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God Grew Tired of Us

Tue, 24 Jul 2012 5:03:03 PST

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Now in paperback, "God Grew Tired of Us" is a book with passion, sadness, fear, perseverance, joy and humor written by John Dau, a member of the Dinka tribe of southern Sudan, who recounts his experiences as a refugee from the civil war that has been fought in his country since 1983 and resulted in the death of hundreds of thousands of Sudanese. Among the millions of refugees who sought refuge in ...

The Miraculous Fever-tree

Tue, 24 Jul 2012 5:01:01 PST

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A rich and wonderful history of quinine - the cure for malaria. In the summer of 1623, ten cardinals and hundreds of their attendants, engaged in electing a new Pope, died from the 'mal'aria' or 'bad air' of the Roman marshes. Their choice, Pope Urban VIII, determined that a cure should be found for the fever that was the scourge of the Mediterranean, northern Europe and America, and in 1631 a yo ...

When a Crocodile Eats the Sun

Sat, 12 May 2012 4:08:10 PST

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After his father's heart attack in 1984, Peter Godwin began a series of pilgrimages back to Zimbabwe, the land of his birth, from Manhattan, where he now lives. On these frequent visits to check on his elderly parents, he bore witness to Zimbabwe's dramatic spiral downwards into the jaws of violent chaos, presided over by an increasingly enraged dictator. And yet long after their comfortable life ...

Dead Aid

Sat, 12 May 2012 3:46:47 PST

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There is no doubt: we want to help. The well-documented horrors of extreme poverty around the world have created a moral imperative that people have responded to in their millions. Yet the poverty persists. At a time of unprecedented global prosperity, children are starving to death. Are we not being generous enough? Or is the problem somehow insoluble, an inevitable outcome of historical circums ...

Poor Economics

Sat, 12 May 2012 3:45:31 PST

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Stuffed and Starved

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 18:42:47 PST

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We have so much choice over what we eat today because rural communities the world over have had their choices taken away. To understand how our supermarket shopping makes us complicit in a system that routinely denies freedom to the world's poorest, and how we ourselves are poisoned by these choices, we need to think about the way our food comes to us. "Stuffed and Starved" takes a long and wide ...

The Emperor of All Maladies

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 18:41:47 PST

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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

Wed, 12 Oct 2011 18:07:22 PST

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Chasing the Devil

Wed, 5 Oct 2011 1:21:52 PST

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For decades Sierra Leone and Liberia have been too dangerous for the outsider to travel through, bedevilled by a uniquely brutal form of violence from which have sprung many of Africa's cruellest contemporary icons - child soldiers, prisoner mutilation, blood diamonds. Chasing the Devil tells the story of Tim Butcher's audacious expedition from Freetown at the mouth of the Sierra Leone river over ...

Argonauti del Pacifico occidentale

Wed, 5 Oct 2011 1:20:36 PST

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Pubblicato nel 1922, questo libro è il frutto di una ricerca sul terrenocondotta nelle isole Trobriand (Papua-Nuova Guinea), presso società diorticoltori che praticavano anche la pesca e l'allevamento di maiali a finicerimoniali. Centrale nello studio di Malinowski è il sistema di scambi dettoKula ring che si svolgeva - e si svolge ancora - tra una trentina di isole,stabilend ...

Ghosts by Daylight

Wed, 5 Oct 2011 1:19:22 PST

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Before I reached the stairwell, I saw something out of the corner of my eye. A strange and beautiful man had dropped to his knees in front of me, unencumbered, unembarrassed. I stopped short. He was slender, almost Asiatic looking, wearing baggy combat trousers and a T-shirt. He was flirting, and then he was laughing at my reaction. There was not much for me to do but also smile...Janine and Brun ...

The Invisible Mountain

Wed, 5 Oct 2011 1:18:32 PST

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Book Description From the verdant hills of Rio de Janeiro to Evita Perón’s glittering Buenos Aires, from the haven of a corner butcher shop to the halls of the United States Embassy in Montevideo, this gripping novel—at once expansive and lush with detail—examines the intertwined fates of a continent and a family in upheaval. The Invisible Mountain is a deeply intimate exploration of the search ...

