Author: ʻAbbās Khiḍr
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780857421012
Category : Iraq
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Part Odyssey of the Persian Gulf and part 1001 Nights in Europe, this debut novel is drawn from the author's experiences as a political prisoner and years as a refugee. Our hero Rasul Hamid describes the eight different ways that he fled his home in Iraq and the eight different ways he has failed to find himself a new way home. From Iraq via Northern Africa through Europe and back again, Abbas Khider deftly blends the tragic with the comic, and the grotesque with the ordinary, in order to tell the story of suffering the real and brutal dangers of life as a refugee--and to remember the haunting faces of those who did not survive the journey. This is a stunning piece of storytelling, a novel of unusual scope that brings to life the endless cycle of illegal entry and deportation that defines life for a vulnerable population living on the margins of legitimate society. Translated by Donal McLaughlin, The Village Indian provides what every good translation should: a literary looking glass between two cultures, between two places, between East and West.
The Village Indian
Author: ʻAbbās Khiḍr
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780857421012
Category : Iraq
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Part Odyssey of the Persian Gulf and part 1001 Nights in Europe, this debut novel is drawn from the author's experiences as a political prisoner and years as a refugee. Our hero Rasul Hamid describes the eight different ways that he fled his home in Iraq and the eight different ways he has failed to find himself a new way home. From Iraq via Northern Africa through Europe and back again, Abbas Khider deftly blends the tragic with the comic, and the grotesque with the ordinary, in order to tell the story of suffering the real and brutal dangers of life as a refugee--and to remember the haunting faces of those who did not survive the journey. This is a stunning piece of storytelling, a novel of unusual scope that brings to life the endless cycle of illegal entry and deportation that defines life for a vulnerable population living on the margins of legitimate society. Translated by Donal McLaughlin, The Village Indian provides what every good translation should: a literary looking glass between two cultures, between two places, between East and West.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780857421012
Category : Iraq
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Part Odyssey of the Persian Gulf and part 1001 Nights in Europe, this debut novel is drawn from the author's experiences as a political prisoner and years as a refugee. Our hero Rasul Hamid describes the eight different ways that he fled his home in Iraq and the eight different ways he has failed to find himself a new way home. From Iraq via Northern Africa through Europe and back again, Abbas Khider deftly blends the tragic with the comic, and the grotesque with the ordinary, in order to tell the story of suffering the real and brutal dangers of life as a refugee--and to remember the haunting faces of those who did not survive the journey. This is a stunning piece of storytelling, a novel of unusual scope that brings to life the endless cycle of illegal entry and deportation that defines life for a vulnerable population living on the margins of legitimate society. Translated by Donal McLaughlin, The Village Indian provides what every good translation should: a literary looking glass between two cultures, between two places, between East and West.
Daily Life in a Plains Indian Village, 1868
Author: Michael Terry
Publisher: Turtleback Books
ISBN: 9780613213967
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
For use in schools and libraries only. Depicts the historical background, social organization, and daily life of a Plains Indian village in 1868, presenting interiors, landscapes, clothing, and everyday objects.
Publisher: Turtleback Books
ISBN: 9780613213967
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
For use in schools and libraries only. Depicts the historical background, social organization, and daily life of a Plains Indian village in 1868, presenting interiors, landscapes, clothing, and everyday objects.
Indian Village
Author: S.C. Dube
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113563887X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Published in 1998, Indian Village is a valuable contribution to the field of Sociology & Social Policy.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113563887X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Published in 1998, Indian Village is a valuable contribution to the field of Sociology & Social Policy.
In the Heart of the Village
Author: Barbara Bash
Publisher: Gibbs Smith
ISBN: 9781578050802
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
Describes the importance of a banyan tree to an Indian village.
Publisher: Gibbs Smith
ISBN: 9781578050802
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
Describes the importance of a banyan tree to an Indian village.
