Download or read book City Skylines in Europe Coloring Book for Toddlers 1 written by Nick Snels and published by ColoringArtist.com. This book was released on 2020-09-19 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When you buy this book you get an electronic version (PDF file) of the interior of this book. Toddlers can bring their imagination to life with this coloring book filled with beautiful skylines of European cities. City Skylines in Europe Coloring Book for Toddlers contains 40 coloring pages with skylines of cities in Europe. All images are in exactly the same style as the cover. The following European cities are featured: Warsaw, Poland Istanbul, Turkey Rotterdam, Netherlands Zürich, Switzerland Copenhagen, Denmark Prague, Czech Republic Milan, Italy Cannes, France Stockholm, Sweden Madrid, Spain Naples, Italy Marseille, France Florence, Italy Berlin, Germany Vienna, Austria Moscow, Russia Venice, Italy Paris, France Rome, Italy London, United Kingdom Barcelona, Spain Amsterdam, Netherlands Munich, Germany Dresden, Germany Frankfurt, Germany Hamburg, Germany Cologne, Germany Düsseldorf, Germany Heidelberg, Germany Leipzig, Germany Belfast, Northern Ireland Brussels, Belgium Bruges, Belgium Kiev, Ukraine Valencia, Spain Liverpool, United Kingdom Oslo, Norway Athens, Greece Chisinau, Moldova Strasbourg, France Using their favorite colors and art supplies, young kids can create personal masterpieces while they develop important skills. Young children enjoy coloring independently or socially as they connect with caregivers or friends. A highly personal gift for a young explorer in your life. Printed on single-sided pages to prevent smudging. Hours of imaginative fun. Accessible and appealing to budding artists. Coloring isn't just fun for toddlers. It will also: Improve focus and attention to detail. Develop grip, hand-eye coordination, and fine motor skills. Increase patience. Build confidence. Reduce stress and frustration. Click Add to Cart at the top of this page to give these benefits to a toddler you love. Learn more and see our entire collection at www.coloringartist.com or contact us at [email protected]. If your young child enjoys their coloring book, please leave a positive review on this page to help us reach more budding artists.

Download or read book Skylines in Europe Coloring Book for Kids 1 2 3 written by Nick Snels and published by ColoringArtist.com. This book was released on 2020-09-20 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When you buy this book you get an electronic version (PDF file) of the interior of this book. Children can bring their imagination to life with this coloring book filled with beautiful skylines of cities on the European continent. Skylines in Europe Coloring Book for Kids 1, 2 & 3 contains 120 coloring pages with panoramas of European cities. All images are in exactly the same style as the cover. The following European cities are featured: Szeged, Hungary Bristol, England Manchester, England Sheffield, England Debrecen, Hungary Graz, Austria Salzburg, Austria Andorra la Vella, Andorra Tirana, Albania Wels, Austria Jelgava, Latvia Catania, Italy Milan, Italy Minsk, Belarus Brussels, Belgium Liège, Belgium Nicosia, Cyprus Rome, Italy Trieste, Italy Varna, Bulgaria Vaduz, Lichtenstein Luxembourg City, Luxembourg Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina Kaunas, Lithuania Strasbourg, France Zagreb, Croatia Valletta, Malta Batumi, Georgia Cologne, Germany Chisinau, Moldova Ostrava, Czech Republic Oulu, Finland Dortmund, Germany Essen, Germany Nantes, France Narva, Estonia Odense, Denmark Heraklion, Greece Leipzig, Germany Marseille, France Riga, Latvia Belfast, Northern Ireland Birmingham, England Liverpool, England Budapest, Hungary Linz, Austria Pécs, Hungary Durrës, Albania Eindhoven, Netherlands Haarlem, Netherlands Villach, Austria Tilburg, Netherlands Bologna, Italy Messina, Italy Palermo, Italy Antwerp, Belgium Charleroi, Belgium Venice, Italy Sofia, Bulgaria Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina Wroclaw, Poland Klaipeda, Lithuania Bordeaux, France Skopje, North Macedonia Split, Croatia Turku, Finland Podgorica, Montenegro Stuttgart, Germany Tbilisi, Georgia Patras, Greece Prague, Czech Republic Copenhagen, Denmark Paris, France Tallinn, Estonia Dresden, Germany Munich, Germany Oslo, Norway Hanover, Germany Monaco City, Monaco Montpellier, France Amsterdam, Netherlands Glasgow, Scotland Leicester, England London, England Samara, Russia Saint Petersburg, Russia Volgograd, Russia Klagenfurt, Austria Miskolc, Hungary Craiova, Romania Liepaja, Latvia Timisoara, Romania Vienna, Austria Dublin, Republic of Ireland Groningen, Netherlands Limerick, Republic of Ireland Rotterdam, Netherlands City of San Marino, San Marino Bari, Italy Genoa, Italy Padua, Italy Ghent, Belgium Verona, Italy Funchal, Portugal Novi Sad, Serbia Porto, Portugal Poznan, Poland Vilnius, Lithuania Warsaw, Poland Prešov, Slovakia Tampere, Finland Lille, France Aalborg, Denmark Athens, Greece Bremen, Germany Brno, Czech Republic Tartu, Estonia Frankfurt, Germany Hamburg, Germany Lyon, France