House of Stone

Wed, 5 Oct 2011 1:17:39 PST

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Six Months in Sudan

Wed, 5 Oct 2011 1:17:16 PST

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Harare North

Wed, 5 Oct 2011 1:16:46 PST

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When he lands in Harare North, our unnamed protagonist carries nothing but a cardboard suitcase full of memories and an email address for his childhood friend, Shingi. Finessing his way through immigration, he spends a few restless weeks as the very unwelcome guest in his cousin's home before tracking down Shingi in a Brixton squat. In this astonishing, revelatory original debut, Caine Prize winn ...

Mukiwa

Mon, 25 Jul 2011 18:27:44 PST

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Growing up in Rhodesia in the 1960s, Peter Godwin inhabited a magical and frightening world of leopard-hunting, lepers, witch doctors, snakes and forest fires. As an adolescent, a conscript caught in the middle of a vicioud civil war, and then as an adult who returned to Zimbabwe as a journalist to cover the bloody transition to majority rule, he discovered a land stalked by death and danger.

Eva dorme

Thu, 21 Apr 2011 16:39:52 PST

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Anche stanotte Eva non riesce a dormire. Apre la finestra: l'aria pungente e dolce dell'aprile altoatesino sa di neve e di resina. All'improvviso il telefono squilla, la voce debole di un uomo che la chiama con il soprannome della sua infanzia: è Vito. È molto malato, e vorrebbe vederla per l'ultima volta. Carabiniere calabrese in pensione, ha prestato a lungo servizio in Alto Adige negli anni Se ...

Baking Cakes in Kigali

Sat, 12 Mar 2011 22:24:23 PST

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Midnight's Children

Sat, 12 Mar 2011 22:20:07 PST

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Born at the stroke of midnight on August 15, 1947, at the precise moment of India’s independence, the infant Saleem Sinai is celebrated in the press and welcomed by Prime Minister Nehru himself. But this coincidence of birth has consequences Saleem is not prepared for: telepathic powers that connect him with 1,000 other “midnight’s children” – all born in the initial hour of India’s independence ...

The Miraculous Fever-Tree

Sat, 12 Mar 2011 21:09:44 PST

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"Cinchona revolutionized the art of medicine as profoundly as gunpowder had the art of war." -- Bernardino Ramazzini, Physician to the Duke of Modena, Opera omnia, medica, et physica, 1716 In the summer of 1623, ten cardinals and hundreds of their attendants died in Rome while electing a new pope. The Roman marsh fever that felled them was the scourge of the Mediterranean, northern Europe ...

The Last Speakers

Mon, 10 Jan 2011 6:12:14 PST

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"The Last Speakers" is an engaging and thought-provoking treatment that reports on the extinction crisis that threatens many languages worldwide. Through photos, graphics, short vignettes, interviews, and first-person stories, this scientist's notebook documents linguist K. David Harrison's around-the-world adventures to meet with last speakers of languages. The speakers' points of view are revea ...

Balians

Thu, 23 Dec 2010 2:18:37 PST

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The 10th volume of the Profiles in Healing series presents the male and female healers from Bali, called Balians; discusses their healing practices; and shares the visions that have defined their way of life. In addition, the Lontar-a sacred text consisting of etchings on dried palm leaves-is presented and its medicinal teachings are explained. Illustrated by beautiful and mystic photos and drawi ...

La mia casa è dove sono

Wed, 1 Dec 2010 2:24:41 PST

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Healing Performances of Bali

Fri, 5 Nov 2010 2:48:27 PST

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The rich traditions of myth, ritual, performance, and worship that are integral to popular medicine in Bali are central themes in this study by Hobart (medical anthropology, Goldsmiths' College of London U., UK). Based on ten years of research in Bali, descriptions of the specific practices of indiv

Ring of Fire

Thu, 28 Oct 2010 22:19:29 PST

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The true story behind the internationally award-winning PBS television series, Ring of Fire charts the Blair brothers' 10-year journey through the world's largest and least-known archipelago--the islands of Indonesia. Amid seemingly impenetrable rain forests, erupting volcanoes, and unimaginable natural beauty, the brothers hoped to capture on film and in words the customs, beliefs, and wisdom of ...

