Cereus Blooms At Night

Author : Shani Mootoo
Publisher : Grove Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802144621
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cereus Blooms at Night written by Shani Mootoo and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book is a haunting multi-generational novel about the shifting faces of Mala - adventurer and protector, recluse and madwoman. The plot contains sexual violence and mature themes" -- Prové de l'editor.

Author : Shani Mootoo
Publisher : Akashic Books
ISBN 13 : 1617755540
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Moving Forward Sideways Like a Crab written by Shani Mootoo and published by Akashic Books. This book was released on 2017-05-02 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Short-listed for the Lambda Literary Award from the author of Cereus Blooms at Night. “A fascinating premise that gives voice to the queer-identified” (The Globe and Mail, Toronto). Jonathan Lewis-Adey was nine when his parents separated, and his mother, Sid, vanished entirely from his life. It is not until he is a grown man that Jonathan finally reconnects with his beloved lost parent, only to find, to his shock and dismay, that the woman he knew as “Sid” in Toronto has become an elegant man named Sydney living in his native Trinidad. For nine years, Jonathan has paid regular visits to Sydney on his island retreat, trying with quiet desperation to rediscover the parent he adored inside this familiar stranger, and to overcome his lingering confusion and anger at the choices Sydney has made. At the novel’s opening, Jonathan is summoned urgently to Trinidad where Sydney, now aged and dying, seems at last to offer him the gift he longs for: a winding story that moves forward sideways as it reveals the truths of Sydney’s life. But when and where the story will end is up to Jonathan, and it is he who must decide what to do with Sydney’s haunting legacy of love, loss, and acceptance. “The novel’s evocation of the light and sights of Trinidad, its tropical over-ripeness and the scary suddenness of night’s onset, are vivid. But most vivid of all is the sensitive, wise Sid/Syd, whose tragedy is to never have been loved the way she/he deserved.” —Toronto Star “Mootoo’s character-driven novel is rich in setting and slow in pace, inviting the reader to linger over its closely observed details.” —Booklist

Author : Shani Mootoo
Publisher : Akashic Books
ISBN 13 : 1617758701
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Polar Vortex written by Shani Mootoo and published by Akashic Books. This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A novel reminiscent of the works of Herman Koch and Rachel Cusk, in which a lesbian couple attempts to escape the secrets of their pasts. “[Mootoo’s] unsettling latest examines how secrets always come back to haunt us—especially the ones we’ve managed to keep from ourselves.” —Globe & Mail, one of the 100 Favorite Books of 2020 One of Autostraddle‘s Best Queer Books of 2020 Polar Vortex is a seductive and tension-filled novel about Priya and Alex, a lesbian couple who left the big city to relocate to a bucolic countryside community. It seemed like a good way to leave their past behind and cement their newish, later-in-life relationship. But there’s leaving the past behind—and then there’s running away from awkward histories. Priya has a secret—a long-standing on-again, off-again relationship with a man, Prakash. In Priya’s mind Prakash is little more than an old friend, but in reality things are a bit complicated. Why has she never told Alex about him? Prakash has tracked Priya down in her new life, and before she realizes what she’s doing, she invites him to visit. Alex is not pleased, and soon the existing cracks in their relationship widen, revealing secrets Alex herself would have preferred to keep. Into the fissure walks Prakash, whose own agenda forces all three to face the inevitable consequences of their choices.

Author : Shani Mootoo
Publisher : House of Anansi
ISBN 13 : 0887848370
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Valmiki's Daughter written by Shani Mootoo and published by House of Anansi. This book was released on 2010-09-01 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Een welvarende familie op Trinidad weet niet goed raad met seksualiteit.

