The Madonna Of The Mountains
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The Madonna Of The Mountains
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Author : Elise Valmorbida
language : en
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Release Date : 2018-03-27
The Madonna Of The Mountains written by Elise Valmorbida and has been published by Faber & Faber this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-03-27 with Fiction categories.
1923 Maria Vittoria is embroidering a sheet for her dowry trunk. Her father has gone to find her a husband. He's taken his mule, a photograph and a pack of food: home-made sopressa sausage, cold polenta, a little flask of wine - no need to take water - the world is full of water. There are no eligible men in this valley or the next one, and her father will not let her marry just anyone, and now, despite Maria's years, she is still healthy. Her betrothed will see all that. He'll be looking for a woman who can do the work. Maria can do the work. Everyone in the contrà says that. And the Lord knows Maria will need to be able to work. Fascism blooms as crops ripen, the state craves babies just as the babies cry for food. Maria faces a stony path, but one she will surely climb to the summit. In this sumptuous and elegant novel you will taste the bigoli co l'arna, touch the mulberry leaves cut finer than organdie, and feel the strain of one woman attempting to keep her family safe in the most dangerous of times.
Madonna Of The Mountains
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Author : Pierre Cochrane
language : en
Publisher: CreateSpace
Release Date : 2011
Madonna Of The Mountains written by Pierre Cochrane and has been published by CreateSpace this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Art categories.
When President Jacques Chirac announced his intention to create a new museum to be called the 'The Musée du Quai Branly', a team of art researchers is assembled to map the national inventory of ethnographic artefacts, historical objects and artworks held in national and regional art galleries and museums all over France and in France's colonies. The best exhibits of 'L'Art Primitif', 'Art Sauvage' and 'Art Exotique' from these collections are to be selected for exhibition in the President's new museum in Paris, which is to be one of the largest museums in the world. When Dr Marie Claire Poulenc, Curator of Pacific Arts, Musée des Arts de La Rochelle, joins this team she finds a forgotten statue of a Papuan woman wearing a grass skirt and carrying a baby in her billum. This is a work of vigorous imagination and high artistic expression: a masterpiece rivalling the finest examples of Western art. Dr Poulenc is instructed to find out all she can about this mysterious statue, to fully document her provenance so that she can be included in the 'Masterpieces of Oceania' exhibit at the opening of the Musée du Quai Branly. Dr Poulenc's quest takes her on a voyage of self-discovery. She cruises down the Sepik River in a motorised canoe and journeys into the wild mountains of Papua New Guinea where she discovers that this statue, the Madonna of the Mountains, can perform miracles.
Madonna Of The Mountains
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Author : Madge Morrison Hipsher
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1930
Madonna Of The Mountains written by Madge Morrison Hipsher and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1930 with categories.
The Madonna On The Moon
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Author : Rolf Bauerdick
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2013-07-02
The Madonna On The Moon written by Rolf Bauerdick and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-07-02 with Fiction categories.
An award-winning journalist transforms his lifelong fascination with the world of the Gypsies into fiction with this exuberant, deeply enchanting debut novel—both whimsical and suspenseful—winner of the European Book Prize, and translated into more than a dozen languages worldwide. November 1957: As Communism spreads across Eastern Europe, strange events are beginning to upend daily life in Baia Luna, a tiny village nestled at the foot of the Carpathian Mountains. As the Soviets race to reach the moon and Sputnik soars overhead, fifteen-year-old Pavel Botev attends the small village school with the other children. Their sole teacher, the mysterious and once beautiful Angela Barbulescu, was sent by the Ministry of Education, and while it is suspected that she has lived a highly cultured life, much of her past remains hidden. But one day, after asking Pavel to help hang a photo of the new party secretary, she whispers a startling directive in his ear: “Send this man straight to hell! Exterminate him!” By the next morning, she has disappeared. With little more to go on than the gossip and rumors swirling through his grandfather Ilja’s tavern, Pavel finds curiosity overcoming his fear when suddenly the village’s sacred Madonna statue is stolen and the priest Johannes Baptiste is found brutally murdered in the rectory. Aided by the Gypsy girl Buba and her eccentric uncle, Dimitru Gabor, Pavel’s search for answers leads him far from the innocent concerns of childhood and into the frontiers of a new world, changing his life forever.
