Download or read book Gunter s Winter written by Juan Manuel Marcos and published by Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 2001 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A well-connected lawyer and his deranged wife die in a mysterious fire. Their fate, however, is much more than material for a whodunit. Murder, dictatorship, love, eroticism, torture, and the healing power of art: these and many other elements comprise this novel of political repression and personal redemption set in Corrientes, northern Argentina, in the heart of South America. Juan Manuel Marcos's Gunter's Winter, translated for the first time into English by Tracy Karl Lewis, offers a poetic and intellectually challenging vision of Latin America in the turbulent 1980s and of human endurance wherever tyranny abides.
Download or read book Gunter s Winter written by Juan Manuel Marcos and published by Austin Macauley. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gunter's Winter is an exotic fusion of Spanish, Buenos Airean and Paraguayan culture, of intrigue and human relations set against an unfolding backdrop of the military and political landscape of the time, with more than a touch of Chilean spice. Colourful characters play out their lives revolving around Gunter, Eliza, Soledad and Veronica, the four poles, with passages of prose interspersed with free ranging poetical sections characterised by both their lyricism and their savagery. The overwhelming theme is the triumph of the human spirit, of love and liberation over corruption, greed and vice. Gunter's Winter has a truly mythical quality, part fable, part legend, part moral tale; it is both instructive and compelling, with a brilliantly devised and unexpected conclusion as reality and myth weave together.
Download or read book Blood Red Snow written by Gunter Koschorrek and published by Frontline Books. This book was released on 2011-04-13 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Günter Koschorrek wrote his illicit diary on any scraps of paper he could lay his hands on, storing them with his mother on infrequent trips home on leave. The diary went missing, and it was not until he was reunited with his daughter in America some forty years later that it came to light and became Blood Red Snow. The authors excitement at the first encounter with the enemy in the Russian Steppe is obvious. Later, the horror and confusion of fighting in the streets of Stalingrad are brought to life by his descriptions of the others in his unit their differing manners and techniques for dealing with the squalor and death. He is also posted to Romania and Italy, assignments he remembers fondly compared to his time on the Eastern Front. This book stands as a memorial to the huge numbers on both sides who did not survive and is, some six decades later, the fulfilment of a responsibility the author feels to honour the memory of those who perished.
Download or read book GUNTERS WINTER written by Juan Manuel Marcos and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2015-09-30 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Corrientes, einer Stadt an der argentinisch-paraguayischen Grenze, wird die siebzehnjährige Poetin Soledad in der Zeit des Falklandkrieges unschuldig eingesperrt und gefoltert. Widerwillig begibt sich ihr Onkel Gunter, ein deutschstämmiger Paraguayer und kaltherziger Manager der Weltbank, in Begleitung seiner Ehefrau Eliza auf die Reise ins Zentrum des südamerikanischen Staatsterrorismus, um Soledad zu retten. Gunters Winter wurde als Buch des Jahres 1987 ausgezeichnet und ist nach einer umfangreichen Expertenbefragung der wichtigste paraguayische Roman der letzten vier Jahrzehnte. Das Bildungsministerium des Landes erklärte es als von nationalem Bildungsinteresse. Seine Handlung lebt von den dramatischen Erlebnissen des Autors Juan Manuel Marcos zwischen 1973 und 1987, in den schwierigen Jahren der Militärdiktatur in Paraguay, sowie von den schweren Schicksalsschlägen infolge seines politischen Exils in Spanien und den Vereinigten Staaten. Eine schaurige Hommage an den Idealismus der lateinamerikanischen Jugend, verflochten mit den feinsten Techniken der avantgardistischen Erzählkunst. Erschüttert durch eine profunde Lyrik, bejubelt von der Leserschaft und den internationalen Kritikern, übersetzt in vierzig Sprachen.
Download or read book The Description and Use of that Necessary Instrument Call d Gunter s Quadrant To which is Added A Table of the Sun s Place and Declination for Every Day in the Year Also the Time of the Sun s Rising and Setting Calculated for the Latitude of Leeds Etc The Preface Signed Geo Gargrave written by George GARGRAVE and published by . This book was released on 1745 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Snowdrops written by Gunter Waldorf and published by Frances Lincoln. This book was released on 2012-12-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everything you need to know about the cultivation and propagation of snowdrops: tips, tools, and sources of supply Snowdrops: the harbinger of spring, delicate and charismatic. Over 300 varieties of snowdrops are portrayed here for the first time in such abundance – brilliantly photographed in their natural environment. The reader learns everything necessary to cultivate and propagate these bulbs, about collecting them and the right tools of the trade. Indispensible for galanthophiles, the book will spark the interest of beginners and is a beautiful and practical reference work for connoisseurs.
Download or read book Max written by Sarah Cohen-Scali and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2017-03-07 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nazi Germany 1936. The Lebensborn program is going strong as German women are carefully selected by the Nazis and recruited to give birth to new representatives of the Aryan race. Inside one of these women is Max, a fetus waiting to be born and fulfill his destiny as the perfect Aryan. Max is taken away from his birth mother as soon as he enters the world. He will be raised under the leadership and ideologies of the Nazi Party. As he grows up without a mom, without any affection or tenderness, according to Nazi educational precepts, he soon becomes the mascot of the program. But things don't go according to plan. Originally published in French, Sarah Cohen-Scali's touching, illuminating, and heartbreaking book has been translated for an English-speaking audience. A Neal Porter Book
Download or read book Gunter s modern confectioner written by William Jeanes and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Book World written by Nicola Louise Wilson and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-05-18 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: British literature underwent profound changes in the period 1900-1940. What role did audiences and channels of book distribution play in this? In this wide-ranging collection, the influence of publishers, distributors, librarians and readers come to the foreground to open up new perspectives on literature and print culture. Rooted in original archival research, chapters include studies of the engagement of canonical writers and bestsellers with the literary marketplace; the influence of international and mobile audiences; publishing practices involving genre, promotion, and censorship; and the significance of spaces of reading including bookshops, circulating libraries and on-board passenger ships. Through a series of detailed case-studies that focus on under-explored aspects of distribution and readership, the contributors open up new perspectives on literature and the British book trade.