Download or read book Skylines in Europe Coloring Book for Kids 1 written by Nick Snels and published by ColoringArtist.com. This book was released on 2020-09-20 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When you buy this book you get an electronic version (PDF file) of the interior of this book. Children can bring their imagination to life with this coloring book filled with beautiful skylines of cities on the European continent. Skylines in Europe Coloring Book for Kids 1 contains 40 coloring pages with panoramas of European cities. All images are in exactly the same style as the cover. The following European cities are featured: Szeged, Hungary Bristol, England Manchester, England Sheffield, England Debrecen, Hungary Graz, Austria Salzburg, Austria Andorra la Vella, Andorra Tirana, Albania Wels, Austria Jelgava, Latvia Catania, Italy Milan, Italy Minsk, Belarus Brussels, Belgium Liège, Belgium Nicosia, Cyprus Rome, Italy Trieste, Italy Varna, Bulgaria Vaduz, Lichtenstein Luxembourg City, Luxembourg Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina Kaunas, Lithuania Strasbourg, France Zagreb, Croatia Valletta, Malta Batumi, Georgia Cologne, Germany Chisinau, Moldova Ostrava, Czech Republic Oulu, Finland Dortmund, Germany Essen, Germany Nantes, France Narva, Estonia Odense, Denmark Heraklion, Greece Leipzig, Germany Marseille, France Using their favorite colors and art supplies, kids can create personal masterpieces while they develop important skills. Children enjoy coloring independently or socially as they connect with caregivers or friends. A highly personal gift for a young explorer in your life. Printed on single-sided pages to prevent smudging. Hours of imaginative fun. Accessible and appealing to budding artists. Coloring isn't just fun for kids. It will also: Improve focus and attention to detail. Develop grip, hand-eye coordination, and fine motor skills. Increase patience. Build confidence. Reduce stress and frustration. Click Add to Cart at the top of this page to give these benefits to a child you love. Learn more and see our entire collection at www.coloringartist.com or contact us at [email protected]. If your child enjoys their coloring book, please leave a positive review on this page to help us reach more budding artists.

