Download or read book The girl in the house with the cigarette pack written by Julio Zenon Flores Salgado and published by Ramsés Ancira. This book was released on with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I had not read a novel with such passion since I met Freedom Tonight, by Dominique la Pierre and Larry Collins. Like that one, “The Raleigh Girl”. original title of the work that we now present with the title The girl in the house with the cigarette pack is a story based on true events, but with a generous dose of magical realism. Julio Zenón Flores Salgado is, like García Márquez, a journalist who writes fiction. Its Macondo is called Tlapa, Acapulco and Chilpancingo, it is located in the cities and towns of the mountain of Guerrero, its protagonist is not candid like Eréndira; but in defense of her life she can become heartless, because she moves in a context of sad whores, who are also indigenous girls, victims of pedophilia because uses and customs have allowed them to engender girls to sell like cattle, after an incestuous debut . The story, exciting in itself, is dressed with magical characters and other tremendously realistic ones, such as the politicians of Guerrero who have become immensely rich with the business of keeping indigenous peoples perfectly poor.
Download or read book Cigarette Girl written by Ratih Kumala and published by Monsoon Books. This book was released on 2017-01-30 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Savour the familiar scent of clove and tobacco … for this is the aroma of Indonesia’s history. Soeraja is dying. On his deathbed he calls for Jeng Yah, a woman who is not his wife. His three sons, Lebas, Karim and Tegar – heirs to Kretek Djagad Raja, Indonesia’s largest clove cigarette empire – are shocked, and their mother is consumed by jealousy. So begins the brothers’ search into the deepest recesses of Java for Jeng Yah, to fulfil their father’s dying wish and to learn the truth about the family business and its secrets. Cigarette Girl is more than just a love story and the soul-searching journey of three brothers. Set on the island of Java the story follows the evolution of a family’s kretek, or clove cigarette, business from its birth in the Dutch East Indies of the early 1940s, and it takes readers through three generations of Indonesian history, from the Dutch colonial era to the Japanese occupation, the struggle for independence and the bloody coup of 1965 in which half a million Indonesians were hunted down and killed. Rich in detail, with characters who struggle to right the wrongs of past generations, their relationships torn apart by the viciousness of revolution and politics, Cigarette Girl introduces readers to the history of Indonesia through clove cigarettes and unrequited love.
Download or read book The Little Girl and the Cigarette written by Benoît Duteurtre and published by Melville House. This book was released on 2006 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A novel about the chaos that results when there's a rule for everything. In the over-legislated world of this black comedy, a death-row inmate becomes a darling of the media - and the tobacco conglomerates - after he demands his right to a final cigarette in a smoke-free prison.
Download or read book The Case and the Girl written by Randall Parrish and published by eBookIt.com. This book was released on 2013-03 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: West, still attired in khaki uniform, but wearing the red chevron of honourable discharge on his left sleeve, sat in the Club writing room, his feet comfortably elevated, endeavouring to extract some entertainment from the evening paper. The news was not particularly interesting, however, and finally, obsessed with the feeling that it would soon be time for him to seriously contemplate the procuring of suitable employment, the young man turned the sheet about rather idly, and ran his eyes down the columns devoted to classified advertising. Half way down the first column, under the head of "miscellaneous," he paused and read a paragraph with some interest; then read it over again, emitting a soft whistle between his teeth. "Well, by Jove!" he said to himself slowly, "That doesn't sound so bad either; out of the ordinary, at least. Say, Thompson," and he turned to a tall young fellow busily writing at the adjoining desk, and shoved the paper under his eyes, ...
Download or read book Dictionary of Occupational Titles Occupational classification and industry index written by United States Employment Service and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The House of Dust written by Leo Marcorin and published by Da Dusty Door. This book was released on 2023-02-12 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagine you’re isolated in the desert, the least inhabited place on earth, and your guilty past keeps hunting you, following you endlessly like a Shadow. Now, imagine that you wake up from this never-ending nightmare, only to realize it was never a dream and that the idle desert was very much alive! Sort of... The dying wish from his mother forces Mark Rodriguez, a man who struggles with vices and guilt, to reunite with his egocentric brother, John, on a long trip across the desert. When trapped in the ghost town of Esperanza, the Rodriguez brothers will revive their worst traumas, wondering how much their memories influence their reality. The House of Dust is a Supernatural Thriller about grief, challenging what is real and what is an echo from the past, immersing the reader in an endless prison of death.
Download or read book Regret written by Ikramullah and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Regret brilliantly recreates a childhood shattered by the Partition of India in 1947. Two lifelong friends, Ehsan and Saeed, reminisce about idyllic summer days spent bunking school, swimming in the canal and relishing the thrills of first love—before the division of the subcontinent changed things forever. Out of Sight recounts the story of Ismail, who narrowly escaped the carnage of 1947 in his youth. Now, looking back on his life and despairing of the sudden resurgence of sectarian violence in Pakistan, Ismail resolves to protect those closest to him. Deeply moving, Ikramullah’s two novellas skilfully evoke the long shadow cast by the violence of Partition.
