White Shroud

White Shroud PDF Author: Antanas Škėma
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781908251848
Category : Immigrants
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Considered by many to be Lithuania's most important work of modernist fiction, this novel tells the story of Antanas Garsva, an emigre poet working as an elevator operator in a large New York hotel in the 1950s.

White Shroud

White Shroud PDF Author: Antanas Škėma
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781908251848
Category : Immigrants
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Book Description
Considered by many to be Lithuania's most important work of modernist fiction, this novel tells the story of Antanas Garsva, an emigre poet working as an elevator operator in a large New York hotel in the 1950s.

White as the Shroud

White as the Shroud PDF Author: Myra MacDonald
Publisher: Hurst Publishers
ISBN: 1787387518
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 304

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Between South and Central Asia, in the high mountains and cold deserts, India, Pakistan and China have fought brutal wars over barren, uninhabited territory in a bid for control over their national peripheries, including Xinjiang and Tibet in China, and Jammu and Kashmir on the Indian subcontinent. White as the Shroud explores this broader story through the most surreal of such conflicts: the Siachen war, fought between India and Pakistan for control of the eponymous glacier. The tale of Siachen highlights the absurdity of seeking hard borders in such desolate mountains, as well as the brutality of high-altitude warfare—more soldiers were killed by the weather and terrain than by the fighting. As one of the few people to have visited both sides of the glacier, Indian and Pakistani, Myra MacDonald provides a first-hand view of the battlefield and a wealth of eyewitness testimony from combatants. She sets this account in the overarching narrative of the Kashmir conflict, India’s defeat by China in 1962, and the 1999 India-Pakistan Kargil war. White as the Shroudbrings a fresh perspective to one of the most volatile corners of the world, raising questions about borders and the wars fought to defend them.

White Shroud

White Shroud PDF Author: Allen Ginsberg
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0060914297
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 110

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Poems by a modern master. "[Ginsberg's] powerful mixture of Blake, Whitman, Pound, and Williams, to which he added his own volatile, grotesque, and tender humor, has assured him a memorable place in modern poetry."-- Helen Vendler

Secret of the Shroud

Secret of the Shroud PDF Author: Pamela Binnings Ewen
Publisher: B&H Publishing Group
ISBN: 1433671158
Category : Christian fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 354

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Ewen's powerful suspense novel uses the Shroud of Turin and the extensive investigations into its authenticity to explore and illuminate God's truth.

Resurrection of the Shroud

Resurrection of the Shroud PDF Author: Mark Antonacci
Publisher: M. Evans
ISBN: 1461732409
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 338

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Book Description
This book scientifically challenges earlier radiocarbon testing and presents new evidence in determining the Shroud of Turin's true age.

The White Book

The White Book PDF Author: Han Kang
Publisher: Hogarth
ISBN: 0525573062
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 161

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FROM HAN KANG, WINNER OF THE 2024 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE “[Han Kang writes in] intense poetic prose that . . . exposes the fragility of human life.”—from the Nobel Prize citation SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE • A “formally daring, emotionally devastating, and deeply political” (The New York Times Book Review) exploration of personal grief through the prism of the color white, from the internationally bestselling author of The Vegetarian “Stunningly beautiful. . . one of the smartest reflections on what it means to remember those we’ve lost.”—NPR Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize, Han Kang’s The White Book is a meditation on color, as well as an attempt to make sense of her older sister’s death, who died in her mother’s arms just a few hours after she was born. In captivating, starkly beautiful language, The White Book is a letter from Kang to her sister, offering a multilayered exploration of color and its absence, and of the tenacity and fragility of the human spirit.

The Shroud of Turin and the C-14 Dating Fiasco

The Shroud of Turin and the C-14 Dating Fiasco PDF Author: Thomas W. Case
Publisher: White Horse Press (OH)
ISBN: 9780964831018
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 112

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The Lair of the White Worm and the Lady of the Shroud

The Lair of the White Worm and the Lady of the Shroud PDF Author: Bram Stoker
Publisher: Tales of Mystery & the Superna
ISBN: 9781840226454
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 431

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Here are two great, neglected horror novels by Bram Stoker, author of "Dracula," together in one volume for the first time

The Silken Shroud

The Silken Shroud PDF Author: ElizaBeth Gilligan
Publisher: Astra Publishing House
ISBN: 1101665726
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 473

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The second book of the dazzling Silken Magic series, set in the mythical kingdom of Tyrrhia, where courtly politics, magic, and the silk trade intersect. Romani magic had gifted the princess Alessandra with the blessing of the Fairy folk. So when death claimed her at the White King’s Court in Tyrrhia, not only her own clan and the man she loved, Maggiore Mandero di Montago, but the Fairy folk, too, cried out for justice and revenge. For Alessandra’s corpse had been stolen—bound by spells to entrap her soul—so her energy could be used to work dark magic. If her body wasn’t found and her soul wasn’t set free within a year, she would be transformed into a creature of evil, the goodness within her completely consumed. Alessa is held by a master of the dark arts, a man who has a high position in the Church and who might yet call upon powerful allies for support. And even with the magic of the Rom and the Fairy folk to aid him, Mandero would be in terrible jeopardy as he sought to find and free Alessa from her earthly prison. Yet he must try at all costs, for the stakes are far higher than the loss of one soul, no matter how beloved. If the enemy’s plans cannot be overturned, all Tyrrhia might be plunged into a religious war that could see an end to the last stronghold of peace, tolerance, and true magic....

Shroud

Shroud PDF Author: John Banville
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 144720736X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 420

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‘Shroud will not be easily surpassed for its combination of wit, moral complexity and compassion. It is hard to see what more a novel could do’ Irish Times Dark secrets and reality unravel in Shroud, the second of John Banville's three novels to feature Cass Cleave, alongside Eclipse and Ancient Light. Axel Vander, distinguished intellectual and elderly academic, is not the man he seems. When a letter arrives out of the blue, threatening to unveil his secrets – and carefully concealed identity – Vander travels to Turin to meet its author. There, muddled by age and alcohol, unable always to distinguish fact from fiction, Vander comes face to face with the woman who has the knowledge to unmask him, Cass Cleave. However, her sense of reality is as unreliable as his, and the two are quickly drawn together, their relationship dark, disturbed and doomed to disaster from its very start.