Voices in the City
Title | Voices in the City PDF eBook |
Author | Anita Desai |
Publisher | Orient Paperbacks |
Total Pages | 250 |
Release | 1965 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 8122200532 |
Based on the life of the middle class intellectuals of Calcutta, it is an unforgettable story of a Bohemian brother and his two sisters caught in the cross-currents of changing social values. In many ways the story reflects a vivid picture of India's social transition - a phase in which the older elements are not altogether dead, and the emergent ones not fully evolved.
Voices in the Evening
Title | Voices in the Evening PDF eBook |
Author | Natalia Ginzburg |
Publisher | New Directions Publishing |
Total Pages | 119 |
Release | 2021-05-04 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0811231011 |
From one of Italy’s greatest writers, a stunning novel “filled with shimmering, risky, darting observation” (Colm Tóibín) After WWII, a small Italian town struggles to emerge from under the thumb of Fascism. With wit, tenderness, and irony, Elsa, the novel’s narrator, weaves a rich tapestry of provincial Italian life: two generations of neighbors and relatives, their gossip and shattered dreams, their heartbreaks and struggles to find happiness. Elsa wants to imagine a future for herself, free from the expectations and burdens of her town’s history, but the weight of the past will always prove unbearable, insistently posing the question: “Why has everything been ruined?”
City Voices
Title | City Voices PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Ingham |
Publisher | Hong Kong University Press |
Total Pages | 419 |
Release | 2003-03-01 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9622096042 |
City Voices is the first showcase of postwar Hong Kong literature originating in English. Fiction, poetry, essays and memoirs from more than 70 authors are featured to demonstrate 'the rich variety and vitality of the city's literary production'. Together with work from established authors, both bilingual writers who choose to write in English and expatriate authors who have made Hong Kong their home, a section of 'New Voices' introduces the work of unknown and young writers who are part of today's surge of new creativity.
Other Voices, Other Rooms
Title | Other Voices, Other Rooms PDF eBook |
Author | Truman Capote |
Publisher | Vintage |
Total Pages | 226 |
Release | 2007-12-18 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0307431576 |
Truman Capote’s first novel is a story of almost supernatural intensity and inventiveness, an audacious foray into the mind of a sensitive boy as he seeks out the grown-up enigmas of love and death in the ghostly landscape of the deep South. “Intense, brilliant . . . . Capote has an astonishing command . . . a magic all his own.” —The Atlantic At the age of twelve, Joel Knox is summoned to meet the father who abandoned him at birth. But when Joel arrives at the decaying mansion in Skully’s Landing, his father is nowhere in sight. What he finds instead is a sullen stepmother who delights in killing birds; an uncle with the face—and heart—of a debauched child; and a fearsome little girl named Idabel who may offer him the closest thing he has ever known to love.
Voices
Title | Voices PDF eBook |
Author | Ursula K. Le Guin |
Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | 227 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Ansul (Imaginary places) |
ISBN | 0152056785 |
Young Memer takes on a pivotal role in freeing her war-torn homeland from its oppressive captors.
Voices in the Dark
Title | Voices in the Dark PDF eBook |
Author | Ulli Lust |
Publisher | New York Review of Books |
Total Pages | 369 |
Release | 2017-10-17 |
Genre | Comics & Graphic Novels |
ISBN | 1681371057 |
Germany, in the final years of the Third Reich. Hermann Karnau is a sound engineer obsessed with recording the human voice in all its variations—the rantings of leaders, the roar of crowds, the rasp of throats constricted in fear—and indifferent to everything else. Employed by the Nazis, his assignments take him to Party rallies, to the Eastern Front, and into the household of Joseph Goebbels. There he meets Helga, the eldest daughter: bright, good-natured, and just beginning to suspect the horror that surrounds her... Based on an acclaimed novel by Marcel Beyer, Voices in the Dark is the first fictional graphic novel by Ulli Lust, whose award-winning graphic memoir Today Is the Last Day of the Rest of Your Life appeared in English in 2013. It is the story of an unlikely friendship and of a childhood betrayed, a grim parable of naïveté and evil, and a vivid, unsettling masterpiece. This NYRC edition is a trade paperback and features full color throughout and new English hand-lettering.
Voices in the Park
Title | Voices in the Park PDF eBook |
Author | Anthony Browne |
Publisher | Random House |
Total Pages | 34 |
Release | 2018-08-09 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 1787620204 |
Four different voices tell their own versions of the same walk in the park. The radically different perspectives give a fascinating depth to this simple story which explores many of the author's key themes, such as alienation, friendship and the bizarre amid the mundane. Anthony Browne's world-renowned artwork is full of expressive gorillas, vibrant colours and numerous nods to Magritte and other artists, while being uniquely Browne's own style.