The Book Of Happy Endings
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Author : Elise Valmorbida
language : en
Publisher: Cyan Books
Release Date : 2007
The Book Of Happy Endings written by Elise Valmorbida and has been published by Cyan Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Family & Relationships categories.
Two childhood sweethearts meet again as adults, a young woman defies tradition, new love grows from the ruins of an earlier relationship, exiles find home in each other, love flourishes late in life, handwritten letters span the distance of oceans . . . We love to hear about love. In a world of bad news and bleak prophecies, it's life-affirming to hear a story with a happy ending. These are true tales of passion and perseverance, chance meetings, unexpected romance, lovers whose stars are un-crossed. There is sorrow here. There are questions, too, but no universal answers - and yet other people's happy endings inspire optimism in all of us. People have told the author about their personal experiences. She has listened to their unique voices and woven heartfelt stories from their words. All the chapters are about love, but together they are about life.
The High Mountains Of Portugal
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Author : Yann Martel
language : en
Publisher: Canongate Books
Release Date : 2016-02-02
The High Mountains Of Portugal written by Yann Martel and has been published by Canongate Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-02-02 with Fiction categories.
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER Lost in Portugal. Lost to grief. With nothing but a chimpanzee. A man thrown backwards by heartbreak goes in search of an artefact that could unsettle history. A woman carries her husband to a doctor in a suitcase. A Canadian senator begins a new life, in a new country, in the company of a chimp called Odo. From these stories of journeying, of loss and faith, Yann Martel makes a novel unlike any other: moving, profound and magical. A New York Times Bestseller An Australian Independent Bookseller Bestseller #1 on The Globe & Mail's Bestseller List #1 on Toronto Star's Bestseller List #1 on Maclean's Bestseller List #1 on National Post's Bestseller List #1 on McNally Robinson's Bestseller List An ABA Indie Bestseller
Mountains Of The Moon
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Author : I J Kay
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2012-02-02
Mountains Of The Moon written by I J Kay and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-02-02 with Fiction categories.
A woman in her thirties is released from prison, with a new name and not much else. She begins to make a fresh start but the present is soon invaded by fragments from her past. Unsettling, hallucinatory and without precedent, Mountains of the Moon is the tragic account of a broken life, but, against all expectation, it amounts to something utterly beautiful.
Vision On The Mountain
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Author : Catherine de Hueck Doherty
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1995
Vision On The Mountain written by Catherine de Hueck Doherty and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Perfection categories.
The Moth And The Mountain
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Author : Ed Caesar
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2021-11-02
The Moth And The Mountain written by Ed Caesar and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-02 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
"In the 1930s, as official government expeditions set their sights on conquering Mount Everest, a little-known World War I veteran named Maurice Wilson conceives his own crazy, beautiful plan: he will fly a plane from England to Everest, crash-land on its lower slopes, then become the first person to reach its summit--all utterly alone. Wilson doesn't know how to climb. He barely knows how to fly. But he has the right plane, the right equipment, and a deep yearning to achieve his goal. In 1933, he takes off from London in a Gipsy Moth biplane with his course set for the highest mountain on earth. Wilson's eleven-month journey to Everest is wild: full of twists, turns, and daring. Eventually, in disguise, he sneaks into Tibet. His icy ordeal is just beginning."--Provided by publisher.
A Man Came Out Of A Door In The Mountain
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Author : Adrianne Harun
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2014-02-25
A Man Came Out Of A Door In The Mountain written by Adrianne Harun and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-02-25 with Fiction categories.
“Harun is heir apparent to Louise Erdrich and Harry Crews.... Readers will be swept away by this breathless, absorbing novel.” —Claire Vaye Watkins, The New York Times Book ReviewIn this mysterious and chilling novel, girls, mostly Native, are vanishing from the sides of a notorious highway in the isolated Pacific Northwest. Leo Kreutzer and his friends are barely touched by these disappearances—until a series of enigmatic strangers arrive in their remote mountain town, beguiling and bewitching them. It seems as if the devil himself has appeared among them. The intoxicatingly lush debut novel by the acclaimed author of The King of Limbo, A Man Came Out of a Door in the Mountain is an unsettling portrait of life in a dead-end town, as seductive and beautifully written as the devil’s dark arts are wielded. WINNER OF THE 2015 PINCKLEY PRIZE FOR DEBUT CRIME NOVEL