The Story Of A Widow
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The Story Of A Widow
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Author : Musharraf Ali Farooqi
language : en
Publisher: Vintage Canada
Release Date : 2009-08-04
The Story Of A Widow written by Musharraf Ali Farooqi and has been published by Vintage Canada this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-08-04 with Fiction categories.
“One day when she looked at the portrait, she considered how blessed she had been in life. She contemplated her good fortune in finding an upright man like Akbar Ahmad as her life partner and felt grateful for his bounteous legacy, which released her from all financial cares. Akbar Ahmad looked back at her, his face cast in an expression of long suffering. Mona’s eyes welled up with tears.”–from The Story of a Widow After the death of her husband Akbar Ahmad, Mona finds herself settling ambivalently into a new life. But the calm rhythm of her days–gardening, cooking, time with her neighbours and family in Karachi–is upset by the appearance of Salamat Ali, the new tenant in her friend Mrs. Baig’s house. Vivacious, friendly, and at times almost impertinent, Salamat Ali is both a breath of fresh air and a disconcerting new presence in Mona’s life, and their awkward meetings always seem to end in embarrassment or misunderstanding. When Salamat Ali, encouraged by Mrs. Baig, presents Mona with a marriage proposal, she is forced to consider what kind of future she wishes to make for herself–and what her past with Akbar Ahmad really means. The possibility of Mona marrying Salamat Ali shocks her grown daughters Tanya and Amber, and scandalizes her extended family, according to whom Mona’s happiness comes second to what people say about widows who remarry. As Mona negotiates the complex web of tradition-bound in-laws and gossiping, interfering relatives, she finds Salamat Ali waking her to the pleasures of life that thirty years with her dour first husband all but smothered. But if Salamat Ali helps her discover something essential, he also exposes her to new risks, and new dangers. The Story of a Widow is a beautifully observant novel, one that pays careful attention to the delicate movements of the heart in romantic and family life. But it is equally concerned with the mores of a society in which traditional roles both support and constrain men and–particularly–women. Gently humorous and profoundly perceptive, The Story of a Widow is the moving tale of a woman’s discovery of her voice, and herself.
The Story Of A Widow
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Author : Musharraf Farooqi
language : en
Publisher: Picador USA
Release Date : 2008
The Story Of A Widow written by Musharraf Farooqi and has been published by Picador USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Widows categories.
A Widow S Story
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Author : Joyce Carol Oates
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Release Date : 2011
A Widow S Story written by Joyce Carol Oates and has been published by HarperCollins UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
My husband died, my life collapsed.
The Story Of A Widow A Novel
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Author : Musharraf Ali Farooqi
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010
The Story Of A Widow A Novel written by Musharraf Ali Farooqi and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with categories.
This is a gem of a book and the author is a real find. At last the subcontinent can rejoice in having acquired its own avatar of the iconic Jane Austen¦ Here is the same keen observation of social mores, the sympathy for human foibles, the rapier-like wit that makes one laugh aloud and the simple, elegant prose in which it is all expressed¦ the nuances of family relationships are minutely explored, culture and tradition impartially observed, and hypocrisies exposed by Farooqi`s profoundly perceptive eye¦Bravo!"
Tears Of A Widow
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Author : Atom Ter
language : en
Publisher: Justfiction Edition
Release Date : 2014-12-04
Tears Of A Widow written by Atom Ter and has been published by Justfiction Edition this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-12-04 with categories.
At the long run, the only thing she could do, and actually did do at the point where she had fallen, was to faint, wake up and cry and wish for death to come; and faint back again.... She circumvented this torturous circle with so much grief in her heart until her soul was literally suspended between the two divergent realms of life and death...! This is a story of an underprivileged African boy, Terkimbi Jim, who managed to make it into the university against all odds. He had to battle against generational curses, poverty and his personal aversion for hardship. His father abandoned him with his mother. The mother drudged to keep him in school but she passed away when he was in Junior Secondary School. So he had to endure some forms of hardship both in his secondary and tertiary educations, schools through which he had to sponsor himself.... Set among the Tiv people of Benue State Nigeria, "Tears of a Widow" is a story of human dogged determination to succeed, resilience and endurance in a society which has no pity, plan or structure for helping his kinds. It's a tale of the survival of the fittest and the elimination of the unfit!
What Came Next
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Author : Sybil Austin Skakle
language : en
Publisher: WestBow Press
Release Date : 2014-04-14
What Came Next written by Sybil Austin Skakle and has been published by WestBow Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-04-14 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
What Came Next follows another memoir, Valley of the Shadow, by Sybil Skakle, The first concerns the death of her husband of thirty-three years. This memoir tells of her search for another love to replace one lost. Her story includes two love stories. Caught in the values and beliefs of her youth and Bible morality, her values collide with the new culture. She marries Sir Charles. After five years, Sir Charles leaves the marriage, and she seeks Cowpoke as a confidant. She had never met him person to person, but after she and Charles are separated for ten months, she visits Cowpoke for surprises. Torn between two human loves and God’s love, she seeks to do the impossible, to solve the problem without hurting anyone or compromising her beliefs. The author learned much by writing the memoir. After her divorce, Skakle cannot decide to remain single and pursue her writing career or to marry Cowpoke, who is dying. When she does marry him, they take a trip to Hawaii. His oncologist had advised him, “Do what you’ve always wanted to do.” The trip was cut short by his illness. The defense of right to the land, left by her father to his heirs, continues over the ten years and beyond. As a paralegal for her side, Skakle engages the history of the land that goes as far back as 1711–1712 to the original land grants of Hatteras Banks.
