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By Carrie Tiffany. 2019
Must a girl always be a part? How can she become a whole? In the late 1970s, in the forgotten…
outer suburbs, a girl has her hands in the engine of a Holden. A sinister new man has joined the family. He works as a mechanic and operates an unlicensed repair shop at the back of their block. The family is under threat. The girl reads the Holden workshop manual for guidance. She resists the man with silence, then with sabotage. She fights him at the place where she believes his heart lives - in the engine of the car. Set at the close of the 1970s and traversing thousands of kilometres of inland roads, Exploded View is a revelatory interrogation of Australian girlhood.By Tony Birch. 2019
This novel explores the lengths we will go to in order to save the people we love. Odette Brown has…
lived her whole life on the fringes of a small country town. After her daughter disappeared and left her with her granddaughter Sissy to raise on her own, Odette has managed to stay under the radar of the welfare authorities who are removing fair-skinned Aboriginal children from their families. When a new policeman arrives in town, determined to enforce the law, Odette must risk everything to save Sissy and protect everything she loves.By Philip Salom. 2019
Elizabeth posts a 'room for rent' notice in Trevor's bookshop and is caught off-guard when Trevor answers the ad himself.…
She expected a young student not a middle-aged bookseller whose marriage has fallen apart. But Trevor is attracted to Elizabeth's house because of the empty shed in her backyard, the perfect space for him to revive the artistic career he abandoned years earlier. The face-blind, EH Holden-driving Elizabeth is a solitary and feisty book editor, and she accepts him, on probation...By Peggy Frew. 2019
There was a house on a hill in the city and it was full of us, our family, but then…
it began to empty. We fell out. We made a mess. We draped ourselves in blame and disappointment and lurched around, bumping into each other. Some of us wailed and shouted; some of us barely made a sound. None of us was listening, or paying attention. And in the middle of it all you, very quietly, were gone. Helen and John are too preoccupied with making a mess of their marriage to notice the quiet ways in which their daughters are suffering. Junie grows up brittle and defensive, Anna difficult and rebellious. When fifteen-year-old Anna fails to come home one night, her mother's not too worried; Anna's taken off before but always returned. Helen waits three days to report her disappearance. But this time Anna doesn't come back ...By Nella Larsen. 1986
"Quicksand and Passing are novels I will never forget. They open up a whole world of experience and struggle that…
seemed to me, when I first read them years ago, absolutely absorbing, fascinating, and indispensable."--Alice Walker "Discovering Nella Larsen is like finding lost money with no name on it. One can enjoy it with delight and share it without guilt." --Maya Angelou "A hugely influential and insightful writer." --The New York Times "Larsen's heroines are complex, restless, figures, whose hungers and frustrations will haunt every sensitive reader. Quicksand and Passing are slender novels with huge themes." -- Sarah Waters "A tantalizing mix of moral fable and sensuous colorful narrative, exploring female sexuality and racial solidarity."-Women's Studies International Forum Rutgers' all-time bestselling book, Nella Larsen's novels Quicksand (1928) and Passing (1929) document the historical realities of Harlem in the 1920s and shed a bright light on the social world of the black bourgeoisie. The novels' greatest appeal and achievement, however, is not sociological, but psychological. As noted in the editor's comprehensive introduction, Larsen takes the theme of psychic dualism, so popular in Harlem Renaissance fiction, to a higher and more complex level, displaying a sophisticated understanding and penetrating analysis of black female psychology.By José Martí. 2021
El escritor que revolucionó la literatura en español. Nueva edición conmemorativa de la Real Academia Española y la Asociación de…
Academias de la Lengua Española. Poeta, ensayista, diplomático y político, el cubano José Martí es uno de los escritores latinoamericanos más importantes en la literatura del siglo XX en español. Precursor del modernismo que saltaría el océano Atlántico para instalarse también en España, inspirador de los movimientos revolucionarios que desembocaron en la independencia de Hispanoamérica, su poesía fue reconocida por autores de la talla de Juan Ramón Jiménez, Gabriela Mistral o María Zambrano. Como poeta, Martí influyó más allá del modernismo, ya que su compromiso político con la libertad hizo que en décadas mucho más recientes algunos de sus poemas fueran adaptados como canciones por figuras como Pablo Milanés o Silvio Rodríguez. Esta antología, preparada porla