Nathaniel's Nutmeg

Fri, 8 Oct 2010 12:16:24 PST

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The tiny island of Run is an insignificant speck in the middle of the Indonesian archipelago--remote, tranquil, and now largely ignored. At the beginning of the seventeenth century, however, Run's harvest of nutmeg turned it into the most lucrative of the Spice Islands, precipitating a fierce and bloody battle between the all-powerful Dutch East India Company and a small band of ragtag British ad ...

Caramelo.

Wed, 16 Jun 2010 17:23:42 PST

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The Lacuna

Wed, 16 Jun 2010 17:23:03 PST

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Brixton Beach

Wed, 16 Jun 2010 17:20:23 PST

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In advance of her new novel 'The Road to Urbino, read Roma Tearne,s brilliant 'Brixton Beach,. Opening with the horrors of the London bombings, this is the profoundly moving story of civil war and a child,s struggle to come to terms with loss. London. On a bright July morning a series of bombs brings the capital to a halt. Simon Swann, a medic from one of the large teaching hospitals, is searchin ...

Say You're One of Them

Wed, 16 Jun 2010 17:20:07 PST

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'Nothing interests Maman today, not even Jean, her favorite child ...She acts dumb, bewitched, like a goat that the neighborhood children have fed sorghum beer.' This extraordinary collection ranges from the depiction of a street family's poverty in Kenya, illegal trading of children in Gabon to inter-religious conflicts in Nigeria and Ethiopia and the terrible situation faced by a mixed Hutu-Ts ...

The Vagrants

Wed, 16 Jun 2010 17:19:45 PST

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The Tortilla Curtain

Sat, 8 May 2010 13:13:27 PST

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The author of East Is East replays the tragi-comic meeting of representatives from two different cultures with nothing in common. This book calmly grabs hold with an unexpected suspense.

In the United States of Africa

Fri, 16 Apr 2010 20:25:16 PST

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Maximum City

Fri, 16 Apr 2010 20:19:56 PST

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A native of Bombay, Suketu Mehta gives us an insider’s view of this stunning metropolis. He approaches the city from unexpected angles, taking us into the criminal underworld of rival Muslim and Hindu gangs; following the life of a bar dancer raised amid poverty and abuse; opening the door into the inner sanctums of Bollywood; and delving into the stories of the countless villagers who come in se ...

Coral Reef Fishes

Fri, 16 Apr 2010 20:19:27 PST

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Expanded and updated to include an additional 44 species, this is a handy guide to those fishes that are likely to be observed by anybody visiting or diving on the coral reefs of the Caribbean, the Indian Ocean, and the Pacific to a depth of sixty meters. Accessible to amateur marine life enthusiasts, this book is the first comprehensive guide of its kind. It enables the reader to quickly identif ...

Waste

Fri, 16 Apr 2010 20:16:04 PST

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With shortages, volatile prices and nearly one billion people hungry, the world has a food problem or thinks it does. Farmers, manufacturers, supermarkets and consumers in North America and Europe discard up to half of their food enough to feed all the world's hungry at least three times over. Forests are destroyed and nearly one tenth of the West's greenhouse gas emissions are released growing f ...

The Hakawati

Sat, 30 Jan 2010 16:56:34 PST

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Amazon Guest Review: Amy Tan I’ve been a huge fan of Rabih Alameddine's work for many years, beginning with his first novel, Koolaids: The Art of War. Rabih is not only a writer whose work I admire, he is also the writer with whom I have spent the most time talking about books, writers, and literary ideas. He reads the most international fiction of anyone else I know. And for now, his French ...

Cutting for Stone

Sat, 30 Jan 2010 16:53:52 PST

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A sweeping, emotionally riveting first novel—an enthralling family saga of Africa and America, doctors and patients, exile and home. Marion and Shiva Stone are twin brothers born of a secret union between a beautiful Indian nun and a brash British surgeon at a mission hospital in Addis Ababa. Orphaned by their mother’s death in childbirth and their father’s disappearance, bound together by a pr ...

A Thousand Years of Good Prayers

Thu, 28 Jan 2010 22:10:15 PST

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Brilliant and original, 'A Thousand Years of Good Prayers' introduces a remarkable first collection of stories about China from an author set to become a major literary talent. In this extraordinary first collection, Yiyun Li brings us a modern China facing up to a complex history of repression and guilt. In 'Immortality', winner of the Paris Review prize, a young man bears a striking resemblance ...

