Download or read book Of Memories and Mirages written by Abu Rafique and published by Brandylane Publishers, Incorporated. This book was released on 2022-01-04 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although both time and origin separate them, this story is of lives that fate and circumstance have tied to Pakistan. Aasiya slips away from watchful eyes to meet her lover at a teashop in the same city her grandparents, Suraiya and Iqbal, once moved to after meeting amid the bloodshed of the Partition. The owner of the teashop, Salim, also finds himself refuge from Afghanistan's war in the heat of Karachi. Meanwhile, a family nearby deals with the consequences of their son eagerly leaving the city and bearing firsthand witness to the horrors of the seemingly holy war.
Download or read book Memories and Mirages written by Abie Alexander and published by Infinity Pub. This book was released on 2011-08-19 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you longed for poetry that you could understand and enjoy? Here are twenty-one such.
Download or read book Mirages of the Mind written by Mushtaq Ahmed Yousufi and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2015-07-07 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A hilarious and nostalgic account of twentieth-century Muslim life on the Indian subcontinent Basharat and his family are Indian Muslims who have relocated to Pakistan, but who remain deeply steeped in the nostalgia of pre-Partition life in India. Through Mirages of the Mind’s absurd anecdotes and unforgettable biographical sketches—which hide the deeper unease and sorrow of the family’s journey from Kanpur to Karachi—Basharet emerges as a wise fool, and the host of this unique sketch comedy. From humorous scenes in colonial north India, to the heartbreak and homesickness of post-colonial life in Pakistan, Mirages of the Mind forms an authentic portrait of life among South Asia’s Urdu speakers, rendered beautifully into English by Matt Reeck and Aftab Ahmad.
Download or read book Deserts of Forgetting and Memory Mirages written by Costas Komborozos and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-10-12 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two travelers move through a wasteland. "The ultimate traveler lays buried here. Our names, like his, will forever be remembered." "What happens if we don't find it? We'll never make it out of here. This desert appears to be endless." "I can no longer tell where we began our journey, and I fear that I will forget what our destination is." The travelers share a look of concern. Then one of them gestures toward the distance. "We have to keep moving. Who knows, maybe finding the grave of Herodotus will restore all of our memories." The two travelers persist along their course. They observe how the wasteland appears to be same. Within moments, one of them feels a sudden wave of exhaustion. The other traveler observes him and asks, "Are you alright?" He watches as the other traveler lays on the sand now. "What is it? Speak to me!" The traveler looks around for any sign that they may be getting closer to their destination, but there is none. When he looks at his fellow traveler again, he sees that he is gone. The traveler remains firm regardless of the scorching heat. He forges ahead as he feels that the destination is near. After a few moments, he sees someone in the distance. He narrows his eyes and sees that it is his fellow traveler. "What are you doing there? You disappeared. What happened?" The traveler sees that the other traveler remains still and silent. When he approaches him, he watches him vanish into the air. "Where are you? I saw you! You were right here!" The traveler looks around in dismay. Then he decides to keep moving. The more distance he travels, the more things he forgets. The traveler fears that by the time he reaches his destination, everything he knows will simply vanish. Then he reassures himself with the possibility that finding the grave of the ultimate traveler will enable him to remember everything. His fellow traveler appears to him again. This time, the traveler instantly runs toward him. As soon as he gains a closer proximity to him, the other traveler vanishes once again. Then the traveler realizes that the other traveler guided him to his destination. He sees the grave of Herodotus a short distance away. When he arrives at the grave, he sees the words "Herein lies the unknown" at the bottom. Then memories resurface again, making him remember things that he forgot while in the deep desert. The traveler remembers that he was in this desert before, and that he got lost while trying to find his destination. The words on the grave trigger another memory: he never made out of the desert alive. Then he realizes that the other traveler was him, and that the mirage of the traveler was none other than him. The mirage led him here to discover that the desert erased all of his memories until there was nothing left of him. The unknown has already consumed him.
Download or read book Memories and Mirages written by and published by AA Books. This book was released on 2019-02-28 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you longed for poetry that can be understood and enjoyed? Here are twenty-one such. Simple, yet profound. Subtle, but not convoluted. Some amusing, others serious. But all thought-provoking. The poet combines both the heart and the mind to draw unexpected parallels out of ordinary, everyday images. In the tradition of good poetry, you will find in every poem the warmth of love and the bond of humanity. If you are multilingual you can enjoy these poems in English, French, German, and Russian.
