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Total Pages | : 694 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Commonwealth literature (English) |
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One number each year includes Annual bibliography of Commonwealth literature.
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 694 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Commonwealth literature (English) |
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One number each year includes Annual bibliography of Commonwealth literature.
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Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Commonwealth literature (English) |
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One number each year includes Annual bibliography of Commonwealth literature.
Author | : John Peck |
Publisher | : Palgrave |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
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Author | : Phaswane Mpe |
Publisher | : Pan Macmillan South africa |
Total 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.
Author | : Ann Patchett |
Publisher | : HarperCollins |
Total Pages | : 279 |
Release | : 2016-09-13 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0062491814 |
“Exquisite. . .Commonwealth is impossible to put down.” — New York Times #1 New York Times Bestseller | NBCC Award Finalist | New York Times Best Book of the Year | USA Today Best Book | TIME Magazine Top 10 Selection | Oprah Favorite Book | New York Magazine Best Book of The Year The acclaimed, bestselling author—winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Orange Prize—tells the enthralling story of how an unexpected romantic encounter irrevocably changes two families’ lives. One Sunday afternoon in Southern California, Bert Cousins shows up at Franny Keating’s christening party uninvited. Before evening falls, he has kissed Franny’s mother, Beverly—thus setting in motion the dissolution of their marriages and the joining of two families. Spanning five decades, Commonwealth explores how this chance encounter reverberates through the lives of the four parents and six children involved. Spending summers together in Virginia, the Keating and Cousins children forge a lasting bond that is based on a shared disillusionment with their parents and the strange and genuine affection that grows up between them. When, in her twenties, Franny begins an affair with the legendary author Leon Posen and tells him about her family, the story of her siblings is no longer hers to control. Their childhood becomes the basis for his wildly successful book, ultimately forcing them to come to terms with their losses, their guilt, and the deeply loyal connection they feel for one another. Told with equal measures of humor and heartbreak, Commonwealth is a meditation on inspiration, interpretation, and the ownership of stories. It is a brilliant and tender tale of the far-reaching ties of love and responsibility that bind us together.
Author | : Anna Rutherford |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 478 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
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Author | : Romesh Gunesekera |
Publisher | : Penguin Books India |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Bereavement |
ISBN | : 9780140285222 |
From The Author Of Reef, Shortlisted For The Booker Prize, Comes A Stunning New Novel And A Masterpiece Of Storytelling. Profoundly Moving And Often Sharply Funny, The Sandglass Unravels The Many Stories Of Transformation, Disappearance And Loss That Haunt The Ducal Family From The Moment Pearl S Husband Purchases His Dream-House-Arcadia-Which Lies At The Centre Of Both The Vatunas Estate And A Bitter Feud. It Follows Pearl S Courageous Flight From Her Homeland And Traces The Consequences Of Her Children S Efforts To Find Their Own Dreamlands In England, America And Modern-Day Sri Lanka. The Sandglass Is An Intricate Novel Of Love And Longing That Transforms The World We Know Into One We Wish To Know More About; A World In Which Hope Has To Survive The Darkest Truths.
Author | : Mohit Kumar Ray |
Publisher | : Atlantic Publishers & Dist |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Commonwealth literature (English) |
ISBN | : 9788126901487 |
Commonwealth Literature Today Stands For Literature(S) In English Written In The Commonwealth Countries Outside The Anglo-American Tradition. What Is Common Between The Diverse Members Of The Commonwealth In Spite Of Their Different Calendars Of Independence And Ethnological, Cultural, Political As Also Topographical Set-Ups Is That All These Countries Shared The Common Colonial Experience. So, From India To Nigeria, Canada To Kenya, Australia To Pakistan We Can Discern The Varying Patterns Of A Common Human Experience And Emergence Of Cultural Nationalism Leading To An Emphasis On Their Distinctiveness In Literary Heritage And Assertion Of Cultural Identity. Commonwealth Literature Thus Presents A Rich Variety Of Aesthetic And Cultural Experience.The Essays Collected In This Volume Spanning Different Countries And Periods Try To Offer A Taste Of This Interesting Variety. The Range Covered Here Stretches From West African Drama To South African Fiction, Australian And Caribbean Literature To That Of Indian Diaspora And South Asian Poetry Of The Saarc Countries. Discussions On Indian Literature Cover The Varied Areas From Devotional Mysticism To Realistic Social Satire, Myth-Oriented Novel To Feminism, Dialogism And Reassessment Of Postcolonial Theories.The Authors Focused In This Discussion Promises A Colourful Spectrum; They Include Wole Soyinka, Ahmed Essop, Salman Rushdie, David Malouf, Wilson Harris, Patrick White, Rohinton Mistry, G.V. Desani, Aurobindo, Manohar Magonkar, R.K. Narayan, Gurcharan Das, Arundhati Roy, Jhumpa Lahiri, Kamala Das, K.V. Venkataramani, Margaret Craven, Along With A Host Of Saarc Poets.The Volume Will Be Useful For The Students And Scholars Of Commonwealth Literature, And Will Also Prove Interesting To The Common Reader.
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Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Commonwealth literature (English) |
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Contributed critical articles on English literature of Commonwealth countries; includes articles in honour of K. Ayyappapanicker, b. 1930, Malayalam and English author.