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| Author | : M. M. Kaye |
| Publisher | : St. Martin's Griffin |
| Total Pages | : 961 |
| Release | : 2015-12-01 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1250089298 |
This sweeping epic set in 19th-century India begins in the foothills of the towering Himalayas and follows a young Indian-born orphan as he's raised in England and later returns to India where he falls in love with an Indian princess and struggles with cultural divides. The Far Pavilions is itself a Himalayan achievement, a book we hate to see come to an end. It is a passionate, triumphant story that excites us, fills us with joy, move us to tears, satisfies us deeply, and helps us remember just what it is we want most from a novel. M.M. Kaye's masterwork is a vast, rich and vibrant tapestry of love and war that ranks with the greatest panoramic sagas of modern fiction, moving the famed literary critic Edmond Fuller to write: "Were Miss Kaye to produce no other book, The Far Pavilions might stand as a lasting accomplishment in a single work comparable to Margaret Mitchell's achievement in Gone With the Wind."
| Author | : Arts Council Korea |
| Publisher | : 펜립 |
| Total Pages | : 313 |
| Release | : 2024-04-18 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 8965831253 |
This archival publication was launched in conjunction with "Every Island is a Mountain", a special exhibition commemorating the 30th anniversary of the Korean Pavilion at the Venice Biennale.
| Author | : Alexander McCall Smith |
| Publisher | : Anchor |
| Total Pages | : 220 |
| Release | : 2022-01-25 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0593469097 |
“This is one of the most enjoyable of his many enjoyable novels” –The Scotsman It is 1938 and the final days of the British Empire. In a bungalow high up in the green hills above the plains of Ceylon, under a vast blue sky, live the Ferguson family: Bella, a precocious eight-year-old; her father, Henry, owner of a tea plantation; and her mother, Virginia, a woman out of step in her community. The story centers around their home, affectionately called “The Pavilion in the Clouds,” set in the idyllic grounds carved out of the wilderness. But all is not as serene as it seems. Bella is suspicious of the intentions of her governess, Miss White. Her suspicion ignites her mother’s imagination, causing an unfortunate series of eventsthat reverberate throughout the years.
| Author | : Pearl S. Buck |
| Publisher | : Open Road Media |
| Total Pages | : 490 |
| Release | : 2012-08-21 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1453263500 |
A “vivid and extremely interesting” novel of an upper-class Chinese wife’s quest for freedom, from the Nobel Prize–winning author of The Good Earth (The New Yorker). At forty, Madame Wu is beautiful and much respected as the wife of one of China’s oldest upper-class houses. Her birthday wish is to find a young concubine for her husband and to move to separate quarters, starting a new chapter of her life. When her wish is granted, she finds herself at leisure, no longer consumed by running a sixty-person household. Now she’s free to read books previously forbidden her, to learn English, and to discover her own mind. The family in the compound are shocked at the results, especially when she begins learning from a progressive, excommunicated Catholic priest. In its depiction of life in the compound, Pavilion of Women includes some of Buck’s most enchanting writing about the seasons, daily rhythms, and customs of women in China. It is a delightful parable about the sexes, and of the profound and transformative effects of free thought. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Pearl S. Buck including rare images from the author’s estate.
| Author | : Yukio Mishima |
| Publisher | : Random House |
| Total Pages | : 258 |
| Release | : 2001 |
| Genre | : Arson |
| ISBN | : 0099285673 |
Bringing together Mishima's preoccupations with violence, desire, religious life and the history of Japan, this novel is based on an actual incident, the burning of a celebrated temple. The novel is a meditation on the state of Japan in the post-war period.
| Author | : Mingmei Yip |
| Publisher | : HarperCollins UK |
| Total Pages | : 433 |
| Release | : 2014-02-27 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0007570139 |
Torn from her family. Destined to become the most desired courtesan in China. A seductive and evocative debut that opens the doors on life as a Chinese courtesan in the Peach Blossom Pavilion...
| Author | : Paul Scott |
| Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
| Total Pages | : 329 |
| Release | : 2013-08-14 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 022608857X |
Paul Scott is most famous for his much-beloved tetralogy The Raj Quartet, an epic that chronicles the end of the British rule in India with a cast of vividly and memorably drawn characters. Inspired by Scott’s own time spent in India and Malaya during World War II, this two powerful novel provides valuable insight into how foreign lands changed the British who worked and fought in them, hated and loved them. The Chinese Love Pavilion follows a young British clerk, Tom Brent, who must track down a former friend—now suspected of murder—in Malaya. Tom faces great danger, both from the mysterious Malayan jungles and the political tensions between British officers, but the novel is perhaps most memorable for the strange, beautiful romance between Tom and a protean Eurasian beauty whom he meets in the eponymous Chinese Love Pavilion.
| Author | : Lebbeus Woods |
| Publisher | : Lars Muller Publishers |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2013 |
| Genre | : Architecture |
| ISBN | : 9783037783092 |
The first built project and final creative work of artist and architect Lebbeus Woods (1940-2012), the Light Pavilion is transcendent architecture, a project that exemplifies the preoccupations of a consummate draftsman, thinker, and educator. Filled with drawings, detail specifications, and construction documentation, this book also features breathtaking photography by Iwan Baan; commentary by Zaha Hadid, Steven Holl, Thom Mayne, Neil Denari, and Eric Owen Moss; historical analysis by Mark Morris; and a touching epilogue by friend and project collaborator Christoph a. Kumpusch. A visionary design made intensely real, the pavilion offers a glimpse of the future as well as a catalogue of architecture's past.
| Author | : Dawn Powell |
| Publisher | : Steerforth |
| Total Pages | : 296 |
| Release | : 1996 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : |
The “Wicked Pavilion” of the title is the Café Julien, where everybody who is anybody goes to recover from failed love affairs and to pursue new ones, to cadge money, to hatch plots, and to puncture one another’s reputation. Dennis Orphen, the writer from Dawn Powell’s Turn, Magic Wheel, makes an appearance here, as does Andy Callingham, Powell’s thinly disguised Ernest Hemingway. The climax of this mercilessly funny novel comes with a party which, remarked Gore Vidal, “resembles Proust’s last roundup,” and where one of the partygoers observes, “There are some people here who have been dead twenty years.” "For decades Dawn Powell was always just on the verge of ceasing to be a cult and becoming a major religion." -- Gore Vidal
| Author | : Mary De Crespigny |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 306 |
| Release | : 1796 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : |
