Old King in His Exile
Title | Old King in His Exile PDF eBook |
Author | ARNO. GEIGER |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | |
Release | 2017 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781908276896 |
Old King in His Exile
Title | Old King in His Exile PDF eBook |
Author | Arno Geiger Geiger |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | |
Release | 1901 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781632061072 |
The King In Exile
Title | The King In Exile PDF eBook |
Author | Sudha Shah |
Publisher | Harper Collins |
Total Pages | 480 |
Release | 2012-06-14 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9350295989 |
'An absorbing read. Exhaustively researched and gracefully written, The King in Exile tells a story of compelling human interest, filled with drama, pathos and tragedy... [It] heralds the arrival of a writer of non-fiction who is both uncommonly talented and exceptionally diligent...One of the great merits of [the book] is that it is completely free of jargon and theorizing. It is in essence a family story, centred on five women whose lives were waylaid by history' - Amitav Ghosh in his blog 'The captivity of Burma's last king and the fall of the Konbaung dynasty: a compelling new account' In 1879, as the king of Burma lay dying, one of his queens schemed for his forty-first son, Thibaw, to supersede his half brothers to the throne. For seven years, King Thibaw and Queen Supayalat ruled from the resplendent, intrigue-infused Golden Palace in Mandalay, where they were treated as demi-gods. After a war against Britain in 1885, their kingdom was lost, and the family exiled to the secluded town of Ratnagiri in British-occupied India. Here they lived, closely guarded, for over thirty-one years. The king's four daughters received almost no education, and their social interaction was restricted mainly to their staff. As the princesses grew, so did their hopes and frustrations. Two of them fell in love with 'highly inappropriate' men. In 1916, the heartbroken king died. Queen Supayalat and her daughters were permitted to return to Rangoon in 1919. In Burma, the old queen regained some of her feisty spirit as visitors came by daily to pay their respects. All the princesses, however, had to make numerous adjustments in a world they had no knowledge of. The impact of the deposition and exile echoed forever in each of their lives, as it did in the lives of their children. Written after years of meticulous research, and richly supplemented with photographs and illustrations, The King in Exile is an engrossing human-interest story of this forgotten but fascinating family.
The Old King in His Exile
Title | The Old King in His Exile PDF eBook |
Author | Arno Geiger |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 192 |
Release | 2017-01-12 |
Genre | Dementia |
ISBN | 9781908276889 |
International Bestseller Shortlisted for the Helen and Kurt Wolff Prize and Schlegel-Tieck Prize What makes us who we are? Arno Geiger's father was never an easy man to know and when he developed Alzheimer's, Arno realised he was not going to ask for help. "As my father can no longer cross the bridge into my world, I have to go over to his." So Arno sets out on a journey to get to know him at last. Born in 1926 in the Austrian Alps, into a farming family who had an orchard, kept three cows, and made schnapps in the cellar, his father was conscripted into World War II as a "schoolboy soldier" - an experience he rarely spoke about, though it marked him. Striking up a new friendship, Arno walks with him in the village and the landscape they both grew up in and listens to his words, which are often full of unexpected poetry. Through his intelligent, moving and often funny account, we begin to see that whatever happens in old age, a human being retains their past and their character. Translated into nearly 30 languages, The Old King in His Exile will offer solace and insight to anyone coping with a loved one's aging.
Tragedy of King Lear
Title | Tragedy of King Lear PDF eBook |
Author | William Shakespeare |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 284 |
Release | 1889 |
Genre | Inheritance and succession |
ISBN |
King Lear
Title | King Lear PDF eBook |
Author | William Shakespeare |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 278 |
Release | 1880 |
Genre | |
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King Lear. Antony and Cleopatra
Title | King Lear. Antony and Cleopatra PDF eBook |
Author | William Shakespeare |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 502 |
Release | 1884 |
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