Download or read book The Sword of Trystan Book Two INIZAR written by Henry Alessandroni and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-04-07 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young rogue named Stint. His childhood friend, Exeter and his wife Deliah. A secret that had been withheld by the brothers of Stroud Monastery and their journey into their untold past. Loyalty, betrayal, tragedy and the fate of Inizar hang in the balance as their destinies unfold. Monitored by ethereal, mystical eyes, Book Two: The Sword of Trystan, will lead the reader toward dark truths, wherein, Book Three: The Dragon's Breath, will hold Inizar's providence to be re-examined.
Download or read book The Dragon s Breath Book Three INIZAR written by Henry Alessandroni and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-04-07 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young rogue named Stint. His childhood friend, Exeter and his wife Deliah. A secret that had been withheld by the brothers of Stroud Monastery and their journey into their untold past. Loyalty, betrayal, tragedy and the fate of Inizar hang in the balance as their destinies unfold. Monitored by ethereal, mystical eyes, Book Two: The Sword of Trystan, will lead the reader toward dark truths, wherein, Book Three: The Dragon's Breath, will hold Inizar's providence to be re-examined.
Download or read book INIZAR written by Henry Alessandroni and published by . This book was released on 2007-08-30 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young rogue named Stint. His childhood friend, Exeter and his wife Deliah. A secret that had been withheld by the brothers of Stroud Monastery and their journey into their untold past. Loyalty, betrayal, tragedy and the fate of Inizar hang in the balance as their destinies unfold. Monitored by ethereal, mystical eyes, Book Two: The Sword of Trystan, will lead the reader toward dark truths, wherein, Book Three: The Dragon's Breath, will hold Inizar's providence to be re-examined.
Download or read book Moon Brow written by Shahriar Mandanipour and published by Restless Books. This book was released on 2018-04-24 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From "one of Iran's most important living fiction writers" (The Guardian) comes a fantastically imaginative story of love and war narrated by two angel scribes perched on the shoulders of a shell-shocked Iranian soldier who's searching for the mysterious woman haunting his dreams. Before he enlisted as a soldier in the Iran-Iraq War and disappeared, Amir Yamini was a carefree playboy whose only concerns were seducing women and riling his religious family. Five years later, his mother and sister Reyhaneh find him in a mental hospital for shell-shocked soldiers, his left arm and most of his memory lost. Amir is haunted by the vision of a mysterious woman whose face he cannot see--the crescent moon on her forehead shines too brightly. He names her Moon Brow. Back home in Tehran, the prodigal son is both hailed as a living martyr to the cause of Ayatollah Khomeini's Revolution and confined as a dangerous madman. His sense of humor, if not his sanity, intact, Amir cajoles Reyhaneh into helping him escape the garden walls to search for Moon Brow. Piecing together the puzzle of his past, Amir decides there's only one solution: he must return to the battlefield and find the remains of his severed arm--and discover its secret. All the while, two angels sit on our hero's shoulders and inscribe the story in enthrallingly distinctive prose. Wildly inventive and radically empathetic, steeped in Persian folklore and contemporary Middle East history, Moon Brow is the great Iranian novelist Shahriar Mandanipour's unforgettable epic of love, war, morality, faith, and family.
Download or read book South Asian Partition Fiction in English written by Rituparna Roy and published by Amsterdam University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dit boek is een literaire studie naar Zuid-Aziatische Engelstalige fictie vanaf midden jaren vijftig tot de late jaren tachtig over de afscheiding van Pakistan en Bangladesh van India, oftewel de Partitie. Het is een fascinerend verhaal over het ontstaan van een nieuw literair genre. Romanschrijvers van verschillende generaties geven hun kijk op dit beslissende moment in de Zuid-Aziatische geschiedenis. In het begin beschreven zij de catastrofe, later werd er meer getheoretiseerd. Aan de hand van zes romans, van onder andere Salman Rushdie, laat Roy zien welke factoren bepalend zijn geweest voor de grote thema's en verhaallijnen in deze romans.
Download or read book Comparative Literature written by Amiẏa Deba and published by Allied Publishers (India). This book was released on 1989 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Papers presented at a seminar held at Indian Institute of Advanced Studies, Shimla on 22-26 June 1987.
Download or read book An Unwritten Epic and Other Stories written by Intiz̤ār Ḥusain and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pre Raphaelite Cats written by Susan Herbert and published by Thames & Hudson. This book was released on 1999 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pays homage to Pre-Raphaelite painters with feline versions of famous paintings by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Ford Madox Brown, William Holman Hunt, and several other artists
Download or read book Censoring an Iranian Love Story written by Shahriar Mandanipour and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2009-05-05 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • “One of Iran's most important living fiction writers” (The Guardian) shows what it’s like to live and love there today. "A haunting portrait of life in the Islamic Republic of Iran." —The New York Times In a country where mere proximity between a man and a woman may be the prologue to deadly sin, where illicit passion is punished by imprisonment, or even death, telling that most redemptive of human narratives becomes the greatest literary challenge. If conducting a love affair in modern Iran is not a simple undertaking, then telling the story of that love may be even more difficult. Shahriar Mandanipour (author of Moon Brow) evokes a pair of young lovers who find each other—despite surreal persecution and repressive parents—through coded messages and internet chat rooms; and triumphantly their story entwines with an account of their creator’s struggle. Inventive, darkly comic and profoundly touching, Censoring an Iranian Love Story celebrates both the unquenchable power of the written word and a love that is doomed, glorious, and utterly real.
