Sorrow written by Melquisedec Araiza and published by Tate Publishing. This book was released on 2007-11 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever blamed God when your life was turned upside down? Our heroin Kristen does after her parents are burned at the stake, leaving her lost and abandoned in a Massachusetts forest in 1692. Doubt crawled into her heart and mind. Was God really such a merciless being as to kill people just like that, for no reason at all? Or was something else behind their murders? These and more questions haunt Kristin Malach Elohim everyday in "An Angel's Sorrow." The more Kristin questions, the faster she turns away from God and watched her salvation slowly withers away. Will she be able to save her soul in the end? Or will the controlling powers of evil bind her to a fiery fate? And what does it mean to be a Malach Elohim? Melquisedec Araiza's "An Angel's Sorrow" takes us on a spiritual journey where faith is shaken and friendships decide where our souls will spend eternity. Share the joys and pains of Kristin as she is thrust in a spiritual battle for her soul. "An Angel's Sorrow" will leave you mesmerized and frightened as you picture yourself in Kristen's shoes.
Download or read book The Sorrow of Angels written by Jon Kalman Stefansson and published by MacLehose Press. This book was released on 2015-03-24 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is three weeks since the boy came to town, carrying a book of poetry to return to the old sea captain-the poetry Bárour died for. Three weeks, but already Bárour's ghost has faded. Snow falls so heavily that it binds heaven and earth together. As the villagers gather in the inn to drink schnapps and coffee while the boy reads to them from Hamlet, Jens the postman stumbles in half-dead, having almost frozen to his horse. On his next journey to the fjords Jens is accompanied by the boy, and both must risk their lives for each other, and for an unusual item of mail. The Sorrow of Angels is a timeless and powerful story that evokes the struggle of man against the ferocious majesty of nature. Asked by The Independent what inspired him to write these three novels, Stefánsson named his first visit to the landscape of Iceland's West Fjords. "It was like a punch in the solar plexus . . . The mountains seemed to be saying, 'Why aren't you writing about us?"
Download or read book The House of Broken Angels written by Luis Alberto Urrea and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2018-03-06 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this "raucous, moving, and necessary" story by a Pulitzer Prize finalist (San Francisco Chronicle), the De La Cruzes, a family on the Mexican-American border, celebrate two of their most beloved relatives during a joyous and bittersweet weekend. "All we do, mija, is love. Love is the answer. Nothing stops it. Not borders. Not death." In his final days, beloved and ailing patriarch Miguel Angel de La Cruz, affectionately called Big Angel, has summoned his entire clan for one last legendary birthday party. But as the party approaches, his mother, nearly one hundred, dies, transforming the weekend into a farewell doubleheader. Among the guests is Big Angel's half brother, known as Little Angel, who must reckon with the truth that although he shares a father with his siblings, he has not, as a half gringo, shared a life. Across two bittersweet days in their San Diego neighborhood, the revelers mingle among the palm trees and cacti, celebrating the lives of Big Angel and his mother, and recounting the many inspiring tales that have passed into family lore, the acts both ordinary and heroic that brought these citizens to a fraught and sublime country and allowed them to flourish in the land they have come to call home. Teeming with brilliance and humor, authentic at every turn, The House of Broken Angels is Luis Alberto Urrea at his best, and cements his reputation as a storyteller of the first rank. "Epic . . . Rambunctious . . . Highly entertaining." -- New York Times Book Review"Intimate and touching . . . the stuff of legend." -- San Francisco Chronicle"An immensely charming and moving tale." -- Boston GlobeNational Bestseller and National Book Critics Circle Award finalistA New York Times Notable BookOne of the Best Books of the Year from National Public Radio, American Library Association, San Francisco Chronicle, BookPage, Newsday, BuzzFeed, Kirkus, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Literary Hub
Download or read book Poems of Robert Browning written by Robert Browning and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Stolen Angels written by Sharee Moore and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Rumor of Angels written by Gail Perry Johnston and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This beautifully designed collection of quotes from literary masters and everyday people will comfort those who have known loss or are in the midst of sorrow. Moving selections from C.S. Lewis, Alice Walker, Henri Nouwen, Anne Lamott and hundreds of others demystify death and celebrate life.
Download or read book Sorrow Angel written by Danielle A. Sinisi and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2002-03 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enter my life. You will be on a journey from my child to my young adult life. I have been through abuse, love, depression, and I have dealt with the issues of sexuality. I take you on this journey using my poetry and my writing. I have seen many sorrows and I have tried to do my best to endure them. You will see why there is a Sorrow Angel. My hope is that this Sorrow Angel will help you with whatever sorrow you may face.
