Author: P. Mesta
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1453599495
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 129
Book Description
Jackals of the Night is based on traumatic and abusive incidents in a young girls life. These nightmares that started were begun from the seeds of these occurrences. The spirits that haunted her and never left until their time here on earth finally ran out and they were sucked back into the hell they belonged to. Those Jackals of the Night were predators. They hid in the closets, in the hallways, and truly within real life. Wearing their masks, pretending they were caring people: the so-called protectors that turned their backs on this young child. These are people that never believed the truth.
Jackals of the Night
Author: P. Mesta
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1453599495
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 129
Book Description
Jackals of the Night is based on traumatic and abusive incidents in a young girls life. These nightmares that started were begun from the seeds of these occurrences. The spirits that haunted her and never left until their time here on earth finally ran out and they were sucked back into the hell they belonged to. Those Jackals of the Night were predators. They hid in the closets, in the hallways, and truly within real life. Wearing their masks, pretending they were caring people: the so-called protectors that turned their backs on this young child. These are people that never believed the truth.
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1453599495
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 129
Book Description
Jackals of the Night is based on traumatic and abusive incidents in a young girls life. These nightmares that started were begun from the seeds of these occurrences. The spirits that haunted her and never left until their time here on earth finally ran out and they were sucked back into the hell they belonged to. Those Jackals of the Night were predators. They hid in the closets, in the hallways, and truly within real life. Wearing their masks, pretending they were caring people: the so-called protectors that turned their backs on this young child. These are people that never believed the truth.
The Day of the Jackal
Author: Frederick Forsyth
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780745133430
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
#1 "New York Times" bestselling author Frederick Forsyth's unforgettable novel of a conspiracy, a killer, and the one man who can stop him... He is known only as "The Jackal"--a cold, calculating assassin without emotion, or loyalty, or equal. He's just received a contract from an enigmatic employer to eliminate one of the most heavily guarded men in the world--Charles De Gaulle, president of France. It is only a twist of fate that allows the authorities to discover the plot. They know next to nothing--only that the assassin is on the move. To track him, they dispatch their finest detective, Claude Lebel, on a manhunt that will push him to his limit, in a race to stop an assassin's bullet from reaching its target.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780745133430
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
#1 "New York Times" bestselling author Frederick Forsyth's unforgettable novel of a conspiracy, a killer, and the one man who can stop him... He is known only as "The Jackal"--a cold, calculating assassin without emotion, or loyalty, or equal. He's just received a contract from an enigmatic employer to eliminate one of the most heavily guarded men in the world--Charles De Gaulle, president of France. It is only a twist of fate that allows the authorities to discover the plot. They know next to nothing--only that the assassin is on the move. To track him, they dispatch their finest detective, Claude Lebel, on a manhunt that will push him to his limit, in a race to stop an assassin's bullet from reaching its target.
Where the Jackals Howl
Author: Amos Oz
Publisher: HMH
ISBN: 0547751982
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 243
Book Description
The first book from the acclaimed, award-winning author of A Tale of Love and Darkness and the New York Times Notable Book, Scenes from Village Life. The Washington Post praised Israeli author Amos Oz as “one of our essential writers, laying out for our observation, in ever-increasing breadth and profundity, the mad landscape of our time and his place.” Here, in his first book, is a disturbing and moving collection of short stories about kibbutz life. Each of the eight stories in this volume grips the reader from the first line, and convey the tension and intensity of feeling in the founding period of Israel, a brand-new state with an age-old history. Some are love stories, more are hate stories, and frequently the two urges intertwine. “A strong, beautiful, disturbing book. It speaks piercingly—whether wittingly or unwittingly, I know not—of a dimension of the Israeli experience not often discussed, of the specter of the other brother, of a haunting, an unhealed wound; it reminds us of polarizations everywhere that bind and diminish us, that may yet rend us.” —The New York Times “As you read, you feel yourself, in all these stories, sinking deeper into the loam of Oz’s sensibility, a paradoxical mix of sensuality and disdain. A good collection by an important international writer.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
Publisher: HMH
ISBN: 0547751982
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 243
Book Description
The first book from the acclaimed, award-winning author of A Tale of Love and Darkness and the New York Times Notable Book, Scenes from Village Life. The Washington Post praised Israeli author Amos Oz as “one of our essential writers, laying out for our observation, in ever-increasing breadth and profundity, the mad landscape of our time and his place.” Here, in his first book, is a disturbing and moving collection of short stories about kibbutz life. Each of the eight stories in this volume grips the reader from the first line, and convey the tension and intensity of feeling in the founding period of Israel, a brand-new state with an age-old history. Some are love stories, more are hate stories, and frequently the two urges intertwine. “A strong, beautiful, disturbing book. It speaks piercingly—whether wittingly or unwittingly, I know not—of a dimension of the Israeli experience not often discussed, of the specter of the other brother, of a haunting, an unhealed wound; it reminds us of polarizations everywhere that bind and diminish us, that may yet rend us.” —The New York Times “As you read, you feel yourself, in all these stories, sinking deeper into the loam of Oz’s sensibility, a paradoxical mix of sensuality and disdain. A good collection by an important international writer.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
The Wondrous Tale of Alroy
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
Santal Folk Tales: Stories about jackals. Stories about women
Author: Paul Olaf Bodding
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
The Blue Jackal
Author: Shobha Viswanath
Publisher:
ISBN: 9788181900340
Category : Animals
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"One fine day, Chandarva, a small jackal wakes up to find his fur turned to the colour blue. Listen to the adventures of the blue jackal in this hilarious Panchatantra Classic brought alive by the rich and sonorous voice of master story teller Naseeruddin Shah."--Cover.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9788181900340
Category : Animals
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"One fine day, Chandarva, a small jackal wakes up to find his fur turned to the colour blue. Listen to the adventures of the blue jackal in this hilarious Panchatantra Classic brought alive by the rich and sonorous voice of master story teller Naseeruddin Shah."--Cover.
