Author: Yang-May Ooi
Publisher: Monsoon Books
ISBN: 9814423912
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 415
Book Description
Jasmine Lian left Malaysia behind when she was eighteen and won a place at Oxford. Since then she’s led a golden life: youngest ever partner in one of the most prestigious law firms in London, poised for success in every area. Then one of her clients, construction firm Jordan Cardale, bids for the grandest, most visionary project in Asia: the futuristic Titiwangsa University, a complete town and campus in the rainforest-covered hills of Malaysia. Jordan Cardale wants to win that contract. By any means necessary. Jasmine, already struggling with the magnetic hold of her native Malaysia, is forced to choose between old life and new, East and West, right and wrong. The Flame Tree offers a vivid snapshot of a fast-developing Malaysia, of moral choices and a woman’s search for her cultural identity.
The Flame Tree
Author: Yang-May Ooi
Publisher: Monsoon Books
ISBN: 9814423912
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 415
Book Description
Jasmine Lian left Malaysia behind when she was eighteen and won a place at Oxford. Since then she’s led a golden life: youngest ever partner in one of the most prestigious law firms in London, poised for success in every area. Then one of her clients, construction firm Jordan Cardale, bids for the grandest, most visionary project in Asia: the futuristic Titiwangsa University, a complete town and campus in the rainforest-covered hills of Malaysia. Jordan Cardale wants to win that contract. By any means necessary. Jasmine, already struggling with the magnetic hold of her native Malaysia, is forced to choose between old life and new, East and West, right and wrong. The Flame Tree offers a vivid snapshot of a fast-developing Malaysia, of moral choices and a woman’s search for her cultural identity.
Publisher: Monsoon Books
ISBN: 9814423912
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 415
Book Description
Jasmine Lian left Malaysia behind when she was eighteen and won a place at Oxford. Since then she’s led a golden life: youngest ever partner in one of the most prestigious law firms in London, poised for success in every area. Then one of her clients, construction firm Jordan Cardale, bids for the grandest, most visionary project in Asia: the futuristic Titiwangsa University, a complete town and campus in the rainforest-covered hills of Malaysia. Jordan Cardale wants to win that contract. By any means necessary. Jasmine, already struggling with the magnetic hold of her native Malaysia, is forced to choose between old life and new, East and West, right and wrong. The Flame Tree offers a vivid snapshot of a fast-developing Malaysia, of moral choices and a woman’s search for her cultural identity.
Marianas Island Legends
Author:
Publisher: Bess Press
ISBN: 9781573061018
Category : Chamorro (Micronesian people)
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Offering rare insight to Chamorro and Carolinian cultures, this book contains legends, poems, folklore, history, traditions, rhymes and riddles, and scary stories collected from the elders and the youth of the Marianas Islands.
Publisher: Bess Press
ISBN: 9781573061018
Category : Chamorro (Micronesian people)
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Offering rare insight to Chamorro and Carolinian cultures, this book contains legends, poems, folklore, history, traditions, rhymes and riddles, and scary stories collected from the elders and the youth of the Marianas Islands.
The Flame Trees of Thika
Author: Elspeth Huxley
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101651393
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
In an open cart Elspeth Huxley set off with her parents to travel to Thika in Kenya. As pioneering settlers, they built a house of grass, ate off a damask cloth spread over packing cases, and discovered—the hard way—the world of the African. With an extraordinary gift for detail and a keen sense of humor, Huxley recalls her childhood on the small farm at a time when Europeans waged their fortunes on a land that was as harsh as it was beautiful. For a young girl, it was a time of adventure and freedom, and Huxley paints an unforgettable portrait of growing up among the Masai and Kikuyu people, discovering both the beauty and the terrors of the jungle, and enduring the rugged realities of the pioneer life.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101651393
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
In an open cart Elspeth Huxley set off with her parents to travel to Thika in Kenya. As pioneering settlers, they built a house of grass, ate off a damask cloth spread over packing cases, and discovered—the hard way—the world of the African. With an extraordinary gift for detail and a keen sense of humor, Huxley recalls her childhood on the small farm at a time when Europeans waged their fortunes on a land that was as harsh as it was beautiful. For a young girl, it was a time of adventure and freedom, and Huxley paints an unforgettable portrait of growing up among the Masai and Kikuyu people, discovering both the beauty and the terrors of the jungle, and enduring the rugged realities of the pioneer life.
