Colum McCann
Author
Language
English
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Description
A unique love story, a tale of loss, a parable of Europe, this haunting novel is an examination of intimacy and betrayal in a community rarely captured so vibrantly in contemporary literature.
Zoli Novotna, a young woman raised in the traveling Gypsy tradition, is a poet by accident as much as desire. As 1930s fascism spreads over Czechoslovakia, Zoli and her grandfather flee to join a clan of fellow Romani harpists. Sharpened by the world...
Zoli Novotna, a young woman raised in the traveling Gypsy tradition, is a poet by accident as much as desire. As 1930s fascism spreads over Czechoslovakia, Zoli and her grandfather flee to join a clan of fellow Romani harpists. Sharpened by the world...
4) Apeirógono
Author
Series
Publisher
Seix Barral
Pub. Date
2021
Language
Español
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Description
Un conflicto perpetuo. Dos familias de bandos enfrentados. Un mismo dolor.
Rami Elhanan y Bassam Aramin viven cerca el uno del otro, pero existen en mundos separados. Rami es israelí. Bassam es palestino. La matrícula de Rami es amarilla. La de Bassam es verde. Rami tarda quince minutos en llegar a Cisjordania. El mismo viaje para Bassam dura una hora y media.
Ambos hombres han perdido a sus hijas. La de Rami murió a manos de un terrorista suicida,...
Author
Language
English
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Description
From the author of Songdogs, a magnificent work of imagination and history set in the tunnels of New York City.
In the early years of the century, Nathan Walker leaves his native Georgia for New York City and the most dangerous job in America. A sandhog, he burrows beneath the East River, digging the tunnel that will carry trains from Brooklyn to Manhattan. Above ground, the sandhogs-black, white, Irish, Italian-keep their distance from each other...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Bassam Aramin is Palestinian. Rami Elhanan is Israeli. They inhabit a world of intractable conflict that colors every aspect of their daily lives, from the roads they are allowed to take to the schools their daughters, Abir and Smadar, each attend. Theirs is a life in which children from both sides of the wall throw stones at one another. But their worlds shift irreparably when ten-year-old old Abir is killed by a rubber bullet meant to quell unruly...
Author
Language
English
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Description
A career-spanning collection of Bruce Berger's beautiful, subtle, and spiky essays on the American desert
Occupying a space between traditional nature writing, memoir, journalism, and prose poetry, Bruce Berger's essays are beautiful, subtle, and haunting meditations on the landscape and culture of the American Southwest. Combining new, unpublished essays with selections from his acclaimed trilogy of "desert books"-The Telling Distance, There Was...
10) Dancer: a novel
Author
Publisher
Metropolitan Books
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
336 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xix, 166 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"A lesson in how to be a writer--and so much more than that. Intriguing and inspirational, this book is a call to look outward rather than inward. McCann asks his readers to constantly push the boundaries of experience, to see empathy and wonder in the stories we craft and hear. A paean to the power of language, both by argument and by example, Letters to a Young Writer is fierce and honest in its testament to the bruises delivered by writing as both...
12) American mother
Author
Publisher
Etruscan Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
237 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"In late 2021, Diane Foley sat at a table across from her son's killer, Alexanda Kotey, a member of the ISIS group known as "The Beatles" who plead guilty to the kidnapping, torture, and murder of her son seven years before. Kotey was about to go serve life imprisonment and this was Diane's chance to talk to the man who had been involved with brutally taking her son's last breath. What would she say to his killer? What would he reveal to her? Might...
13) Twist: a novel
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2025.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
pages cm
Language
English
Description
"Anthony Fennell, an Irish journalist and playwright, is assigned to cover the story of the underwater cables that carry the world's information. The sum of human existence-words, images, transactions, memes, voices, viruses-travels through the tiny fiberoptic tubes. But sometimes the tubes break at an unfathomable depth. Fennell's literary adventure brings him to the west coast of Africa where he uncovers a story about the raw human labor behind...