Mehinaku
Author: Thomas Gregor
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022615033X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Thomas Gregor sees the Mehinaku Indians of central Brazil as performers of roles, engaged in an ongoing improvisational drama of community life. The layout of the village and the architecture of the houses make the community a natural theater in the round, rendering the villagers' actions highly visible and audible. Lacking privacy, the Mehinaku have become masters of stagecraft and impression management, enthusiastically publicizing their good citizenship while ingeniously covering up such embarrassments as extramarital affairs and theft.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022615033X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Thomas Gregor sees the Mehinaku Indians of central Brazil as performers of roles, engaged in an ongoing improvisational drama of community life. The layout of the village and the architecture of the houses make the community a natural theater in the round, rendering the villagers' actions highly visible and audible. Lacking privacy, the Mehinaku have become masters of stagecraft and impression management, enthusiastically publicizing their good citizenship while ingeniously covering up such embarrassments as extramarital affairs and theft.
Village Life in Northern India
Author: Oscar Lewis
Publisher: New York : Vintage Books, [c1958, 1965 printing]
ISBN:
Category : Country life
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
Publisher: New York : Vintage Books, [c1958, 1965 printing]
ISBN:
Category : Country life
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
The Village
Author: Nikita Lalwani
Publisher: Doubleday Canada
ISBN: 0307374629
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
The long-awaited follow-up to the critically acclaimed, Booker longlisted Gifted, a provocative novel about an experimental open prison in India and the havoc a team of journalists wreaks on the delicate moral code of the inmates. After a long journey from England, Ray Bhullar arrives early on a winter morning at the gates of a remote Indian village called Ashwer which will be her home for the next three months. The door of the hut she will share with Serena, her English co-worker, is a loose sheet of metal, the windows simple holes in the walls. Beyond the lockless door, village life goes on as usual. And yet, the village is anything but normal. Despite the domestic chores being carried out, cooking, fetching water and sewing and laundering linens, Ashwer is a village of murderers, an experimental open prison. And when Ray and her crew take up residence, to observe and to make a documentary, it seems that they are innocent visitors into a violent world, on a mission to hold the place up to viewers as the ultimate example of tolerance. But the longer Ray and her colleagues stay and their need for drama intensifies, the line between innocence and guilt begins to blur and an unexpected and terrifying new kind of cruelty emerges. A mesmerizing and heartfelt tale of manipulation and personal morality, Nikita Lalwani's new novel brilliantly exposes how truly frail our moral judgment can be.
Publisher: Doubleday Canada
ISBN: 0307374629
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
The long-awaited follow-up to the critically acclaimed, Booker longlisted Gifted, a provocative novel about an experimental open prison in India and the havoc a team of journalists wreaks on the delicate moral code of the inmates. After a long journey from England, Ray Bhullar arrives early on a winter morning at the gates of a remote Indian village called Ashwer which will be her home for the next three months. The door of the hut she will share with Serena, her English co-worker, is a loose sheet of metal, the windows simple holes in the walls. Beyond the lockless door, village life goes on as usual. And yet, the village is anything but normal. Despite the domestic chores being carried out, cooking, fetching water and sewing and laundering linens, Ashwer is a village of murderers, an experimental open prison. And when Ray and her crew take up residence, to observe and to make a documentary, it seems that they are innocent visitors into a violent world, on a mission to hold the place up to viewers as the ultimate example of tolerance. But the longer Ray and her colleagues stay and their need for drama intensifies, the line between innocence and guilt begins to blur and an unexpected and terrifying new kind of cruelty emerges. A mesmerizing and heartfelt tale of manipulation and personal morality, Nikita Lalwani's new novel brilliantly exposes how truly frail our moral judgment can be.
The Village by the Sea
Author: Anita Desai
Publisher: Allied Publishers
ISBN: 9788177649079
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Publisher: Allied Publishers
ISBN: 9788177649079
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
The Indian Village Community
Author: Baden Henry Baden-Powell
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Land tenure
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Land tenure
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
Gopalpur
Author: Alan R. Beals
Publisher: New York : Holt, Rinehart and Winston
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
Publisher: New York : Holt, Rinehart and Winston
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description