Stranger, Father, Beloved
Title | Stranger, Father, Beloved PDF eBook |
Author | Taylor Larsen |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 288 |
Release | 2017-04-25 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1501124773 |
"Debut novel about a wealthy man who has reached a crossroads after a lifetime of repression and denial, sending him--and his family--into a slow spiral towards a total breakdown"--
Beloved Strangers
Title | Beloved Strangers PDF eBook |
Author | Maria Chaudhuri |
Publisher | A&C Black |
Pages | 209 |
Release | 2014-01-16 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1408844613 |
A bright and brilliant new voice from Bangladesh 'Moving, lyrical and curious – this memoir effortlessly captures the disorientating feeling of growing up in a world that misunderstands you' Red On and on we dream, we wish, we love - no matter that the dreams come to an end, the wishes evolve or that love dissipates like dust in the wind. Perhaps, what matters only is that we have lived long enough to dream, hard enough to wish and indisputably enough to love. One of Maria's early memories growing up in Dhaka is of planning to run away with her friend Nadia. Even then, Maria couldn't quite figure out why she longed to escape. It is not that home is an unhappy place. It's just that in her family, joy is ephemeral. With a mother who yearns for the mountains, the solitude and freedom to pursue her own dreams and career, and a charismatic but distant father who finds it difficult to expresses emotion, they are never able to hold on to happiness for very long. Maria studies the Holy Book, says her daily prayers and wonders if God is watching her. She dreams, like her mother, of unstitching the seam of her life. It is her neighbour, Bablu, the Imitator of Frogs, who both excites and repulses Maria by showing her a yellowing pornographic magazine, but it is Mala, a girl her own age who comes to work in their house, whose wise eyes and wicked smile makes her dizzy with longing. When she moves to New England for university at eighteen Maria meets Yameen, a man who lives in a desperately squalid apartment in Jersey City, woos her with phone calls and a marathon night of drinking in New York bars, and is not what he seems... From Dhaka to New York, this is a candid and moving account of growing up and growing away, a meditation on why people leave their homes and why they sometimes find it difficult to return. Beloved Strangers is an unforgettable memoir marking the arrival of a brilliant new voice from Bangladesh.
The Universalist and Ladies' Repository
Title | The Universalist and Ladies' Repository PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 498 |
Release | 1850 |
Genre | Universalism |
ISBN |
Beloved Stranger
Title | Beloved Stranger PDF eBook |
Author | Judith Pella |
Publisher | Macmillan Reference USA |
Pages | 396 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780783884950 |
Shelby Martin's whirlwind romance and spur-of-the moment wedding were exciting until Frank's shadowy past began to emerge. Her faith in her husband--and in God--is shaken to the core. Where will she find the strength to face her uncertain future? Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
A Stranger at My Table
Title | A Stranger at My Table PDF eBook |
Author | Ivo de Figueiredo |
Publisher | Doppelhouse Press |
Pages | 336 |
Release | 2019-05-28 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780999754474 |
A biracial son of a subcontinental, migrant family searches for his estranged father's story and ultimately rewrites his own.
All My Friends Are Going to Be Strangers: A Novel
Title | All My Friends Are Going to Be Strangers: A Novel PDF eBook |
Author | Larry McMurtry |
Publisher | Liveright Publishing |
Pages | 283 |
Release | 2018-05-29 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1631493582 |
A young writer hits the dusty Texas highway for the California coast in this “brilliant . . . funny and dangerously tender” (Time) tale of art and sacrifice. Hailed as one of “the best novels ever set in America’s fourth largest city” (Douglas Brinkley, New York Times Book Review), All My Friends Are Going to Be Strangers is a powerful demonstration of Larry McMurtry’s “comic genius, his ability to render a sense of landscape, and interior intellection tension” (Jim Harrison, New York Times Book Review). Desperate to break from the “mundane happiness” of Houston, budding writer Danny Deck hops in his car, “El Chevy,” bound for the West Coast on a road trip filled with broken hearts and bleak realities of the artistic life. A cast of unforgettable characters joins the naïve troubadour’s pilgrimage to California and back to Texas, including a cruel, long-legged beauty; an appealing screenwriter; a randy college professor; and a genuine if painfully “normal” friend. Since the novel’s publication in 1972, Danny Deck has “been far more successful at getting loved by readers than he ever was at getting loved by the women in his life” (McMurtry), a testament to the author’s incomparable talent for capturing the essential tragicomedy of the human experience.
My Father's Suitcase
Title | My Father's Suitcase PDF eBook |
Author | Orhan Pamuk |
Publisher | |
Pages | 24 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Nobel Prizes |
ISBN | 9780571238613 |