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Book Joyful Strains The Namesake

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  • Author : Andison Kirton
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2017-01-20
  • ISBN : 9781420237030
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Joyful Strains The Namesake written by Andison Kirton and published by . This book was released on 2017-01-20 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Jhumpa Lahiri s The Namesake and Kent MacCarter and Ali Lemer s Joyful Strains

Download or read book Jhumpa Lahiri s The Namesake and Kent MacCarter and Ali Lemer s Joyful Strains written by Tom Cross and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Pearson English VCE Comparing Guide

Download or read book Pearson English VCE Comparing Guide written by Jess Baric and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Namesake

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  • Author : Jhumpa Lahiri
  • Publisher : Fourth Estate
  • Release : 2023-04-13
  • ISBN : 9780008609986
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book The Namesake written by Jhumpa Lahiri and published by Fourth Estate. This book was released on 2023-04-13 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The incredible bestselling first novel from Pulitzer Prize- winning author, Jhumpa Lahiri. 'The kind of writer who makes you want to grab the next person and say "Read this!"' Amy Tan 'When her grandmother learned of Ashima's pregnancy, she was particularly thrilled at the prospect of naming the family's first sahib. And so Ashima and Ashoke have agreed to put off the decision of what to name the baby until a letter comes...' For now, the label on his hospital cot reads simply BABY BOY GANGULI. But as time passes and still no letter arrives from India, American bureaucracy takes over and demands that 'baby boy Ganguli' be given a name. In a panic, his father decides to nickname him 'Gogol' - after his favourite writer. Brought up as an Indian in suburban America, Gogol Ganguli soon finds himself itching to cast off his awkward name, just as he longs to leave behind the inherited values of his Bengali parents. And so he sets off on his own path through life, a path strewn with conflicting loyalties, love and loss... Spanning three decades and crossing continents, Jhumpa Lahiri's debut novel is a triumph of humane story-telling. Elegant, subtle and moving, The Namesake is for everyone who loved the clarity, sympathy and grace of Lahiri's Pulitzer Prize-winning debut story collection, Interpreter of Maladies.

Book Sights in Italy

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  • Author : William Gardiner
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1847
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 428 pages

Download or read book Sights in Italy written by William Gardiner and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Joyful Strains

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  • Author : Kent MacCarter
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2013-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780987308535
  • Pages : 288 pages

Download or read book Joyful Strains written by Kent MacCarter and published by . This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As with all shifts and turns in life, story matters. Joyful Strains collects 27 memoirs from writers\ describing their expatriation to Australia. Some have become household names, others quietly enrich their adopted home. All have had unique and fascinating experiences. These are stories about what they found, who they became and what they now think of Australia, providing entertainment, perspective and cause to celebrate our increasingly diverse nation. This is an insightful, compelling and sometimes confronting collection for all Australians. 'From the affectionate to the bitter to the hilariously funny to the probingly intelligent, this is a collection not to be missed.' JM Coetzee

Book The Works of Dr  Thomas Campion

Download or read book The Works of Dr Thomas Campion written by Thomas Campion and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Chatterbox

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1922
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 348 pages

Download or read book Chatterbox written by and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Echopraxia

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  • Author : Peter Watts
  • Publisher : Macmillan
  • Release : 2014-08-26
  • ISBN : 142994806X
  • Pages : 384 pages

Download or read book Echopraxia written by Peter Watts and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-08-26 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prepare for a different kind of singularity in Peter Watts' Echopraxia, the follow-up to the Hugo-nominated novel Blindsight It's the eve of the twenty-second century: a world where the dearly departed send postcards back from Heaven and evangelicals make scientific breakthroughs by speaking in tongues; where genetically engineered vampires solve problems intractable to baseline humans and soldiers come with zombie switches that shut off self-awareness during combat. And it's all under surveillance by an alien presence that refuses to show itself. Daniel Bruks is a living fossil: a field biologist in a world where biology has turned computational, a cat's-paw used by terrorists to kill thousands. Taking refuge in the Oregon desert, he's turned his back on a humanity that shatters into strange new subspecies with every heartbeat. But he awakens one night to find himself at the center of a storm that will turn all of history inside-out. Now he's trapped on a ship bound for the center of the solar system. To his left is a grief-stricken soldier, obsessed by whispered messages from a dead son. To his right is a pilot who hasn't yet found the man she's sworn to kill on sight. A vampire and its entourage of zombie bodyguards lurk in the shadows behind. And dead ahead, a handful of rapture-stricken monks takes them all to a meeting with something they will only call "The Angels of the Asteroids." Their pilgrimage brings Dan Bruks, the fossil man, face-to-face with the biggest evolutionary breakpoint since the origin of thought itself. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Book In Other Words

Download or read book In Other Words written by Jhumpa Lahiri and published by Random House India. This book was released on 2017-01-19 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a post-college visit to Florence, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jhumpa Lahiri fell in love with the Italian language. Twenty years later, seeking total immersion, she and her family relocated to Rome, where she began to read and write solely in her adopted tongue. A startling act of self-reflection, In Other Words is Lahiri’s meditation on the process of learning to express herself in another language—and the stunning journey of a writer seeking a new voice.