Download or read book Skylines in Europe Coloring Book for Kids 1 2 written by Nick Snels and published by ColoringArtist.com. This book was released on 2020-09-20 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When you buy this book you get an electronic version (PDF file) of the interior of this book. Children can bring their imagination to life with this coloring book filled with beautiful skylines of cities on the European continent. Skylines in Europe Coloring Book for Kids 1 & 2 contains 80 coloring pages with panoramas of European cities. All images are in exactly the same style as the cover. The following European cities are featured: Szeged, Hungary Bristol, England Manchester, England Sheffield, England Debrecen, Hungary Graz, Austria Salzburg, Austria Andorra la Vella, Andorra Tirana, Albania Wels, Austria Jelgava, Latvia Catania, Italy Milan, Italy Minsk, Belarus Brussels, Belgium Liège, Belgium Nicosia, Cyprus Rome, Italy Trieste, Italy Varna, Bulgaria Vaduz, Lichtenstein Luxembourg City, Luxembourg Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina Kaunas, Lithuania Strasbourg, France Zagreb, Croatia Valletta, Malta Batumi, Georgia Cologne, Germany Chisinau, Moldova Ostrava, Czech Republic Oulu, Finland Dortmund, Germany Essen, Germany Nantes, France Narva, Estonia Odense, Denmark Heraklion, Greece Leipzig, Germany Marseille, France Riga, Latvia Belfast, Northern Ireland Birmingham, England Liverpool, England Budapest, Hungary Linz, Austria Pécs, Hungary Durrës, Albania Eindhoven, Netherlands Haarlem, Netherlands Villach, Austria Tilburg, Netherlands Bologna, Italy Messina, Italy Palermo, Italy Antwerp, Belgium Charleroi, Belgium Venice, Italy Sofia, Bulgaria Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina Wroclaw, Poland Klaipeda, Lithuania Bordeaux, France Skopje, North Macedonia Split, Croatia Turku, Finland Podgorica, Montenegro Stuttgart, Germany Tbilisi, Georgia Patras, Greece Prague, Czech Republic Copenhagen, Denmark Paris, France Tallinn, Estonia Dresden, Germany Munich, Germany Oslo, Norway Hanover, Germany Monaco City, Monaco Montpellier, France Using their favorite colors and art supplies, kids can create personal masterpieces while they develop important skills. Children enjoy coloring independently or socially as they connect with caregivers or friends. This coloring book bundles volumes 1 and 2 at a discounted price. A highly personal gift for a young explorer in your life. Printed on single-sided pages to prevent smudging. Hours of imaginative fun. Accessible and appealing to budding artists. Coloring isn't just fun for kids. It will also: Improve focus and attention to detail. Develop grip, hand-eye coordination, and fine motor skills. Increase patience. Build confidence. Reduce stress and frustration. Click Add to Cart at the top of this page to give these benefits to a child you love. Learn more and see our entire collection at www.coloringartist.com or contact us at [email protected]. If your child enjoys their coloring book, please leave a positive review on this page to help us reach more budding artists.

Download or read book Skylines in Europe Coloring Book for Kids 2 written by Nick Snels and published by ColoringArtist.com. This book was released on 2020-09-20 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When you buy this book you get an electronic version (PDF file) of the interior of this book. Children can bring their imagination to life with this coloring book filled with beautiful skylines of cities on the European continent. Skylines in Europe Coloring Book for Kids 2 contains 40 coloring pages with panoramas of European cities. All images are in exactly the same style as the cover. The following European cities are featured: Riga, Latvia Belfast, Northern Ireland Birmingham, England Liverpool, England Budapest, Hungary Linz, Austria Pécs, Hungary Durrës, Albania Eindhoven, Netherlands Haarlem, Netherlands Villach, Austria Tilburg, Netherlands Bologna, Italy Messina, Italy Palermo, Italy Antwerp, Belgium Charleroi, Belgium Venice, Italy Sofia, Bulgaria Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina Wroclaw, Poland Klaipeda, Lithuania Bordeaux, France Skopje, North Macedonia Split, Croatia Turku, Finland Podgorica, Montenegro Stuttgart, Germany Tbilisi, Georgia Patras, Greece Prague, Czech Republic Copenhagen, Denmark Paris, France Tallinn, Estonia Dresden, Germany Munich, Germany Oslo, Norway Hanover, Germany Monaco City, Monaco Montpellier, France Using their favorite colors and art supplies, kids can create personal masterpieces while they develop important skills. Children enjoy coloring independently or socially as they connect with caregivers or friends. A highly personal gift for a young explorer in your life. Printed on single-sided pages to prevent smudging. Hours of imaginative fun. Accessible and appealing to budding artists. Coloring isn't just fun for kids. It will also: Improve focus and attention to detail. Develop grip, hand-eye coordination, and fine motor skills. Increase patience. Build confidence. Reduce stress and frustration. Click Add to Cart at the top of this page to give these benefits to a child you love. Learn more and see our entire collection at www.coloringartist.com or contact us at [email protected]. If your child enjoys their coloring book, please leave a positive review on this page to help us reach more budding artists.

