Download Variations On Night And Day full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online free Variations On Night And Day ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!
| Author | : Abdelrahman Munif |
| Publisher | : Vintage |
| Total Pages | : 353 |
| Release | : 1994-11-01 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0679755519 |
Full of Machiavellian intrigue and searing political satire, Variations on Night and Day, the final volume of Munif's landmark Cities of Salt trilogy, chronicles the creation of a Persian Gulf nation by a corrupt Arab monarch and conniving British empire builders.
| Author | : ʻAbd al-Raḥmān Munīf |
| Publisher | : Pantheon |
| Total Pages | : 352 |
| Release | : 1993 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : |
"Full of Machiavellian intrigue and searing political satire, the final volume of Abdelrahman Munif's landmark Cities of Salt trilogy - "the only serious work of fiction that tries to show the effect of oil, Americans, and local oligarchy on a Gulf country" (Edward Said) - chronicles the creation of a fictional Persian Gulf nation through the machinations of a corrupt Arab monarch and conniving British empire builders." "Set in the 1930s, Variations on Night and Day depicts the rise to power of Sultan Khureybit and the emergence of Mooran as a modern nation. Khureybit expands and consolidates his dominion, crushing rival clans by military force and internal opposition with bribes, guile, and assassinations - all in the name of holy war - even as he is being sponsored by the British government, which plays rival sultans off one another to secure its influence in the region. Against this setting we see as well the venality of the Sultan's polygamous household, in which his several wives vie for preeminence through gossip, chicanery, and murder."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
| Author | : Abdelrahman Munif |
| Publisher | : National Geographic Books |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 1994-11-01 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0679755519 |
Full of Machiavellian intrigue and searing political satire, Variations on Night and Day, the final volume of Munif's landmark Cities of Salt trilogy, chronicles the creation of a Persian Gulf nation by a corrupt Arab monarch and conniving British empire builders.
| Author | : Abdelrahman Munif |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : |
| Release | : 1995-06-01 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9780517153314 |
| Author | : ʻAbd al-Raḥmān Munīf |
| Publisher | : Jonathan Cape |
| Total Pages | : 650 |
| Release | : 1988 |
| Genre | : Arabic fiction |
| ISBN | : |
Spell-binding evocation of Bedouin life in the 1930s when oil is discovered by Americans in an unnamed Persian Gulf kingdom.
| Author | : Jeanette Winterson |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 305 |
| Release | : 2011-07-04 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1408825384 |
But Time is big business, and whoever gets control of Time controls life as we know it! In a house called Tanglewreck lives a girl called Silver and her guardian Mrs Rokabye. Unbeknown to Silver there is a family treasure in the form of a seventeenth-century watch called the Timekeeper, and this treasure holds the key to the mysterious and frightening changes in time. When Silver goes on the run to try and protect herself and the Timekeeper, a remarkable and compelling adventure unfolds, full of brilliance and wit, as is befitting an author with the imagination and style of Jeanette Winterson.
| Author | : Joan Wickersham |
| Publisher | : Vintage |
| Total Pages | : 224 |
| Release | : 2012-10-09 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0307958892 |
A San Francisco Chronicle and NPR Best Book of the Year The author of the acclaimed memoir The Suicide Index returns with a virtuosic collection of stories, each a stirring parable of the power of love and the impossibility of understanding it. Spanning centuries and continents, from eighteenth-century Vienna to contemporary America, Joan Wickersham shows, with uncanny exactitude, how we never really know what’s in someone else’s heart—or in our own.
| Author | : George Lloyd Hayes |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 52 |
| Release | : 1941 |
| Genre | : Forest fires |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Richard Powers |
| Publisher | : HarperCollins |
| Total Pages | : 768 |
| Release | : 2021-10-05 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0063119420 |
National Bestseller National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Overstory and the forthcoming Bewilderment, a magnificent double love story of two young couples separated by a distance of twenty-five years. “The most lavishly ambitious American novel since Gravity’s Rainbow . . . An outright marvel.” —Washington Post Stuart Ressler, a brilliant young molecular biologist, sets out in 1957 to crack the genetic code. His efforts are sidetracked by other, more intractable codes—social, moral, musical, spiritual—and he falls in love with a member of his research team. Years later, another young man and woman team up to investigate a different scientific mystery: Why did the eminently promising Ressler suddenly disappear from the world of science? Strand by strand, these two love stories twist about each other in a double helix of desire. The critically acclaimed third novel from Pulitzer Prize–winning author Richard Powers, The Gold Bug Variations is an intellectual tour-de-force that probes the meaning of love, science, music, and art.