Book The Namesake

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  • Author : Jhumpa Lahiri
  • Publisher : Newmarket Press
  • Release : 2006-12-01
  • ISBN : 9781557047410
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book The Namesake written by Jhumpa Lahiri and published by Newmarket Press. This book was released on 2006-12-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Original essays and glorious photography, stunningly designed in this unique moviebook from the director of Monsoon Wedding and Vanity Fair—a Fox Searchlight release. In her essay "Writing and Film," the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Jhumpa Lahiri writes about the experience of seeing her novel "transposed" from paper to film. "Its essence remains, but it inhabits a different realm and must, like a transposed piece of music, conform to a different set of rules. . . . To have someone as devoted and as gifted as Mira reinvent my novel . . . has been a humbling and thrilling passage." Mira Nair's essay, "Photographs as Inspiration," begins with the provocative comment: "If it weren't for photography, I wouldn't be a filmmaker." She explains how photographs help her crystallize the visual style of her films and which particular photos influenced her vision for The Namesake. These two essays, written exclusively for this Newmarket Pictorial Moviebook, introduce an amazing panoply of images of people and places shot mainly in New York and Calcutta during the making of the movie, accented by excerpts from Lahiri's bestselling novel. Six Indian and American photographers' works are represented. Brilliantly illuminating the immigrant experience and the tangled ties between generations, The Namesake tells the story of the Ganguli family, whose move from Calcutta to New York evokes a lifelong balancing act to adapt to a new world while remembering the old. The couple's firstborn, Gogol, and sister Sonia grow up amid these divided loyalties, struggling to find their own identity without losing their heritage. Kal Penn (Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle, Superman Returns) stars as Gogol.

Book Sea of Poppies

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  • Author : Amitav Ghosh
  • Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
  • Release : 2009-09-29
  • ISBN : 1429930810
  • Pages : 565 pages

Download or read book Sea of Poppies written by Amitav Ghosh and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2009-09-29 with total page 565 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first in an epic trilogy, Amitav Ghosh's Sea of Poppies is "a remarkably rich saga . . . which has plenty of action and adventure à la Dumas, but moments also of Tolstoyan penetration--and a drop or two of Dickensian sentiment" (The Observer [London]). At the heart of this vibrant saga is a vast ship, the Ibis. Her destiny is a tumultuous voyage across the Indian Ocean shortly before the outbreak of the Opium Wars in China. In a time of colonial upheaval, fate has thrown together a diverse cast of Indians and Westerners on board, from a bankrupt raja to a widowed tribeswoman, from a mulatto American freedman to a free-spirited French orphan. As their old family ties are washed away, they, like their historical counterparts, come to view themselves as jahaj-bhais, or ship-brothers. The vast sweep of this historical adventure spans the lush poppy fields of the Ganges, the rolling high seas, and the exotic backstreets of Canton. With a panorama of characters whose diaspora encapsulates the vexed colonial history of the East itself, Sea of Poppies is "a storm-tossed adventure worthy of Sir Walter Scott" (Vogue).

Book The Well of Loneliness

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  • Author : Radclyffe Hall
  • Publisher : Read Books Ltd
  • Release : 2015-04-24
  • ISBN : 1473374081
  • Pages : 464 pages

Download or read book The Well of Loneliness written by Radclyffe Hall and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2015-04-24 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This early work by Radclyffe Hall was originally published in 1928 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'The Well of Loneliness' is a novel that follows an upper-class Englishwoman who falls in love with another woman while serving as an ambulance driver in World War I. Marguerite Radclyffe Hall was born on 12th August 1880, in Bournemouth, England. Hall's first novel The Unlit Lamp (1924) was a lengthy and grim tale that proved hard to sell. It was only published following the success of the much lighter social comedy The Forge (1924), which made the best-seller list of John O'London's Weekly. Hall is a key figure in lesbian literature for her novel The Well of Loneliness (1928). This is her only work with overt lesbian themes and tells the story of the life of a masculine lesbian named Stephen Gordon.

Book Divided Soul

Download or read book Divided Soul written by Henri Troyat and published by Doubleday Books. This book was released on 1973 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Ladies  Book of Etiquette  and Manual of Polit  ness

Download or read book Ladies Book of Etiquette and Manual of Polit ness written by Florence Hartley and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 1860 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do unto others as you would others should do to you. You can never be rude if you bear the rule always in mind, for what lady likes to be treated rudely? True Christian politeness will always be the result of an unselfish regard for the feelings of others, and though you may err in the ceremonious points of etiquette, you will never be im polite. Politeness, founded upon such a rule, becomes the expression, in graceful manner, of social virtues. The spirit of politeness consists in a certain attention to forms and ceremonies, which are meant both to please others and ourselves, and to make others pleased with us ;a still clearer definition may be given by saying that politeness is goodness of heart put into daily practice; the.re can be no true, politeness without kindness, purity, singleness of heart, and sensibility. Many believe that politeness is but a mask worn in the world to conceal bad passions and impulses, and to make a show of possessing virtues not really existing in the heart; thus, that politeness is merely hypocrisy and dissimulation. Do not believe this; be certain that those who profess such a doctrine are practising themselves the deceit they condemn so much.

Book The Casquet of Literature

Download or read book The Casquet of Literature written by Charles Gibbon and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 852 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: