Author: Alma Flor Ada
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1442424036
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 161
Book Description
Sixth-grader Amalia learns many important life-lessons while spending Friday afternoons with her beloved grandmother, and the teaching goes on even after Abuelita's sudden death as Amalia finds a way to connect with relatives and a friend who has moved away.
Love, Amalia
Author: Alma Flor Ada
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1442424044
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 161
Book Description
Amalia deals with loss while learning about love and her cultural heritage in this tender tale from acclaimed authors Alma Flor Ada and Gabriel M. Zubizarreta. Amalia’s best friend Martha is moving away, and Amalia is feeling sad and angry. And yet, even when life seems unfair, the loving, wise words of Amalia’s abuelita have a way of making everything a little bit brighter. Amalia finds great comfort in times shared with her grandmother: cooking, listening to stories and music, learning, and looking through her treasured box of family cards. But when another loss racks Amalia’s life, nothing makes sense anymore. In her sorrow, will Amalia realize just how special she is, even when the ones she loves are no longer near? From leading voices in Hispanic literature, this thoughtful and touching depiction of one girl’s transition through loss and love is available in both English and Spanish.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1442424044
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 161
Book Description
Amalia deals with loss while learning about love and her cultural heritage in this tender tale from acclaimed authors Alma Flor Ada and Gabriel M. Zubizarreta. Amalia’s best friend Martha is moving away, and Amalia is feeling sad and angry. And yet, even when life seems unfair, the loving, wise words of Amalia’s abuelita have a way of making everything a little bit brighter. Amalia finds great comfort in times shared with her grandmother: cooking, listening to stories and music, learning, and looking through her treasured box of family cards. But when another loss racks Amalia’s life, nothing makes sense anymore. In her sorrow, will Amalia realize just how special she is, even when the ones she loves are no longer near? From leading voices in Hispanic literature, this thoughtful and touching depiction of one girl’s transition through loss and love is available in both English and Spanish.
Love, Amalia
Author: Alma Flor Ada
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1442424036
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 161
Book Description
Sixth-grader Amalia learns many important life-lessons while spending Friday afternoons with her beloved grandmother, and the teaching goes on even after Abuelita's sudden death as Amalia finds a way to connect with relatives and a friend who has moved away.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1442424036
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 161
Book Description
Sixth-grader Amalia learns many important life-lessons while spending Friday afternoons with her beloved grandmother, and the teaching goes on even after Abuelita's sudden death as Amalia finds a way to connect with relatives and a friend who has moved away.
Amalia
Author: José Mármol
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780198028659
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 708
Book Description
Amalia is one of the most popular Latin American novels and, until recently, was required reading in Argentina's schools. It was written to protest the dictatorship of Juan Manuel de Rosas and to provide a picture of the political events during his regime, but the book's popularity stemmed from the love story that fuels the plot. Originally published in 1851 in serial form, Marmol's novel recounts the story of Eduardo and Amalia, who fall in love while he is hiding in her home. Amalia and her cousin Daniel protect him from Rosist persecution, but before the couple and the cousin can escape to safety, they are discovered by the death squad and the young men die. Similar in style to the romantic novels of Walter Scott, Amalia provides a detailed picture of life under a dictatorship combined with lively dialogue, drama, and a tragic love story.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780198028659
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 708
Book Description
Amalia is one of the most popular Latin American novels and, until recently, was required reading in Argentina's schools. It was written to protest the dictatorship of Juan Manuel de Rosas and to provide a picture of the political events during his regime, but the book's popularity stemmed from the love story that fuels the plot. Originally published in 1851 in serial form, Marmol's novel recounts the story of Eduardo and Amalia, who fall in love while he is hiding in her home. Amalia and her cousin Daniel protect him from Rosist persecution, but before the couple and the cousin can escape to safety, they are discovered by the death squad and the young men die. Similar in style to the romantic novels of Walter Scott, Amalia provides a detailed picture of life under a dictatorship combined with lively dialogue, drama, and a tragic love story.
The Jewish Cultural Tapestry
Author: Steven M. Lowenstein
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195158008
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 705
Book Description
This compact volume showcases the customs and folkways of a people united by tradition yet scattered to the far corners of the Earth on five continents. Lowenstein describes the widely varying regional Jewish cultures with needlepoint accuracy. 75 halftones.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195158008
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 705
Book Description
This compact volume showcases the customs and folkways of a people united by tradition yet scattered to the far corners of the Earth on five continents. Lowenstein describes the widely varying regional Jewish cultures with needlepoint accuracy. 75 halftones.
Amalia
Author: José Mármol
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Argentina
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Argentina
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
Borders of Visibility
Author: Jennifer L. Shoaff
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
ISBN: 0817319670
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 207
Book Description
An anthropological study of Haitian migrant women's experiences of marginality and violence as they endeavor to make a living and life in the Dominican Republic Book jacket.
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
ISBN: 0817319670
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 207
Book Description
An anthropological study of Haitian migrant women's experiences of marginality and violence as they endeavor to make a living and life in the Dominican Republic Book jacket.
