Rainy Season

Author : Maggie Messitt
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 160938332X
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rainy Season written by Maggie Messitt and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2015-04-01 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just across the northern border of a former apartheid-era homeland sits a rural community in the midst of change, caught between a traditional past and a western future, a racially charged history and a pseudo-democratic present. The Rainy Season, a work of engaging literary journalism, introduces readers to the remote bushveld community of Rooiboklaagte and opens a window into the complicated reality of daily life in South Africa. The Rainy Season tells the stories of three generations in the Rainbow Nation one decade after its first democratic elections. This multi-threaded narrative follows Regina, a tapestry weaver in her sixties, standing at the crossroads where her Catholic faith and the AIDS pandemic crash; Thoko, a middle-aged sangoma (traditional healer) taking steps to turn her shebeen into a fully licensed tavern; and Dankie, a young man taking his matriculation exams, coming of age as one of Mandela’s Children, the first academic class educated entirely under democratic governance. Home to Shangaan, Sotho, and Mozambican Tsonga families, Rooiboklaagte sits in a village where an outdoor butchery occupies an old petrol station and a funeral parlor sits in the attached garage. It’s a place where an AIDS education center sits across the street from a West African doctor selling cures for the pandemic. It’s where BMWs park outside of crumbling cement homes, and the availability of water changes with the day of the week. As the land shifts from dusty winter blond to lush summer green and back again, the duration of northeastern South Africa’s rainy season, Regina, Thoko, and Dankie all face the challenges and possibilities of the new South Africa.

Author : Amy Wilentz
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476706816
Total Pages : 541 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rainy Season written by Amy Wilentz and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-07-24 with total page 541 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considered the best book ever written about Haiti, now updated with a New Introduction, “After the Earthquake,” features first hand-reporting from Haiti weeks after the 2010 earthquake. Through a series of personal journeys, each interwoven with scenes from Haiti’s extraordinary past, Amy Wilentz brings to life this turbulent and fascinating country. Opening with her arrival just days before the fall of Haiti’s President-for-Life, Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier, Wilentz captures a country electric with the expectation of change: markets that bustle by day explode with gunfire at night; outlaws control country roads; farmers struggle to survive in a barren land; and belief in voodoo and the spirits of the ancestors remains as strong as ever. The Rainy Season demystifies Haiti—a country and a people in cruel and capricious times. From the rebel priest Father Aristide and the street boys under his protection to the military strongmen who pass through the revolving door of power into the gleaming white presidential palace—and the buzzing international press corps members who jet in for a coup and leave the minute it’s over—Wilentz’s Haiti haunts the imagination.

Author : James P. Blaylock
Publisher : Jabberwocky Literary Agency, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1936535718
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rainy Season written by James P. Blaylock and published by Jabberwocky Literary Agency, Inc.. This book was released on 2012-07-17 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's a gray, wet winter in southern California, and Phil Ainsworth is alone. The sudden death of his young wife has left him shaken, and he gets eerie sensations as he roams around the big, old house he inherited from his mother. He's sure he's seen people snooping around his property, by the old well that, in this wet weather, always seems ready to overflow. How much is real and how much is in his head? That's the question. A late-night phone call brings more bad news: Phil's sister has died, leaving her ten-year-old daughter Betsy an orphan and naming Phil as guardian. It seems like a bad time to bring a child into this unhappy house, but Phil had always promised he'd take care of Betsy - and now she's all the family he has left. What he can't know is that Betsy is a very special child. She has the ability to sense the powerful emotions of the past, to hear voices of the dead, and to see the uncanny powers that are closing in around this house... James P. Blaylock has set the standard for the contemporary ghost story. The Washington Post called him "a master." Dean Koontz has hailed his writing as "first rate." A brilliant blend of psychological insight and unearthly phenomena, The Rainy Season blurs the lines between the past and the present, the living and the dead, fantasy and reality. REVIEWS: "The author of Winter Tides continues to display an uncanny talent for low-key, off-kilter drama, infusing the modern world with a supernatural tint. Blaylock's evocative prose and studied pacing make him one of the most distinctive contributors to American magical realism." -- Library Journal "This may be Blaylock's weirdest yet: intriguing, dramatic, atmospheric." -- Kirkus Reviews

Author : Anna Jaquiery
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 144724446X
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Death in the Rainy Season written by Anna Jaquiery and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2015-04-09 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Phnom Penh, Cambodia; the rainy season. When a French man, Hugo Quercy, is found brutally murdered, Commandant Serge Morel finds his holiday drawn to an abrupt halt. Quercy - dynamic, well-connected - was the magnetic head of a humanitarian organisation which looked after the area's neglected youth. Opening his investigation, the Parisian detective soon finds himself buried in one of his most challenging cases yet. Morel must navigate this complex and politically sensitive crime in a country with few forensic resources, and armed with little more than a series of perplexing questions: what was Quercy doing in a hotel room under a false name? What is the significance of his recent investigations into land grabs in the area? And who could have broken into his home the night of the murder? Becoming increasingly drawn into Quercy's circle of family and friends - his adoring widow, his devoted friends and bereft colleagues - Commandant Morel will soon discover that in this lush land of great beauty and immense darkness, nothing is quite as it seems . . . A deeply atmospheric crime novel that bristles with truth and deception, secrets and lies: Death in the Rainy Season is a compelling mystery that unravels an exquisitely wrought human tragedy.

Author : Marian Lindberg
Publisher : Catapult
ISBN 13 : 1593766025
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The End of the Rainy Season written by Marian Lindberg and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2015-04-14 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marian Lindberg grew up being told that Walter Lindberg, the man who raised her father, was a brave explorer who had been murdered in the Amazon. She took her father’s claims at face value, basking in her exotic roots, until she started to notice things. The unverified legend became a riddle she couldn’t solve. As Lindberg moved from journalism to law, fell in love, and sought a family of her own, her father repeatedly interfered. He had a closed vision of his family, and she—unlike the silent Walter—was breaking out. Yet her father’s story of the past haunted Lindberg. Long after her father’s death, Lindberg set off for the Amazon, determined to find out the truth about Walter. Aided by generous Brazilians who adopted her search as if it were their own, she discovered as much about herself and her family as about Walter, whose true role in Brazil’s history turned out to be unexpected and deeply troubling. Sharply observant, wrought with honesty, and sweeping in its ambitions, The End of the Rainy Season is a powerful examination of identity and human relationships with nature, and between one another.

Author : Iver A. Lund
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Estimating the Date of Retreat of the Rainy Season in Southern South Vietnam written by Iver A. Lund and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eight years of 100-mb geopotential height observations, taken over most of Asia and the western North Pacific Ocean, were searched to uncover predictors of the time of retreat of rainy seasons. Statistically significant predictors were found and two prediction equations were derived and tested on one year of independent data. Evidence shows that skillful predictions of the date of retreat of rainy seasons can be prepared several weeks in advance. More data are required to test the reliability of this evidence. (Author).

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 478 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency written by and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 826 pages
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Total Pages : 182 pages
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Download or read book Report on Tanganyika Territory written by and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Henry L. Abbot
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
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Download or read book Problems of the Panama Canal written by Henry L. Abbot and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: