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Author | : Paul West |
Publisher | : Scribner Book Company |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780684800318 |
In December 1937 the city of Nanking, China, falls to brutal Japanese invaders. Thus begins a compelling drama wherein the teenaged daughter of an eminent scholar is forced to work as a prostitute. Short-listed for the National Book Critics Circle Fiction Prize, "The Tent of Orange Mist" illuminates the plight of intellectuals and artists during profound social and cultural upheaval.
Author | : Michael Berry |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 434 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0231141637 |
This work probes the restaging, representation, and reimagining of historical violence and atrocity in contemporary Chinese fiction, film, and popular culture. It examines five historical moments including the Musha Incident (1930) and the February 28 Incident (1947).
Author | : Gene Wolfe |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 642 |
Release | : 2003-03-19 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0765302942 |
This omnibus of two acclaimed novels is the story of Latro, a Roman mercenary who was fighting in Greece when he received a head injury that deprived him of his short-term memory but gave him in return the ability to see and converse with the supernatural creatures, the gods and goddesses, who invisibly inhabit the classical landscape. Latro forgets everything when he sleeps. Writing down his experiences every day and reading his journal anew each morning gives him a poignantly tenuous hold on himself, but his story's hold on readers is powerful indeed.
Author | : Elizabeth N. Goodenough |
Publisher | : University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | : 381 |
Release | : 2010-03-23 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0472026003 |
Whether it's real or imaginary, every child has a secret space, and this remarkable book explores them all. For some it's a treehouse or a hidden spot beneath a bush; for others it's a private psychic refuge--a favorite book, or a dollhouse that becomes a stage for a young imagination. As the more than four dozen pieces collected here reveal, such spaces play a key role in a child's development and retain a symbolic power that resonates throughout our adult lives. No reader will put this book down without experiencing a rush of familiar memories and new insights into that bygone world. Poet Diane Ackerman evokes that "parallel universe behind the eyes / which no one shared, or dare discover"; Paul Brodeur recalls the "fort" where he and his brother defended Cape Cod against invaders in World War II; Nobelist Wole Soyinka offers a poignant verse portrait of Africa's lost children; and Paul West remembers youthful encounters with his eccentric neighbors Edith and Osbert Sitwell. Elsewhere, Robert Coles summons up memories of his first years as a doctor and a wise young patient who taught him a lesson he has never forgotten, and Mary Galbraith shows how childhood loss is transformed into art in Ludwig Bemelmans's classic Madeline. And these are just a few of the gems in a treasury that includes Anne Frank, the controversial photographs of Sally Mann and the crudely eloquent drawings of young South African refugees, clinical case studies and profoundly personal imagery. A perceptive, thought-provoking work for general readers, Secret Spaces of Childhood opens a wonderful window on the world of the young. Elizabeth Goodenough is Lecturer in Comparative Literature, the Residential College, University of Michigan.
Author | : Edward Bloor |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780152057800 |
12-year-old Paul who is visually impaired starts to play soccer for his school, and begins to remember the incident that lost him his sight.
Author | : David W. Madden |
Publisher | : Univ of South Carolina Press |
Total Pages | : 194 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780872498860 |
Author | : Paul West |
Publisher | : McPherson |
Total Pages | : 214 |
Release | : 1965 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780929701288 |
Slums of the American city of New Babylon provide an all-too-real setting for this prescient novel of homelessness, noble intentions, moral corruption, and social castoffs. Tenement of Clay tells of Papa Nick, a dwarf wrestler named Lazarus, and a derelict called Lacland.
Author | : Tan Twan Eng |
Publisher | : Hachette Books |
Total Pages | : 354 |
Release | : 2012-09-04 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1602861811 |
This “elegant and haunting novel of war, art and memory" (The Independent) award-winning novel from the acclaimed author of The Gift of Rain follows the only Malaysian survivor of a Japanese wartime camp as she begins working for an exiled former gardener of the Emporer. Malaya, 1951. Yun Ling Teoh, the scarred lone survivor of a brutal Japanese wartime camp, seeks solace among the jungle-fringed tea plantations of Cameron Highlands. There she discovers Yugiri, the only Japanese garden in Malaya, and its owner and creator, the enigmatic Aritomo, exiled former gardener of the emperor of Japan. Despite her hatred of the Japanese, Yun Ling seeks to engage Aritomo to create a garden in memory of her sister, who died in the camp. Aritomo refuses but agrees to accept Yun Ling as his apprentice "until the monsoon comes." Then she can design a garden for herself. As the months pass, Yun Ling finds herself intimately drawn to the gardener and his art, while all around them a communist guerilla war rages. But the Garden of Evening Mists remains a place of mystery. Who is Aritomo and how did he come to leave Japan? And is the real story of how Yun Ling managed to survive the war perhaps the darkest secret of all?
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Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 746 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Vietnam War, 1961-1975 |
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Author | : R. C. Binstock |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : China |
ISBN | : 9781569470800 |
In 1938, in China during the Japanese occupation of Nanking, a Japanese army captain saves a Chinese woman from rape. She becomes his servant, then his mistress, but the affair ends badly for both. He is branded immoral by his troops, she a traitor by her people.