The In-Between World of Vikram Lall

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 10:24:18 PST

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Double Giller Prize winner M.G. Vassanji’s The In-Between World of Vikram Lall is a haunting novel of corruption and regret that brings to life the complexity and turbulence of Kenyan society in the last five decades. Rich in sensuous detail and historical insight, this is a powerful story of passionate betrayals and political violence, racial tension and the strictures of tradition, told in eleg ...

Evening is the whole day

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 23:42:24 PST

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A Case of Exploding Mangoes

Fri, 18 Sep 2009 20:30:15 PST

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There is an ancient saying that when lovers fall out, a plane goes down. "A Case of Exploding Mangoes" is the story of one such plane. Why did a Hercules C130, the world's sturdiest plane, carrying Pakistan's military dictator General Zia ul Haq, go down on 17 August, 1988? Was it because of: mechanical failure; human error; the CIA's impatience; a blind woman's curse; generals not happy with the ...

Give Me Shelter

Fri, 14 Aug 2009 3:26:02 PST

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L'arte di correre sotto la pioggia

Mon, 18 May 2009 22:28:06 PST

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"Mi chiamo Enzo. Adoro guardare la TV, soprattutto i documentari del National Geographic, e sono ossessionato dai pollici opponibili. Amo il mio nome, lo stesso del grande Ferrari, anche se d'aspetto non gli assomiglio per niente. Però, come lui, adoro le macchine. So tutto: i modelli, le scuderie, i piloti, le stagioni... Me lo ha insegnato Denny. Denny è come un fratello per me. Per sbarcare il ...

Gem Squash Tokoloshe

Sun, 19 Apr 2009 18:21:50 PST

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She just sat there hardly moving, staring at the drive. Black marks formed under her eyes where her lashes bled their waxy coating onto her skin. Her rouged cheeks were smudged. Mother looked like she was melting in the heat. Faith leads an isolated existence on her family's drought stricken farm in the Northern Transvaal of South Africa. When the rain stopped, her father took to the road as a tr ...

An Imperfect Offering

Sun, 19 Apr 2009 18:20:58 PST

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In "An Imperfect Offering", he tells his own extraordinary story of being a doctor, but also discusses the nature of humanitarian action today and our responsibilities as citizens of the world. Born in Britain in 1960, James Orbinski's family moved to Canada when he was seven years old. As a young man, he became a medic to learn how to help, and deal with, the suffering of others. From then on he ...

Blood River

Sun, 8 Mar 2009 21:58:36 PST

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When "Daily Telegraph" correspondent Tim Butcher was sent to cover Africa in 2000 he quickly became obsessed with the idea of recreating H. M. Stanley's famous expedition - but travelling alone. Despite warnings that his plan was 'suicidal', Butcher set out for the Congo's eastern border with just a rucksack and a few thousand dollars hidden in his boots. Making his way in an assortment of vessel ...

Disco for the Departed

Sat, 28 Feb 2009 16:01:12 PST

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Dr Siri Paiboun may be in his seventy-third year, but he's still as sturdy as a jungle boar - and as crafty as one. Reluctant coroner to the Lao People's Democratic Republic, he's been despatched to the country's mountainous north where the sudden appearance of a mummified arm protruding from a concrete path laid in front of the President's new mansion has caused an understandable degree of emba ...

Slumdog Millionaire

Sat, 28 Feb 2009 16:00:52 PST

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The Private Lives of Pippa Lee

Sat, 28 Feb 2009 16:00:38 PST

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At fifty, Pippa Lee seems just fine. The devoted wife of a brilliant publisher thirty years her senior, the proud mother of successful twins, and a lovely and adored friend and neighbour, she seems to glow with feminine serenity. But when her husband spontaneously decides they should cast off Gramercy Park for Marigold Village retirement home, as a "preemptive strike against his decrepitude," Pip ...

Unfeeling

Sat, 28 Feb 2009 15:59:36 PST

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At 16, Davey's stuck between becoming the man his father wants him to be, and leaving behind the child he was. Before Davey gets a chance to grow up, however, his placid life is destroyed when his parents are murdered and his family farm “reclaimed.” Neighboring farmers try to care for Davey by engaging him in their community of clubs, church, and boarding school, but one night Davey escapes, emb ...

