Author: Nona Fernández
Publisher: Graywolf Press
ISBN: 1644451069
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 59
Book Description
Longlisted for the National Book Award for Translated Literature A dreamlike evocation of a generation that grew up in the shadow of a dictatorship in 1980s Chile Space Invaders is the story of a group of childhood friends who, in adulthood, are preoccupied by uneasy memories and visions of their classmate Estrella González Jepsen. In their dreams, they catch glimpses of Estrella’s braids, hear echoes of her voice, and read old letters that eventually, mysteriously, stopped arriving. They recall regimented school assemblies, nationalistic class performances, and a trip to the beach. Soon it becomes clear that Estrella’s father was a ranking government officer implicated in the violent crimes of the Pinochet regime, and the question of what became of her after she left school haunts her erstwhile friends. Growing up, these friends—from her pen pal, Maldonado, to her crush, Riquelme—were old enough to sense the danger and tension that surrounded them, but were powerless in the face of it. They could control only the stories they told one another and the “ghostly green bullets” they fired in the video game they played obsessively. One of the leading Latin American writers of her generation, Nona Fernández effortlessly builds a choral and constantly shifting image of young life in the waning years of the dictatorship. In her short but intricately layered novel, she summons the collective memory of a generation, rescuing felt truth from the oblivion of official history.
Space Invaders
Author: Nona Fernández
Publisher: Graywolf Press
ISBN: 1644451069
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 59
Book Description
Longlisted for the National Book Award for Translated Literature A dreamlike evocation of a generation that grew up in the shadow of a dictatorship in 1980s Chile Space Invaders is the story of a group of childhood friends who, in adulthood, are preoccupied by uneasy memories and visions of their classmate Estrella González Jepsen. In their dreams, they catch glimpses of Estrella’s braids, hear echoes of her voice, and read old letters that eventually, mysteriously, stopped arriving. They recall regimented school assemblies, nationalistic class performances, and a trip to the beach. Soon it becomes clear that Estrella’s father was a ranking government officer implicated in the violent crimes of the Pinochet regime, and the question of what became of her after she left school haunts her erstwhile friends. Growing up, these friends—from her pen pal, Maldonado, to her crush, Riquelme—were old enough to sense the danger and tension that surrounded them, but were powerless in the face of it. They could control only the stories they told one another and the “ghostly green bullets” they fired in the video game they played obsessively. One of the leading Latin American writers of her generation, Nona Fernández effortlessly builds a choral and constantly shifting image of young life in the waning years of the dictatorship. In her short but intricately layered novel, she summons the collective memory of a generation, rescuing felt truth from the oblivion of official history.
Publisher: Graywolf Press
ISBN: 1644451069
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 59
Book Description
Longlisted for the National Book Award for Translated Literature A dreamlike evocation of a generation that grew up in the shadow of a dictatorship in 1980s Chile Space Invaders is the story of a group of childhood friends who, in adulthood, are preoccupied by uneasy memories and visions of their classmate Estrella González Jepsen. In their dreams, they catch glimpses of Estrella’s braids, hear echoes of her voice, and read old letters that eventually, mysteriously, stopped arriving. They recall regimented school assemblies, nationalistic class performances, and a trip to the beach. Soon it becomes clear that Estrella’s father was a ranking government officer implicated in the violent crimes of the Pinochet regime, and the question of what became of her after she left school haunts her erstwhile friends. Growing up, these friends—from her pen pal, Maldonado, to her crush, Riquelme—were old enough to sense the danger and tension that surrounded them, but were powerless in the face of it. They could control only the stories they told one another and the “ghostly green bullets” they fired in the video game they played obsessively. One of the leading Latin American writers of her generation, Nona Fernández effortlessly builds a choral and constantly shifting image of young life in the waning years of the dictatorship. In her short but intricately layered novel, she summons the collective memory of a generation, rescuing felt truth from the oblivion of official history.
Space Invaders
Author: Nirmal Puwar
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Increasingly, women and minorities are entering fields where white male power is firmly entrenched. This work interrogates the pernicious, subtle but nonetheless widely held view that certain bodies are naturally entitled to certain spaces, while others are not.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Increasingly, women and minorities are entering fields where white male power is firmly entrenched. This work interrogates the pernicious, subtle but nonetheless widely held view that certain bodies are naturally entitled to certain spaces, while others are not.
Harrison P. Spader, Personal Space Invader
Author: Christianne C. Jones
Publisher: Capstone
ISBN: 1515827240
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 33
Book Description
Harrison P. Spader sat a little too close. Shook hands a little too long. High-fived a little too hard. And hugged a little too much. Harrison P. Spader was a personal space invader. But that all changes when he learns the Space Saver rhyme: Arms out front, then out real wide. Now place your arms back by your sides. Author Christianne Jones uses humor and relatable situations to teach early learners about self awareness. This entertaining picture book in the Little Boost series will tackle a much-needed topic for teachers, parents, and librarians.
Publisher: Capstone
ISBN: 1515827240
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 33
Book Description
Harrison P. Spader sat a little too close. Shook hands a little too long. High-fived a little too hard. And hugged a little too much. Harrison P. Spader was a personal space invader. But that all changes when he learns the Space Saver rhyme: Arms out front, then out real wide. Now place your arms back by your sides. Author Christianne Jones uses humor and relatable situations to teach early learners about self awareness. This entertaining picture book in the Little Boost series will tackle a much-needed topic for teachers, parents, and librarians.
Invasion of the Space Invaders
Author: Martin Amis
Publisher: Jonathan Cape
ISBN: 9781787331198
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Publisher: Jonathan Cape
ISBN: 9781787331198
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Space Invaders
Author: Sarah Albee
Publisher: Turtleback Books
ISBN: 9780613142649
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Rugrats mistake the barbecue grill and Stu's new invention for a couple of creatures from outer space and now believe that the invaders plan to take their parents away! Full color.
Publisher: Turtleback Books
ISBN: 9780613142649
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Rugrats mistake the barbecue grill and Stu's new invention for a couple of creatures from outer space and now believe that the invaders plan to take their parents away! Full color.
The Space Invaders
Author: Geoffrey Matthews
Publisher: Macmillan Readers
ISBN: 9780230035232
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 63
Book Description
Publisher: Macmillan Readers
ISBN: 9780230035232
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 63
Book Description
Space Invaders
Author: Michel van Pelt
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 0387688803
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Manned space programs attract the most media attention, and it is not hard to understand why: the danger, the heroism, the sheer adventure we as earthbound observers can imagine when humans are involved. But robotic missions deserve a respectful and detailed history and analysis of their own, and this book provides it. Instead of describing one specific spacecraft or mission, Michel van Pelt offers a "behind the scenes" look at the life of a space probe from its first conceptual design to the analysis of the scientific data returned by the spacecraft.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 0387688803
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Manned space programs attract the most media attention, and it is not hard to understand why: the danger, the heroism, the sheer adventure we as earthbound observers can imagine when humans are involved. But robotic missions deserve a respectful and detailed history and analysis of their own, and this book provides it. Instead of describing one specific spacecraft or mission, Michel van Pelt offers a "behind the scenes" look at the life of a space probe from its first conceptual design to the analysis of the scientific data returned by the spacecraft.
Space Invaders
Author: Paul Routledge
Publisher: Pluto Press (UK)
ISBN: 9780745336299
Category : Protest movements
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Space Invaders argues for the importance of a radical geographic perspective in enabling us to make sense of protests and social movements around the world. Under conditions of increasing global economic inequalities, we are witnessing the flourishing of grassroots people's movements fighting for improved rights.Whether it be the alter-globalisation mobilisations of the turn of the century, the flurry of Occupy protests, or the current wave of anti-austerity mobilisations taking place, there is a geographical logic to all forms of protest whether that be through transforming landscapes, occupying enemy territory or developing solidarity and communication networks.Paul Routledge takes a primarily auto-ethnographical perspective, drawing upon his extensive experience over the past thirty years working with various forms of protest in Europe, Asia and Latin America, to provide an account of how a radical geographical imagination can inform our understanding and the prosecution of protest.
Publisher: Pluto Press (UK)
ISBN: 9780745336299
Category : Protest movements
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Space Invaders argues for the importance of a radical geographic perspective in enabling us to make sense of protests and social movements around the world. Under conditions of increasing global economic inequalities, we are witnessing the flourishing of grassroots people's movements fighting for improved rights.Whether it be the alter-globalisation mobilisations of the turn of the century, the flurry of Occupy protests, or the current wave of anti-austerity mobilisations taking place, there is a geographical logic to all forms of protest whether that be through transforming landscapes, occupying enemy territory or developing solidarity and communication networks.Paul Routledge takes a primarily auto-ethnographical perspective, drawing upon his extensive experience over the past thirty years working with various forms of protest in Europe, Asia and Latin America, to provide an account of how a radical geographical imagination can inform our understanding and the prosecution of protest.
Space Invaders
Author: Jaklyn Babington
Publisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
Off the street and into the gallery this book sureys the past 10 years of Australian street art. Playful, edgy, clever, satirical and political, street art has significantly altered Australian visual culture over the past decade and has heralded the arrival of a new generation of contemporary artists.
Publisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
Off the street and into the gallery this book sureys the past 10 years of Australian street art. Playful, edgy, clever, satirical and political, street art has significantly altered Australian visual culture over the past decade and has heralded the arrival of a new generation of contemporary artists.
Tomb Raiders and Space Invaders
Author: Geoff King
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780755695546
Category : Electronic books
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
This book focuses on key formal aspects of video games and the experiences and pleasures offered by the activities they require of the player. A wide range of games are considered, from first-person shooters to third-person action-adventures, strategy, sports-related and role-playing games. Lively and accessible in style, this book is written for both an academic readership and the wider audience of gamers and those interested in popular culture.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780755695546
Category : Electronic books
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
This book focuses on key formal aspects of video games and the experiences and pleasures offered by the activities they require of the player. A wide range of games are considered, from first-person shooters to third-person action-adventures, strategy, sports-related and role-playing games. Lively and accessible in style, this book is written for both an academic readership and the wider audience of gamers and those interested in popular culture.