Enticement

Enticement
Author: Pema Tseden
Publisher: SUNY Press
Total Pages: 162
Release: 2018-09-01
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 1438474261

Short stories that reflect the complexities of contemporary Tibetan life, written by Tibetan filmmaker Pema Tseden. Enticement marks the English-language debut of prominent Tibetan writer and filmmaker Pema Tseden. This collection gathers together his most relevant and influential short stories, including “Tharlo,” which he adapted into an award-winning and internationally acclaimed film in 2015. Written originally in the Chinese and Tibetan languages, these stories make use of a variety of literary styles and sources, ranging from traditional Tibetan oral tales to magical realism, surrealism, and the theater of the absurd. They humanize the Tibetan experience by stepping away from patronizing, mystic, or idealized visions of Tibet to speak with empathy and humor about the real challenges faced by Tibetans in the age of globalization. Advance Praise for Enticement “Pema Tseden is known internationally as an award-winning filmmaker, the elegant and contemplative pioneering auteur of new Tibetan cinema. Western audiences may not, however, be aware that he began his career as a critically acclaimed writer of short stories. Patricia Schiaffini-Vedani and Michael Monhart have, for the first time, shared with the English reader a comprehensive anthology of both his Chinese and Tibetan stories. The stories in this collection reflect Pema Tseden’s characteristically observant, unhurried, and humanistic take on the violent social changes faced by Tibetans living at the edge of China’s economic transformation. Schiaffini-Vedani and Monhart’s translations are rich and faithful to the original texts. They must be commended for providing us with a valuable new source on cultural life in contemporary Tibet.” — Tsering Shakya, author of The Dragon in the Land of Snows: A History of Modern Tibet Since 1947 “Pema Tseden is the singularly most influential Tibetan filmmaker on the international scene. With this skillfully translated collection of short stories, Enticement, readers can now also appreciate his written works, including the renowned ‘Tharlo.’ In literary long shots, the author transforms grasslands, snowy expanses, and county seats into mindscapes with a curious and chilly brilliance until they are rendered translucent. Elsewhere, he racks focus with wry humor from quirky details to complex social realities, finding possibility in fantasy, chance meetings, and even mistranslation. Interspersed with the winsome and arboreal artwork of Wu Yao and with the orientation of an insightful introduction and preface, these contemporary tales beckon readers with all the promise of the title-story towards the liminal, where cultural and temporal displacement may point to new meanings.” — Lauran R. Hartley, Columbia University “Pema Tseden, a distinguished writer and filmmaker, is an important leader among Tibetan intellectuals. He sees Tibet as more than a land of startling natural beauty, of profound religious heritage, and of galling colonization by the Communist Party of China—correct though those views are. For him, Tibetan culture lives not only in Tibet proper, but across Qinghai, Sichuan, and Gansu as well, and Tibetan people are not mystical Others but ordinary human beings (flawed, as we all are) who struggle to adapt their inherited lives to the modern world (as people everywhere, now or recently, have done). By looking beyond clichéd concepts to examine actual lives, Pema Tseden’s work enriches Tibetan culture and shows a new face for it.” — Perry Link, author of An Anatomy of Chinese: Rhythm, Metaphor, Politics “For the first time in the Anglophone world, we have an extraordinary translation of short stories by the celebrated Tibetan filmmaker and writer Pema Tseden, originally written in Tibetan and Mandarin Chinese. While he wrote his stories in Tibetan for his Tibetan readers, in Mandarin Chinese for Chinese readers, the translators have brought both sets of stories together in one volume to allow readers to compare and contrast how he writes for different audiences. These stories, told in beguilingly simple and direct prose, are powerful vignettes of Tibetan life, as powerful as his deeply evocative films, filled not only with despair and loss but also beauty and longing. These elegant stories are almost more powerful in what they do not say than in what they do say. I recommend Enticement to everyone.” — Shu-mei Shih, author of Visuality and Identity: Sinophone Articulations across the Pacific “The blinding sun, wind storms, wolves, and death are at work in these vital and unforgettable stories. Equally, the social forces of surveillance, bureaucracy, information, misinformation, and romance propel the narratives, which encompass the ordinary and the truly strange. The collection is invaluable for offering an all too rare ‘Tibetan view of Tibet,’ revealing unexpected and disorienting perspectives on Buddhism and on Tibetans’ engagements with the Chinese state. The characters we get to know are police officers, herders, artists, children, lamas, and lovers. They are all painfully and vividly alive, their every move and impulse represented with startlingly detailed observation. Readers will be richer in knowledge and imagination from spending time with these stories, so expertly translated that we feel we hear the author’s compassionate and yet relentlessly perceptive voice. One is left with an impression that is crystal clear and yet uncanny. It is difficult to say whether the strongest draw of the stories is humor or sorrow.” — Dominique Townsend, Bard College

The City of Enticement

The City of Enticement
Author: Dorothea Gerard Longard de Longgarde
Publisher:
Total Pages: 352
Release: 1912
Genre: English fiction
ISBN:

The Enticement

The Enticement
Author: Tara Sue Me
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2015
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0451474511

New York Times bestselling author Tara Sue Me returns to the story of Abby and Nathaniel to explore the passion after the 'Happily-Ever-After'... Limits were made to be pushed. Abby West has everything she wanted: a family, a skyrocketing new career, and a sexy, Dominant husband who fulfills her every need. Only, as her life outside the bedroom becomes hectic, her Master's sexual requirements inside become more extreme. Abby doesn't understand Nathaniel's increased need for control, but she can't deny the delicious way her body reacts to his tantalizing demands... Between Abby's reluctance and Nathaniel's unyielding commands, the delicate balance of power between the Dominant and his submissive threatens to shift. And as the underlying tension and desire between them heats up, so does the struggle to keep everything they value from falling apart ...

Enticements

Enticements
Author: Joseph J. Fischel
Publisher: NYU Press
Total Pages: 408
Release: 2024-02-20
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1479807591

"Enticements: Queer Legal Studies is an interdisciplinary volume that provides an array of queer theoretic descriptions of and prescriptions for the legal regulation of sex, gender and sexuality"--

Enticement 7 Deadly Sins

Enticement 7 Deadly Sins
Author: Rammy Black
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 114
Release: 2015-11-13
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1514423936

Malik and Maliki are twin brothers from another mother; but they have the same father. They were born two minutes apart on June 10, 1990 In Brooklyn NY, at Brook dale hospital. Malik came out first then Malikis mother had him. As growing up as twins they became encountered with enticements that led them to the seven deadly sins. Like: Pride, Greed, Lust, Wrath, Gluttony, Envy and Sloth. Their Lives became intertwined with reality. They tried to live a perfectly normal life; but as they found out Life is not perfect, or Normal. Malik is sleek, and debonair, Promiscuous. Malikis sexuality has him in the closet laid back. Even though they are born under the Gemini zodiac sign they are two separate peas in the pot. Malik graduated with his Masters from Cornell University for Architecture. Maliki graduated with his Masters from Lincoln Technical Institute for Electrical Engineer. Maliki is following his brother Malik in pursuing a Life long journey in building up communities for the Homeless, HIV population, Drug rehab abilities, and the mentally declined. Maliki has always been by his twin brothers side on everything; but a turn of life style has Malik dead inside.

Divine Enticement:Theological Seductions

Divine Enticement:Theological Seductions
Author: Karmen Mackendrick
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2013
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0823242897

Divine Enticement argues for a reconception of theology and it subject matter as modes of seduction, of both body and mind. Theological language as evocation opens onto rereadings of faith, sacrament, ethics, prayer and scripture. The conclusion argues for a sense of theology as calling upon infinite possibility.

Enticement

Enticement
Author: Michelle Joyce
Publisher:
Total Pages: 56
Release: 2021-02-08
Genre:
ISBN:

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Sin's Enticement

Sin's Enticement
Author: Ciara St James
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2021-05
Genre:
ISBN: 9781955751100

After years of serving his country, Sin reclaims his life and forms the Ares Infidels MC, with like-minded military brothers. They decide his home town of Tenillo, Texas is the perfect place to build their futures. By forming a club where they get to make the rules and determine what orders to follow.Him and his brothers think life is going great, until a conversation with the new Chief of Police and Times Served MC president, Boss. That's when they discover their town is in crisis. One that none of them plan to let continue. They join forces to make sure it doesn't.However, Sin is blindsided almost immediately by the beautiful Lyric, a high school teacher fearing for the safety of her students. She's looking for someone to help her. One meeting and she becomes Sin's enticement, his universe.As Sin works to convince her to give this former Navy Seal turned biker a chance, more crimes and shady dealings come to light. Ones that show Tenillo is in more trouble than any of them first imagined.Again, and again, danger finds them and their allies and Lyric seems to be at the center of it. Sin, the Ares Infidels, and the Time Served guys battle to protect their town, their loved ones, and their futures.Sin and Lyric's tale may end in happily ever after for them, but the trials and tribulations are far from over for these two clubs or their town. They have a town to rescue. And they'll bring the fury of the Ares Infidels down on anyone who gets in the way.