Download or read book Skylines in Europe Coloring Book for Kids 3 written by Nick Snels and published by ColoringArtist.com. This book was released on 2020-09-20 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When you buy this book you get an electronic version (PDF file) of the interior of this book. Children can bring their imagination to life with this coloring book filled with beautiful skylines of cities on the European continent. Skylines in Europe Coloring Book for Kids 3 contains 40 coloring pages with panoramas of European cities. All images are in exactly the same style as the cover. The following European cities are featured: Amsterdam, Netherlands Glasgow, Scotland Leicester, England London, England Samara, Russia Saint Petersburg, Russia Volgograd, Russia Klagenfurt, Austria Miskolc, Hungary Craiova, Romania Liepaja, Latvia Timisoara, Romania Vienna, Austria Dublin, Republic of Ireland Groningen, Netherlands Limerick, Republic of Ireland Rotterdam, Netherlands City of San Marino, San Marino Bari, Italy Genoa, Italy Padua, Italy Ghent, Belgium Verona, Italy Funchal, Portugal Novi Sad, Serbia Porto, Portugal Poznan, Poland Vilnius, Lithuania Warsaw, Poland Prešov, Slovakia Tampere, Finland Lille, France Aalborg, Denmark Athens, Greece Bremen, Germany Brno, Czech Republic Tartu, Estonia Frankfurt, Germany Hamburg, Germany Lyon, France Using their favorite colors and art supplies, kids can create personal masterpieces while they develop important skills. Children enjoy coloring independently or socially as they connect with caregivers or friends. A highly personal gift for a young explorer in your life. Printed on single-sided pages to prevent smudging. Hours of imaginative fun. Accessible and appealing to budding artists. Coloring isn't just fun for kids. It will also: Improve focus and attention to detail. Develop grip, hand-eye coordination, and fine motor skills. Increase patience. Build confidence. Reduce stress and frustration. Click Add to Cart at the top of this page to give these benefits to a child you love. Learn more and see our entire collection at www.coloringartist.com or contact us at [email protected]. If your child enjoys their coloring book, please leave a positive review on this page to help us reach more budding artists.

Download or read book Skylines in Europe Coloring Book for Kids 3 4 written by Nick Snels and published by ColoringArtist.com. This book was released on 2020-09-20 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When you buy this book you get an electronic version (PDF file) of the interior of this book. Children can bring their imagination to life with this coloring book filled with beautiful skylines of cities on the European continent. Skylines in Europe Coloring Book for Kids 3 & 4 contains 80 coloring pages with panoramas of European cities. All images are in exactly the same style as the cover. The following European cities are featured: Amsterdam, Netherlands Glasgow, Scotland Leicester, England London, England Samara, Russia Saint Petersburg, Russia Volgograd, Russia Klagenfurt, Austria Miskolc, Hungary Craiova, Romania Liepaja, Latvia Timisoara, Romania Vienna, Austria Dublin, Republic of Ireland Groningen, Netherlands Limerick, Republic of Ireland Rotterdam, Netherlands City of San Marino, San Marino Bari, Italy Genoa, Italy Padua, Italy Ghent, Belgium Verona, Italy Funchal, Portugal Novi Sad, Serbia Porto, Portugal Poznan, Poland Vilnius, Lithuania Warsaw, Poland Prešov, Slovakia Tampere, Finland Lille, France Aalborg, Denmark Athens, Greece Bremen, Germany Brno, Czech Republic Tartu, Estonia Frankfurt, Germany Hamburg, Germany Lyon, France Bruges, Belgium Bradford, England Edinburgh, Scotland Kazan, Russia Leeds, England Moscow, Russia Nizhny Novgorod, Russia Uppsala, Sweden Gyor, Hungary Innsbruck, Austria Constanta, Romania Daugavpils, Latvia Iasi, Romania St. Pölten, Austria Cork, Republic of Ireland Galway, Republic of Ireland The Hague, Netherlands Utrecht, Netherlands Florence, Italy Naples, Italy Turin, Italy Vigo, Spain Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain Zaragoza, Spain Belgrade, Serbia Coimbra, Portugal Lisbon, Portugal Lódz, Poland Šiauliai, Lithuania Szczecin, Poland Košice, Slovakia Maribor, Slovenia Helsinki, Finland Toulouse, France Thessaloniki, Greece Aarhus, Denmark Berlin, Germany Düsseldorf, Germany Nice, France Nuremberg, Germany Using their favorite colors and art supplies, kids can create personal masterpieces while they develop important skills. Children enjoy coloring independently or socially as they connect with caregivers or friends. This coloring book bundles volumes 3 and 4 at a discounted price. A highly personal gift for a young explorer in your life. Printed on single-sided pages to prevent smudging. Hours of imaginative fun. Accessible and appealing to budding artists. Coloring isn't just fun for kids. It will also: Improve focus and attention to detail. Develop grip, hand-eye coordination, and fine motor skills. Increase patience. Build confidence. Reduce stress and frustration. Click Add to Cart at the top of this page to give these benefits to a child you love. Learn more and see our entire collection at www.coloringartist.com or contact us at [email protected]. If your child enjoys their coloring book, please leave a positive review on this page to help us reach more budding artists.