Author : Shani Mootoo
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN 13 : 1555847021
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book He Drown She in the Sea written by Shani Mootoo and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2006-06-09 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A classic Romeo and Juliet love story” spanning decades from the World War II Caribbean to modern-day Vancouver (The Washington Post Book World). At the dawn of the Second World War on the island of Guanagaspar, Harry, the son of a widowed maid, and Rose, the daughter of his mother’s well-to-do employer, are inseparable as children. Blissfully unaware, they form a connection that knows nothing of race or class hierarchies defining their society. Then one night, after American troops occupy Guanagaspar, their deep friendship is exposed and severed. When Harry and Rose meet again in Canada years later, the gulf separating them is not so apparent. As a passion long repressed is rekindled, Rose takes it upon herself to reroute their destinies. A “transcendent tale of souls wounded by circumstance and rehabilitated by love” (Booklist, starred review), He Drown She in the Sea is a lyrical, sensuous, and suspenseful story about the origins of desire and the sacrifice and euphoria that come with defying the life one is born into. With a “narrative pacing verg[ing] on genius . . . The worlds revealed are lush and brilliant. The journey is delightful” (Edmonton Journal).

Author : Luce Irigaray
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231541511
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Through Vegetal Being written by Luce Irigaray and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2016-07-05 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blossoming from a correspondence between Luce Irigaray and Michael Marder, Through Vegetal Being is an intense personal, philosophical, and political meditation on the significance of the vegetal for our lives, our ways of thinking, and our relations with human and nonhuman beings. The vegetal world has the potential to rescue our planet and our species and offers us a way to abandon past metaphysics without falling into nihilism. Luce Irigaray has argued in her philosophical work that living and coexisting are deficient unless we recognize sexuate difference as a crucial dimension of our existence. Michael Marder believes the same is true for vegetal difference. Irigaray and Marder consider how plants contribute to human development by sustaining our breathing, nourishing our senses, and keeping our bodies and minds alive. They note the importance of returning to ancient Greek tradition and engaging with Eastern teachings to revive a culture closer to nature. As a result, we can reestablish roots when we are displaced and recover the vital energy we need to improve our sensibility and relation to others. This generative discussion points toward a more universal way of becoming human that is embedded in the vegetal world.

Author : Robert Hayden
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Night-blooming Cereus written by Robert Hayden and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Shani Mootoo
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
ISBN 13 : 0771001096
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cereus Blooms at Night written by Shani Mootoo and published by McClelland & Stewart. This book was released on 2021-06-22 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FINALIST FOR THE GILLER PRIZE FINALIST FOR THE ETHEL WILSON FICTION PRIZE Bold and lyrical, sensual and highly charged, Cereus Blooms at Night is the beautifully written, sensational first novel by Shani Mootoo, one of Canada’s most exciting literary voices. At the core of this haunting multi-generational novel are the shifting faces of Mala—adventurer and protector, recluse, and madwoman. Told by the engaging voice of Tyler, Mala’s vivacious male caretaker at the Paradise Alms House, Cereus Blooms at Night is layered with unforgettable scenes of a world where love and treachery collide.

Author : Shani Mootoo
Publisher : Raincoast Books
ISBN 13 : 9781551924168
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Predicament of Or written by Shani Mootoo and published by Raincoast Books. This book was released on 2001 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrated novelist Shani Mootoo, author of the award-winning Cereus Blooms at Night, turns her hand to poetry in a nuanced and lively exploration of desire, identity and personal exile. In haunting and astonishing language, shot through with the speech and rhythms of her native Trinidad, Mootoo walks a breathtaking tightrope-between cultures and identities, between geographical locations, between memory and desire. In a set of bittersweet love poems, she tenderly exposes the contradictions in loving another woman; in a series of exhilarating riffs on language and the effects of colonization, she marries English words to Trinidadian intonation. Here are poems equally lush and philosophical, sensual and startling, spilling forth meaning from experience like blood-red seeds from a pomegranate.

Author : Shani Mootoo
Publisher : Raincoast Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Out on Main Street & Other Stories written by Shani Mootoo and published by Raincoast Books. This book was released on 1993 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Award-winning author of Cereus Blooms at Night, Shani Mootoo writes with uncommon sensitivy and brash humour, exploring gender roles, family ties, and cultural diversity.