Widow
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Author : Michelle Latiolais
language : en
Publisher: Bellevue Literary Press
Release Date : 2011-02-01
Widow written by Michelle Latiolais and has been published by Bellevue Literary Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-02-01 with Fiction categories.
BELIEVER BOOK AWARD FINALIST “In prose shimmering with intelligence and compassion, Michelle Latiolais dissects the essentials of everyday life to find the heartbeat within.”—Alice Sebold, author of The Lovely Bones “Widow is a hymn to reverence, simultaneously heartbroken and celebratory. Michelle Latiolais has given us the rarest item, a splendidly articulated masterpiece.” —William Kittredge “In this luminous collection of stories, the gifted Michelle Latiolais writes of loss in all its surprising manifestations. Widow is a devastation and a wonder.” —Christine Schutt “There is something mysterious about this book, as there always is in the writing that matters most. It eludes explanation. It illumines terrifying realities. Only because these pages seem nakedly willing to take the imprint of every emotion, no matter how ugly, do they possess this great beauty.” —Elizabeth Tallent The stories of Widow conjure the nuances of inner sensations as if hitting the notes of a song, deftly played across human memory. These meditations bravely explore the physiology of grief through a masterful interweaving of tender insight and unflinching detail—reminding us that the inner life is best understood through the medium of storytelling. Among these stories of loss are interwoven other tales, creating a bridge to the ineffable pleasures and follies of life before the catastrophe. Throughout this collection, Latiolais captures the longing, humor, and strange grace that accompany life’s most transformative chapters. Michelle Latiolais is the author of Widow: Stories, a New York Times Editor's Choice selection, and two previous novels, including A Proper Knowledge, also published by Bellevue Literary Press. She is the recipient of the Gold Medal for Fiction from the Commonwealth Club of California and an English professor and co-director of the Programs in Writing at the University of California at Irvine.
The Wife And The Widow
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Author : Christian White
language : en
Publisher: Minotaur Books
Release Date : 2020-01-21
The Wife And The Widow written by Christian White and has been published by Minotaur Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-01-21 with Fiction categories.
The second standalone thriller from the award-winning author of The Nowhere Child, Christian White. Set against the backdrop of an eerie island town in the dead of winter, The Wife and The Widow is an unsettling thriller told from two perspectives: Kate, a widow whose grief is compounded by what she learns about her dead husband’s secret life; and Abby, an island local whose world is turned upside when she’s forced to confront the evidence of her husband’s guilt. But nothing on this island is quite as it seems, and only when these women come together can they discover the whole story about the men in their lives. Brilliant and beguiling, The Wife and The Widow takes you to a cliff edge and asks the question: how well do we really know the people we love?
The Story Of The Widow S Son
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Author : Mary Lavin
language : en
Publisher: Creative Company
Release Date : 1992
The Story Of The Widow S Son written by Mary Lavin and has been published by Creative Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Mothers and sons categories.
A story with two endings tells how a hard-working widow loses the son she cherishes.
The Widows
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Author : Jess Montgomery
language : en
Publisher: Minotaur Books
Release Date : 2019-01-08
The Widows written by Jess Montgomery and has been published by Minotaur Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-01-08 with Fiction categories.
“The Widows kept me on the edge of my seat. Montgomery is a masterful storyteller.” —Lee Martin, author of Pulitzer Prize-Finalist The Bright Forever Inspired by the true story of Ohio’s first female sheriff, Jess Montgomery’s powerful, lyrical debut is the story of two women who take on murder and corruption at the heart of their community. Kinship, Ohio, 1924: When Lily Ross learns that her husband, Daniel, the town’s widely respected sheriff, has been killed while transporting a prisoner in an apparent accident, she vows to seek the truth about his death. Hours after his funeral, a stranger appears at her door. Marvena Whitcomb, a coal miner’s widow, is unaware that Daniel has died and begs to speak with him about her missing daughter. From miles away but worlds apart, Lily’s and Marvena’s lives collide as they realize that Daniel was perhaps not the man that either of them believed him to be. *BONUS CONTENT: This edition of The Widows includes a new introduction from the author and a discussion guide "The Widows is a gripping, beautifully written novel about two women avenging the murder of the man they both loved."—Hallie Ephron, New York Times bestselling author of You'll Never Know, Dear "Jess Montgomery's gorgeous writing can be just as dark and terrifying as a subterranean cave when the candle is snuffed out, but her prose can just as easily lead you to the surface for a gasp of air and a glimpse of blinding, beautiful sunlight. This is a powerful novel: a tale of loss, greed, and violence, and the story of two powerful women who refuse to stand down."—Wiley Cash, New York Times bestselling author of The Last Ballad, A Land More Kind than Home, and This Dark Road to Mercy "[A] flinty, heartfelt mystery that sings of hawks and history, of coal mines and the urgent fight for social justice."—Julia Keller, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Bone on Bone