The Land Of Green Plums
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The Land Of Green Plums
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Author : Herta Müller
language : en
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Release Date : 1998
The Land Of Green Plums written by Herta Müller and has been published by Northwestern University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Fiction categories.
Mueller takes an unflinching look at the alienation and complexity of a rapidly changing Eastern Europe, focusing on a group of young friends in Ceaucescu's Romania.
The Land Of Green Plums
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Author : Herta M Ller
language : en
Publisher: Metropolitan Books
Release Date : 1996-11-15
The Land Of Green Plums written by Herta M Ller and has been published by Metropolitan Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-11-15 with Fiction categories.
In Romania at the height of Ceausescu's reign, several young people leave the impoverished provinces for the city in search of better prospects, but they must face betrayal, suicide, and the reality that even the strongest must bend to the oppressors or r
Nadirs
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Author : Herta M_ller
language : en
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
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Nadirs written by Herta M_ller and has been published by U of Nebraska Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with categories.
Traveling On One Leg
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Author : Herta Müller
language : en
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Release Date : 1998-11-11
Traveling On One Leg written by Herta Müller and has been published by Northwestern University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-11-11 with Fiction categories.
The protagonist of Herta Muller's Traveling on One Leg is Irene, a fragile woman born to a German family in Romania, who has recently emigrated from Romania to Germany. The novel focuses on Irene's relationship with three men: Franz, whom she met in Romania and who was unwilling to respond to her love for him; Stefan, a friend of Franz's; and Thomas, a bisexual bookseller in perpetual crisis. Despite being born to a German family, Irene's place in Germany is as a recent emigre and an unassimilated Romanian German. She feels neither longing for Romania nor any comfort in her newly adopted Germany. Politically and socially isolated, Irene moves within the emotional orbit of these three men, while at the same time moving between West Berlin, Marburg, and Frankfurt, taking a dissonant journey within strange yet familiar territory. Characterized by the same sense of profound isolation found in Muller's The Land of Green Plums (see page 20), Traveling on One Leg is a poignant exploration of exile, homeland, and identity.
The Appointment
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Author : Herta Müller
language : en
Publisher: Granta Books
Release Date : 2010-08-05
The Appointment written by Herta Müller and has been published by Granta Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-08-05 with Fiction categories.
'I've been summoned, Thursday, ten sharp.' So begins one day in the life of a young clothing-factory worker during Ceausescu's totalitarian regime. She has been questioned before, but this time she knows it will be worse. Her crime? Sewing notes into the linings of men's suits bound for Italy. 'Marry me', the notes say, with her name and address. Anything to get out of the country.As she rides the tram to her interrogation, her thoughts stray to her friend Lilli, shot while trying to flee to Hungary; to her grandparents, deported after her first husband informed on them; to Major Albu, her interrogator, who begins each session with a wet kiss on her fingers; and to Paul, her lover and the one person she can trust. In her distraction, she misses her stop and finds herself on an unfamiliar street.And what she discovers there suddenly puts her fear of the appointment into chilling perspective. Bone-spare and intense, The Appointment is a pitiless rendering of the terrors of a crushing regime.
The Sweetest Dream
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Author : Doris Lessing
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Release Date : 2013-08-29
The Sweetest Dream written by Doris Lessing and has been published by HarperCollins UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-08-29 with Fiction categories.
Nobel Prize for Literature winner Doris Lessing tackles the 1960s and their legacy head-on in one of her most involving, personal, political novels.
Passport
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2024
Passport written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024 with Artists' books categories.