Mr. Nice

Thu, 29 Jan 2009 2:15:36 PST

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La mia guerra all'indifferenza

Mon, 12 Jan 2009 23:12:14 PST

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The Black Insider

Tue, 6 Jan 2009 1:27:53 PST

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Mountains of the Mind

Sun, 4 Jan 2009 5:19:24 PST

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I mostri di Templeton

Fri, 19 Dec 2008 1:47:59 PST

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Willie Upton, rampolla un po' squinternata dell'antica famiglia Temple, ritorna in disgrazia nella cittadina fondata dai suoi avi e scopre che, a Templeton, le cose sono cambiate parecchio. Sulle acque del lago Glimmerglass galleggia un mostro di quindici metri, tanto per cominciare, e le sorprese non sono che all'inizio. Willie si trova per le mani una missione: scoprire l'identità di un padre c ...

Book of Not

Wed, 17 Dec 2008 5:59:58 PST

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Rosso come una sposa

Thu, 11 Dec 2008 1:14:12 PST

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Saba viene data in sposa, appena quindicenne, al più maturo Ymer, già vedovo di sua sorella. La giovane, malvista da suocera e cognate, dovrà imparare da sola a gestire marito e figli, specialmente dopo lo sterminio dei suoi fratelli da parte dei nazisti. Nel difficile compito, Saba ha come alleate dapprima le figlie e poi le nipoti, in un'epopea tutta al femminile che attraverserà anche la lungh ...

The White Tiger

Wed, 10 Dec 2008 4:50:52 PST

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Winning the Man Booker prize is something that most authors dream of, although -- ironically -- the reputation of the prize itself was under siege a few years ago. Books that won the award were acquiring a reputation of being difficult and inaccessible, but those days appear to be over -- and unarguable proof may be found in the 2008 winner, The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga. Apart from its consid ...

Everything is Illuminated

Wed, 10 Dec 2008 4:50:17 PST

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The simplest thing would be to describe Everything is Illuminated, Jonathan Safran Foer's accomplished debut, as a novel about the Shoah. It is, but that really fails to do justice to the sheer ambition of this book. The main story is a grimly familiar one. A young Jewish-American--who just happens to be called Jonathan Safran Foer--travels to the Ukraine in the hope of finding the woman who save ...

Under a Starless Sky

Tue, 9 Dec 2008 7:20:17 PST

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From the streets and bazaars of Tehran to the moonlit Turkish mountains, Under a Starless Sky is a beautiful memoir about one family's extraordinary journey. Banafsheh is eight when the revolution begins in Iran. At first her family are jubilant about the collapse of the Shah's rule and the return of Ayatollah Khomeini, but they quickly realise that Iran has traded one dictator for another, more ...

Condominio occidentale

Tue, 25 Nov 2008 18:04:06 PST

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Ero dietro di te

Wed, 5 Nov 2008 23:21:48 PST

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"Ero dietro di te", dice il biglietto che un cameriere porge al protagonista, un trentenne venuto a passare qualche giorno in Italia per sfuggire alla crisi violenta della sua vita coniugale. A scriverlo è stata Alice, una ragazza che vorrebbe entrare in sordina nella vita del protagonista, con la leggerezza di un'ombra, di un preventivo ricordo, di un'incalzante occasione. Ma il giovane francese ...

Women Writing Zimbabwe

Mon, 27 Oct 2008 4:22:44 PST

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The fifteen stories in Women Writing Zimbabwe offer a kaleidoscope of fresh, moving, and comic perspectives on the way in which events of the last decade have impacted on individuals, women in particular. Several stories (Tagwira, Ndlovu and Charsley) look at the impact that AIDS has on women who become the care-givers, often without emotional or physical support. It is often assumed that women w ...

Calum's Road

Sat, 18 Oct 2008 15:48:09 PST

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Calum MacLeod had lived on the northern point of Raasay since his birth in 1911. He tended the Rona lighthouse at the very tip of his little archipelago, until semi-automation in 1967 reduced his responsibilities. 'So what he decided to do', says his last neighbour, Donald MacLeod, 'was to build a road out of Arnish in his months off. With a road he hoped new generations of people would return to ...

the sari shop

Thu, 9 Oct 2008 23:19:21 PST

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Guns, Germs and Steel

Wed, 8 Oct 2008 22:20:43 PST

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In this "artful, informative, and delightful" (William H. McNeill, New York Review of Books) book, Jared Diamond convincingly argues that geographical and environmental factors shaped the modern world. Societies that had had a head start in food production advanced beyond the hunter-gatherer stage, and then developed religion --as well as nasty germs and potent weapons of war --and adventured on ...