Real Academia Española y las Academias miembros de la ASALE, incluye toda la poesía de Martí, además de textos en prosa (artículos, ensayos, discursos) que dan cuenta de la dimensión total del autor. La edición se completa con estudios sobre el autor y su obra que dan cuenta de la dimensión de Martí como escritor, además de con un glosario y un índice onomástico. La crítica ha dicho:«Mi impresión es, dejada aparte la prosa, la de que los Versos sencillos son la isla genuina de la originalidad poética de Martí, que son la médula martiana, adonde no pudo colarse el enemigo. Esta isla me es, por eso, particularmente querida. Tengo en ella mis mayores gozos con el Maestro; tengo allí con él mi coloquio más logrado; desde este pedazo de su obra cae sobre mí el rayo martiano más vertical.»Gabriela Mistral «Martí no podía dejar de ser universal, de sentir universalmente el trozo de historia que le tocó vivir.»María Zambrano «Su ternura se alimentaba de un encantado manto freático, en territorios ubicados al sur y al norte. Al viajar, alternando miradas de águila y de paloma, le crecieron nuevas ramas y raíces, como al ser destinado por los aleros para meditar en las más agudas y suaves aristas materiales. Era un coloso colosal.»José Lezama Lima «Sería difícil citar otro caso de identificación de un país con un hombre, que alcance la magnitud de la encarnación de Cuba en la persona y la obra de José Martí.»Cintio VitierBy Subha Chakraborty Dasgupta, Subrata Sinha. 2022
This volume forms a part of the Critical Discourses in South Asia series which deals with schools, movements and discursive…
practices in major South Asian languages. It offers crucial insights into the making of Bengali or Bangla literature and its critical tradition across a century. The book brings together English translation of major writings of influential figures dealing with literary criticism and theory, aesthetic and performative traditions and re-interpretations of primary concepts and categories in Bangla. It presents 32 key texts in literary and cultural studies from Bengal from the middle of the 19th to that of the 20th century, with most of them translated for the first time into English. These seminal essays cover interconnections with socio-historical events in the colonial and post-independence period in Bengal, including the background to the language movement in Bangladesh. They discuss themes such as integrative aesthetic visions; poetic and literary forms; modernism; imagination; power structures and social struggles; ideological values; cultural renovations; and humanism. Comprehensive and authoritative, this volume offers an overview of the history of critical thought in Bangla literature in South Asia. It will be essential for scholars and researchers of Bengali/Bangla language and literature, literary criticism, literary theory, comparative literature, Indian literature, cultural studies, art and aesthetics, performance studies, history, sociology, regional studies and South Asian studies. It will also interest the Bengali-speaking diaspora and those working on the intellectual history of Bengal and conservation of languages and cultureBy Felicity McLean. 2019
Tikka Malloy was eleven and one-sixth years old during the long, hot, Australian summer of 1992. The TV news in…
the background chattered with debate about the exoneration of Lindy (“dingo took my baby”) Chamberlain. That summer was when the Van Apfel sisters--Ruth, Hannah, and the beautiful Cordelia--mysteriously disappeared. Did they just run far away from their harsh, evangelical parents, or were they taken? While the search for the girls united the small community, the mystery of their disappearance was never solved, and Tikka and her older sister, Laura, have been haunted ever since by the loss of their friends and playmates. Now, years later, Tikka has returned home to try to make sense of that strange moment in time.By Nevil Shute. 2019
Following the devastation of a nuclear world war, most of the northern hemisphere is annihilated. As the radioactive cloud slowly…
spreads across the globe, only a few remote pockets of the earth remain habitable, and the area around Melbourne is one. A small group of survivors heroically try to cope with their last days in a world which has died before them.By Richard Flanagan. 2020
In a world of perennial fire and growing extinctions, Anna's aged mother is dying-if her three children would just allow…
it. Condemned by their pity to living she increasingly escapes through her hospital window into visions of horror and delight. When Anna's finger vanishes and a few months later her knee disappears, Anna too feels the pull of the window. She begins to see that all around her others are similarly vanishing, but no one else notices. All Anna can do is keep her mother alive. But the window keeps opening wider, taking Anna and the reader ever deeper into a strangely beautiful story about hope and love and orange-bellied parrots.By Trent Dalton. 2018
