Author: Raymond Carver
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 1101970553
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 238
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PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • Twelve short stories that mark a turning point in the work of “one of the true American masters" (The New York Review of Books). “A writer of astonishing compassion and honesty … His eye is so clear, it almost breaks your heart.” —The Washington Post Book World A remarkable collection that includes the canonical titular story about blindness and learning to enter the very different world of another. These twelve stories “overflow with the danger, excitement, mystery and possibility of life.” —The Washington Post Book World
Author: Blind man
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 152
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Author: Vusi Mxolisi Zitha
Publisher: BookRix
ISBN: 3748781113
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 147
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Chaos overwhelms the individuals of the land when notorious youth that didn't know the history of the kingdom's wellbeing emerged. In the process, the prince burns his father alive due to greediness and impatience to take over the throne and impose his will. However the blind man is next to be eliminated, but before the thoughts of killing him crossed the prince's mind; the blind man has already adapted an unbelievable and strange strategy to avoid being killed while he continues to dish out his wisdom to the people to save them from self-destruction and the land from ignorance and arrogance. Nevertheless, will the blind man's adapted technique rescue him for good or will he be apprehended and killed? Find out.
Author: Edwin Balmer
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 274
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'The Blind Man's Eyes' is a crime thriller novel. Hugh Overton has been falsely convicted of the murder of the wealthy businessman Matthew Latrone and sent to prison. But in order to clear his name, he escapes from prison and takes on a false name Philip Eaton. On a train he encounters the prominent but blind lawyer, Basil Santoines, who he knows has evidence that could help clear his name. He invites Eaton to his home, where he falls in love with Basil's daughter, Harriet. But a henchman, Donald Avery, is also after Eaton, to stop him from discovering the truth. And when a violent struggle occurs at the Santoines's home, it leaves tragic results for the lawyer's family...
Author: Nadeem Aslam
Publisher: Random House India
ISBN: 8184003919
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 347
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‘Love is not consolation, it is light’ From the author of Maps for Lost Lovers and The Wasted Vigil comes a novel set in the months after 9/11, when Western armies invaded Afghanistan—a story of love, hope and grief, of uncorrupted faith and of what it means to be alive. Jeo and his foster-brother Mikal leave their home in Pakistan to help care for wounded Afghans. Within hours of entering the wide-horizoned Afghan landscape, Mikal and Jeo are separated and, emerging from the carnage, Mikal begins his search for Jeo. But his deepest wish is to return home—to the young woman he loves and who loves him, Jeo’s wife. The Blind Man’s Garden maps a place both phantasmally beautiful and chilling. Taking us on a journey from Al Qaeda’s hideouts in Waziristan and American-built military prisons to a family left behind—Mikal’s and Jeo’s blind, regretful father, Jeo’s resolute wife and her superstitious mother—it unflinchingly examines war and brotherhood, devastation, separation and remorse, while celebrating the redemptive power of nature, art and literature.
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Category : Working class
Languages : en
Pages : 1268
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Author: James Tate Hill
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393867188
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 158
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A New York Times Editors' Choice A Washington Independent Review of Books Favorite Book of 2021 A writer’s humorous and often-heartbreaking tale of losing his sight—and how he hid it from the world. At age sixteen, James Tate Hill was diagnosed with Leber’s hereditary optic neuropathy, a condition that left him legally blind. When high-school friends stopped calling and a disability counselor advised him to aim for C’s in his classes, he tried to escape the stigma by pretending he could still see. In this unfailingly candid yet humorous memoir, Hill discloses the tricks he employed to pass for sighted, from displaying shelves of paperbacks he read on tape to arriving early on first dates so women would have to find him. He risked his life every time he crossed a street, doing his best to listen for approaching cars. A good memory and pop culture obsessions like Tom Cruise, Prince, and all things 1980s allowed him to steer conversations toward common experiences. For fifteen years, Hill hid his blindness from friends, colleagues, and lovers, even convincing himself that if he stared long enough, his blurry peripheral vision would bring the world into focus. At thirty, faced with a stalled writing career, a crumbling marriage, and a growing fear of leaving his apartment, he began to wonder if there was a better way.
Author: James Stuart Laurie
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 168
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Author: Frances Martin
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 238
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Elizabeth Gilbert was a nineteenth-century English philanthropist. When she was only 3 years old scarlet fever robbed her of her sight, but she learned several languages and also learned to write using a special frame. Coming from a privileged family, she was interested in helping the blind poor and this book recounts her work and successes in this field.
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Category : Missions
Languages : en
Pages : 162
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