Katha

Wed, 8 Oct 2008 22:16:13 PST

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Women's stories in India have been handed down from generation to generation, enriched and embroidered along the way. Political change and the arrival of print culture meant that storytelling was pushed into the background. But in more recent times, these voices have once again come centre-stage - confident, varied and complex. Spanning half a century, this collection covers many languages and cu ...

The Calcutta Chromosome

Wed, 8 Oct 2008 22:15:07 PST

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A medical thriller, a Victorian ghost story, a scientific quest--this novel ranges back and forth in time. dramatizes the adventures of an international scientist. By the author of Shadow Lines, The Glass Palace and other major novels.

I cacciatori di stelle

Fri, 3 Oct 2008 4:18:24 PST

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"I cacciatori di stelle", ambientato nello spettacolare golfo di Carpentaria, nella contea del Queensland, racconta le vicende della città di Desperance e in particolare della famiglia aborigena dei Phantom: Normal detto Norm, pescatore, imbalsamatore di pesci e custode delle tradizioni del suo popolo, sua moglie Angel Day, regina delle discariche, e il figlio Will, in lotta con i bianchi arrivat ...

Pappagalli verdi

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 5:15:30 PST

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Gino Strada arriva quando tutti scappano, e mette in piedi ospedali di fortuna, spesso senza l'attrezzatura e le medicine necessarie, quando la guerra esplode nella sua lucida follia. Guerre che per lo più hanno un lungo strascico di sangue dopo la fine ufficiale dei conflitti: quando pastori, bambini e donne vengono dilaniati dalle tante mine antiuomo disseminate per le rotte della transumanza, ...

Storia dell'antropologia

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 5:11:43 PST

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Le pareti della solitudine

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 5:03:45 PST

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Il libro è nato da un'esperienza diretta di Ben Jelloun che, approdato a Parigi negli anni '70, lavorava come psicologo in un centro di medicina psicosomatica. Per un periodo di tre anni ha osservato e ascoltato più di un centinaio di pazienti nordafricani che venivano al consultorio per turbe affettive o sessuali. Questa esperienza si è condensata nel monologo di un uomo che riassume nelle sue p ...

Lo specchio delle falene

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 5:03:33 PST

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A Tangeri, tra gli anni '70 e '90, cinque uomini della media borghesia si ritrovano ogni mattina al caffè per commentare gli avvenimenti del mondo. A dire il vero, parlano più dei loro piccoli problemi che di quello che succedenel mondo. Hanno in comune il fatto di aver amato la stessa donna, Zina, unadelle ragazze più belle della città. Ciascuno di loro l'ha ferita, n ...

Creatura di sabbia

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 5:03:11 PST

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In un paese senza età, che è anche il Marocco di oggi, nasce dopo sette sorelle Mohamed Ahmed. Nasce femmina, ma per volere del padre, che non vuole disperdere il patrimonio accumulato, crescerà maschio a dispetto del suo corpo, e dovrà reggere la casa e la servitu, essendo riconosciuta da tutti come nuovo capofamiglia. Il romanzo è la storia di un'identità inventata, di una metamorfosi coatta, d ...

Notte fatale

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 5:03:08 PST

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Nadia

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 5:02:17 PST

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Korogocho

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 5:00:26 PST

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Le prese di posizione di padre Alex Zanotelli sulla Chiesa e, ancor più, su temi di carattere sociale, politico, economico, e gli incontri pubblici cui prende parte, sempre affollatissimi, hanno fatto dell'ex direttore di "Nigrizia" un leader spirituale. Dall'esperienza di "Nigrizia", appunto, dove condusse inchieste sulla mala cooperazione e sui traffici illeciti di armi, a quella di "pellegrino ...

