Episodes from the young life of Annie John, aged 10 to 17, as she grows up on the Caribbean Island of Antigua. This is a magical coming-of-age tale, ripe with the special ambience of its tropical setting and sustained by Annie's far from naive awareness of the world around her. Death, illness, and poverty intrude on the narrator's perceptive sensibility from time to time, but even these experiences instruct her and expand her understanding of life and its shifting reality. Although Annie leaves...
In an unspecified setting, the stream-of-consciousness narrative of this cult novel traces the fortunes of a group of anarchists in revolt against a military-fascist capitalist opposition. The protagonist is photojournalist Chris, whose camera lens becomes the device through which the plot is cleverly unravelled. In Dambudzo Marechera's second experimental novel, he parodies African nationalist and racial identifications as part of an argument that notions of an 'essential African identity' were...
Welcome to the Shahjahan, one of Calcutta's oldest and most venerable hotels. Its opulent suites, elegant restaurants, huddled bars and hidden backrooms teem with people, whose extraordinary stories are told by Sankar, the newest member of staff. Sankar describes the unfulfilled desires, broken dreams, and unbidden tragedies of the people who spend their days and nights within the Shahjahan's grand façade. LikeBengal itself, this is a place where greed, seduction and death live alongside love,...
Two women, two cultures, and the fight to find a new life in America, despite the secrets of the past...Banished by her wealthy Filipino family in Manila, Amparo Guerrero travels to Oakland, California, to forge a new life. Although her mother labels her life in exile a diminished one, Amparo believes her struggles are a small price to pay for freedom. Like Amparo, Beverly Obejas--an impoverished Filipina waitress--forsakes Manila and comes to Oakland as a mail-order bride in search of a better...
Join Jack Montrose, a fish camp regular since 1965, as he reminisces about the good old days fishing on the St. Johns River. Tales from a Florida Fish Camp captures the atmosphere and humor of fish camps, where fishermen gathered to tell tall tales of their fishing exploits, play practical jokes, and relax over a cold beer. Here you’ll find tales of more than just fish (though the ones caught were THIS BIG). You’ll encounter snakes, gators, cats (ordinary house ones as well as a panther), turtl...
From award-winning Eritrean author Haji Jabir comes a profoundly intimate novel about one man’s tireless attempt to find his place in the world. Dawoud is on the run from his murky past, aiming to discover where he belongs. He tries to assimilate into different groups along his journey through North Africa and Israel, changing his clothes, his religious affiliations, and even his name to fit in, but the safety and peace he seeks remain elusive. It seems prejudice is everywhere, holding him back...
Sacred Clowns (Leaphorn and Chee Novel, #11) (Joe Leaphorn/Jim Chee Novels)
by Tony Hillerman