Author: Kow Shih-Li
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789833221479
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
The Sum of Our Follies
Author: Kow Shih-Li
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789833221479
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789833221479
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
The Sum of Our Follies
Author: Shih-Li Kow
Publisher: Buku Fixi
ISBN: 9789670042909
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Sum of Our Follies is a novel set in Lubok Sayong, an imaginary Malaysian town. Two narrators describe Lubok Sayong and its community of quirky inhabitants. The first is Auyong, a retiree from the city who operates a lychee factory in Lubok Sayong. The other is eleven-year-old Mary Anne, an orphan who is taken in by an irascible woman in charge of the Big House. Through anecdotes and gentle humour, the two narrators observe the events that change the town and their lives as modernity sets in and Mary Anne grows up.
Publisher: Buku Fixi
ISBN: 9789670042909
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Sum of Our Follies is a novel set in Lubok Sayong, an imaginary Malaysian town. Two narrators describe Lubok Sayong and its community of quirky inhabitants. The first is Auyong, a retiree from the city who operates a lychee factory in Lubok Sayong. The other is eleven-year-old Mary Anne, an orphan who is taken in by an irascible woman in charge of the Big House. Through anecdotes and gentle humour, the two narrators observe the events that change the town and their lives as modernity sets in and Mary Anne grows up.
The Complete Works ...
Author: John Davies (of Hereford.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 342
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 342
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RIPPLES and Other Stories
Author: Shih-Li Kow
Publisher: Buku Fixi
ISBN: 9789670042893
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This polyphonic collection of twenty-five stories presents a multitude of Malaysian perspectives spanning age, gender, and class. Yow char kwai hawkers compete for customers on a busy city street. Marital dynamics unfurl at an abortion clinic. On an island, a man's infatuation with a veiled woman takes a supernatural turn. A woman writes to her brother about their dead cat. Characters in these stories connect through chance encounters and fateful events. Their narratives are inevitably coloured by the social tension and occasional absurdities of a multicultural society. Shortlisted for the 2009 Frank O'Connor International Short Story Prize.
Publisher: Buku Fixi
ISBN: 9789670042893
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This polyphonic collection of twenty-five stories presents a multitude of Malaysian perspectives spanning age, gender, and class. Yow char kwai hawkers compete for customers on a busy city street. Marital dynamics unfurl at an abortion clinic. On an island, a man's infatuation with a veiled woman takes a supernatural turn. A woman writes to her brother about their dead cat. Characters in these stories connect through chance encounters and fateful events. Their narratives are inevitably coloured by the social tension and occasional absurdities of a multicultural society. Shortlisted for the 2009 Frank O'Connor International Short Story Prize.
A Collection of the Best English Plays, Chosen Out of All the Best Authors..
Author: Benjamin Jonson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 158
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
The Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations
Author: Jehiel Keeler Hoyt
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Quotations, English
Languages : en
Pages : 1218
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Quotations, English
Languages : en
Pages : 1218
Book Description
The Works of Jeremy Taylor. With Some Account of His Life, Summary of Each Discourse, Notes,&c. by ... T. S. Hughes
Author: Jeremy Taylor
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
My Novel; Or, Varieties in English Life. By Pisistratus Caxton - Sir E. Bulwer Lytton, Etc
Author: Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
The Contemporary Review
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 946
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 946
Book Description
Brain and Mind
Author: Henry Shipton Drayton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Phrenology
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Phrenology
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description