Download or read book Island of the Naked Women written by Inger Frimansson and published by PBS Publications. This book was released on 2018-02-21 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fiction. Translated from the Swedish by Laura Wideburg. Sudden murder and the resulting psychological tension are the hallmarks of Inger Frimansson's acclaimed thrillers. In ISLAND OF NAKED WOMEN, Tobias, an author of mystery novels, must return to the family farm after his father became incapacitated due to a fall from the hayloft. Tobias resents his father's judgmental attitude, but he finds the allure of his father's young wife Sabina hard to resist. Meanwhile, Hardy, the hired hand, scoffs at Tobias's city ways, while encouraging Sabina's mentally challenged son Adam to turn into an Elvis impersonator; and Ingelize, who runs a nearby riding school, finds Tobias irresistible. The rural life becomes increasingly claustrophobic for Tobias, but before he can return to the city, death strikes a hard blow and chaos ensues.
Download or read book The Island of Naked Women written by Jonathan Altvater and published by . This book was released on 2020-01-25 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Island of Naked Women is a collection weird and often ridiculous short stories by world renowned author Jonathan Altvater. Inside you will find a story about a rapping cockroach man that warns people about the end of the world. There is a story about scientists doing experiments in the 90s trying to unlock the secrets of saving pornographic images on floppy disks. I don't want to give away the ending, but you won't believe what happens in the story about Donald Trump eating macaroni and cheese. The stories are brisk and easy to read as long as you have an open mind that enjoys seeing the world turned on it's head and an affinity towards the absurd.
Download or read book The Land of Naked People written by Madhusree Mukerjee and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2003 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Table of contents
Download or read book The Naked Island written by Russell Braddon and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The innocence of the young Australian soldiers sent to Malaya during the Second World War to halt the territorial expansion of the Japanese was quickly shattered by defeat and surrender. Russell Braddon, who himself became a prisoner of war, graphically describes the ghastly suffering and wanton neglect of the Allied soldiers in some of the most infamous Japanese POW camps, from Pudu in Malaya to Changi in Singapore. For more than three years he watched as these men were ravaged by disease, tortured, and deprived of their most basic needs. Braddon recounts his horrifying story with barely suppressed rage, but also with enormous admiration for the amazing ingenuity, spirit and determination of the prisoners, who created a semblance of order out of nightmarish chaos. His remarkable book makes grim but compelling reading.
Download or read book Becoming JiJi written by David R Yale and published by A Healthy Relationship Press. This book was released on 2017-11-16 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blue collar woman breaks through class, gender, and personal barriers to pursue her true love and become a world class singer. A heart-warming story of empowerment and an antidote to America's current wave of dystopian fear and hopelessness.
Download or read book The Island of Sea Women written by Lisa See and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2019-03-05 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “A mesmerizing new historical novel” (O, The Oprah Magazine) from Lisa See, the bestselling author of The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane, about female friendship and devastating family secrets on a small Korean island. Mi-ja and Young-sook, two girls living on the Korean island of Jeju, are best friends who come from very different backgrounds. When they are old enough, they begin working in the sea with their village’s all-female diving collective, led by Young-sook’s mother. As the girls take up their positions as baby divers, they know they are beginning a life of excitement and responsibility—but also danger. Despite their love for each other, Mi-ja and Young-sook find it impossible to ignore their differences. The Island of Sea Women takes place over many decades, beginning during a period of Japanese colonialism in the 1930s and 1940s, followed by World War II, the Korean War, through the era of cell phones and wet suits for the women divers. Throughout this time, the residents of Jeju find themselves caught between warring empires. Mi-ja is the daughter of a Japanese collaborator. Young-sook was born into a long line of haenyeo and will inherit her mother’s position leading the divers in their village. Little do the two friends know that forces outside their control will push their friendship to the breaking point. “This vivid…thoughtful and empathetic” novel (The New York Times Book Review) illuminates a world turned upside down, one where the women are in charge and the men take care of the children. “A wonderful ode to a truly singular group of women” (Publishers Weekly), The Island of Sea Women is a “beautiful story…about the endurance of friendship when it’s pushed to its limits, and you…will love it” (Cosmopolitan).
