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(0)Madeleine Thien
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English
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"In a single year, my father left us twice. The first time, to end his marriage, and the second, when he took his own life. I was ten years old."Master storyteller Madeleine Thien takes us inside an extended family in China, showing us the lives of two successive generations--those who lived through Mao's Cultural Revolution and their children, who became the students protesting in Tiananmen Square. At the center of this epic story are two young women,...
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English
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"These seventeen essays by celebrated writers of color start a more inclusive conversation about storytelling and encourage readers and writers to re-evaluate the codes and conventions that have shaped their assumptions about how fiction should be written. Edited by Deepa Anappara, author of Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line, and Taymour Soomro, author of Other Names for Love, this anthology features writers from around the world, from a diversity of...
4) Aliens
Series
Granta volume 114
Language
English
Description
"Contacts" is a photoessay collection of eight photographs from the "Belfast Exposed Archive" housed in Belfast, Northern Ireland, by Belfast Exposed Photography (also available on the internet); "A Just Defiance" is a riveting courtroom drama and a real-life political thriller that captures the moral vertigo of South Africa's violent apartheid years.