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Author | : Tiyambe Zeleza |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2024-02-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1803288825 |
Full of political intrigue and corruption, Smouldering Charcoal illustrates the devastating injustice inflicted on society by the ruling classes in postcolonial Malawi. Two couples – one poor and working class, the other college-educated and social risers – both live under the brutal regime of The Leader. Inside his nation, secret informants are everywhere and any form of protest will get you killed. Following their very different perspectives, both discover that violence and oppression has invaded every level of society. It soon becomes apparent that even after overthrowing an empire, one evil can simply be replaced by another... 'Compassionate and real, the book praises the tenacity of the human spirit without glamorizing it.' New Internationalist
Author | : Paul Tiyambe Zeleza |
Publisher | : Heinemann |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780435905835 |
Chronicles the lives of two families in post-colonial Africa, the first - poor, working-class and ill-educated - is compared to the young politically aware college student and her journalist fiance. The middle-class pair become victims of the same brutal violence that the poor and powerless suffer.
Author | : Harry James Kamwaza |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 86 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Malawi fiction (English) |
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Author | : Deborah Ellis |
Publisher | : Groundwood Books Ltd |
Total Pages | : 107 |
Release | : 2011-08-10 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 155498176X |
Shortlisted for the SYRCA 2013 Diamond Willow Award, selected as an American Library Association 2012 Notable Children's Book, a Booklist Editors' Choice, nominated for the OLA Golden Oak Tree Award, and a finalist for the Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children's Book Awards: Young Adult/Middle Reader Award, the Governor General's Literary Awards: Children's Text and the Canadian Library Association Book of the Year for Children Award There's not much that upsets young Valli. Even though her days are spent picking coal and fighting with her cousins, life in the coal town of Jharia, India, is the only life she knows. The only sight that fills her with terror are the monsters who live on the other side of the train tracks -- the lepers. Valli and the other children throw stones at them. No matter how hard her life is, she tells herself, at least she will never be one of them. Then she discovers that she is not living with family after all, that her "aunt" was a stranger who was paid money to take Valli off her own family's hands. She decides to leave Jharia ... and so begins a series of adventures that takes her to Kolkata, the city of the gods. It's not so bad. Valli finds that she really doesn't need much to live. She can "borrow" the things she needs and then pass them on to people who need them more than she does. It helps that though her bare feet become raw wounds as she makes her way around the city, she somehow feels no pain. But when she happens to meet a doctor on the ghats by the river, Valli learns that she has leprosy. Despite being given a chance to receive medical care, she cannot bear the thought that she is one of those monsters she has always feared, and she flees, to an uncertain life on the street. Correlates to the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.4.3 Describe in depth a character, setting, or event in a story or drama, drawing on specific details in the text (e.g., a character's thoughts, words, or actions). CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.5.3 Compare and contrast two or more characters, settings, or events in a story or drama, drawing on specific details in the text (e.g., how characters interact). CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.6.6 Explain how an author develops the point of view of the narrator or speaker in a text.
Author | : Tiyambe Zeleza |
Publisher | : House of Anansi Press |
Total Pages | : 194 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780887845529 |
"Set mostly in Africa, these stories range from the deceptively simple to the highly allegorical. Zeleza explores the paradoxes of human separateness and delves into the loneliness and vulnerability we all experience as exiles of one kind or another."
Author | : S J Stevens |
Publisher | : SJ Stevens |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 2022-03-08 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
When you surrender to evil, the game is stacked against you Life is good for Magda. Living in her beloved yurt and surrounded by her best friends, life is one long festival. All she has to do is make sure she doesn’t use her supernatural abilities and the secret bound at PoorAcre Farm will stay just that, a secret. But when a newcomer starts to call the shots, Magda finds her life changing in ways she can’t control. Cut off from the outside world with no-one able to leave, Magda alone has the power to decide their fate. As the dark forces contained within PoorAcre farm start to stir once again, she doesn’t know who to trust. The Awakening is the second book in the PoorAcre Farm paranormal thriller series. If you like disturbing stories, predatory demons, and supernatural forces with hidden secrets, then you’ll love this gripping new release from S. J. Stevens. Get The Awakening to return to the chilling Poor Acre Farm series today!
Author | : Robert Nelson Boyd |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 1881 |
Genre | : Chile |
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Author | : Matt Thomas |
Publisher | : Unbound Publishing |
Total Pages | : 345 |
Release | : 2021-08-05 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1789651484 |
Deadbeat Kevin Jones finds himself kidnapped to an alternative reality where Wales is the single global superpower. Abducted from his mundane existence by the mysterious Gwen, she tells him there are forces seeking his destruction – he has to run or die. It turns out Kevin’s story holds the key to why all worlds but ours turn out the way they do – Pax Cambria. Featuring a host of mysterious characters, cheese-on-toast based fast food, alt-right druids and the deadly all-knowing Taffia, Anthracite begins the battle to address the woeful lack of Welsh themed comedy cyberpunk. The fearsome Jones-Corporation might run the world but they have a dirty little secret they don't want to get out. Swansea has never looked more like near-future LA. It's already got the rain.
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Publisher | : Dorrance Publishing |
Total Pages | : 726 |
Release | : |
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ISBN | : 1434947602 |
Author | : Stephen King |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 750 |
Release | : 2012-11-06 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1451694911 |
Originally published: New York: Viking, 1984.