Buskashì

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 5:00:02 PST

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Frida

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 4:59:19 PST

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Ma chi era veramente Frida Kahlo e perché si parla tanto di lei? Di se stessa diceva: "Pensavano che fossi una surrealista, ma non lo ero. Non ho mai dipinto sogni. Ho dipinto la mia realtà". La realtà di una donna dalla bellezza magnetica e strana, piccola e fiera. Nata in Messico nel 1907 alla vigilia della rivoluzione e colpita a diciott'anni da un incidente che fa della sua vita un calvario d ...

The Wizard of Oz

Wed, 24 Sep 2008 16:14:10 PST

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Dorothy thinks she is lost forever when a terrifying tornado crashes through Kansas and whisks her and her dog, Toto, far away to the magical land of Oz. To get home Dorothy must follow the yellow brick road to Emerald City and find the wonderfully mysterious Wizard of Oz. Together with her companions the Tin Woodman, the Scarecrow and the Cowardly Lion whom she meets on the way, Dorothy embarks ...

Madame Ba

Fri, 19 Sep 2008 6:27:58 PST

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Madame Ba, cinquantaseienne insegnante del Mali, per ritrovare il nipotepreferito chiede un visto d'ingresso temporaneo in Francia, che le vienerifiutato. Decide allora di rivolgersi direttamente al "Signor Presidentedella Repubblica francese delle armi, delle leggi e degli aeroporti", e sitrova a dover rispondere alle asciutte domande anagrafiche del formularioufficiale 13-0021. Ma la ...

Gli onori perduti

Fri, 19 Sep 2008 6:27:11 PST

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La verginità come vanto e come condanna. Dal villaggio camerunense di Cuscusalla Belleville parigina: il viaggio di una donna emarginata alla conquista disé in un mondo che sta cambiando. Calixthe Beyala mescola i toni del dramma edella commedia, sfodera pietà e ironia, rappresenta sofferenza e gioia divivere, descrivendo due condizioni di vita, entrambe ricche di contraddizi ...

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 23:35:37 PST

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Things have never been easy for Oscar. A ghetto nerd living with his Dominican family in New Jersey, he's sweet but disastrously overweight. He dreams of becoming the next J. R. R. Tolkien and he keeps falling hopelessly in love. Poor Oscar may never get what he wants, thanks to the Fuku - the curse that has haunted his family for generations. With dazzling energy and insight Diaz immerses us in ...

Yes Man

Mon, 8 Sep 2008 20:40:44 PST

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I, Danny Wallace, being of sound mind and body, do hereby write this manifesto for my life. I swear I will be more open to opportunity. I swear I will live my life taking every available chance. I will say Yes to every favour, request, suggestion and invitation. I WILL SWEAR TO SAY YES WHERE ONCE I WOULD SAY NO.' Danny Wallace had been staying in. Far too much. Having been dumped by his girlfrien ...

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Mon, 8 Sep 2008 20:39:56 PST

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Francesca Woodman

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 2:43:37 PST

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The Most Comprehensive Monograph on the Legendary American Photographer Ever Published. Francesca Woodman created her first photograph at thirteen and took her own life at age 22. She left behind a hauntingly beautiful legacy. Flailing, groveling, jumping, and hiding--often dissolving into a blur before the camera--she used her body as an actor in a mysterious drama. In less than a decad ...

The House of Hunger

Sat, 12 Jul 2008 1:46:19 PST

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This volume features startling stories of distinction by a remarkable writer who vividly describes the township squalor of growing up in settler-exploited Rhodesia.

Graceland

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 22:45:12 PST

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"A richly detailed, poignant, and utterly fascinating look into another culture and how it is cross-pollinated by our own. It brings to mind the work of Ha Jin in its power and revelation of the new."--T. Coraghessan Boyle The sprawling, swampy, cacophonous city of Lagos, Nigeria, provides the backdrop to the story of Elvis, a teenage Elvis impersonator hoping to make his way out of the ghetto. ...

Kalakuta Republic

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 22:45:08 PST

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Kalakuta Republic is a powerful collection of poems detailing the harrowing experiences endured by Abani and others at the hands of Nigeria’s military regime in the late 1980s. Abani’s poems are dedicated to those who experienced but did not live through the suffering. In the poems, he describes the characters that people this dark world, from the prison inmates to their torturers, the generals. ...