Download or read book Cassiel s Servant written by Jacqueline Carey and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 2023-08-01 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A USA Today bestseller! The lush epic fantasy that inspired a generation with a single precept: “Love As Thou Wilt." Returning to the realm of Terre d’Ange which captured an entire generation of fantasy readers, New York Times bestselling author Jacqueline Carey brings us a hero’s journey for a new era. In Kushiel’s Dart, a daring young courtesan uncovered a plot to destroy her beloved homeland. But hers is only half the tale. Now see the other half of the heart that lived it. Cassiel’s Servant is a retelling of cult favorite Kushiel’s Dart from the point of view of Joscelin, Cassiline warrior-priest and protector of Phèdre nó Delaunay. He’s sworn to celibacy and the blade as surely as she’s pledged to pleasure, but the gods they serve have bound them together. When both are betrayed, they must rely on each other to survive. From his earliest training to captivity amongst their enemies, his journey with Phèdre to avert the conquest of Terre D’Ange shatters body and mind... and brings him an impossible love that he will do anything to keep. Even if it means breaking all vows and losing his soul. “Decadent and dark, Cassiel’s Servant reveals the secrets of the mysterious Cassiline brotherhood. In this gorgeously realized novel, Carey returns to the world of Terre d’Ange and offers us a new and dazzling perspective on a character we thought we knew.”—Nghi Vo, author of The Chosen and the Beautiful and Siren Queen Kushiel's Legacy #1 Kushiel's Dart #2 Kushiel's Chosen #3 Kushiel's Avatar Standalones Miranda and Caliban Starless The Sundering #1 Banewreaker #2 Godslayer At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Download or read book Gunter s Modern Confectioner written by William Jeanes and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-10-02 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1873.
Download or read book The Time at Darwin s Reef written by Ivan A. Brady and published by Rowman Altamira. This book was released on 2003 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Time at Darwin's Reef is primarily a book of storytelling through mixed genres--verse, prose, and painting. Brady's work is designed to draw out key dimensions of the poetics of anthropology and history embedded in creative writing--in the mix and on the margins of verse and prose, painting and writing, fiction and fact--to revisit the sometimes academically resistant idea that there is more than one way to say (and therefore to see) things. This is a poetic exploration of themes encountered in the academy's attempts to explicate reality, including travel through various cultures, times, and circumstances. The goal of this unique book is both analytic and aesthetic. It is also humanistic: a commentary on the human condition, of being and not being in a cross-cultural world. It will be of immediate interest to poets and writers who wish to explore anthropological poetics, to ethnographers and teachers of ethnographic method, and to instructors and students in creative and experimental writing.
Download or read book Lost in the Ukraine written by William Post and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a story of a man, David Bennett, who was mistakenly kidnapped by Russian operatives in New York City. He was flown to Moscow. Upon finding out they had the wrong man, they covered it up by sending him to a work camp south of Kiev in Ukraine. There, he meets a woman, Leda Miefski, who is a Russian political prisoner. She went through college in America as her father was a diplomat from the Russian government. Her uncle had defected to England, and the Russians had no one else to punish, so they punished her father, mother, and her. They escaped the work farm, making a daring escape. They keep their relationship platonic as they knew that to do otherwise would take away their chances of escaping to America. It takes four years for them to make their escape, and many things happen to them. They leave Ukraine and finally end up in Latvia, where they escape to America.
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Download or read book St Moritz Chic written by Dora Lardelli and published by Assouline Publishing. This book was released on 2020-01-01 with total page 5 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nestled in Switzerland’s alpine Engadin Valley, St. Moritz stands on its own amidst a sea of celebrated ski resorts in that it has long maintained an elusive allure. The winter home of personalities from Gunter Sachs and Gianni Agnelli to Sofia Loren, Elizabeth Taylor, Audrey Hepburn, John Lennon, and Claudia Schiffer, there are few places in the world that manage to unite so many of the top names in cinema, art, and fashion all in one place, year after year. Author Dora Lardelli takes the reader on a journey through Chanel and Hitchcock’s favorite haunts and the hidden parties at Badrutt’s Palace where royalty goes to play, without forgetting the natural beauty, village charm and architectural mastery that define it. St. Moritz also takes readers on a majestic tour of its special events, from Winter Olympics to the annual Snow Polo World Cup, as well as the summertime Jazz Festival and the British Classic Car Meeting. In St. Moritz creatives and royals share skiwassers slope-side on the sheepskin benches of El Paradiso, pause to sip champagne on long strolls around its frozen, crystalline lake and enjoy coffee and confections at the centuries old Hanselmann. St. Moritz has never lost its inimitable appeal, and will continue to reign as an elegant hideaway for all those who have come to call it a home away from home.
Download or read book True Stories Other Works of Fiction written by Giovanni Andreazzi and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2010-01-28 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a compilation of short stories and poetry based on my life experiences. It also contains some fiction short stories written at various times in the past four or five years. Inspiration for the stories and poetry in this book came from my family and acquaintances throughout my life. There are several stopping points which will make for a good bedtime reading book. Well, except for some of the scary stuff.
Download or read book Translation Review written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