Brisbane, 1985: A lost father, a mute brother, a junkie mum, a heroin dealer for a stepfather and a notorious…
crim for a babysitter. It's not as if Eli Bell's life isn't complicated enough already. He's just trying to follow his heart and understand what it means to be a good man, but fate keeps throwing obstacles in his way, not the least of which is Tytus Broz, legendary Brisbane drug dealer. But now Eli's life is going to get a whole lot more serious: he's about to meet the father he doesn't remember, break into Boggo Road Gaol on Christmas Day to rescue his mum, come face to face with the criminals who tore his world apart, and fall in love with the girl of his dreams.By Markus Zusak. 2018
Upon their father's return, the five Dunbar boys, who have raised themselves since their mother's death, begin to learn family…
secrets, including that of fourth brother Clay, who will build a bridge for complex reasons, including his own redemption. Let me tell you about our brother.The fourth Dunbar boy named Clay. Everything happened to him. We were all of us changed through him. The Dunbar boys bring each other up in a house run by their own rules. A family of ramshackle tragedy – their mother is dead, their father has fled – they love and fight, and learn to reckon with the adult world. It is Clay, the quiet one, who will build a bridge; for his family, for his past, for his sins. He builds a bridge to transcend humanness. To survive. A miracle and nothing less.By Belinda Alexandra. 2014
In fear for their lives after the sudden death of their mother, two sisters, Adela and Klara, must flee Prague…
to find refuge with their uncle in Australia. There, Adela becomes a film director and while success is imminent, family problems and an impossible love are never far away. Ultimately dreams of the silver screen must compete with the bonds of a lifetime.By Tess Evans. 2011
In the small town of Opportunity, four mismatched people discover the unexpected power of kindness. Moss has run away from…
Melbourne to Opportunity on the trail of a man she knows only by name. But her arrival sets in train events that disturb the long-held secrets of three of the town's inhabitants: Finn, a brilliant mathematician, who has become a recluse; Lily Pargetter, eighty-three-year-old knitter of tea cosies; and Sandy, the town buffoon, who dreams of a Great Galah. It is only as Moss, Finn, Lily and Sandy develop unlikely friendships that they find a way to lay their sorrows to rest and knit together the threads that will restore them to life.By Jane Harper. 2020
Kieran Elliott's life changed forever on a single day when a reckless mistake led to devastating consequences. The guilt that…
haunts him still resurfaces during a visit with his young family to the small coastal town he once called home. Kieran's parents are struggling in a town where fortunes are forged by the sea. Between them all is his absent brother, Finn. When a body is discovered on the beach, long-held secrets threaten to emerge. A sunken wreck, a missing girl and questions that have never washed away ...By Bronwyn Parry. 2016
Standing here on the top of the falls, with all the beauty of the wild country around - the rugged…
hills behind her, the gorge opening in front of her - it could be so easy to simply step into it, to take that one step and fly into the mesmerising beauty. Just one little step. For police officers Steve Fraser and Tess Ballard, a split-second decision saves the lives of 50 members of a cult - but also puts their careers on the line. Tess's work is everything to her; she's forged a new life through sheer determination, so when her past returns to haunt her, Steve must race through wild country if he is to save the people he most cares about.By Rainer Maria Rilke. 2012
Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926) was an avid letter writer, and more than seven thousand of his letters have survived. The…
best-known collection today is Rilke’s Letters to a Young Poet, first published in 1929. Two other letter collections appeared around the same time and gained high acclaim among readers yet are virtually unknown today. They are Letters to a Young Woman (1930) and Letters on God (1933). With this volume, Annemarie S. Kidder makes available to an English-speaking audience two of the earliest collections of Rilke letters published after his death. The thematic collection On God― here published in English for the first time―contains two letters by Rilke, the first an actual letter written during World War I, in 1915 in Munich, the second a fictional one composed after the war, in 1922 at Muzot, in Switzerland. In these letters, Rilke builds on the mystical view of God conceived of in The Book of Hours, but he moves beyond it, demonstrating a unique vision of God and Christ, the church and religious experience, friendship and death. The collection Letters to a Young Woman comprises nine of Rilke’s letters, written to a young admirer, Lisa Heise, over the course of five years, from 1919 to 1924. Though Rilke and Heise never met, Rilke emerges in these letters as the compassionate listener and patient teacher who with level-headed sensitivity affirms and guides the movements of another person’s soul.By Jatindra Kumar Nayak and Animesh Mohapatra. 2022
