The Street of Crocodiles
Title | The Street of Crocodiles PDF eBook |
Author | Bruno Schulz |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 164 |
Release | 1977 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780140186253 |
The Street of Crocodiles in the Polish city of Drogobych is a street of memories and dreams where recollections of Bruno Schulz's uncommon boyhood and of the eerie side of his merchant family's life are evoked in a startling blend of the real and the fantastic. Most memorable - and most chilling - is the portrait of the author's father, a maddened shopkeeper who imports rare birds' eggs to hatch in his attic, who believes tailors' dummies should be treated like people, and whose obsessive fear of cockroaches causes him to resemble one. Bruno Schulz, a Polish Jew killed by the Nazis in 1942, is considered by many to have been the leading Polish writer between the two world wars.
Crocodiles and Other People
Title | Crocodiles and Other People PDF eBook |
Author | Douglas Lockwood |
Publisher | Adelaide : Rigby |
Pages | 252 |
Release | 1974 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
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Short stories on life in the Northern Territory; Account of Wargaity corroboree at Delissaville, ritual body decoration; native murders, mission histories.
Song of the Crocodile
Title | Song of the Crocodile PDF eBook |
Author | Nardi Simpson |
Publisher | Hachette UK |
Pages | 369 |
Release | 2020-09-29 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0733643752 |
'SONG OF THE CROCODILE is a moving, wise and deeply rewarding novel from an astonishing writer' - Emily Maguire, author of AN ISOLATED INCIDENT Darnmoor, The Gateway to Happiness. The sign taunts a fool into feeling some sense of achievement, some kind of end- that you have reached a destination in the very least. Yet as the sign states, Darnmoor is merely a gateway, a waypoint on the road to where you really want to be. Darnmoor is the home of the Billymil family, three generations who have lived in this 'gateway town'. Race relations between Indigenous and settler families are fraught, though the rigid status quo is upheld through threats and soft power rather than the overt violence of yesteryear. As progress marches forwards, Darnmoor and its surrounds undergo rapid social and environmental changes, but as some things change, some stay exactly the same. The Billymil family are watched (and sometimes visited) by ancestral spirits and spirits of the recently deceased, who look out for their descendants and attempt to help them on the right path. When the town's secrets start to be uncovered the town will be rocked by a violent act that forever shatters a century of silence. Full of music, Yuwaalaraay language and exquisite description, Song of the Crocodile is a lament to choice and change, and the unyielding land that sustains us all, if only we could listen to it. 'In Song of the Crocodile, Yuwaalaraay author Nardi Simpson makes a lightning debut.' - Kill Your Darlings
How to Hold a Crocodile
Title | How to Hold a Crocodile PDF eBook |
Author | Diagram Group |
Publisher | Firefly Books |
Pages | 200 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Amusements |
ISBN | 9781552978054 |
Explains how to do practical and improbable things, such as how to roast an ox, handle a hamster, photography a fish, play the bagpipes, and vanquish a vampire.].
My Crocodile Does Not Bite
Title | My Crocodile Does Not Bite PDF eBook |
Author | Joe Kulka |
Publisher | Carolrhoda Books |
Pages | 36 |
Release | 2013-03-01 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 1467709557 |
Ernest's crocodile does not bite! It's very well trained. But when Ernest brings the crocodile to the school's pet show, his rival Cindy Lou gets very rude.Cindy Lou is sure her poodle Fifi will win best in show. She doesn't think Ernest's croc should be allowed to compete. But Ernest and his friend have some tricks prepared. They're going to prove that when a crocodile's not busy biting, it can really put on a show!
In the Sea There are Crocodiles
Title | In the Sea There are Crocodiles PDF eBook |
Author | Fabio Geda |
Publisher | Anchor |
Pages | 226 |
Release | 2011-08-09 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0385534744 |
When ten-year-old Enaiatollah Akbari’s small village in Afghanistan falls prey to Taliban rule in early 2000, his mother shepherds the boy across the border into Pakistan but has to leave him there all alone to fend for himself. Thus begins Enaiat’s remarkable and often punishing five-year ordeal, which takes him through Iran, Turkey, and Greece before he seeks political asylum in Italy at the age of fifteen. Along the way, Enaiat endures the crippling physical and emotional agony of dangerous border crossings, trekking across bitterly cold mountain pathways for days on end or being stuffed into the false bottom of a truck. But not everyone is as resourceful, resilient, or lucky as Enaiat, and there are many heart-wrenching casualties along the way. Based on Enaiat’s close collaboration with Italian novelist Fabio Geda and expertly rendered in English by an award- winning translator, this novel reconstructs the young boy’s memories, perfectly preserving the childlike perspective and rhythms of an intimate oral history. Told with humor and humanity, In the Sea There Are Crocodiles brilliantly captures Enaiat’s moving and engaging voice and lends urgency to an epic story of hope and survival.
Counting Crocodiles
Title | Counting Crocodiles PDF eBook |
Author | Judy Sierra |
Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Pages | 44 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 9780152163563 |
In this rhymed retelling of a traditional Asian tale, a clever monkey uses her ability to count to outwit the hungry crocodiles that stand between her and a banana tree on another island across the sea.