Little Gods
Title | Little Gods PDF eBook |
Author | Meng Jin |
Publisher | HarperCollins |
Pages | 307 |
Release | 2020-01-14 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0062935976 |
LONGLISTED FOR THE PEN/OPEN BOOK AWARD “Compellingly complex…Expands the future of the immigrant novel even as it holds us in uneasy thrall to the past.” – Gish Jen, New York Times Book Review Combining the emotional resonance of Home Fire with the ambition and innovation of Asymmetry, a lyrical and thought-provoking debut novel that explores the complex web of grief, memory, time, physics, history, and selfhood in the immigrant experience, and the complicated bond between daughters and mothers. On the night of June Fourth, a woman gives birth in a Beijing hospital alone. Thus begins the unraveling of Su Lan, a brilliant physicist who until this moment has successfully erased her past, fighting what she calls the mind’s arrow of time. When Su Lan dies unexpectedly seventeen years later, it is her daughter Liya who inherits the silences and contradictions of her life. Liya, who grew up in America, takes her mother’s ashes to China—to her, an unknown country. In a territory inhabited by the ghosts of the living and the dead, Liya’s memories are joined by those of two others: Zhu Wen, the woman last to know Su Lan before she left China, and Yongzong, the father Liya has never known. In this way a portrait of Su Lan emerges: an ambitious scientist, an ambivalent mother, and a woman whose relationship to her own past shapes and ultimately unmakes Liya’s own sense of displacement. A story of migrations literal and emotional, spanning time, space and class, Little Gods is a sharp yet expansive exploration of the aftermath of unfulfilled dreams, an immigrant story in negative that grapples with our tenuous connections to memory, history, and self.
The Little Gods Laugh
Title | The Little Gods Laugh PDF eBook |
Author | Louise Maunsell Field |
Publisher | |
Pages | 356 |
Release | 1917 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
The Little Gods Laugh a Novel (Classic Reprint)
Title | The Little Gods Laugh a Novel (Classic Reprint) PDF eBook |
Author | Louise Maunsell Field |
Publisher | Forgotten Books |
Pages | 340 |
Release | 2018-01-14 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780483123502 |
Excerpt from The Little Gods Laugh a Novel He shook hands with Mrs. Haight, who greeted him most cordially. In spite of his sixty years he was still eligible, and Geraldine's continued spinsterhood was becoming a matter of grave concern to her mother. Turning now to the young girl, he added with a little smile: You and I will arrange the details later, Mrs. Carton. Nita couldn't wait to settle any thing! About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
The Little Gods Laugh
Title | The Little Gods Laugh PDF eBook |
Author | Louise Maunsell Field |
Publisher | Hardpress Publishing |
Pages | 348 |
Release | 2012-08 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9781290476638 |
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If You Want to Make God Laugh
Title | If You Want to Make God Laugh PDF eBook |
Author | Bianca Marais |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 450 |
Release | 2020-07-07 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0735219338 |
A rich, unforgettable story of three unique women in post-Apartheid South Africa who are brought together in their darkest time and discover the ways that love can transcend the strictest of boundaries. In a squatter camp on the outskirts of Johannesburg, seventeen-year-old Zodwa lives in desperate poverty, under the shadowy threat of a civil war and a growing AIDS epidemic. Eight months pregnant, Zodwa carefully guards secrets that jeopardize her life. Across the country, wealthy socialite Ruth appears to have everything her heart desires, but it's what she can't have that leads to her breakdown. Meanwhile, in Zaire, a disgraced former nun, Delilah, grapples with a past that refuses to stay buried. When these personal crises send both middle-aged women back to their rural hometown to heal, the discovery of an abandoned newborn baby upends everything, challenging their lifelong beliefs about race, motherhood, and the power of the past. As the mystery surrounding the infant grows, the complicated lives of Zodwa, Ruth, and Delilah become inextricably linked. What follows is a mesmerizing look at family and identity that asks: How far will the human heart go to protect itself and the ones it loves?
The Little Gods Laugh: a Novel, Etc
Title | The Little Gods Laugh: a Novel, Etc PDF eBook |
Author | Louise Maunsell FIELD |
Publisher | |
Pages | 326 |
Release | 1917 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
LITTLE GODS LAUGH
Title | LITTLE GODS LAUGH PDF eBook |
Author | Louise Maunsell Field |
Publisher | Wentworth Press |
Pages | 344 |
Release | 2016-08-29 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9781373883216 |
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