Burning Elephant
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Burning Elephant
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Author : CHRISTOPHER. RAJA
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016
Burning Elephant written by CHRISTOPHER. RAJA and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with categories.
The Burning Elephant
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Author : Christopher Raja
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015-09-01
The Burning Elephant written by Christopher Raja and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-09-01 with categories.
The Burning Elephant is set in Kolkata before andafter the assassination of Indira Gandhi, which led to widespread violenceagainst India's Sikh population. The novel is told from the point of view of ayoung boy Govinda, whose father is the headmaster of a local school. It beginswith the intrusion into the schoolyard of an elephant that has escaped from itsowner, and is seen as such a danger that he is immediately shot, then burnt bythe police. This outbreak of violence in the idyllic world of childhood setsthe tone for the novel as a whole, which gives the innocent yet knowingperspectives of Govinda in his engagement with the crowded and complex life ofSerpent Lane outside the school, his awareness of the breakdown of therelationship between his parents, his sense that his own privileged life isunder threat. The way the tensions in his family are rendered against thebackdrop of the larger social tensions in India, while at the same timemaintaining Govinda's child-like point of view, is particularly compelling. Itis the outbreak of violence after Indira Gandhi's death which finally causesGovinda's father to migrate to Australia - and it is the implicit lesson ofthis novel, never spelt out, but felt throughout, that such horror is often acentral fact of migration to this country.
Burning Elephant
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Author : Walter D. Littell
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010-08-02
Burning Elephant written by Walter D. Littell and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-08-02 with categories.
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The Burning Elephant
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Author : Christopher Raja
language : en
Publisher: Giramondo Publishing
Release Date : 2015-09-01
The Burning Elephant written by Christopher Raja and has been published by Giramondo Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-09-01 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
The Burning Elephant is set in Kolkata before and after the assassination of Indira Gandhi, which led to widespread violence against India’s Sikh population. The novel is told from the point of view of a young boy Govinda, whose father is the headmaster of a local school. It begins with the intrusion into the schoolyard of an elephant that has escaped from its owner, and is seen as such a danger that he is immediately shot, then burnt by the police. This outbreak of violence in the idyllic world of childhood sets the tone for the novel as a whole, which gives the innocent yet knowing perspectives of Govinda in his engagement with the crowded and complex life of Serpent Lane outside the school, his awareness of the breakdown of the relationship between his parents, his sense that his own privileged life is under threat. The way the tensions in his family are rendered against the backdrop of the larger social tensions in India, while at the same time maintaining Govinda’s child-like point of view, is particularly compelling. It is the outbreak of violence after Indira Gandhi’s death which finally causes Govinda’s father to migrate to Australia – and it is the implicit lesson of this novel, never spelt out, but felt throughout, that such horror is often a central fact of migration to this country.
The Impact Of Early Burning On Elephant Distribution In Borgu Game Reserve
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Author : E. Pelinck
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1974
The Impact Of Early Burning On Elephant Distribution In Borgu Game Reserve written by E. Pelinck and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1974 with categories.
The Elephant Vanishes
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Author : Haruki Murakami
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2011-10-10
The Elephant Vanishes written by Haruki Murakami and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-10-10 with Fiction categories.
A dizzying short story collection that displays Murakami's genius for uncovering the surreal in the everyday, the extraordinary within the ordinary *Featuring the story ‘Barn Burning’, the inspiration behind the Palme d’Or nominated film Burning* When a man's favourite elephant vanishes, the balance of his whole life is subtly upset. A couple's midnight hunger pangs drive them to hold up a McDonald's. A woman finds she is irresistible to a small green monster that burrows through her front garden. An insomniac wife wakes up in a twilight world of semi-consciousness in which anything seems possible - even death. In every one of these stories Murakami makes a determined assault on the normal.
Keep The Giraffe Burning
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Author : John Sladek
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2011-09-29
Keep The Giraffe Burning written by John Sladek and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-09-29 with Fiction categories.
John Sladek wrote some of the best science fiction stories of the 20th-century and his parodies of famous s/f authors are uproariously "right-on". His talent went under-appreciated except by a few devoted followers, even though his satirical writing was on a par with the early Kurt Vonnegut. Keep The Giraffe Burning is Sladek's second short story collection (of four published during his life-time) and contains seventeen stories originally published in (mostly) various SF magazines between 1968 and 1975.
Elephant Trails
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Author : Nigel Rothfels
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2021-11-30
Elephant Trails written by Nigel Rothfels and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-30 with Science categories.
Why have elephants—and our preconceptions about them—been central to so much of human thought? From prehistoric cave drawings in Europe and ancient rock art in Africa and India to burning pyres of confiscated tusks, our thoughts about elephants tell a story of human history. In Elephant Trails, Nigel Rothfels argues that, over millennia, we have made elephants into both monsters and miracles as ways to understand them but also as ways to understand ourselves. Drawing on a broad range of sources, including municipal documents, zoo records, museum collections, and encounters with people who have lived with elephants, Rothfels seeks out the origins of our contemporary ideas about an animal that has been central to so much of human thought. He explains how notions that have been associated with elephants for centuries—that they are exceptionally wise, deeply emotional, and have a special understanding of death; that they never forget, are beloved of the gods, and suffer unusually in captivity; and even that they are afraid of mice—all tell part of the story of these amazing beings. Exploring the history of a skull in a museum, a photograph of an elephant walking through the American South in the early twentieth century, the debate about the quality of life of a famous elephant in a zoo, and the accounts of elephant hunters, Rothfels demonstrates that elephants are not what we think they are—and they never have been. Elephant Trails is a compelling portrait of what the author terms "our elephant."
The Burning Bush
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Author : Paul Francis Walsh
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1992
The Burning Bush written by Paul Francis Walsh and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with categories.
Operation Elephant
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Author : Jill Bailey
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1991
Operation Elephant written by Jill Bailey and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
Paul and Helen observe the habits and habitat of the African elephant. Similar fictional vignettes combined with factual information focus on the behavior and endangered situation of several species of elephants.