Download or read book City Skylines in Asia Coloring Book for Toddlers 1 written by Nick Snels and published by ColoringArtist.com. This book was released on 2020-09-19 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When you buy this book you get an electronic version (PDF file) of the interior of this book. Toddlers can bring their imagination to life with this coloring book filled with beautiful skylines of Asian cities. City Skylines in Asia Coloring Book for Toddlers 1 contains 40 coloring pages with skylines of cities in Asia. All images are in exactly the same style as the cover. The following Asian cities are featured: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Hong Kong, People's Republic of China Shanghai, People's Republic of China Singapore Seoul, South Korea Tokyo, Japan Taipei, Taiwan Jakarta, Indonesia Bali, Indonesia Beijing, People's Republic of China Beirut, Lebanon Guangzhou, People's Republic of China Jerusalem, Israel Manila, Philippines Pune, India Chennai, India Bangalore, India Kolkata, India Jaipur, India Hyderabad, India Ahmedabad, India Mumbai, India Delhi, India Shenzhen, People's Republic of China Tianjin, People's Republic of China Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates Dubai, United Arab Emirates Mecca, Saudi Arabia Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Muscat, Oman Doha, Qatar Kuwait City, Kuwait Baghdad, Iraq Manama, Bahrain Ankara, Turkey Antalya, Turkey Jeddah, Saudi Arabia Sharjah, United Arab Emirates Pattaya, Thailand Phuket, Thailand Using their favorite colors and art supplies, young kids can create personal masterpieces while they develop important skills. Young children enjoy coloring independently or socially as they connect with caregivers or friends. A highly personal gift for a young explorer in your life. Printed on single-sided pages to prevent smudging. Hours of imaginative fun. Accessible and appealing to budding artists. Coloring isn't just fun for toddlers. It will also: Improve focus and attention to detail. Develop grip, hand-eye coordination, and fine motor skills. Increase patience. Build confidence. Reduce stress and frustration. Click Add to Cart at the top of this page to give these benefits to a toddler you love. Learn more and see our entire collection at www.coloringartist.com or contact us at [email protected]. If your young child enjoys their coloring book, please leave a positive review on this page to help us reach more budding artists.

Download or read book American Weathervanes written by Robert Shaw and published by Rizzoli Publications. This book was released on 2021-03-02 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American Weathervanes: The Art of the Winds, published to coincide with an exhibition at the American Folk Art Museum, reveals the beauty, historical significance, and technical virtuosity of American vanes fashioned between the late seventeenth and early twentieth centuries. This American art form has long been an enduring part of the country's skylines. Early church steeples were graced with weathercocks, following a European tradition that dates to the MiddleAges. America's first documented vane maker, metalsmith Shem Drowne of Boston, crafted a number of surviving vanes, including the iconic golden grasshopper that has topped the city's Faneuil Hall since 1742. Farmers, blacksmiths, and other craftsmen proudly fashioned roosters, cows, horses, and other forms for country barns, and as the tradition and public demand expanded over the course of the nineteenth century, so did the diversity of forms, which grew to fill the mail order catalogs of commercial manufacturers in Boston, New York, and other cities. Today, weathervanes hold a well-established place in the canon of American folk art and American Weathervanes celebrates this artistry in the most up-to-date and authoritative work on the subject. Lavishly illustrated with masterworks from prominent private and public collections, this is a book to be treasured by anyone who collects or simply admires American vernacular art and sculpture.

Download or read book The Sun Also Rises written by Ernest Hemingway and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book My London written by and published by Laurence King Publishing. This book was released on 2017-03-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take a trip through London with this fun activity and coloring book, featuring an exciting fold out scene. Can you draw the people on the London Eye, design your own skyscrapers, and color the boats along the river? Follow the river, spotting buildings, people and famous landmarks, and coloring and drawing as you go! A perfect companion to a day out in London, or a souvenir to take home. Also includes four postcards to personalize and send.