With Love & Fury
Author: Judith Wright
Publisher: National Library Australia
ISBN: 9780642276254
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 630
Book Description
This wide range of letters reminds us of Judith Wright's deep engagement with life, her love of the world (and of friends), and the fine fury that led her to battle so courageously on the world's behalf.
Publisher: National Library Australia
ISBN: 9780642276254
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 630
Book Description
This wide range of letters reminds us of Judith Wright's deep engagement with life, her love of the world (and of friends), and the fine fury that led her to battle so courageously on the world's behalf.
Flame Trees in May
Author: Karla Marrufo
Publisher: Deep Vellum Publishing
ISBN: 1628974915
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
In her most experimental work to date, Karla Marrufo Huchim explores universal themes with appreciable specificity: loneliness, family angst, memory loss—from a perspective belonging singularly to a native of the Yucatán Peninsula. Mayo’s unnamed narrator is an older woman, isolated in her domestic life, who is both suffering from memory loss and intent on recounting the lives of three generations of her family. The Yucatán culture and community that Marrufo Huchim describes through her narrator’s fine but faltering mind will be foreign but not fetishized for American readers.
Publisher: Deep Vellum Publishing
ISBN: 1628974915
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
In her most experimental work to date, Karla Marrufo Huchim explores universal themes with appreciable specificity: loneliness, family angst, memory loss—from a perspective belonging singularly to a native of the Yucatán Peninsula. Mayo’s unnamed narrator is an older woman, isolated in her domestic life, who is both suffering from memory loss and intent on recounting the lives of three generations of her family. The Yucatán culture and community that Marrufo Huchim describes through her narrator’s fine but faltering mind will be foreign but not fetishized for American readers.
Micronesian Legends
Author: Bo Flood
Publisher: Bess Press
ISBN: 9781573061292
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Legends from the Northern Mariana Islands and Guam, Palau, Yap, Chuuk, Pohnpei, Kosrae, and the Republic of the Marshall Islands are interwoven with historical interludes and beautiful woodcut illustrations.
Publisher: Bess Press
ISBN: 9781573061292
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Legends from the Northern Mariana Islands and Guam, Palau, Yap, Chuuk, Pohnpei, Kosrae, and the Republic of the Marshall Islands are interwoven with historical interludes and beautiful woodcut illustrations.
Journal
Author: New York Botanical Garden
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Flame Tree
Author: Judith Kazantzis
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Flame Tree Road
Author: Shona Patel
Publisher: MIRA
ISBN: 0778316653
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 409
Book Description
1870s India. In a tiny village where society is ruled by a caste system and women are defined solely by marriage, young Biren Roy dreams of forging a new destiny. When his mother suffers the fate of widowhood--shunned by her loved ones and forced to live in solitary penance--Biren devotes his life to effecting change. Just when his vision for the future begins to look hopeless, he meets Maya, the independent-minded daughter of a local educator, and his soul is reignited.
Publisher: MIRA
ISBN: 0778316653
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 409
Book Description
1870s India. In a tiny village where society is ruled by a caste system and women are defined solely by marriage, young Biren Roy dreams of forging a new destiny. When his mother suffers the fate of widowhood--shunned by her loved ones and forced to live in solitary penance--Biren devotes his life to effecting change. Just when his vision for the future begins to look hopeless, he meets Maya, the independent-minded daughter of a local educator, and his soul is reignited.
The Cambridge Companion to Australian Poetry
Author: Ann Vickery
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 100947023X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 409
Book Description
This volume investigates Australian poetry's centrality to debates around colonialism, nationalism, diversity, embodiment, local-global relations, and the environment.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 100947023X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 409
Book Description
This volume investigates Australian poetry's centrality to debates around colonialism, nationalism, diversity, embodiment, local-global relations, and the environment.