Pyre glows with as much power as [One Part Woman] did, and adds immeasurable value to contemporary Indian literature'-The HinduSaroja and Kumaresan are in love. After a hasty wedding, they arrive in Kumaresan's village, harboring a dangerous secret: their marriage is an inter-caste one, likely to upset the village elders should they get to know of it. Kumaresan is naively confident that all will be well. But nothing is further from the truth. ...
Excerpt from Souvenirs de la Princesse de Tarente, 1789-1792Arriv¿ la hauteur des avenues de Paris, il fait halte et recommence avec son arm¿¿urer. Les fem mes avaient d¿ ¿ introduites ¿'assembl¿Natio nale, elles occupaient les bancs des d¿t¿ une partie d'elles avaient ¿ au ch¿au demander au Roi du pain. M. De La Fayette arrive ¿nze heures du soir, il promet, il jure que la paix va suivre il dit au Roi et ¿a Reine que tout est tranquille, qu'i...
Excerpt from Ad¿ide de Bavi¿: Drame en Quatre Actes, en Prose, ¿pectacleJe suis sensible ¿es marques de z¿ et de d¿uement. Allez, fid¿ Edmont, entretenir cette ardeur par votre pr¿ence, et, s'il se peut, faire acc¿rer les pr¿ratifs.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses stat...
Tells the emotionally gripping story of a Vietnamese military officer who evacuated from Saigon in 1975 but made the dramatic decision to return to Vietnam for his wife and children, rather than resettle in the United States without them. Tran Dinh Tru's memoir provides a detailed and searing account of his individual trauma as a refugee in limbo, and then as a prisoner in the Vietnamese reeducation camps.
For nearly half a century, research on education systems has been increasingly popular. However, this popularity was long restricted primarily to internationally linked policy makers and education planners, often backed up by international organizations such the OECD but also by governmental or para-governmental organizations within the individual countries.These institutional affiliations provided education research with a specific character ...
Low-Tide Lottery is an introduction to the work of upcoming poet Claire Trévien. This is an exuberant collection that rummages in the rust of the everyday in search of beauty. It crackles with imagination, rubbing history together with the present to create unexpected, wild imagery. Bodies become machines, Minotaurs and ancient Greek gods stalk the streets of Paris. Both theatrical and intimate, the author's native Brittany is a backdrop to ma...
RESUMEN DEL LIBRO Es una novela de drama basada en lo que está sucediendo hoy en día con la explotación de adolecentes obligándolos a hacer pornografía infantil y sexo, nadie se preocupa por frenar esto, porque el dinero soborna muchas autoridades, teniendo como resultado, delitos graves, fraudes, secuestros y pornografía infantil, sin importar de quien se trate. Una adolecente que estudia secundaria es secuestrada por unos tipos y es traslada...
RESUMEN DEL LIBRO Es una novela de drama basada en lo que está sucediendo hoy en día con la explotación de adolecentes obligándolos a hacer pornografía infantil y sexo, nadie se preocupa por frenar esto, porque el dinero soborna muchas autoridades, teniendo como resultado, delitos graves, fraudes, secuestros y pornografía infantil, sin importar de quien se trate. Una adolecente que estudia secundaria es secuestrada por unos tipos y es traslada...
What is the purpose of your life? Each morning, you awake to a new day filled with possibility. You are given the opportunity to write another page in the book of your life. When you come to "The End" of your life story, will it have been a life well lived? Rick Thomson is a normal guy who has ambitions beyond cultural norms. Early in his life, he was introduced to Jesus, but he grew frustrated by a lack of authenticity and passion from his sp...
What is the purpose of your life? Each morning, you awake to a new day filled with possibility. You are given the opportunity to write another page in the book of your life. When you come to "The End" of your life story, will it have been a life well lived? Rick Thomson is a normal guy who has ambitions beyond cultural norms. Early in his life, he was introduced to Jesus, but he grew frustrated by a lack of authenticity and passion from his sp...
A savage indictment of religious extremism and man's inhumanity to man, Lajja was banned in Bangladesh, but became a bestseller in the rest of the world. The Duttas--Sudhamoy and Kironmoyee, and their children, Suranjan and Maya-- have lived in Bangladesh all their lives. Despite being members of a small, vulnerable Hindu community, they refuse to leave their country, unlike most of their friends and relatives. Sudhamoy believes with a naive m...