Download or read book New York Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1997-06-23 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York magazine was born in 1968 after a run as an insert of the New York Herald Tribune and quickly made a place for itself as the trusted resource for readers across the country. With award-winning writing and photography covering everything from politics and food to theater and fashion, the magazine's consistent mission has been to reflect back to its audience the energy and excitement of the city itself, while celebrating New York as both a place and an idea.

Download or read book Stonehenge written by Paizo Publishing, LLC and published by . This book was released on 2007-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stonehenge has always been a mystery, its original purpose lost in time. Titanic Games asks the question: what would five world-class game designers make of such a location if they were the ones to discover it? Titanic Games presents the world's first Anthology Board Game. We gathered together five talented game designers and gave each of them the same board and pieces. Five unique designers resulted in five unique games: an Arthurian showdown by Richard Borg, a monumental fire sale by James Ernest, a druidic election by Bruno Faidutti, a magical convocation by Richard Garfield, and an alien chariot race by Mike Selinker. Stonehenge contains: One rulebook with five games One game board One deck of 65 cards Five plastic trilithons 50 plastic disks 50 plastic bars Six plastic pawns

Download or read book Scrappy Bits Appliqu written by Shannon Brinkley and published by C&T Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Go beyond basic scrap quilts with this guide to turning fabric bits snips into striking modern art quilts—featuring 8 quick and easy projects. In Scrappy Bits Applique, fabric designer and quilt artist Shannon Brinkley shares her secrets to putting sewing room scraps to use. With her easy stitching and collage techniques, she shows how simplicity can produce dramatic results. Shannon’s “scrappy” approach to quilting uses a fast raw-edged technique. With step-by-step instructions, she teaches you how to intuitively choose, cut, and sew bits of fabric to create a collage of unique images and textures. Included are eight engaging quilt projects to try out your new skills.

