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| Author | : Amin Maalouf |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 208 |
| Release | : 1995 |
| Genre | : Entomologists |
| ISBN | : |
In the 21st Century, a drug that guarantees the birth of boys--originally developed to reduce Third World populations--leads to a worldwide shortage of women. The result is an explosion of male violence, wars, and the sale of women on the black market. The narrator is a French entomologist trying to eradicate the drug.
| Author | : Yann Martel |
| Publisher | : Penguin Books India |
| Total Pages | : 205 |
| Release | : 2010 |
| Genre | : Animals |
| ISBN | : 0670084514 |
When Henry receives a letter from an elderly taxidermist, it poses a puzzle that he cannot resist. As he is pulled further into the world of this strange and calculating man, Henry becomes increasingly involved with the lives of a donkey and a howler monkey--named Beatrice and Virgil--and the epic journey they undertake together.
| Author | : Beatrice Hitchman |
| Publisher | : Abrams |
| Total Pages | : 383 |
| Release | : 2022-01-04 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1647004144 |
From an acclaimed and powerful talent in historical fiction, a literary historical novel set in a Bohemian enclave of Vienna about love, freedom, and what constitutes a family—now in paperback! Set in Vienna from 1910 to 1946, All of You Every Single One is an atmospheric, original, and deeply moving novel about family, freedom, and how true love might survive impossible odds. Julia Lindqvist, a woman unhappily married to a famous Swedish playwright, leaves her husband to begin a passionate affair with a female tailor named Eve. The pair run away together and settle in the more liberal haven of Vienna, where they fall in love, navigate the challenges of their newfound independence, and find community in the city’s Jewish quarter. But Julia’s yearning for a child throws their fragile happiness into chaos and threatens to destroy her life and the lives of those closest to her. Ada Bauer’s wealthy industrialist family have sent her to Dr. Freud in the hope that he can cure her mutism—and do so without a scandal. But help will soon come for Ada from an unexpected place, changing many lives irrevocably. Through the lives of her queer characters, and against the changing backdrop of one of the greatest cities of the age, Hitchman asks what it’s like to live through oppression, how personal decisions become political, and how far one will go to protect the ones they love. Moving across Europe and through decades, Hitchman’s sophomore novel is an intensely poignant portrait of life and love on the fringes of history.
| Author | : Kazuo Ishiguro |
| Publisher | : Vintage |
| Total Pages | : 283 |
| Release | : 2015-03-03 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0385353227 |
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and author of Never Let Me Go and the Booker Prize–winning novel The Remains of the Day comes a luminous meditation on the act of forgetting and the power of memory. In post-Arthurian Britain, the wars that once raged between the Saxons and the Britons have finally ceased. Axl and Beatrice, an elderly British couple, set off to visit their son, whom they haven't seen in years. And, because a strange mist has caused mass amnesia throughout the land, they can scarcely remember anything about him. As they are joined on their journey by a Saxon warrior, his orphan charge, and an illustrious knight, Axl and Beatrice slowly begin to remember the dark and troubled past they all share. By turns savage, suspenseful, and intensely moving, The Buried Giant is a luminous meditation on the act of forgetting and the power of memory.
| Author | : Beatrice Gruendler |
| Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
| Total Pages | : 273 |
| Release | : 2020-10-13 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0674250265 |
The little-known story of the sophisticated and vibrant Arabic book culture that flourished during the Middle Ages. During the thirteenth century, Europe’s largest library owned fewer than 2,000 volumes. Libraries in the Arab world at the time had exponentially larger collections. Five libraries in Baghdad alone held between 200,000 and 1,000,000 books each, including multiple copies of standard works so that their many patrons could enjoy simultaneous access. How did the Arabic codex become so popular during the Middle Ages, even as the well-established form languished in Europe? Beatrice Gruendler’s The Rise of the Arabic Book answers this question through in-depth stories of bookmakers and book collectors, stationers and librarians, scholars and poets of the ninth century. The history of the book has been written with an outsize focus on Europe. The role books played in shaping the great literary cultures of the world beyond the West has been less known—until now. An internationally renowned expert in classical Arabic literature, Gruendler corrects this oversight and takes us into the rich literary milieu of early Arabic letters.