Download or read book Island Films written by James Lyng and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sites of Desire Economies of Pleasure written by Lenore Manderson and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1997-08-18 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: List of Illustrations Preface Introduction: Sites of Desire/Economies of Pleasure in Asia and the PacificLenore Manderson, Margaret Jolly. Ch. 1: Educating Desire in Colonial Southeast Asia: Foucault, Freud and Imperial Sexualities Ann Staler Ch. 2: Contested Images and Common Strategies: Early Colonial Sexual Politics in the Massim Adam Reed Ch. 3: Gaze and Grasp: Plantations, Desires, Indentured Indians, and Colonial Law in Fiji John D. Kelly Ch. 4: From Point Venus to Bali Ha'i: Eroticism and Exoticism in Representations of the Pacific Margaret Jolly Ch. 5: Parables of Imperialism and Fantasies of the Exotic: Western Representations and Thailand - Place and Sex Lenore Manderson Ch. 6: Primal Dream: Masculinism, Sin and Salvation in Thailand's Sex Trade Annette Hamilton Ch. 7: Kathoey > Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Download or read book Stewart s Handbook of the Pacific Islands written by Percy Stafford Allen and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Island World written by Gary Y Okihiro and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This quirky, brilliant book gives the reader the thrill of cultural history done well. Okihiro undertakes a conventional topic in a jarring way, avoiding the assumption of set boundaries of nations and human societies."—Henry Yu, author of Thinking Orientals: Migration, Contact, and Exoticism in Modern America "This beautifully written book integrates the history of Hawai'i into that of the U.S. better than any other I have ever read." —Patricia Seed, author of American Pentimento: The Invention of Indians and the Pursuit of Riches
Download or read book Fourteen Years in the Sandwich Islands 1855 1868 written by Charles Victor Crosnier de Varigny and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 1925 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An autobiographical account by Charles Victor Crosnier de Varigny (November 25, 1829 – November 9, 1899) who traveled to Hawaii in 1855 and departed in 1868. He served as prime minister of the Hawaiian Kingdom.
Download or read book Aran Islands written by John Millington Synge and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Gender and Island Communities written by Firouz Gaini and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-03-20 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book takes an explicitly feminist approach to studying gender and social inequalities in island settings while deliberating on ‘islandness’ as part of the intersectional analysis. Though there is a wealth of recent literature on islands and island studies, most of this literature focuses on islands as objects of study rather than as contexts for exploring gender relations and local gendered developments. Taking Karides’ ‘Island feminism’ as a starting point and drawing from the wider literature on island studies as well as gender and place, this book bridges this gap by exploring gender, gender relations, affect and politics in various island settings spanning a great variety of global locations, from the Faroe Islands and Greenland in the north to Tasmania in south. Insights on recent developments and gendered contestations in these locations provide rich food for thought on the intricate links between gender and place in a local/global world. This text will be of key interest to students and scholars of gender and feminist studies, cultural studies, Island studies, anthropology, and more broadly to sociology, geography, diversity and social justice studies, global democracy, and international relations.
Download or read book Celebrating in the Islands written by Russell Clark and published by Islandtude Tropical Adventures. This book was released on 2022-04-05 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Flying Dutchman, St. Maarten’s and the world’s steepest zip line, holds the answer to a mystery thousands of years old. To unearth its secret, Paul needs a diversion of onlookers, and calls on Sylvie and friends to distract with their flirtatious best. Debi and Dean have their much anticipated island wedding. The unique, fun-filled ceremony and party, celebrated with free-spirited friends, will be remembered for the ages. With planned gatherings on the Dutch side, impromptu beach parties, and discovering intimate settings on French beaches, celebrating in the islands has never been better.
Download or read book A Record of the Buddhist Religion as Practised in India and the Malay Archipelago A D 671 695 written by I-ching and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Record of the Buddhist Religion as Practised in India and the Malay Archipelago A D 671 695 written by Yijing and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Introduction to I tsings s Record of the Buddhist Religion as Practised in India and the Malay Archipelago A D 671 695 written by Junjirō Takakusu and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
