Brooding Clouds
Title | Brooding Clouds PDF eBook |
Author | Phaswane Mpe |
Publisher | Pan Macmillan South africa |
Pages | 235 |
Release | 2014-08-01 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1770104062 |
Brooding Clouds is a posthumous collection of short stories and poems that were written as a prequel to Phaswane Mpe's acclaimed bestseller, Welcome to Our Hillbrow. In these thematically linked stories, we meet the organic roots of the emblematic characters and concerns of the later novel. Written with an expressive simplicity that evokes the rural soul of tiny Tiragalong and its neighboring village of Nobody, Mpe's stories speak out strongly on issues close to his heart. The poems form a tandem narrative that is gritty, topical, observant, and which articulates the dilemmas of inner city living, along with the broader conundrums of Tiragalong, Hillbrow, and South Africa. The Brooding Clouds collection is a gem of creative achievement that stands as a poignant tribute to the tremendous talent of a writer cut down much too soon.
Welcome to Our Hillbrow
Title | Welcome to Our Hillbrow PDF eBook |
Author | Phaswane Mpe |
Publisher | Pan Macmillan South africa |
Pages | 97 |
Release | 2014-07-01 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1770104054 |
Welcome To Our Hillbrow is an exhilarating and disturbing ride through the chaotic and hyper-real zone of Hillbrow - microcosm of all that is contradictory, alluring and painful in the changing South African psyche. Everything is there: the shattered dreams of youth, sexuality and its unpredictable costs, AIDS, xenophobia, suicide, the omnipotent violence that often cuts short the promise of young people, and the Africanist understanding of the life continuum that does not end with death but flows on into an ancestral realm. Infused with the rhythms of the inner city pulsebeat, this courageous novel is compelling in its honesty and its broad vision, which links Hillbrow, rural Tiragalong and Oxford. It spills out the guts of Hillbrow-living with the same energy and intimate knowledge ,with which the Drum writers wrote Sophiatown into being.
Clear of the Brooding Cloud
Title | Clear of the Brooding Cloud PDF eBook |
Author | Jack Finegan |
Publisher | |
Pages | 184 |
Release | 1953 |
Genre | Christian life |
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Empire of the Clouds
Title | Empire of the Clouds PDF eBook |
Author | James Hamilton-Paterson |
Publisher | Faber & Faber |
Pages | 306 |
Release | 2010-10-07 |
Genre | Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | 0571271731 |
In 1945 Britain was the world's leading designer and builder of aircraft - a world-class achievement that was not mere rhetoric. And what aircraft they were. The sleek Comet, the first jet airliner. The awesome delta-winged Vulcan, an intercontinental bomber that could be thrown about the sky like a fighter. The Hawker Hunter, the most beautiful fighter-jet ever built and the Lightning, which could zoom ten miles above the clouds in a couple of minutes and whose pilots rated flying it as better than sex. How did Britain so lose the plot that today there is not a single aircraft manufacturer of any significance in the country? What became of the great industry of de Havilland or Handley Page? And what was it like to be alive in that marvellous post-war moment when innovative new British aircraft made their debut, and pilots were the rock stars of the age? James Hamilton-Paterson captures that season of glory in a compelling book that fuses his own memories of being a schoolboy plane spotter with a ruefully realistic history of British decline - its loss of self confidence and power. It is the story of great and charismatic machines and the men who flew them: heroes such as Bill Waterton, Neville Duke, John Derry and Bill Beaumont who took inconceivable risks, so that we could fly without a second thought.
Book of Clouds
Title | Book of Clouds PDF eBook |
Author | Chloe Aridjis |
Publisher | Random House |
Pages | 226 |
Release | 2011-10-31 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 144811344X |
Tatiana, a young Mexican woman, is adrift in Berlin. Choosing a life of solitude, she takes a job transcribing notes for the reclusive Doktor Weiss. Through him she meets 'ant illustrator turned meteorologist' Jonas, a Berliner who has used clouds and the sky's constant shape-shifting as his escape from reality. As their three paths intersect and merge, the contours of all their worlds begins to change...
The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth
Title | The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth PDF eBook |
Author | William Wordsworth |
Publisher | |
Pages | 420 |
Release | 1896 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Country Life
Title | Country Life PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 960 |
Release | 1903 |
Genre | Art |
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