The Time Traveler's Wife

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 22:40:05 PST

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A dazzling novel in the most untraditional fashion, this is the remarkable story of Henry DeTamble, a dashing, adventuresome librarian who travels involuntarily through time, and Clare Abshire, an artist whose life takes a natural sequential course. Henry and Clare's passionate love affair endures across a sea of time and captures the two lovers in an impossibly romantic trap, and it is Audrey Ni ...

The Farming of Bones

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 22:39:40 PST

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It is 1937, and Amabelle Desir is a young Haitian woman working as a maid for a wealthy family in the Dominican Republic, across the border from her homeland. The Republic, under the iron rule of the Generalissimo, treats the Haitians as second-class citizens, and although Amabelle feels a strong sense of loyalty to her employers, especially since her own parents drowned crossing the river from H ...

The Virgin of Flames

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 22:27:27 PST

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For Black, a mural artist in East L.A., the city's tumbledown landscape is his canvas. Residing in a ramshackle apartment above 'The Ugly Store', he lives for his art and obsesses over Sweet Girl, the transvestite stripper who serves as his muse. Black navigates life alongside the Los Angeles River, 'iridescent in its concrete sleeve', enlisting his friends - Iggy, the beautiful tattoo artist who ...

Moloka'i

Thu, 5 Jun 2008 7:38:20 PST

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Young Rachel Kalama, growing up in idyllic Honolulu in the 1890s, dreams of seeing far-off lands, but at the age of seven Rachel's dreams are shattered by the discovery that she has leprosy. Forcibly removed from the family, she's sent to an isolated leprosy settlement on the island of Moloka'i. In exile Rachel finds a family of friends to replace the family she's lot - but loss remains a constan ...

The Africa House

Fri, 30 May 2008 6:28:48 PST

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In the declining years of the British Empire, in Northern Rhodesia, Stewart Gore-Browne was a proper English gentleman who built himself a sprawling country estate, complete with liveried servants, rose gardens, and lavish dinners finished off with vintage port in the library. All that was missing was a woman to share it with. He adored the beautiful aviatrix Ethel Locke King, but she was almost ...

Gifted

Thu, 1 May 2008 4:33:29 PST

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In a voice that is by turns very funny and fiercely tender, "Gifted" by Nikita Lalwani brings us a captivating story of high aspirations and deep longing, and of the sometime loneliness of childhood. Cardiff in the 1980s is a place where maths can get you noticed. Rumis Vasi is the town's 'maths prodigy': untangling numbers and Rubik's Cubes protects her from the harsh vagaries of the playground ...

Hands Washing Water

Wed, 23 Apr 2008 6:08:22 PST

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"Chris Abani's poetry resonates with a devastating beauty which cuts through to the heart of human strength."-Pride Hands Washing Water is Chris Abani's fourth poetry collection-a mischievous book of displacement, exile, ancestry, and subversive humor. The central section, "Buffalo Women," is a Civil War correspondence between lovers that plays on our assumptions about war, ...

C'era una volta l'amore ma ho dovuto ammazzarlo

Sat, 19 Apr 2008 6:16:03 PST

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Rep è una specie di eroe perseguitato dal destino, in fuga dalla realtà immobile di Cartagena. Vuole cominciare una nuova vita, non importa quale, ma intanto vuole dimenticare la ragazza che lo ha lasciato. Scappa per inconcludenti soggiorni nella metropoli, Bogotà, zigzagando fra le bombe degli attentati politici, le risse notturne, le sbornie e la noia.

Making Forest of Bliss

Mon, 7 Apr 2008 22:12:00 PST

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Poet Seamus Heaney wrote of the "deep and literate gaze" Robert Gardner transmits "with an intensity that passes from the documentary into the visionary" in his film "Forest of Bliss." A decade and a half after its making, it is recognized as a contemporary classic of nonfiction cinema. "Making Forest of Bliss," the first in Harvard Film Archive's series "Voices and Visions in Film," presents a ...

Saggio sul dono

Mon, 7 Apr 2008 22:10:32 PST

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I doni, da noi, si fanno e si ricevono a Natale o in occasioni stabilite comei compleanni. Non è considerato "normale" fare regali senza un motivospecifico: il dono è un'eccezione, dove la regola è tenere per sé le propriecose e ottenerne altre tramite l'acquisto o lo scambio. L'antropologia ci hainvece offerto molti esempi di società presso cui il don ...