Cultural Heritage category: 3433 books

Three young Irish growing up in the unromantic Ireland of the 1930's... As children they meet around a secret Druid's stone for illegal smokes... They follow very different paths, but later their lives reconnect in surprising ways when the Stone is destroyed and the village is bitterly divided... At last, however, they all find their own hard-won enlightenments.

Nouvelle édition 2019 sans DRM de Les songes drolatiques de Pantagruel de Rabelais augmentée d'annexes (Rabelais par Anatole France; Rabelais par Clouzot). ERGONOMIE AMÉLIORÉE : L'ouvrage a été spécifiquement mis en forme pour votre liseuse. - Naviguez par simple clic de chapitre à...

Men and Apparitions showcases Lynne Tillman not only as a brilliantly original novelist but also as one of our most prominent thinkers on culture and visual art today; she deserves a place in the literary canon alongside her oft-touted male compatriots like DeLillo, David Foster Wallace A quintessential...

The author would like to invite the reader to take a journey with her back in time. I am writing this novel about my family who lived in the late 1800s. My parents, Michael and his wife Filomena DellOrfano, were born 1878 and 1882, respectively. Chusiano di San Domenico d Avellino is a small...

La volonté d'une révolution culturelle et économique[…] la véritable personnalité d’Adja, son attachement aux valeurs panafricaines et toute la souffrance qu’elle inspire quand elle lui parlait de l’Afrique qu’elle appelait Kama, son ancien nom, son véritable nom disait-elle. Son style...

At 17 Anahita leaves her war-torn country to take refuge in Canada, where she can feel, taste, touch, and smell freedom with every fibre of her being. Throughout many years of working hard trying to achieve her dream of becoming a prominent physicist, she struggles with depression, culminating in...

"A smart, funny, wry, and winning book."-Pam Houston, author of Contents May Have Shifted Delia Arco spends her workdays counseling teenagers as outcast as she was and her nights caring for the baby daughter she loves fiercely. Searching furiously for the mother in herself, she struggles...

Short Story: Harrison never thought married life would be like this. Financially insecure, socially isolated and unready to start a family, he's resisted his wife's relentless pressure to have children, only to find himself practically frozen out of his own home. Sexually frustrated and desperate for the kind of love he no longer gets from his wife, he considers his options.

Theres a sense in which Empire (Impireachd) is based on the interweaving of the two journeys, of son and father. The author has an unusual gift for persuading us we are present with him within the narrative, whether on the Lewis machair or on the streets of New York and Chicago before the Great Depression,...

Three short novels—including Prix Goncourt–winning The Patience Stone —that convey years of Afghan history, heartache, and hope. Never before in paperback. ** ** Atiq Rahimi’s reputation for writing war stories of immense drama and intimacy began with his first novel, Earth and Ashes, about...

The Little Town Where Time Stood Still contains two linked narratives by the incomparable Bohumil Hrabal, whom Milan Kundera has described as “Czechoslovakia’s greatest writer.” “Cutting It Short” is set before World War II in a small country town, and it relates the scandalizing escapades...

These slyly simple stories of the unforgiving South African Transvaal reveal a little-described (and rarely romanticized) world of Afrikaner life in the late 19th Century. Like our own Mark Twain, Herman Charles Bosman wields a laughing intolerance of foolishness and prejudice, a dazzling use of wit...

Gypsy Spirit is the story of fifteen year-old Zilka Sucuri, a Gypsy girl who is thrust into the horrors of the Holocaust. Her life of traveling from town to town, singing and dancing the Gypsy way comes to an unconscionable stop when a SS death squad shoot every man, woman, and child in her kumpania....

Following the murder of his father at Bannockburn in 1488, fifteen-year-old James Stewart was crowned James IV of Scotland. From those inauspicious beginnings, the inexperienced boy-king was to become one of the finest and most popular kings in Scotland's history, leading his people bravely through...