"This piece is part of a series of attempts to make sense of a place, of a culture, of a system. How can something so small as a passport be so defining of someone’s life experience? Is the commodification of nature still a symptom of a colonialist process? Using the format of a passport, I collected stickers from fruits and vegetables that I consumed in my first months in the US; I had recently gone through the process of having to apply for a visa. The stamp I got in my passport is the reason I can be here now. Eating and sleeping in a different land than the one where I was born and grew up in. Eating the fruits grown in a land much more like my own. We both -- me and the fruits -- traveled and crossed borders. I designed pages with mountains and palm trees, reflecting the landscape I now see every day. I bound these pages together. On the [first page], one sentence from Frantz Fanon is split in two: “the settler’s town is a well-fed town / its belly is always full of good things.”"--from publisher
The Fox Was Ever The Hunter
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Author : Herta Müller
language : en
Publisher: Portobello Books
Release Date : 2016-05-05
The Fox Was Ever The Hunter written by Herta Müller and has been published by Portobello Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-05-05 with Fiction categories.
Romania, the last months of the dictator's regime. Adina is a young schoolteacher. Paul is a musician. Clara, Adina's friend, works in a wire factory. Pavel is Clara's lover. But one of them works for the secret police and is reporting on the group. One day Adina returns home to discover that her fox fur rug has had its tail cut off. On another day, a hindleg. Then a foreleg. The mutilation is a sign that she is being tracked - the fox was ever the hunter. Images of photographic precision combine to form a kaleidoscope of reflections, deflections and deceit. Adina and her friends struggle to keep living in a world permeated with fear, where even the eyes of a cat seem complicit with the watchful eye of the state, and where it's hard to tell the victim apart from the perpetrator.
Wallflowers
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Author : Eliza Robertson
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2014-09-16
Wallflowers written by Eliza Robertson and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-16 with Fiction categories.
________________ 'Assured and ambitious' - Guardian 'A young writer who succeeds in imagining the world afresh' - Independent 'Confirms her as a significant new talent ... sharp, illuminating' - Independent on Sunday ________________ From the winner of the Commonwealth Short Story Prize comes a delicate and startling collection about the adventure within the ordinary and the magic within everyday life A small boy and his grandmother set sail for China in the mud of her back yard; a supermarket car park becomes a graveyard of strewn blueberries; migratory birds fly over a marshland ringing with the sound of wooden spoons on kitchen pots; and the breaking of a silence between two roommates leads to disquieting revelations. Eliza Robertson's delicate and startling stories tell of the adventure of the ordinary and the magic within the everyday. Here there are swindlers and innocents, unlikely heroes and gritty survivors; they teach us how to trap hummingbirds, relinquish dreams gracefully and feed raccoons without getting bitten. From windswept Pacific beaches to cafés in the heart of Lisbon, and from the depths of puddles on mountain running paths to the heights of extrasolar plant 51 Osiris C, these are tales of wildness and wonder, of animals in search of an escape and outsiders looking for a way back in.
A Green And Pleasant Land
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Author : Ursula Buchan
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2013-03-07
A Green And Pleasant Land written by Ursula Buchan and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-03-07 with Gardening categories.
SHORTLISTED FOR INSPIRATIONAL BOOK OF THE YEAR AT THE 2014 GARDEN MEDIA GUILD AWARDS. The wonderfully evocative story of how Britain’s World War Two gardeners – with great ingenuity, invincible good humour and extraordinary fortitude – dug for victory on home turf. A Green and Pleasant Land tells the intriguing and inspiring story of how Britain's wartime government encouraged and cajoled its citizens to grow their own fruit and vegetables. As the Second World War began in earnest and a whole nation listened to wireless broadcasts, dug holes for Anderson shelters, counted their coupons and made do and mended, so too were they instructed to ‘Dig for Victory’. Ordinary people, as well as gardening experts, rose to the challenge: gardens, scrubland, allotments and even public parks were soon helping to feed a nation deprived of fresh produce. As Ursula Buchan reveals, this practical contribution to the Home Front was tackled with thrifty ingenuity, grumbling humour and extraordinary fortitude. The simple act of turning over soil and tending new plants became important psychologically for a population under constant threat of bombing and even invasion. Gardening reminded people that their country and its more innocent and insular pursuits were worth fighting for. Gardening in wartime Britain was a part of the fight for freedom.