Download or read book The Apple House written by Gillian Campbell and published by Brindle and Glass. This book was released on 2012-09-04 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anglophone Imogene Jackson grew up in an English suburb on the uneasy edge of a francophone world. At the age of nineteen she quit college to marry a shoemaker from the close-knit French village of Saint-Ange-du-Lac. For ten years she has lived with her husband, Thomas, above his family's historic shoe shop, immersed in village life. When Thomas dies in a car accident, she is shattered and her hard-won mastery of the French language deserts her. Isolated and grief-stricken, she retreats to her childhood home. There she discovers that a petty drug dealer she knows from the village has rented a ramshackle farmhouse, nicknamed the "Apple House," at the corner of her parents' street and befriended her easily influenced brother Petey. Her childhood obsession with the old house resurfaces and she finds herself confronting events from both her recent and more distant past as her two worlds collide. Set in 1970s Quebec and written with a gentle humour, The Apple House is an intimate portrait of life during a time of great change.
Download or read book Life written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 1084 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Canary Murder Case written by S. S. Van Dine and published by Standard Ebooks. This book was released on 2023-06-23T19:01:37Z with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philo Vance, the snobbish art collector who happens to be the longtime friend of District Attorney John Markham, once more finds himself drawn into a criminal investigation. Margaret Odell, the beautiful and talented theatrical singer nicknamed “The Canary,” has been strangled during the night, and from the very beginning there are signs that nothing in the case is quite what it appears to be. Accompanied once more by Sergeant Heath, the unlikely trio struggle to make sense of the evidence. S. S. Van Dine found even more success with this novel, his sophomore outing as a mystery writer. Spending months on the bestseller lists, it was also the first of his books to be made into a movie, with William Powell starring as Philo Vance. At a time when a majority of successful mystery writers were English, Van Dine’s novels evoked an atmosphere that was distinctly American, with Vance’s cultured perspective colliding with Markham’s pragmatic sensibilities and Heath’s no-nonsense street smarts. This book is part of the Standard Ebooks project, which produces free public domain ebooks.
Download or read book Dictionary of Occupational Titles written by and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 1554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Supplement to 3d ed. called Selected characteristics of occupations (physical demands, working conditions, training time) issued by Bureau of Employment Security.
Download or read book Ain t No One Monkey Gonna Stop My Show written by Mabel Johnson and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2007-08 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alice, Meredith and Mossy find out all too soon that life in the fast lanes ain't easy, especially when you're a young, black woman from the south. If you looked up "sassy broad" in the dictionary, you'd find a picture of Alice Jones flashing a toothy smile at you. Being a woman of the night had made her hard to the core. However, despite her occupation, she considered herself a lady, determined to live life by her own rules, even if it meant breaking everyone else's rules in the process. Although they were sisters, Meredith and Alice were complete opposites. When she was forced to leave the south, Meredith moved in with Alice. With no money and no job, she was forced into the "family" business. It didn't take her long to realize that if she didn't find a safer way to make a living, she wasn't going to make it. Some secrets are meant to be kept. But Mossy found that keeping a secret was a heavy burden. And even the strongest person had her breaking point. Running from a secret that refused to be left behind drove Mossy right into Meredith's life and right into another mess.
Download or read book Appalachian Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 726 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Blood Song written by Juggi Bhasin and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2014-12-15 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rebels are not born; they’re created out of extreme tragedies Simran Kaur Banga—a quiet, reserved girl living with her conservative Sikh family in South Hall, London—is a poet at heart. But a brutal rape and rejection by her own family lands her in Amritsar where amidst strangers begins her nightmare of loneliness. Then one day she finds a friend—or so it seems to her. Unknowingly, however, she’s become privy to an extreme terror plot. Accompanied by Captain Suvir, she starts her battle to quell the storm that is brewing in the by-lanes of the small villages of Punjab. Blood Song reeks of dread and danger at every step.
Download or read book Any Resemblance to Actual Persons written by Kevin Allardice and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2014-11-11 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the spirit of Motherless Brooklyn or Remains of the Day, Allardice offers up a searing and memorable debut. When Paul McWeeney's older sister writes a book accusing their late father of committing the gruesome Black Dahlia murder, based on memories her new therapist has helped her recover, or imagine, he sits down to write a cease and desist letter to the publishers. Paul hopes to refute his sister's claims about their father's role in the infamous 1947 murder, arguing for his own divergent memory of their Hollywood childhood by way of defending their father's name and legacy. But the letter begins to take on a life of its own, and Paul, a failed novelist and community college writing instructor, soon finds himself on an obsessive, elliptical exploration of both his family's history and his own conflicted memory, which begins to absorb his daily life and threaten his relationships with those, closest to him. The letter becomes not the intended refutation but rather a disturbing and wildly comical psychological self–portrait of man caught between increasingly unstable versions of the past.
Download or read book Girl on the Edge A Memoir written by Carneson, Ruth and published by Cover2Cover Books. This book was released on 2015-03-05 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ruth was four years old when her father was arrested for high treason and her world was turned upside-down. She grew up in constant fear of Special Branch policemen knocking on the door to arrest her mother or father, prominent South African communists. Ruth learned how to keep her mouth shut, to look out for microphones in the walls and to beware of friends who could betray her trust. At fourteen, Ruth left South Africa, clutching her teddy bear in one hand and her drawings in the other. A plan to England carried her into exile, a new world where she struggled to reconstruct a life fractured by fear. With an artist’s eye for detail and colour, Ruth recalls her life with unflinching honesty: the Treason Trial; her struggle to conform; Friern Barnet Asylum for the ‘hopeless insane’; LSD, protests, and free love in London, art school and motherhood; communes and camping - all steps in a journey that finally brought her home to South Africa on the brink of change. Heart- wrenchingly sad one minute, bursting with life and vigour the next, seamed throughout by strength and courage, girl on the edge allows us to look deep into one woman’s life and travel with her to the brink and back again.
