Author: Pippa Virdee
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108428118
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 277
Book Description
Navigating nostalgia and trauma, dreams and laments, identity(s) and homeland(s), this book explores the partition of undivided Punjab.
From the Ashes of 1947
Author: Pippa Virdee
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108428118
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 277
Book Description
Navigating nostalgia and trauma, dreams and laments, identity(s) and homeland(s), this book explores the partition of undivided Punjab.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108428118
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 277
Book Description
Navigating nostalgia and trauma, dreams and laments, identity(s) and homeland(s), this book explores the partition of undivided Punjab.
Land of Snow and Ashes
Author: Petra Rautiainen
Publisher: Pushkin Press
ISBN: 1782277374
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
The haunting, gripping story of Lapland's buried history of Nazi crimes during World War II, perfect for fans of Stolen by Ann-Helén Laestadius “A beautifully written novel and a thriller that will keep readers turning the page to find out the truth about this disgraceful chapter of Finnish history” – Harvard Review Finnish Lapland, 1944: a young soldier is called to work as an interpreter at a Nazi prison camp. Surrounded by cruelty and death, he struggles to hold onto his humanity. When peace comes, the crimes are buried beneath the snow and ice. A few years later, journalist Inkeri is assigned to investigate the rapid development of remote Western Lapland. Her real motivation is more personal: she is following a lead on her husband, who disappeared during the war. Finding a small community riven with tension and suspicious of outsiders, Inkeri slowly begins to uncover traces of disturbing facts that were never supposed to come to light. From this starkly beautiful polar landscape emerges a story of silenced histories and ongoing oppression, of human brutality and survival.
Publisher: Pushkin Press
ISBN: 1782277374
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
The haunting, gripping story of Lapland's buried history of Nazi crimes during World War II, perfect for fans of Stolen by Ann-Helén Laestadius “A beautifully written novel and a thriller that will keep readers turning the page to find out the truth about this disgraceful chapter of Finnish history” – Harvard Review Finnish Lapland, 1944: a young soldier is called to work as an interpreter at a Nazi prison camp. Surrounded by cruelty and death, he struggles to hold onto his humanity. When peace comes, the crimes are buried beneath the snow and ice. A few years later, journalist Inkeri is assigned to investigate the rapid development of remote Western Lapland. Her real motivation is more personal: she is following a lead on her husband, who disappeared during the war. Finding a small community riven with tension and suspicious of outsiders, Inkeri slowly begins to uncover traces of disturbing facts that were never supposed to come to light. From this starkly beautiful polar landscape emerges a story of silenced histories and ongoing oppression, of human brutality and survival.
Rising from the Ashes
Author: Marchela Wells
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781514416525
Category : Rape
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
I was born Christina Laura McIntyre, but that was a name that belonged to another person in another time. Now, it's Tina, because Tina would never allow those boys or even men to violate her that way again. Christina did fight back but lost the struggle that terrible night seventeen years ago. Tina was born when Christina died. You ask: Do I remember that night? There is not even one second of that terrible night that I can ever forget.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781514416525
Category : Rape
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
I was born Christina Laura McIntyre, but that was a name that belonged to another person in another time. Now, it's Tina, because Tina would never allow those boys or even men to violate her that way again. Christina did fight back but lost the struggle that terrible night seventeen years ago. Tina was born when Christina died. You ask: Do I remember that night? There is not even one second of that terrible night that I can ever forget.
Ashes, Ashes, All Fall Down
Author: Zdena Salivarová
Publisher: Exile Editions, Ltd.
ISBN: 9781550965339
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
This modern version of Romeo and Juliet tells the tragic tale of the love between a Czech girl and a Latvian basketball player.
Publisher: Exile Editions, Ltd.
ISBN: 9781550965339
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
This modern version of Romeo and Juliet tells the tragic tale of the love between a Czech girl and a Latvian basketball player.
Ashes of Izalco
Author: Claribel Alegra
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781508569121
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
A novel that blends politics, history and romance with unfailing gentleness, unforeseeable, explosive events determine the actions of the characters but never interrupt the work's lyrical structure. Carmen Rojas, the heroine, was a child when, in 1932, she witnessed the brutality of the El Salvadoran National Guard, who murdered 30,000 rioting peasants. The tragedy shapes her political consciousness, and, although she marries an American and lives in Washington, D.C., she cannot escape its memory. Thirty years later, she returns home to attend her mother's funeral and to care for her sickly father, and discovers a diary kept by her mother's American lover in the months before the 1932 uprisings.
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781508569121
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
A novel that blends politics, history and romance with unfailing gentleness, unforeseeable, explosive events determine the actions of the characters but never interrupt the work's lyrical structure. Carmen Rojas, the heroine, was a child when, in 1932, she witnessed the brutality of the El Salvadoran National Guard, who murdered 30,000 rioting peasants. The tragedy shapes her political consciousness, and, although she marries an American and lives in Washington, D.C., she cannot escape its memory. Thirty years later, she returns home to attend her mother's funeral and to care for her sickly father, and discovers a diary kept by her mother's American lover in the months before the 1932 uprisings.
Earth Abides
Author: George R. Stewart
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0899683703
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0899683703
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
Annual Report of the Chief of Engineers, U.S. Army
Author: United States. Army. Corps of Engineers
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Harbors
Languages : en
Pages : 1628
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Harbors
Languages : en
Pages : 1628
Book Description
Muslim Zion
Author: Faisal Devji
Publisher: Hurst Publishers
ISBN: 1849042764
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Originally published: London: C.Hurst & Co. (Publishers) Ltd., 2013.
Publisher: Hurst Publishers
ISBN: 1849042764
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Originally published: London: C.Hurst & Co. (Publishers) Ltd., 2013.
The Great Partition
Author: Yasmin Khan
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300233647
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
A reappraisal of the tumultuous Partition and how it ignited long-standing animosities between India and Pakistan This new edition of Yasmin Khan’s reappraisal of the tumultuous India-Pakistan Partition features an introduction reflecting on the latest research and on ways in which commemoration of the Partition has changed, and considers the Partition in light of the current refugee crisis. Reviews of the first edition: “A riveting book on this terrible story.”—Economist “Unsparing. . . . Provocative and painful.”—Times (London) “Many histories of Partition focus solely on the elite policy makers. Yasmin Khan’s empathetic account gives a great insight into the hopes, dreams, and fears of the millions affected by it.”—Owen Bennett Jones, BBC
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300233647
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
A reappraisal of the tumultuous Partition and how it ignited long-standing animosities between India and Pakistan This new edition of Yasmin Khan’s reappraisal of the tumultuous India-Pakistan Partition features an introduction reflecting on the latest research and on ways in which commemoration of the Partition has changed, and considers the Partition in light of the current refugee crisis. Reviews of the first edition: “A riveting book on this terrible story.”—Economist “Unsparing. . . . Provocative and painful.”—Times (London) “Many histories of Partition focus solely on the elite policy makers. Yasmin Khan’s empathetic account gives a great insight into the hopes, dreams, and fears of the millions affected by it.”—Owen Bennett Jones, BBC
From Dust to Ashes
Author: P. Jupp
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230511082
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
Seventy per cent of British families now choose cremation for their funerals, a rapid change in traditional death customs. This is the first book to investigate why cremation replaced burial. It examines the political, religious, economic and social reasons behind personal choice and sets them in a European context. This study is doubly timely with the expanding scholarly interest in death studies, and the new media interest in the British way of death.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230511082
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
Seventy per cent of British families now choose cremation for their funerals, a rapid change in traditional death customs. This is the first book to investigate why cremation replaced burial. It examines the political, religious, economic and social reasons behind personal choice and sets them in a European context. This study is doubly timely with the expanding scholarly interest in death studies, and the new media interest in the British way of death.