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The Stone Raft
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Author : José Saramago
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2013-09-20
The Stone Raft written by José Saramago and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09-20 with Fiction categories.
What if, one day, Europe was to crack along the length of the Pyrenees, separating Spain and Portugal from the rest of Europe? In Saramago's fable, a new island is sent spinning through the ocean like a great stone raft. While the authorities panic and tourists flee, three men, two women and a dog are drawn together by omens that burden them with a peculiar responsibility. In this magical realist tale, the six take to the road, finding themselves adrift in a world now unfamiliar and forced to reckon with their relationships, human psychology and the shakiness of belief itself.
Raft
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Author : Stephen Baxter
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2013-01-24
Raft written by Stephen Baxter and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-01-24 with Fiction categories.
Stephen Baxter's highly acclaimed first novel and the beginning of his stunning Xeelee Sequence finally enters the SF Masterwork series! A spaceship from Earth accidentally crossed through a hole in space-time to a universe where the force of gravity is one billion times as strong as the gravity we know. Somehow the crew survived, aided by the fact that they emerged into a cloud of gas surrounding a black hole, which provided a breathable atmosphere. Five hundred years later, their descendants still struggle for existence, divided into two main groups. The Miners live on the Belt, a ramshackle ring of dwellings orbiting the core of a dead star, which they excavate for raw materials. These can be traded for food from the Raft, a structure built from the wreckage of the ship, on which a small group of scientists preserve the ancient knowledge which makes survival possible. Rees is a Miner whose curiosity about his world makes him stow away on a flying tree - just one of the many strange local lifeforms - carrying trade between the Belt and the Raft. And what he finds will change his world...
George Raft
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Author : Stone Wallace
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008
George Raft written by Stone Wallace and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Actors categories.
During his lengthy show business career, George Raft achieved the reputation as one of the screen's toughest and most convincing movie mobsters. His roles in Scarface, Each Dawn I Die, Invisible Stripes, Rogue Cop and Some Like it Hot were so convincing that audiences frequently thought they were watching the genuine article. Yet to classify Raft merely as a cinema gangster is to do him a disservice. He delivered equally strong performances in such classics as Night After Night, Bolero, Souls at Sea, Spawn of the North, They Drive by Night and Manpower, his success in these roles quickly establishing him as one of the top box office draws during the 1930s and 40s. But Raft just missed the brass ring of superstardom - due to his notorious friendships with men such as "Bugsy" Siegel and, more significantly, his famous rejections of films that his rival Humphrey Bogart turned into major triumphs: Dead End, High Sierra and The Maltese Falcon. Written with the generous cooperation of many of Raft's friends and co-workers, George Raft: The Man Who Would Be Bogart details the fascinating life and career highs and lows of a man who created an unforgettable image - onscreen and off.
La Balsa De Piedra The Stone Raft
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Author : Jose Saramago
language : es
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Release Date : 2016-01-26
La Balsa De Piedra The Stone Raft written by Jose Saramago and has been published by National Geographic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-01-26 with Fiction categories.
Una grieta abierta espontáneamente a lo largo de los Pirineos provoca la separación física de la península ibérica, que se aleja de Europa flotando en el Atlántico. La balsa de piedra es, en palabras del propio autor «una novela profundamente ibérica», relativa a «Portugal y al conjunto de los pueblos españoles, que siento que comparten una cultura común, una cultura que no es rigurosamente europea: es otro mundo, un mundo con un carácter tan fuerte, tan propio, que los pueblos de la Península deberían hacer un gran esfuerzo de entendimiento mutuo para resistir a las presiones de la cultura europea, que no es sino la cultura de los tres países dominantes, Francia, Alemania e Inglaterra.» La maestría expresiva de José Saramago sirve, pues, aquí a un audaz planteamiento narrativo que, en la mejor tradición de Swift o de H.G. Wells, apunta al centro mismo de una verdadera «cuestión palpitante»: las relaciones de los pueblos ibéricos con Europa. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION large crack along the Pyrenees separates the Iberian Peninsula from the rest of Europe. Spain and Portugal become a great floating island, without oars, sails and propellers, drifting toward a new utopia. The cultural encounter between Europeans and Latin Americans will help to establish an equilibrium between the people of these two worlds.
All The Names
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Author : José Saramago
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2013-09-20
All The Names written by José Saramago and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09-20 with Fiction categories.
A subtle and insightful story about boredom, passion, curiosity and memory from the Nobel Prize-winner José Saramago Senhor José is a lonely civil servant who spends his days labouring in the labyrinthine stacks of Lisbon's central registry. Among the file-cards for the living and the dead, one – of an apparently ordinary woman – will transform his life. Breaking away from his strict routine, José resolves to track the woman down, obsessively following a thread of clues in a bid to rescue her from an oblivion deeper than the grave. 'When a very good book finds us at just the right moment in life, it can become stitched into our own identity. All the Names – a novel about identity and connection – has become stitched into mine' Samantha Harvey, Independent
The History Of The Siege Of Lisbon
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Author : José Saramago
language : en
Publisher: HMH
Release Date : 1998-09-01
The History Of The Siege Of Lisbon written by José Saramago and has been published by HMH this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-09-01 with Fiction categories.
A proofreader realizes his power to edit the truth on a whim, in a “brilliantly original” novel by a Nobel Prize winner (Los Angeles Times Book Review). Raimundo Silva is a middle-aged, celibate clerk, proofing manuscripts for a respectable publishing house. Fluent in Portuguese, he has been assigned to work on a standard history of the country, and the twelfth-century king who laid siege to Lisbon. In a moment of subversive daring, Raimundo decides to change just one single word of text—a capricious revision that completely undoes the past. When discovered, his insolent disregard for facts appalls his employers—save for his new editor, Maria Sara. She suggests that Rainmundo take his transgressions even further. Through Rainmundo and Maria’s eyes, what transpires is an alternate view of history and a colorful reinvention of a debatable truth. It’s a serpentine journey through time where past and present converge, fact becomes myth, and fiction and reality blur—especially for Rainmundo and Maria themselves, who begin to find themselves erotically drawn to each other. “Walter Mitty has nothing on Raimundo Silva . . . this hypnotic tale is a great comic romp through history, language and the imagination.” —Publishers Weekly Translated by Giovanni Pontiero
The Island Of Eternal Love
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Author : Daína Chaviano
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2008-06-12
The Island Of Eternal Love written by Daína Chaviano and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-06-12 with Fiction categories.
A magical new novel "of loss and love across more than a century of Cuba's past."(Chicago Sun-Times) Alone in a city that haunts her, far from her family, her history, and the island she left behind, Cecelia seeks refuge in a bar in Little Havana where a mysterious old woman's fascinating tale keeps Cecelia returning night after night. Her powerful story of long-vanished epochs weaves the saga of three families from far-flung pieces of the world whose connection forms the kind of family that Cecelia has long been missing-one cast from legendary, unbreakable love. As Cecelia falls under the story's heady sway, she discovers the source of the visions that plague her, and a link to the past she cannot shake.
Adrift On A Stone Raft
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Author : George Ross
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1999
Adrift On A Stone Raft written by George Ross and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Romania categories.
Bright Raft In The Afterweather
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Author : Jennifer Elise Foerster
language : en
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Release Date : 2018-02-20
Bright Raft In The Afterweather written by Jennifer Elise Foerster and has been published by University of Arizona Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-02-20 with Poetry categories.
A lyrical narrative of remembrance, hope, and Earth's resilience--Provided by publisher.
The Cave
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Author : José Saramago
language : en
Publisher: HMH
Release Date : 2003-10-15
The Cave written by José Saramago and has been published by HMH this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-10-15 with Fiction categories.
An unassuming family struggles to keep up with the ruthless pace of progress in “a genuinely brilliant novel” from a Nobel Prize winner (Chicago Tribune). A Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year and a New York Times Notable Book Cipriano Algor, an elderly potter, lives with his daughter Marta and her husband Marçal in a small village on the outskirts of The Center, an imposing complex of shops, apartments, and offices. Marçal works there as a security guard, and Cipriano drives him to work each day before delivering his own humble pots and jugs. On one such trip, he is told not to make any more deliveries. People prefer plastic, apparently. Unwilling to give up his craft, Cipriano tries his hand at making ceramic dolls. Astonishingly, The Center places an order for hundreds, and Cipriano and Marta set to work—until the order is cancelled and the penniless trio must move from the village into The Center. When mysterious sounds of digging emerge from beneath their new apartment, Cipriano and Marçal investigate; what they find transforms the family’s life, in a novel that is both “irrepressibly funny” (The Christian Science Monitor) and a “triumph” (The Washington Post Book World). “The struggle of the individual against bureaucracy and anonymity is one of the great subjects of modern literature, and Saramago is often matched with Kafka as one of its premier exponents. Apt as the comparison is, it doesn’t convey the warmth and rueful human dimension of novels like Blindness and All the Names. Those qualities are particularly evident in his latest brilliant, dark allegory, which links the encroaching sterility of modern life to the parable of Plato’s cave . . . [a] remarkably generous and eloquent novel.” —Publishers Weekly Translated from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa