Author: William Gardner Smith
Publisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 1681375168
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 241
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A roman à clef about racism, identity, and bohemian living amidst the tensions and violence of Algerian War-era France, and one of the earliest published accounts of the Paris massacre of 1961. As a teenager, Simeon Brown lost an eye in a racist attack, and this young African American journalist has lived in his native Philadelphia in a state of agonizing tension ever since. After a violent encounter with white sailors, Simeon makes up his mind to move to Paris, known as a safe haven for black artists and intellectuals, and before long he is under the spell of the City of Light, where he can do as he likes and go where he pleases without fear. Through Babe, another black American émigré, he makes new friends, and soon he has fallen in love with a Polish actress who is a concentration camp survivor. At the same time, however, Simeon begins to suspect that Paris is hardly the racial wonderland he imagined: The French government is struggling to suppress the revolution in Algeria, and Algerians are regularly stopped and searched, beaten, and arrested by the French police, while much worse is to come, it will turn out, in response to the protest march of October 1961. Through his friendship with Hossein, an Algerian radical, Simeon realizes that he can no longer remain a passive spectator to French injustice. He must decide where his true loyalties lie.
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 106
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Author: Robert Arthur King
Publisher: W. W. Norton
ISBN: 9780393732344
Category : Decoration and ornament, Architectural
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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An architectural impulse book, gift-sized and -priced, for those who love finding unknown corners of New York City. This collection of one hundred architectural details features brief introductions and contextual photographs to show the buildings on which the ornaments appear, the addresses, and transportation information.
Author: M.C. Burnell
Publisher: M.C. Burnell
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 256
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A foreign sorcerer has come to Liath-Tamren, greatest metropolis in the world. His mission: ambiguous. As a member of a cabal so secretive, many doubt that they exist, and possessed of powers unique to them, uncanny is Japhet's normal. But none of his orders make sense, and his fellows are being cagey with him. Add to the mix two assassinated kings. An alliance with imperial spies that may blow his low profile. A demon, loosed upon the Cities, that holds a gateway to the apocalypse. Then there's that orphan he just adopted... This may get complicated.
Author: Marianne Kennedy
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 9781462096206
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 292
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In the tradition of Southern novels, Faces of Exile deals with the themes of isolation, seduction, discovery, and compassion. Syracuse City with its Carter College is the backdrop for a timeless odyssey. In cinematic fashion the plot and subplots tell the tales of those exiled in the small Midwestern town over the course of one year. In Faces of Exile a fi ne storyteller uses humor and a bittersweet yearning to portray the human condition with its hopes, feelings and dreams. Caid Caddell Professor Emeritus, Carter College
Author: Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology
Publisher:
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 604
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Author: Jesse Walter Fewkes
Publisher:
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Category : Indians of the West Indies
Languages : en
Pages : 598
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Author: Tanith Lee
Publisher: ABRAMS
ISBN: 1468306308
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 158
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“A fast start to what promises to be an exciting, innovative fantasy series” from the World Fantasy Award–winning author of Night’s Master (Publishers Weekly). In the hedonistic atmosphere of an eighteenth-century Venice Carnival, gaiety turns deadly when Furian Furiano happens upon a mask of Apollo floating in the murky waters of the canals. The mask hides a sinister art, and Furian finds himself trapped in a bizarre tangle of love, obsession, and evil, stumbling into a macabre society of murderers. The beautiful but elusive Eurydiche holds the key to these murders and leads him further into a labyrinth of black magic and ancient alchemy. Why do secrets from Furian’s past seem tied to the mysterious Eurydiche? In Tanith Lee’s brilliantly imagined world of violence and terror, Furian must find a way to survive and stem the obsession driving him toward his hidden destiny.
Author: Arthur Caswell Parker
Publisher:
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Category : Excavations (Archaeology)
Languages : en
Pages : 486
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Category : Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 1324
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