| Author | : Maya Rodale |
| Publisher | : HarperCollins |
| Total Pages | : 245 |
| Release | : 2020-03-31 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0062838857 |
Can a scandalized heiress… Beatrice Goodwin left Manhattan a duchess and has returned a divorcée, ready to seize control of her fate and the family business. Goodwin’s Department Store, once the pinnacle of fashion, has fallen from favor thanks to Dalton’s, its glamorous competitor across the street. But this rivalry has a distinctly personal edge… And a self-made tycoon… For Wes Dalton, Beatrice has always been the one—the one who broke his young heart by marrying a duke, and now, the one whose cherished store he plans to buy, just so he can destroy it. It’s the perfect revenge against a family who believed he’d never be good enough for their daughter—until Beatrice’s return complicates everything… Find happily ever after at last? While Goodwin’s and Dalton’s duel to be the finest store in Gilded Age Manhattan, Beatrice and Wes succumb to a desire that has only deepened with time. Adversaries by day, lovers by night, both will soon have to decide which is sweeter: winning the battle or thoroughly losing their hearts…
| Author | : Emmanuel Buzay |
| Publisher | : Springer Nature |
| Total Pages | : 249 |
| Release | : 2023-03-12 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 3031166280 |
This book sheds a new light on the metafictional aspects of futuristic and science fiction novels, at the crossroads of information and media studies, possible worlds theories applied to cognitive narratology, questions related to the criticism of post-humanity, and, more broadly, contemporary French and Francophone literature. It examines the fictional minds of characters and their conceptions of resistance to the anticipated worlds they inhabit, particularly in novels by Pierre Bordage, Marie Darrieussecq, Michel Houellebecq, Amin Maalouf, Jean-Christophe Rufin, Antoine Volodine, and Élisabeth Vonarburg. It also explores how corporal postures serve as a matrix for philosophical quests in novels by Amélie Nothomb, Alain Damasio, and Romain Lucazeau. More specifically, from the fictional readers’ points of view, it provides a critical approach to the mythologies of writing, in the wake of the French philosophical tales by authors including Cyrano de Bergerac and Voltaire, to question the traditionally expressed formulations of the mythologies of writing, that is, of the metaphors of the book (the book of life, nature, and the world), to rethink the idea of a humanity within its limits.
| Author | : Gerhard Köpf |
| Publisher | : George Braziller |
| Total Pages | : 248 |
| Release | : 1995 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : |
The hero of Papa's Suitcase, "Hemingstein", is a gentle young man who has a great love for books and the stories they contain. His favorite stories are those written by his hero and namesake, Ernest Hemingway, "Papa". After reading and re-reading all of Hemingway's works, Hemingstein's insatiable desire for stories by the great author is stronger than ever. In search of more material, he embarks on a quixotic trip for a long lost suitcase full of original Hemingway manuscripts that Hemingway's first wife, Hadley, had lost while boarding a train in Paris in 1922. Hemingstein's quest brings him around the world, from Mt. Kilimanjaro to Key West to the dusty Parisian salon of Marlene Dietrich.
| Author | : Hew Strachan |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
| Total Pages | : 334 |
| Release | : 2007-09-13 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0199232024 |
The volume considers Clausewitz's timeless On War against the background of actual armed conflict. With scholars from a range of disciplines and countries, it throws new light on a classic text and contemporary issues.
| Author | : Beatrice de Graaf |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 519 |
| Release | : 2020-10 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1108842062 |
Europe was forged out of the ashes of the Napoleonic wars by means of a collective fight against revolutionary terror. The Allied Council created a culture of in- and exclusion, of people that were persecuted and those who were protected, using secret police, black lists, border controls and fortifications, and financed by European capital holders.
