Strange Gardens
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In Our Strange Gardens
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Author : Michel Quint
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2001-12-01
In Our Strange Gardens written by Michel Quint and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-12-01 with Fiction categories.
In Our Strange Gardens was named a BookSense 76 Recommended Pick for January 2002! Michel has a story to tell. It's about his father, an exquisitely common man whose very ordinariness is a source of grave embarrassment for the boy. It's also the story told to him by his uncle, who shared a family secret with the child in the flickering black and white images of a Sunday matinee. Years before, in the bitter years of World War II, during the Nazi occupation of France, two brothers found themselves at the mercy of a German guard following an explosive act of resistance. Thrown into a deep pit with a small group of terrified prisoners, the men are told that one of them will die by dawn to serve as an example for the others. It's up to the prisoners to propose who will be sacrificed. But in the middle of the night, the guard returns with an extraordinary proposition of his own. A novel of revelation, innocence and ignorance, of the power of language and the strength and complexity of family, In Our Strange Gardens is a fable of nuance and power, a mesmerizing addition to the literature of war.
In Strange Gardens And Other Stories
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Author : Peter Stamm
language : en
Publisher: Other Press, LLC
Release Date : 2010-02-23
In Strange Gardens And Other Stories written by Peter Stamm and has been published by Other Press, LLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-02-23 with Fiction categories.
With the precision of a surgeon, Peter Stamm cuts to the heart of the fragile and revealing moments of everyday life. They are bankers, students, mothers, or retirees. They live in New York City or somewhere in Switzerland, they work in London or Riga, they cross paths in a Fado bar in Lisbon. They breathe the banal routine of daily life. It is to these ordinary people that Peter Stamm grants center stage in his latest collection of short stories. Henry, a cowherd turned stuntman, crisscrosses the country, dreaming of meeting a woman. Inger, the Dane, refuses her skimpy life and takes off for Italy. Regina, so lonely in her big house since her children left and her husband passed away, discovers the world anew thanks to the Australian friend of her granddaughter, who helps Regina envision her next voyage. In these stories, Stamm's clean style expresses despair without flash, through softness and small gestures, with disarming retorts full of derision and infinite tenderness. There, where life hesitates, ready to tip over—with nothing yet played out—is where these people and their stories exist. For us, they all become exceptional. Praise for Unformed Landscape: "Sensitive and unnerving. . . . An uncommonly intimate work, one that will remind the reader of his or her own lived experience with a greater intensity than many of the books that are published right here at home." —The New Republic Online
Strange Gardens
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Author : Michel Quint
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001
Strange Gardens written by Michel Quint and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Fathers and sons categories.
A little boy is ashamed of his father. Acutely so. He cannot understand why his father accepts, at the drop of a hat, to appear as a clown at his birthday parties. He is not even paid for his act. But worse of all, he is a hopless clown, an appallingly bad one - a cringing embarrassment. In his everyday life, his father is a run of the mill teacher - nothing flamboyant, nothing special. So why does he insist on ridiculing himself in front of strangers, friends, his son Through the telling of a secret that dates back to the second World War, the boy will grow to understand what drives his father - and to respect and love the clown in him, the survivor.
In Our Strange Gardens
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Author : Michel Quint
language : en
Publisher: Turtleback Books
Release Date : 2001-12-01
In Our Strange Gardens written by Michel Quint and has been published by Turtleback Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-12-01 with Fiction categories.
The international bestseller is now available in the United States. In the bitter years of World War II, during the Nazi occupation, two brothers find themselves at the mercy of a German guard who makes a surprising proposition of his own.
Strange Gardens
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Author : Robert Francis Pope (Jr.)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1974
Strange Gardens written by Robert Francis Pope (Jr.) 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.
Strange Blooms
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Author : Jennifer Potter
language : en
Publisher: Atlantic Books Ltd
Release Date : 2014-07-03
Strange Blooms written by Jennifer Potter and has been published by Atlantic Books Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-03 with History categories.
In seventeenth-century Britain, a new breed of 'curious' gardeners were pushing at the frontiers of knowledge and new plants were stealing into Europe from East and West. John Tradescant and his son were at the vanguard of this change - as gardeners, as collectors and above all as exemplars of an age that began in wonder and ended with the dawning of science. Jennifer Potter's book vividly evokes the drama of their lives and takes its readers to the edge of an expanding universe. Strange Blooms is a magnificent pleasure for gardeners and non-gardeners alike. This 'wonderful book' (Jane Stevenson, Daily Telegraph) describes the remarkable lives and times of the John Tradescants.
Strange Garden
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Author : Sydney Matthewman
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1928
Strange Garden written by Sydney Matthewman and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1928 with categories.
Gardens Of The Sun
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Author : Paul McAuley
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2009-11-05
Gardens Of The Sun written by Paul McAuley and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-11-05 with Fiction categories.
The Quiet War is over. The city states of the moons of Jupiter and Saturn have fallen to the Three Powers Alliance of Greater Brazil, the European Union and the Pacific Community. A century of enlightenment, rational utopianism and exploration of new ways of being human has fallen dark. Outers are herded into prison camps and forced to collaborate in the systematic plundering of their great archives of scientific and technical knowledge, while Earth's forces loot their cities, settlements and ships, and plan a final solution to the 'Outer problem'. But Earth's victory is fragile, and riven by vicious internal politics. While seeking out and trying to anatomise the strange gardens abandoned in place by Avernus, the Outers' greatest genius, the gene wizard Sri Hong-Owen is embroiled in the plots and counterplots of the family that employs her. The diplomat Loc Ifrahim soon discovers that profiting from victory isn't as easy as he thought. And in Greater Brazil, the Outers' democratic traditions have infected a population eager to escape the tyranny of the great families who rule them. After a conflict fought to contain the expansionist, posthuman ambitions of the Outers, the future is as uncertain as ever. Only one thing is clear. No one can escape the consequences of war - especially the victors.
Strange Garden
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Author : Leslie Bernard Wynne
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1972
Strange Garden written by Leslie Bernard Wynne and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1972 with categories.
A Most Unusual Garden
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Author : N. D. Gray
language : en
Publisher: 3FeathersPublishing
Release Date : 2021-07-31
A Most Unusual Garden written by N. D. Gray and has been published by 3FeathersPublishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-07-31 with categories.