The Arid Sky
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The Arid Sky
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Author : Emiliano Monge
language : en
Publisher: Restless Books
Release Date : 2018-08-28
The Arid Sky written by Emiliano Monge and has been published by Restless Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-08-28 with Fiction categories.
Described as “a literary atomic bomb” (Luisán Gámez), Mexican literary star Emiliano Monge’s English-language debut is the Latin American incarnation of Cormac McCarthy: an artistically daring, gorgeously wrought, and eviscerating novel of biblical violence as told through the story of a man “who, though he did not know it, was the era in which he lived.” Set on a desolate, unnamed mesa, Emiliano Monge’s The Arid Sky distills the essence of a Latin America ruthlessly hollowed out by uncontainable violence. This is an unsparing yet magnificent land, whose only constants are loneliness, hatred, loyalty, and the struggle to return some small measure of meaning to life. Thundering and inventive, The Arid Sky narrates the signature moments in the life of Germán Alcantara Carnero: a man who is both exaltedly, viscerally real and is an ageless, nameless being capable of embodying entire eras, cultures, and conflicts. Monge’s roadmap—an escape across borders, the disappearance of a young girl, the confrontation between a father and his son, the birth of a sick child, and murder—takes readers on a journey to the core of humankind that posits a challenge of the kind only great literature can pose. “A blood-soaked yet lyrical story of regrets, memories, and the faint possibility of redemption, set in a parched Mexican mesa. Monge's first novel to be translated into English will open one of Mexico's most talented young writers to a new audience... Monge's sentences reflect the meandering structure, dizzying the reader with complexity and beauty….this style reflects Monge's overall message about the morphing shape of memories and how they all combine to form a person….Monge's novel is a brutal gem of a book concerned with the burdens of the past.” —Kirkus Reviews “Rarely can we witness literature like this.” —Miguel Ángel Ángeles, Rolling Stone
El Cielo Rido
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Author : Emiliano Monge
language : es
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE
Release Date : 2013-02-21
El Cielo Rido written by Emiliano Monge and has been published by RANDOM HOUSE this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-02-21 with Fiction categories.
Premio Jaén de Novela 2012. Una novela honda y exigente que indaga en los entresijos del tiempo, la violencia en un escenario rural mexicano y la condena de la conciencia a través de las generaciones. «Esta es la historia de un hombre que sin saberlo fue su siglo y la de un lugar que se condensa aquí en un nombre propio: Germán Alcántara Carnero,una historia de violencia incontenible y natural que exige ser contada como una biografía discontinua y que no debía empezar aquí.» Así comienza El cielo árido, la historia de Germán Alcántara Carnero: de su tiempo, de los hombres y mujeres que vivieron a su lado y de la meseta inexistente en la que Monge destila las esencias de una Latinoamérica salvaje. Un lugar árido, dónde las únicas constantes parecieran ser la soledad, el sol inagotable, la violencia, la lealtad, y la lucha cotidiana por hacerse de una escala de valores que dote de sentido a la existencia. Narrada a partir de los instantes memorables en la vida de Germán -la huída de un par de muchachos a otra patria, los avatares de una guerra interminable, la desaparición de una niña desvalida, el rompimiento de una huelga, la rebelión de unos creyentes, el enfrentamientode un hijo con su padre, el nacimiento de un pequeño enfermo, el encasquetarse de un arma, la contemplación de un asesinato o una broma mal habida-, El cielo árido es un viaje al corazón del ser humano y un desafío al lector -oportunidad que sólo da la gran literatura- a hacer a un lado los parámetros con los que se juzgan culpas e inocencias. Reseña: «Los que se acerquen a estas páginas vayan advertidos; tal vez les interese seguir la famosa recomendación que se encontró Dante a las puertas del Infierno: Dejad aquí toda esperanza.» Fernando Castanedo, Babelia
Sky Determines
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Author : Ross Calvin
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1965
Sky Determines written by Ross Calvin and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1965 with Human geography categories.
Description of how the sky influences the desert environment and human history in New Mexico.
Crimson Sky
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Author : Gretchen Craig
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2017-06-21
Crimson Sky written by Gretchen Craig and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-06-21 with categories.
