First Person Singular
Title | First Person Singular PDF eBook |
Author | Haruki Murakami |
Publisher | Random House |
Pages | 256 |
Release | 2021-04-06 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1473582377 |
A mindbending new collection of short stories from the unique, internationally acclaimed author of Norwegian Wood and The Wind-up Bird Chronicle. THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER The eight masterly stories in this new collection are all told in the first person by a classic Murakami narrator. From nostalgic memories of youth, meditations on music and an ardent love of baseball to dreamlike scenarios, an encounter with a talking monkey and invented jazz albums, together these stories challenge the boundaries between our minds and the exterior world. Occasionally, a narrator who may or may not be Murakami himself is present. Is it memoir or fiction? The reader decides. Philosophical and mysterious, the stories in First Person Singular all touch beautifully on love and solitude, childhood and memory. . . all with a signature Murakami twist. A GUARDIAN AND SUNDAY TIMES 'BOOKS OF 2021' PICK
Second Person Singular
Title | Second Person Singular PDF eBook |
Author | Sayed Kashua |
Publisher | Open Road + Grove/Atlantic |
Pages | 285 |
Release | 2012-04-03 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0802194648 |
An award-winning novel of love, betrayal, and Arab Israeli identity by the author of Dancing Arabs—“one of the most important contemporary Hebrew writers” (Haaretz). A successful Arab criminal attorney and a social worker-turned-artist find their lives intersecting under the most curious of circumstances. The lawyer has a thriving practice in Jerusalem, a large house, and a Mercedes. He speaks both Arabic and Hebrew, and lives with his wife and two young children. To maintain his image as a sophisticated Israeli Arab, he makes frequent visits to a local bookstore and picks up popular novels. But on one fateful evening, he decides to buy a used copy of Tolstoy’s The Kreutzer Sonata, a book his wife once recommended. Tucked in its pages, he finds a love letter, in Arabic . . . in his wife’s handwriting. Consumed with suspicion and jealousy, he decides to hunt down the book’s previous owner—a man named Yonatan. But Yonatan’s identity is more complex than the attorney imagined. In the process of dredging up old ghosts and secrets, the lawyer breaks the fragile threads that hold all of their lives together. Winner of the 2011 Bernstein Prize, Second Person Singular is “part comedy of manners, part psychological mystery” (The Boston Globe) that offers “sharp insights on the assumptions made about race, religion, ethnicity, and class that shape Israeli identity” (Publishers Weekly). “[Kashua’s] dry wit shines.” —Los Angeles Times “Kashua’s protagonists struggle, often comically . . . making his narratives more nuanced than some of the other Arabs writing about the conflict” —Newsweek “Sayed Kashua is a brilliant, funny, humane writer who effortlessly overturns any and all preconceptions about the Middle East. God, I love him.” —Gary Shteyngart, author of Super Sad True Love Story
The First Person Singular
Title | The First Person Singular PDF eBook |
Author | Alphonso Lingis |
Publisher | Northwestern University Press |
Pages | 156 |
Release | 2007-07-11 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0810124130 |
Lingis's singular works of philosophy aren't so much written as performed, and in this work the performance is brilliant, a consummate act of philosophical reckoning. This book is, at the same time, an elegant cultural analysis of how subjectivity is differently and collectively understood, invested, and situated.
First Person Plural
Title | First Person Plural PDF eBook |
Author | Andrew W. M. Beierle |
Publisher | Kensington Books |
Pages | 336 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0758219709 |
Conjoined twins Owen and Porter Jamison, inhabiting one body with two heads, one torso, and two very different hearts, find their tentative bond threatened when Owen discovers that he is gay, which nearly destroys Porter's marriage as a complicated romantic rectangle develops. Original.
Killernova
Title | Killernova PDF eBook |
Author | Omar Musa |
Publisher | Random House Australia |
Pages | 146 |
Release | 2021-11-30 |
Genre | COVID-19 (Disease) |
ISBN | 176104463X |
The island of Borneo was once the most heavily wooded in the world, and its people have always carved wood beautifully. In KILLERNOVA, grappling with his heritage, Omar Musa remixes this ancient art form with fiery poetry forged in the stars.With equal parts swagger, humour and vulnerability, Musa charts a journey through the colonial history of South-East Asia, environmental destruction, oceans, bushfires, race in Australia, the isolation and addiction of COVID lockdown, family, lost love and, ultimately, recovery.Relentlessly on beat, visually captivating and deceptively intimate, this is a collection of words and art that burns blindingly bright.
First Person Plural
Title | First Person Plural PDF eBook |
Author | Stephen E. Braude |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield |
Pages | 336 |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 9780847679966 |
Do people with multiple personalities have more than one self? The first full-length philosophical study of multiple personality disorder, First Person Plural maintains that even the deeply divided multiple personality contains an underlying psychological unity. Braude updates his work in this revised edition to discuss recent empirical and conceptual developments, including the charge that clinicians induce false memories in their patients, and the professional redefinition of "multiple personality disorder" as "dissociative identity disorder."
First Person Singular
Title | First Person Singular PDF eBook |
Author | Carl Schalk |
Publisher | Morningstar Music Publishers |
Pages | 95 |
Release | 1998-01-01 |
Genre | Children in public worship |
ISBN | 9780944529294 |