Download or read book Mirages and Mad Beliefs written by Christopher Prendergast and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2013-07-21 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marcel Proust was long the object of a cult in which the main point of reading his great novel In Search of Lost Time was to find, with its narrator, a redemptive epiphany in a pastry and a cup of lime-blossom tea. We now live in less confident times, in ways that place great strain on the assumptions and beliefs that made those earlier readings possible. This has led to a new manner of reading Proust, against the grain. In Mirages and Mad Beliefs, Christopher Prendergast argues the case differently, with the grain, on the basis that Proust himself was prey to self-doubt and found numerous, if indirect, ways of letting us know. Prendergast traces in detail the locations and forms of a quietly nondogmatic yet insistently skeptical voice that questions the redemptive aesthetic the novel is so often taken to celebrate, bringing the reader to wonder whether that aesthetic is but another instance of the mirage or the mad belief that, in other guises, figures prominently in In Search of Lost Time. In tracing the modalities of this self-pressuring voice, Prendergast ranges far and wide, across a multiplicity of ideas, themes, sources, and stylistic registers in Proust's literary thought and writing practice, attentive at every point to inflections of detail, in a sustained account of Proust the skeptic for the contemporary reader.
Download or read book A Place in the Sun written by Patrizia Palumbo and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2003-11-17 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This impressive volume succeeds in bringing Italian colonialism into the space of today’s most important debates regarding colonialism and multiculturalism."—Graziela Parati, author of Mediterranean Crossroads "A significant collection that really has no equal to date. The essays in this volume investigate profoundly the relationship between Italian colonialism and Italian society, past and present."—Anthony Tamburri, author of A Semiotic of Rereading
Download or read book Loveflakes written by Vibha Malhotra and published by Hawakal Publishers Private Limited. This book was released on 2022-04-13 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Loveflakes leads you through the maze of fleeting emotions one goes through while experiencing love. This collection of heartfelt reflections explores love as the prism through which we can hope to decrypt our connection with the infinity. Through its short verses and prose poems, this book celebrates love as the monad of the ever-expanding Universes - the invisible force that keeps cells, molecules, human beings, solar systems, and galaxies from falling apart.
Download or read book Dwellers in the Mirage written by Abraham Merritt and published by eStar Books. This book was released on 2014-11-10 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American Leif Langdon who discovers an amazing warm valley in Alaska! Two races inhabit the valley, the Little People and a branch of an ancient Mongolian race and they worship the Kraken named Khalk'ru which they summon from another dimension to offer human sacrifice. The inhabitants believe Langdon to be the reincarnation of their long dead hero, Dwayanu...
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Download or read book The Classic Novel written by Erica Sheen and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2024-07-30 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book critically examines the long established tradition of adapting classic novels to film or TV screen. An emerging area of interest - the relationship between film and literature and the way cinema and television have translated classic novels into moving pictures from the 30s to the 90s.. A wide-ranging but focused collection that is bang up to date and free of media jargon that looks at both the film and the book.. Includes discussion of: The English Patient, Pride and Prejudice and Middlemarch, Pickwick Papers, Dracula, Dickens, Conrad, Hardy and Waugh.
Download or read book Mirages of the Past written by Raywa Ravipati and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2021-08-13 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These are pages woven with words Of love, life and concerns Words that will make your eyes crinkle Words that rhyme and tinkle To make your eyes sparkle To add a spring to your step To light a flame in your heart So come on and give it a try, Open the first page and start, Maybe it will aid you when you need a hard cry If not, at least it will be a good read when you are alone, As a pastime on the road during journeys unknown – Raywa Get in touch with Raywa on Instagram - @raywa07
Download or read book Unamuno written by and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Mirage Men written by Mark Pilkington and published by Constable. This book was released on 2010-07-29 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seeking the truth about UFOs in America, Mark Pilkington and John Lundberg uncover a 60 year-old story stranger than any conspiracy thriller. Through the fascinating account of their quest Mark Pilkington reveals the long history of UFOria and its parallels in little known tales from the murky worlds of espionage, psychological warfare and advanced military technology. Along the way he discovers that the truth about flying saucers is stranger and more complex than either the ufologists or debunkers would have us believe. As he crossed the US meeting intelligence agents, disinformation specialists and UFO hunters Pilkington was confronted with a dizzying array of ever more outrageous claims and counter claims. As a result he began to suspect that, instead of covering up stories of crashed flying saucers, alien contacts and secret underground bases, the US intelligence agencies had actually been promoting them all along. Meanwhile he has to deal with his own uncertainties, the suspicions of the UFO community and a partner who is starting to believe that conspiracy theorists might be right after all. With a fresh, funny and objective approach, Pilkington is the ideal guide to steer us through these strange territories, where nothing is quite as it seems and reality is just a matter of managing perceptions.
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Download or read book Heart Of The Mirage written by Glenda Larke and published by Orbit. This book was released on 2011-12-08 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stolen from her people as a child and raised as a citizen of the Tyranian Empire, Ligea Gayed is the obvious choice to despatch to her homeland, occupied Kardiastan, with orders to root out a rebel conspiracy. At first, she devotes herself to her new assignment with zeal. Adopted daughter of the Empire's greatest general, and possessing a fearsome reputation within the ruthless Imperial spy network known as the Brotherhood, Ligea views herself as a loyal servant of Tyrans. But blood will out, and with each day she spends among her parents' people, her disciplined self-image crumbles a little. And there are secrets in Kardiastan, secrets that will inevitably force Ligea to choose between her upbringing and her birthright. Secrets that will shape the destiny of two nations. . .
