Ficción moderna y contemporanea

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Lynn Strongin is a poet and mystic ­- decoding the unseen messages of this life. One can see oneself in the protagonists of Star Quilt: The Seventh Jump - photographer Maggie, upstart pioneer, pushing the envelope of her art, and Rachel, a retired postal carrier with back problems who could once walk the length and breadth of a small town with a heavy letter sack on her back. All Strongin's characters are, to one degree or another, visionaries and outsiders. Anne Ross, translator There is no other poet writing today who takes poetry so totally seriously and gets so absolutely involved with the writing-process as a means of psycho-spiritual rebirth. You enter Strongin's world and it's not just like traveling to another planet but into a whole new alternative universe. Hugh Fox, poet and critic This new book is a wonder. Glenna Luschei, poet About Lynn Strongin's short fiction collection, Albino Peacock: . . . a quite a wonderful achievement. I read it from start to finish in one sitting. It's marvelous. It is music. It is poetry. Florence Miller, teacher, poet, co-editor of Poems by Shakespeare's Sisters (Shakespeare's Sisters Press)

The snapshots of life through these brief stories told are an attempt to promote a license for all human existence. Life is that what we share with others not what we share with the selected few. All group life is affected by moral laws or codes of regulation which in turn are determined by the external forces of politic and power. None of us are exempt from such realities and all yearn to fit within society’s expression of acceptance and expectation. However, there are many that are marginalized. It’s to the exclusion of these few that I write. Expressions of discontent are often projected onto this minority who are already at a disadvantage and at the bottom of a humanly created pile. This whole text attempts to challenge the way in which we socially exclude due to difference and gives an insight into some of the lives of those who experience enduring struggles. It gives voice to the blend and discord of difference and beckons us to examine its divide. As we enquire about our world so it brings us face to face with ourselves and our purpose in connection with others. From the survival of family life to the life of work and leisure it attempts to unravel the purposes and meaning in life and challenges us to go even deeper in a true acceptance of others.



Del Sud. El País Valencià al ritme d'Obrint Pas explica alguna cosa més que l'apassionant trajectòria artística d'aquest grup musical. El llibre també és el relat d'una terra mítica, de projectes faraònics, de gratacels ran de mar, que contrasten amb l'oblit de les perifèries urbanes, la falta d'infraestructures sanitàries i els barracons que completen la insuficient xarxa escolar del País Valencià.Els periodistes Antoni Rubio i Hèctor Sanjuan han seguit Obrint Pas des dels seus orígens fins als concerts a Alemanya, Suïssa, Txèquia, Itàlia, Portugal o bé París i Londres per retratar una realitat agredolça a través del grup de més èxit dels Països Catalans.«Aquest no és només un llibre sobre nosaltres. Tampoc no ha estat idea nostra, ni hem marcat cap directriu. És un llibre per entendre el que ha passat al País Valencià en els darrers vint anys a través d'un exemple concret, les nostres mil i una aventures, com podrien ser les de qualsevol altre grup. Una explicació més del perquè, després de 300 anys de derrotes, la nostra cultura i la nostra llengua continuen més vives i fortes que mai al sud del nostre país.»Xavier Sarrià (Obrint Pas)

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Everybody wants to think they're the only foreigner living in China. Up to the Mountains and Down to the Countryside tells the story of two American English teachers in rural China. Daniel, a young college graduate, is enjoying his seemingly idyllic life in the small town of Ningyuan when Thomas, an entitled deadbeat content to pass the rest of his days in Asia skating by on the fact that he's white, arrives at his high school. The two men take an instant dislike to each other, and in the ensuing battle of wills tensions build to a showdown, with one of their more zealous female students caught in the middle. Author Quincy Carroll draws on his own years as a teacher in Hunan province to present a realistic portrait of the lives of foreigners outside of China's more Westernized cities. The novel has been acclaimed for its beautiful prose and thought-provoking examination of the expatriate experience, and was a Kirkus Reviews Indie Book of the Month for January 2016. Up to the Mountains and Down to the Countryside questions what we take and what we leave behind when we move abroad, our motivations – real and imagined – and how living overseas, away from everything we know, changes us. This is a novel that stays with you long after you finish reading it.

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface.We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface.We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

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Càmfora és una història d'amor i desamors, de gelosies i d'enveges, de tendreses i de dolor, contada per la mà mestra de Maria Barbal.

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Escrit com a continuació d'Infantesa. Escenes de la vida a províncies, a Joventut, Coetzee evoca, en forma de memòries, els anys seixanta; un període fonamental d'aprenentatge en el qual el narrador viatja des de la seva ciutat natal, Ciutat del Cap, fins a Londres.Estudiant de matemàtiques i anglès, el narrador fuig de l'ambient claustrofòbic i complex del seu país, així com d'una sèrie de circumstàncies personals negatives, i s'instal·la a Londres, decidit a començar la seva carrera d'escriptor. Aviat, però, entrarà a treballar en una companyia informàtica i veurà frustrades les seves esperances de dur una vida bohèmia i plena d'experiències noves.Joventut retrata a un jove en busca d'ell mateix, mentre l'autor, crític i sever, el presenta com un individu insegur, temerós de trobar una veu narrativa que doni sortida a les seves inspiracions creatives.