Author: Patrick Wilson Gore
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1663255423
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 229
Book Description
Don Patricio picked up the sobriquet in Antigua Guatemala and it became firmly attached in Mexico. The Nine Lives are harder to explain, but given the life he led over the last seventy years, odds were against his survival.
The Nine Lives of Don Patricio
Author: Patrick Wilson Gore
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1663255423
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 229
Book Description
Don Patricio picked up the sobriquet in Antigua Guatemala and it became firmly attached in Mexico. The Nine Lives are harder to explain, but given the life he led over the last seventy years, odds were against his survival.
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1663255423
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 229
Book Description
Don Patricio picked up the sobriquet in Antigua Guatemala and it became firmly attached in Mexico. The Nine Lives are harder to explain, but given the life he led over the last seventy years, odds were against his survival.
The Fortnightly Review
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Languages : en
Pages : 1226
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Languages : en
Pages : 1226
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Fortnightly Review
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Category : International cooperation
Languages : en
Pages : 1182
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Category : International cooperation
Languages : en
Pages : 1182
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The Fortnightly
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Languages : en
Pages : 1176
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Pages : 1176
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East of Haiti
Author: Cesar Sanchez Beras
Publisher: Arte Publico Press
ISBN: 1518507816
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
In the title piece, “East of Haiti,” Old Jean Morisseau waits for his son Claude, who he hasn’t seen in ten years, and worries about his grandson Christopher, whose mother—like so many others—crossed the border into the neighboring country and disappeared. As the boy grows, he begins to read his missing father’s diary. And one day, he gathers his courage and leaves his grandfather and their small village to find his dad. Sanchez Beras paints stirring images of the Haitians and Dominicans who share the island of Hispaniola in this collection of three novellas. Don Victoriano Zaldivar, a landowner and “lord over the lives of many who were dirt poor,” doesn’t let his advanced age interfere with his preference for young girls. He plots to conquer Aurorita, who he acknowledges is still a child, but “has the look of a woman.” Young Albertico Durosier is poor and black, but he learns to juggle his fragmented identity, presenting himself as Dominican in certain circumstances and Haitian in others. On his mother’s deathbed, she confesses his father was a well-to-do white man who took advantage of the black Haitian cleaning girl in his family’s employ. Delving into the adversities of race, poverty and discrimination, Sanchez Beras’ stories follow ordinary people working ceaselessly toward a better life for themselves and their loved ones. This intriguing addition to Caribbean literature is notable for its setting—the mountains and other local communities without a view of the beach so familiar to tourists—and its glimpse into the issues that lead to so many leaving their home for opportunities elsewhere.
Publisher: Arte Publico Press
ISBN: 1518507816
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
In the title piece, “East of Haiti,” Old Jean Morisseau waits for his son Claude, who he hasn’t seen in ten years, and worries about his grandson Christopher, whose mother—like so many others—crossed the border into the neighboring country and disappeared. As the boy grows, he begins to read his missing father’s diary. And one day, he gathers his courage and leaves his grandfather and their small village to find his dad. Sanchez Beras paints stirring images of the Haitians and Dominicans who share the island of Hispaniola in this collection of three novellas. Don Victoriano Zaldivar, a landowner and “lord over the lives of many who were dirt poor,” doesn’t let his advanced age interfere with his preference for young girls. He plots to conquer Aurorita, who he acknowledges is still a child, but “has the look of a woman.” Young Albertico Durosier is poor and black, but he learns to juggle his fragmented identity, presenting himself as Dominican in certain circumstances and Haitian in others. On his mother’s deathbed, she confesses his father was a well-to-do white man who took advantage of the black Haitian cleaning girl in his family’s employ. Delving into the adversities of race, poverty and discrimination, Sanchez Beras’ stories follow ordinary people working ceaselessly toward a better life for themselves and their loved ones. This intriguing addition to Caribbean literature is notable for its setting—the mountains and other local communities without a view of the beach so familiar to tourists—and its glimpse into the issues that lead to so many leaving their home for opportunities elsewhere.
Sunset
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Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 1132
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Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 1132
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Don't Shed Your Tears for Anyone Who Lives on These Streets
Author: Patricio Pron
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 1101972629
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Pinerolo, Italy. April 1945. At a fascist conference, a writer disappears and is found dead at the bottom of a cliff. Thirty years later, a young man—a political activist or maybe a terrorist—interviews the survivors to try to uncover the truth about what happened and its consequences. Who was this writer? What did he believe in? Why, shortly before his death, did he save a man who could have killed him? Where is his lost work? And what does any of this have to do with a teenager in contemporary Milan involved in a violent confrontation with the police? Bold and incisive, Don’t Shed Your Tears for Anyone Who Lives on These Streets is a gripping examination of art-as-politics and politics-as-crime.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 1101972629
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Pinerolo, Italy. April 1945. At a fascist conference, a writer disappears and is found dead at the bottom of a cliff. Thirty years later, a young man—a political activist or maybe a terrorist—interviews the survivors to try to uncover the truth about what happened and its consequences. Who was this writer? What did he believe in? Why, shortly before his death, did he save a man who could have killed him? Where is his lost work? And what does any of this have to do with a teenager in contemporary Milan involved in a violent confrontation with the police? Bold and incisive, Don’t Shed Your Tears for Anyone Who Lives on These Streets is a gripping examination of art-as-politics and politics-as-crime.
The Overland Monthly
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Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 692
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Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 692
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The Witch’s Door
Author: Ricardo Martinez
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1796010006
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
This is a story about witchcraft. In 1926, a six-year-old boy named Juan Aguilar goes on a camping trip with his family to Questa, New Mexico. He runs into a cursed house, and he is mysteriously transported back in time to 1826. He is taken in by a local family, and he slowly starts to discover why this house was cursed, that many other children have suffered the same fate, and ten years later finds his way back to his family in Albuquerque. When he returns home, no one believes his strange story of Bella the witch and the notorious witch hunter, Luciano del Valle. Years later, as an adult, he writes his story of witchcraft in rural New Mexico.
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1796010006
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
This is a story about witchcraft. In 1926, a six-year-old boy named Juan Aguilar goes on a camping trip with his family to Questa, New Mexico. He runs into a cursed house, and he is mysteriously transported back in time to 1826. He is taken in by a local family, and he slowly starts to discover why this house was cursed, that many other children have suffered the same fate, and ten years later finds his way back to his family in Albuquerque. When he returns home, no one believes his strange story of Bella the witch and the notorious witch hunter, Luciano del Valle. Years later, as an adult, he writes his story of witchcraft in rural New Mexico.
The Topographical Poems
Author: John O'Donovan
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 337501872X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1862.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 337501872X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1862.