This volume forms a part of the Critical Discourses in South Asia series which deals with schools, movements and discursive…
practices in major South Asian languages. It offers crucial insights into the making of Odia literature and its critical tradition across a century. The book brings together English translation of major writings of influential figures dealing with literary criticism and theory, aesthetic and performative traditions and re-interpretations of primary concepts and categories in Odia. It presents 25 key texts in literary and cultural studies from late 19th century to early 21st century, translated by experts for the first time into English. These seminal essays explore complex interconnections between socio-historical events in the colonial and post-Independence period in Odisha and the language movement. They discuss themes such as the evolving idea of literature and criteria of critical evaluation; revision and expansion of the literary canon; the transition from orality to print; emergence of new reading practices resulting in shifts in aesthetic sensibility; dialectics of tradition and modernity; and the formation, consolidation and political consequences of a language-based identity. Comprehensive and authoritative, this volume offers an overview of the history of critical thought in Odia literature in South Asia. It will be essential for scholars and researchers of Odia language and literature, literary criticism, literary theory, comparative literature, Indian literature, cultural studies, art and aesthetics, performance studies, history, sociology, regional studies and South Asian studies. It will also interest the Odia-speaking diaspora and those working on the intellectual history of Odisha and eastern India and conservation of language and culture.A wide-ranging, multidisciplinary look at Native American literature through non-narrative texts like lists, albums, recipes, and scrapbooks &“An intricate history…
of Native textual production, use, and circulation that reshapes how we think about relationships between Native materials and settler-colonial collections.&”—Rose Miron, D&’Arcy McNickle Center for American Indian and Indigenous Studies at the Newberry Library Kelly Wisecup offers a sweeping account of early Native American literatures by examining Indigenous compilations: intentionally assembled texts that Native people made by juxtaposing and recontextualizing textual excerpts into new relations and meanings. Experiments in reading and recirculation, Indigenous compilations include Mohegan minister Samson Occom&’s medicinal recipes, the Ojibwe woman Charlotte Johnston&’s poetry scrapbooks, and Abenaki leader Joseph Laurent&’s vocabulary lists. Indigenous compilations proliferated in a period of colonial archive making, and Native writers used compilations to remake the very forms that defined their bodies, belongings, and words as ethnographic evidence. This study enables new understandings of canonical Native writers like William Apess, prominent settler collectors like Thomas Jefferson and Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, and Native people who contributed to compilations but remain absent from literary histories. Long before current conversations about decolonizing archives and museums, Native writers made and circulated compilations to critique colonial archives and foster relations within Indigenous communities.Considering children’s literature as a powerful repository for creating and proliferating cultural and national identities, this monograph is the first…
academic study of children’s literature in translation from the Western Balkans. Marija Todorova looks at a broad range of children’s literature, from fiction to creative non-fiction and picture books, across five different countries in the Western Balkans, with each chapter including detailed textual and visual analysis through the predominant lens of violence. These chapters raise questions around who initiates and effectuates the selection of children’s literature from the Western Balkans for translation into English, and interrogate the role of different stakeholders, such as translators, publishers and cultural institutions in the representation and construction of these countries in translated children’s literature, both in text and visually. Given the combination of this study’s interdisciplinary nature and Todorova’s detailed analysis, this book will prove to be an essential resource for professional translators, researchers and students in courses in translation studies, children’s literature or area studies, especially that of countries in the Western Balkans. .