India and Indology
Author: William Norman Brown
Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publishe
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publishe
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
A Year Amongst the Persians
Author: Edward Granville Browne
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 616
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 616
Book Description
The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night
Author: Leonard Charles Smithers
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fairy tales
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fairy tales
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
Mondays on the Dark Night of the Moon
Author: Kirin Narayan
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195103491
Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Oral tales establish relationships between storytellers and their listeners. Yet most printed collections of folktales contain only stories, stripped of the human contexts in which they are told. If storytellers are mentioned at all, they are rarely consulted about what meanings they see in their tales. In this innovative book, Indian-American anthropologist Kirin Narayan reproduces twenty-one folktales narrated in a mountain dialect by a middle-aged Indian village woman, Urmila Devi Sood, or "Urmilaji." The tales are set within the larger story of Kirin Narayan's research in the Himalayan foothill region of Kangra, and of her growing friendship with Urmilaji Sood. In turn, Urmilaji Sood supplements her tales with interpretations of the wisdom that she discerns in their plots. At a moment when the mass-media is flooding through rural India, Urmilaji Sood asserts the value of her tales which have been told and retold across generations. As she says, "Television can't teach you these things." These tales serve as both moral instruction and as beguiling entertainment. The first set of tales, focussing on women's domestic rituals, lays out guidelines for female devotion and virtue. Here are tales of a pious washerwoman who brings the dead to life, a female weevil observing fasts for a better rebirth, a barren woman who adopts a frog and lights ritual oil lamps, and a queen who remains with her husband through twelve arduous years of affliction. The women performing these rituals and listening to the accompanying stories are thought to bring good fortune to their marriages, and long life to their relatives. The second set of tales, associated with passing the time around the fire through long winter nights, are magical adventure tales. Urmilaji Sood tells of a matchmaker who marries a princess off to a lion, God splitting a boy claimed by two families into two selves, a prince's journey to the land of the demons, and a girl transformed into a bird by her stepmother. In an increasingly interconnected world, anthropologists' authority to depict and theorize about distant people's lives is under fire. Kirin Narayan seeks solutions to this crisis in anthropology by locating the exchange of knowledge in a respectful, affectionate collaboration. Through the medium of oral narratives, Urmilaji Sood describes her own life and lives around her, and through the medium of ethnography Kirin Narayan shows how broader conclusions emerge from specific, spirited interactions. Set evocatively amid the changing seasons in a Himalayan foothill village, this pathbreaking book draws a moving portrait of an accomplished woman storyteller. Mondays on the Dark Night of the Moon offers a window into the joys and sorrows of women's changing lives in rural India, and reveals the significance of oral storytelling in nurturing human ties.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195103491
Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Oral tales establish relationships between storytellers and their listeners. Yet most printed collections of folktales contain only stories, stripped of the human contexts in which they are told. If storytellers are mentioned at all, they are rarely consulted about what meanings they see in their tales. In this innovative book, Indian-American anthropologist Kirin Narayan reproduces twenty-one folktales narrated in a mountain dialect by a middle-aged Indian village woman, Urmila Devi Sood, or "Urmilaji." The tales are set within the larger story of Kirin Narayan's research in the Himalayan foothill region of Kangra, and of her growing friendship with Urmilaji Sood. In turn, Urmilaji Sood supplements her tales with interpretations of the wisdom that she discerns in their plots. At a moment when the mass-media is flooding through rural India, Urmilaji Sood asserts the value of her tales which have been told and retold across generations. As she says, "Television can't teach you these things." These tales serve as both moral instruction and as beguiling entertainment. The first set of tales, focussing on women's domestic rituals, lays out guidelines for female devotion and virtue. Here are tales of a pious washerwoman who brings the dead to life, a female weevil observing fasts for a better rebirth, a barren woman who adopts a frog and lights ritual oil lamps, and a queen who remains with her husband through twelve arduous years of affliction. The women performing these rituals and listening to the accompanying stories are thought to bring good fortune to their marriages, and long life to their relatives. The second set of tales, associated with passing the time around the fire through long winter nights, are magical adventure tales. Urmilaji Sood tells of a matchmaker who marries a princess off to a lion, God splitting a boy claimed by two families into two selves, a prince's journey to the land of the demons, and a girl transformed into a bird by her stepmother. In an increasingly interconnected world, anthropologists' authority to depict and theorize about distant people's lives is under fire. Kirin Narayan seeks solutions to this crisis in anthropology by locating the exchange of knowledge in a respectful, affectionate collaboration. Through the medium of oral narratives, Urmilaji Sood describes her own life and lives around her, and through the medium of ethnography Kirin Narayan shows how broader conclusions emerge from specific, spirited interactions. Set evocatively amid the changing seasons in a Himalayan foothill village, this pathbreaking book draws a moving portrait of an accomplished woman storyteller. Mondays on the Dark Night of the Moon offers a window into the joys and sorrows of women's changing lives in rural India, and reveals the significance of oral storytelling in nurturing human ties.