Download or read book The Pomegranate Lady and Her Sons written by Gulī Taraqqī and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2013-10-21 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of stories from the Iranian author includes a tale about a woman whose former maid becomes her jailer and a story about an old woman searching for her fugitive sons in Sweden.
Download or read book The Book of Fate written by Parinoush Saniee and published by House of Anansi. This book was released on 2013-08-31 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selected as one of World Literature Today's 75 Notable Translations of 2013 Spanning five turbulent decades in Iranian history, from before the 1979 revolution, through the Islamic Republic, and up to the present, The Book of Fate is a powerful story of friendship and passion, fear and hope. A teenager in pre-revolutionary Tehran, Massoumeh is an average girl, passionate about learning. On her way to school she meets a local man and falls in love, but when her family discovers his letters they accuse her of bringing them dishonour. She is badly beaten by her brother, and her parents hastily arrange for her to marry a man she’s never met. Facing a life without love, and the prospect of no education, Massoumeh is distraught, but a female neighbour urges her to comply: "We each have a destiny, and you can’t fight yours." The years that follow Massoumeh’s wedding prove transformative for Iran. Hamid, Massoumeh’s husband, is a political dissident and a threat to the Shah’s regime. When the secret service arrive to arrest him, it is the start of a terrifying period for Massoumeh. Her fate, so long dictated by family loyalty and tradition, is now tied to the changing fortunes of her country.
Download or read book Kissing the Sword written by Shahrnush Parsipur and published by The Feminist Press at CUNY. This book was released on 2013-05-21 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An internationally acclaimed writer's harrowing tale of imprisonment in Iran, and her gripping story of getting out.
Download or read book 25 001 Best Baby Names written by Lesley Bolton and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides over 25,000 baby names, their origins, variations of each name, and definition.
Download or read book Garden by the Sea written by Mercè Rodoreda and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Gatsby-esque novel about Spain in the 1920s on the eve of the Spanish Civil War
Download or read book A Portal in Space written by Mahmoud Saeed and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2016-01-15 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Portal in Space, set in Basra, Iraq, during the Iran-Iraq War (1980–1988), follows the lives of Anwar, a newly minted architect, and the other members of his affluent family as they attempt to maintain a sense of normality during the frequent bombing attacks from Iran. When Anwar joins the Iraqi army and then goes missing in action, his family struggles to cope with uncertainty over his fate. His mother falls into depression and secludes herself in the family home, while his father shifts his attention from his duties as a judge to the weekly pilgrimage to Baghdad seeking information on his son—and to Zahra, the young widow he meets there. Emotionally engaging, A Portal in Space is a wry, wise tale of human beings striving to retain their humanity during a war that is anything but humane. Mahmoud Saeed succeeds brilliantly in bringing the sights and sounds of Iraq to life on the page—whether in a bunker on the front lines of the Iran-Iraq War or in the parlor of a fortune-teller in Baghdad. As Zahra says of the novel she is writing: “It is a normal novel that contains love, war, life, deceit, and death.”
Download or read book Rituals of Restlessness written by Yaghoub Yadali and published by Phoneme Media. This book was released on 2016 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Engineer Kamran Khosravi wants to die in a car accident. Or he at least wants it to look that way. His professional life in the Iranian hinterlands is full of bureaucratic drudgery -- protecting dams, for example, from looters. His wife Fariba can no longer stand it, and has left him to rejoin her family in Isfahan. She is anxious for him to choose a life with her, or to let her go and persist with things as they are. But Kamran's issues run deeper than anybody imagines. Rituals of Restlessness won the 2004 Golshiri Foundation Award for the best novel of the year and was named one of the ten best novels of the decade by the Press Critics Award in Iran. However, in 2007 Yaghoub Yadali was sentenced to one year in prison for having depicted an adulterous affair in the novel.Rituals of Restlessness and his short story collectionSketches in the Garden have been banned from publication and reprint in Iran. This book is the first for Phoneme Media's City of Asylum Imprint, which showcases books by current and former writers‐in‐residence at the Pittsburgh‐based nonprofit.
Download or read book The Fetishists written by Ibrahim al-Koni and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2019-01-04 with total page 565 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Fetishists, originally published in Arabic as Al Majus, is considered the masterpiece of Ibrahim al-Koni, one of the most prolific and important writers in Arabic today. In The Fetishists, Al-Koni explores what happens when a writer asks the novel to speak of and for the Sahara, when rival cultures clash, and when communities seek to build a utopia on Earth as individuals struggle between a desire for material well-being (represented by gold dust) and a need for spiritual meaning. As the story opens, Sultan Oragh of Timbuktu, who has already lost most of his power to Fetishist Bambara leaders of the forestlands, fears he will lose his only daughter, Tenere, as a human sacrifice to their god Amnay. The sultan sends Tenere to seek refuge with fellow Tuareg nomads in the plain. But even in their traditional, nomadic community, a competition rages between jihadi militant Islam; moderate Anhi Islam, which is the ancient Tuareg Law; and the cults of gold dust and of traditional African folk religions. In this epic novel, Al-Koni blends Tuareg folklore and history with intense, fond descriptions of daily life in the desert, creating a mirror for life anywhere. Through its tragic rendering of a clash between the Tuareg and traditional African civilizations, the novel profoundly probes the contradictions of the human soul as it takes the reader on a unique spiritual adventure inside the Tuareg world.