The Lost Wife
Author: Alyson Richman
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101552549
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
A rapturous novel of star-crossed love in a time of war—from the international bestselling author of The Secret of Clouds. During the last moments of calm in prewar Prague, Lenka, a young art student, and Josef, who is studying medicine, fall in love. With the promise of a better future, they marry—only to have their dreams shattered by the imminent Nazi invasion. Like so many others, they are torn apart by the currents of war. Now a successful obstetrician in America, Josef has never forgotten the wife he believes died in the war. But in the Nazi ghetto of Terezín, Lenka survived, relying on her skills as an artist and the memories of a husband she would never see again. Then, decades later and thousands of miles away, an unexpected encounter in New York leads to an inescapable glance of recognition, and the realization that providence has given Lenka and Josef one more chance. From the glamorous ease of life in Prague before the occupation to the horrors of Nazi Europe, The Lost Wife explores the power of first love, the resilience of the human spirit, and our capacity to remember.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101552549
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
A rapturous novel of star-crossed love in a time of war—from the international bestselling author of The Secret of Clouds. During the last moments of calm in prewar Prague, Lenka, a young art student, and Josef, who is studying medicine, fall in love. With the promise of a better future, they marry—only to have their dreams shattered by the imminent Nazi invasion. Like so many others, they are torn apart by the currents of war. Now a successful obstetrician in America, Josef has never forgotten the wife he believes died in the war. But in the Nazi ghetto of Terezín, Lenka survived, relying on her skills as an artist and the memories of a husband she would never see again. Then, decades later and thousands of miles away, an unexpected encounter in New York leads to an inescapable glance of recognition, and the realization that providence has given Lenka and Josef one more chance. From the glamorous ease of life in Prague before the occupation to the horrors of Nazi Europe, The Lost Wife explores the power of first love, the resilience of the human spirit, and our capacity to remember.
Elena Ferrante as World Literature
Author: Stiliana Milkova Rousseva
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1501357549
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
"A model of academic praxis." - Public Books Elena Ferrante as World Literature is the first English-language monograph on Italian writer Elena Ferrante, whose four Neapolitan Novels (2011-2014) became a global phenomenon. The book proposes that Ferrante constructs a theory of feminine experience which serves as the scaffolding for her own literary practice. Drawing on the writer's entire textual corpus to date, Stiliana Milkova examines the linguistic, psychical, and corporeal-spatial realities that constitute the female subjects Ferrante has theorized. At stake in Ferrante's theory/practice is the articulation of a feminine subjectivity that emerges from the structures of patriarchal oppression and that resists, bypasses, or subverts these very structures. Milkova's inquiry proceeds from Ferrante's theory of frantumaglia and smarginatura to explore mechanisms for controlling and containing the female body and mind, forms of female authorship and creativity, and corporeal negotiations of urban topography and patriarchal space. Elena Ferrante as World Literature sets forth an interdisciplinary framework for understanding Ferrante's texts and offers an account of her literary and cultural significance today.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1501357549
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
"A model of academic praxis." - Public Books Elena Ferrante as World Literature is the first English-language monograph on Italian writer Elena Ferrante, whose four Neapolitan Novels (2011-2014) became a global phenomenon. The book proposes that Ferrante constructs a theory of feminine experience which serves as the scaffolding for her own literary practice. Drawing on the writer's entire textual corpus to date, Stiliana Milkova examines the linguistic, psychical, and corporeal-spatial realities that constitute the female subjects Ferrante has theorized. At stake in Ferrante's theory/practice is the articulation of a feminine subjectivity that emerges from the structures of patriarchal oppression and that resists, bypasses, or subverts these very structures. Milkova's inquiry proceeds from Ferrante's theory of frantumaglia and smarginatura to explore mechanisms for controlling and containing the female body and mind, forms of female authorship and creativity, and corporeal negotiations of urban topography and patriarchal space. Elena Ferrante as World Literature sets forth an interdisciplinary framework for understanding Ferrante's texts and offers an account of her literary and cultural significance today.
Herstories. An Anthology of New Ukrainian Women Prose Writers
Author: Michael M. Naydan
Publisher: Glagoslav Publications
ISBN: 1909156035
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
Women’s prose writing has exploded on the literary scene in Ukraine just prior to and following Ukrainian independence in 1991. Over the past two decades scores of fascinating new women authors have emerged. These authors write in a wide variety of styles and genres including short stories, novels, essays, and new journalism. In the collection you will find: realism, magical realism, surrealism, the fantastic, deeply intellectual writing, newly discovered feminist perspectives, philosophical prose, psychological mysteries, confessional prose, and much more.
Publisher: Glagoslav Publications
ISBN: 1909156035
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
Women’s prose writing has exploded on the literary scene in Ukraine just prior to and following Ukrainian independence in 1991. Over the past two decades scores of fascinating new women authors have emerged. These authors write in a wide variety of styles and genres including short stories, novels, essays, and new journalism. In the collection you will find: realism, magical realism, surrealism, the fantastic, deeply intellectual writing, newly discovered feminist perspectives, philosophical prose, psychological mysteries, confessional prose, and much more.
Who's Who in Verdi
Author: Jonathan Lewsey
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 135173525X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 757
Book Description
This title was first published in 2001. Concentrating exclusively on the dramatic content of Verdi's opera, this text illuminates the characters and plot scenarios that inspired one of the greatest composers of opera. Organized alphabetically, the reference contains over 250 entries, with synopses and first performance and cast details.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 135173525X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 757
Book Description
This title was first published in 2001. Concentrating exclusively on the dramatic content of Verdi's opera, this text illuminates the characters and plot scenarios that inspired one of the greatest composers of opera. Organized alphabetically, the reference contains over 250 entries, with synopses and first performance and cast details.