Download or read book Architecture Without Architects written by Bernard Rudofsky and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Temporary People written by Deepak Unnikrishnan and published by Restless Books. This book was released on 2017-03-14 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing "Guest workers of the United Arab Emirates embody multiple worlds and identities and long for home in a fantastical debut work of fiction, winner of the inaugural Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing.… The author's crisp, imaginative prose packs a punch, and his whimsical depiction of characters who oscillate between two lands on either side of the Arabian Sea unspools the kind of immigrant narratives that are rarely told. An enchanting, unparalleled anthem of displacement and repatriation." —Kirkus Reviews, starred review In the United Arab Emirates, foreign nationals constitute over 80 percent of the population. Brought in to construct and serve the towering monuments to wealth that punctuate the skylines of Abu Dhabi and Dubai, this labor force is not given the option of citizenship. Some ride their luck to good fortune. Others suffer different fates. Until now, the humanitarian crisis of the so-called “guest workers” of the Gulf has barely been addressed in fiction. With his stunning, mind-altering debut novel Temporary People, Deepak Unnikrishnan delves into their histories, myths, struggles, and triumphs. Combining the linguistic invention of Salman Rushdie and the satirical vision of George Saunders, Unnikrishnan presents twenty-eight linked stories that careen from construction workers who shapeshift into luggage and escape a labor camp, to a woman who stitches back together the bodies of those who’ve fallen from buildings in progress, to a man who grows ideal workers designed to live twelve years and then perish—until they don’t, and found a rebel community in the desert. With this polyphony of voices, Unnikrishnan maps a new, unruly global English and gives personhood back to the anonymous workers of the Gulf. "Guest workers of the United Arab Emirates embody multiple worlds and identities and long for home in a fantastical debut work of fiction, winner of the inaugural Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing.… The author's crisp, imaginative prose packs a punch, and his whimsical depiction of characters who oscillate between two lands on either side of the Arabian Sea unspools the kind of immigrant narratives that are rarely told. An enchanting, unparalleled anthem of displacement and repatriation." —Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review "Inventive, vigorously empathetic, and brimming with a sparkling, mordant humor, Deepak Unnikrishnan has written a book of Ovidian metamorphoses for our precarious time. These absurdist fables, fluent in the language of exile, immigration, and bureaucracy, will remind you of the raw pleasure of storytelling and the unsettling nearness of the future." —Alexandra Kleeman, author of You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine “Inaugural winner of the Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing, this debut novel employs its own brand of magical realism to propel readers into an understanding and appreciation of the experience of foreign workers in the Arab Gulf States (and beyond). Through a series of almost 30 loosely linked sections, grouped into three parts, we are thrust into a narrative alternating between visceral realism and fantastic satire.... The alternation between satirical fantasy, depicting such things as intelligent cockroaches and evil elevators, and poignant realism, with regards to necessarily illicit sexuality, forms a contrast that gives rise to a broad critique of the plight of those known euphemistically as ‘guest workers.’ VERDICT: This first novel challenges readers with a singular inventiveness expressed through a lyrical use of language and a laserlike focus that is at once charming and terrifying. Highly recommended.” —Henry Bankhead, Library Journal, Starred Review “Unnikrishnan’s debut novel shines a light on a little known world with compassion and keen insight. The Temporary People are invisible people—but Unnikrishnan brings them to us with compassion, intelligence, and heart. This is why novels matter.” —Susan Hans O’Connor, Penguin Bookshop (Sewickley, PA) “Deepak Unnikrishnan uses linguistic pyrotechnics to tell the story of forced transience in the Arabian Peninsula, where citizenship can never be earned no matter the commitment of blood, sweat, years of life, or brains. The accoutrements of migration—languages, body parts, passports, losses, wounds, communities of strangers—are packed and carried along with ordinary luggage, blurring the real and the unreal with exquisite skill. Unnikrishnan sets before us a feast of absurdity that captures the cruel realities around the borders we cross either by choice or by force. In doing so he has found what most writers miss: the sweet spot between simmering rage at a set of circumstances, and the circumstances themselves.” —Ru Freeman, author of On Sal Mal Lane “Deepak writes brilliant stories with a fresh, passionate energy. Every page feels as if it must have been written, as if the author had no choice. He writes about exile, immigration, deportation, security checks, rage, patience, about the homelessness of living in a foreign land, about historical events so strange that, under his hand, the events become tales, and he writes tales so precisely that they read like history. Important work. Work of the future. This man will not be stopped.” —Deb Olin Unferth, author of Revolution “From the strange Kafka-esque scenarios to the wholly original language, this book is amazing on so many different levels. Unlike anything I've ever read, Temporary People is a powerful work of short stories about foreign nationals who populate the new economy in the United Arab Emirates. With inventive language and darkly satirical plot lines, Unnikrishnan provides an important view of relentless nature of a global economy and its brutal consequences for human lives. Prepare to be wowed by the immensely talented new voice.” —Hilary Gustafson, Literati Bookstore (Ann Arbor, MI) “Absolutely preposterous! As a debut, author Unnikrishnan shares stories of laborers, brought to the United Arab Emirates to do menial and everyday jobs. These people have no rights, no fallback if they have problems or health issues in that land. The laborers in Temporary People are sewn back together when they fall, are abandoned in the desert if they become inconvenient, and are even grown from seeds. As a collection of short stories, this is fantastical, imaginative, funny, and even more so, scary, powerful, and ferocious.” —Becky Milner, Vintage Books (Vancouver WA)

Download or read book The Spell of the Sensuous written by David Abram and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2012-10-17 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the International Lannan Literary Award for Nonfiction Animal tracks, word magic, the speech of stones, the power of letters, and the taste of the wind all figure prominently in this intellectual tour de force that returns us to our senses and to the sensuous terrain that sustains us. This major work of ecological philosophy startles the senses out of habitual ways of perception. For a thousand generations, human beings viewed themselves as part of the wider community of nature, and they carried on active relationships not only with other people with other animals, plants, and natural objects (including mountains, rivers, winds, and weather patters) that we have only lately come to think of as "inanimate." How, then, did humans come to sever their ancient reciprocity with the natural world? What will it take for us to recover a sustaining relation with the breathing earth? In The Spell of the Sensuous David Abram draws on sources as diverse as the philosophy of Merleau-Ponty, Balinese shamanism, Apache storytelling, and his own experience as an accomplished sleight-of-hand of magician to reveal the subtle dependence of human cognition on the natural environment. He explores the character of perception and excavates the sensual foundations of language, which--even at its most abstract--echoes the calls and cries of the earth. On every page of this lyrical work, Abram weaves his arguments with a passion, a precision, and an intellectual daring that recall such writers as Loren Eisleley, Annie Dillard, and Barry Lopez.