With meticulous attention to historical detail, Crimson Sky brings to life the clash of two great civilizations. In 1598 when the Spanish come into the land, the Puebloans fight for their faith and their culture, and in the end, for their lives. Zia's world has been shattered by her husband's loss, by murderous marauders, and by drought. To save her child from starvation, she accepts the protection of a Spanish conquistador, but is the love and security he provides worth abandoning the sacred gods and even her identity as a woman of the pueblo? Diego Ortiz yearns for a home and a family in this strange new land. When he meets a beautiful woman of the pueblos, he offers her not only protection for her child and herself, but also his everlasting love. Ashka, left for dead after an ambush in the forest, challenges death itself to achieve his two heart's desires, returning to Zia, and exacting revenge against his greatest enemy, the Spaniard Diego Ortiz.
Irrigation And Water Storage In The Arid Regions
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Author : United States. Army. Signal Corps
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1891
Irrigation And Water Storage In The Arid Regions written by United States. Army. Signal Corps and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1891 with Atmospheric temperature categories.
Sky Determines
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Author : Ross Calvin
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013-10
Sky Determines written by Ross Calvin and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10 with categories.
This is a new release of the original 1948 edition.
All The Year Round
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1860
All The Year Round written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1860 with English literature categories.
Mad Sky
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Author : Kevin Candela
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-12-14
Mad Sky written by Kevin Candela and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-12-14 with categories.
Rada Dunn is used to the solitary life of the arid valley north of the little town of Peace. Nothing much happens there and her bean and wheat crops provide her with just enough to keep her away from the rest of her kind...which is how she's come to like it. But when she comes upon human remains that have recently been burned so intensely that they are merely sticky black bones, her serenity is shattered. And when a desperate stranger in city clothes ends up pounding on the front door of her farmhouse the next evening, telling her that she must leave the valley or face the same fate as that fire-blasted stranger she found on the north rise past her crops--only to suffer the same fate himself right before her eyes--she knows that her solitude is about to end. She has to make it down to Peace, and if she somehow survives, inform the hardly friendly, in fact decidedly hostile, sheriff and his hired guns that the weather itself has turned on humanity. Inspired by "natural horror mysteries" like Alfred Hitchcock's movie The Birds, Mad Sky is an account of nature gone not just hostile but deadly. Can Rada and the collection of local misfits and wannabe heroes who believe her wild tale rescue the rest of the valley's residents...and can they figure out the seemingly inexplicable declaration of war by Mother Nature herself before the town and all its residents succumb to devastating bolts of lightning...from a clear blue sky?Kevin Candela's second "weird western," the follow-up to Blood Ridge, features memorable characters dealing with a deadly menace that even science doesn't seem capable of explaining. Expect thrills, suspense, and a mystery that takes the reader or listener into realms far beyond the Old West.
Southern California
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Author : Charles Augustus Keeler
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1898
Southern California written by Charles Augustus Keeler and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1898 with California, Southern categories.
Under A White Sky
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Author : Elizabeth Kolbert
language : en
Publisher: Crown
Release Date : 2022-04-05
Under A White Sky written by Elizabeth Kolbert and has been published by Crown this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-04-05 with Science categories.
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Sixth Extinction returns to humanity’s transformative impact on the environment, now asking: After doing so much damage, can we change nature, this time to save it? RECOMMENDED BY PRESIDENT OBAMA AND BILL GATES • SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR WRITING • ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Washington Post • ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Time, Esquire, Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Reviews • “Beautifully and insistently, Kolbert shows us that it is time to think radically about the ways we manage the environment.”—Helen Macdonald, The New York Times With a new afterword by the author That man should have dominion “over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth” is a prophecy that has hardened into fact. So pervasive are human impacts on the planet that it’s said we live in a new geological epoch: the Anthropocene. In Under a White Sky, Elizabeth Kolbert takes a hard look at the new world we are creating. Along the way, she meets biologists who are trying to preserve the world’s rarest fish, which lives in a single tiny pool in the middle of the Mojave; engineers who are turning carbon emissions to stone in Iceland; Australian researchers who are trying to develop a “super coral” that can survive on a hotter globe; and physicists who are contemplating shooting tiny diamonds into the stratosphere to cool the earth. One way to look at human civilization, says Kolbert, is as a ten-thousand-year exercise in defying nature. In The Sixth Extinction, she explored the ways in which our capacity for destruction has reshaped the natural world. Now she examines how the very sorts of interventions that have imperiled our planet are increasingly seen as the only hope for its salvation. By turns inspiring, terrifying, and darkly comic, Under a White Sky is an utterly original examination of the challenges we face.