Sojourn

Author : Amit Chaudhuri
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1681377098
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sojourn written by Amit Chaudhuri and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2022-09-06 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this haunting and noirish novel by a leading author and critic, an Indian writer travels to Berlin and soon finds himself slipping into a fragmented, fuguelike state. An Indian writer has come to Berlin as a visiting professor. This is his second sojourn in the city, which seems strange, and also strangely familiar, to him. He is disoriented by its names, its immensity, and its history; he is worried that something may happen to him there. Faqrul, a friendly Bangladeshi poet living in exile, takes him up—then disappears. The visiting writer is increasingly adrift in a city that not long ago was two cities, each cut off from the other, much as the new unified city is cut off from the divided one of the past. It is the fall of 2005; every day it grows colder. The visitor is beginning to feel his middle age. To him, the new world of the twenty-first century, with its endless commodities from all over the place and no prospect of any sort of historical transformation, appears to exist in a state of amnesiac suspense. He gets involved with a woman, Birgit. He begins to miss his classes. He blacks out in the street. People are worried. “I’ve lost my bearings—not in the city; in its history,” he thinks. “The less sure I become of it, the more I know my way.” But does he? Amit Chaudhuri’s Sojourn is a dramatic and disconcerting work of fiction, a book about the present as it slips into the past, a picture of a city and of a troubled mind, a historical novel about an ostensibly post-historical time, a story of haunting. Here, as in his earlier work, Chaudhuri pries open fictional form to explore questions of public and private life in ways that are both bold and subtle.

Author : Debi Holmes-Binney
Publisher : Seal Press
ISBN 13 : 1580054188
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Desert Sojourn written by Debi Holmes-Binney and published by Seal Press. This book was released on 2011-07-12 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The idea of a journey without companions is too daunting for most travelers. Not so the women of this collection. These contemporary pioneers savor the ultimate freedom of solo travel. Marybeth Bond discovers the dubious pleasures of desert camel-riding when she decides to follow an ancient Indian trading route. Faith Adiele, a black Buddhist nun, enters a deserted train station at 3:00 a.m. in a Thai village controlled by armed bandits. Ena Singh negotiates with Russian police to visit the blue-domed city of Samarkand. In A Woman Alone, these women and others tell their funny, thrilling, occasionally terrifying, ultimately transformative stories of navigating some of the most unusual destinations on the globe.

Author : Andrew Krivak
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781934137345
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sojourn written by Andrew Krivak and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Krivak pens a stunning debut novel of brutality and survival on the Southern Front of World War I.

Author : R.A. Salvatore
Publisher : Wizards of the Coast
ISBN 13 : 0786954035
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sojourn written by R.A. Salvatore and published by Wizards of the Coast. This book was released on 2009-06-23 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lone drow Drizzt Do’Urden emerges from the Underdark into the blinding light of day in this epic final chapter in the Dungeons & Dragons-inspired Dark Elf Trilogy. After years spent in the ruthless confines of the Underdark, Drizzt Do’Urden has emerged from the subterranean society of his youth to start a new life. Accompanied by his loyal panther, Drizzt begins exploring the surface of Faerûn, a world unlike any he has ever known. From skunks to humanoids to shapeshifters, Faerûn is full of unfamiliar races and fresh dangers, which Drizzt must better understand if he is to survive. But while Drizzt acts with the best intentions, many of the surface dwellers regard him with fear and distrust. Can he manage to find faithful allies in this foreign land—or is he doomed to be a lonely outsider, just as he was in the Underdark? Sojourn is the third book in the Dark Elf Trilogy and the Legend of Drizzt series.

Author : R. A. Salvatore
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781442085374
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Dark Elf Trilogy written by R. A. Salvatore and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Elizabeth Arthur
Publisher : St. Paul, Minn. : Graywolf Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Island Sojourn written by Elizabeth Arthur and published by St. Paul, Minn. : Graywolf Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young woman's very real journey of self-discovery set in the Canadian wilderness.

Author : Kenneth Wadness
Publisher : Harmony House Publishers (KY)
ISBN 13 : 9781564690340
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sojourn in the Wilderness written by Kenneth Wadness and published by Harmony House Publishers (KY). This book was released on 1997 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A memoir of an inspirational southbound thru-hike, disguised as a stunning "coffee-table" book of photography.

Author : David Douglas
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780060619930
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wilderness Sojourn written by David Douglas and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 1989-09 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Douglas' journal of a seven-day trek in the Southwest explores the spiritual meaning of the wilderness experience. 8 line drawings.

Author : John Eccleston
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780990547310
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Heaven Ride written by John Eccleston and published by . This book was released on 2014-07-02 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: HEAVEN RIDE is a techno-thriller about two loyal friends who unlock secrets of the human soul and invent a device that ejects the soul and long-term memory on its path to heaven, and then brings it back. The "Pod" enables them to build Heaven Ride into the most lucrative empire the world has ever known, until ruthless rivals embark on a campaign of deceit, treachery and betrayal to wrest it away for their own insidious plan. This quandary of science and morality may change the way you think about heaven and the afterlife ... FOREVER. * * * David Brownington, a brilliant entrepreneurial mastermind with a leading business incubator, comes in contact with a mysterious gadget that measures wavelengths never seen before. His close friend, JW Gomez, a third-year Ph.D. candidate, supercedes the boundaries of his doctoral studies using a bio-pod that creates out-of-body experiences. Driven by memories of his little brother who perished in a gruesome accident as a child, JW's extra-curricular studies of sudden traumatic death lead to the astonishing discovery of the human soul. When David and JW merge these devices, they stumble upon the highway to heaven. Each of them falls in love as their miraculous invention takes the world by storm. Millions make the trip. As Heaven Ride prospers, its repercussions ripple throughout society. Protests, bombs and kidnappings threaten to shut it down, posing risks to David, JW, their friends and families. Long after Heaven Ride becomes a household word, startling revelations put David and JW in the crosshairs of dangerous men seeking ultimate power. With HEAVEN RIDE, John Eccleston and Kerry Gleason have woven an intense tale of ambition, success, friendship, betrayal, greed and corruption. It's an intricate and interesting tale of mankind's most startling invention, and technology gone awry.

Author : Joynell Schultz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781678915889
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Angels of Sojourn Novella Collection written by Joynell Schultz and published by . This book was released on 2019-12-22 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The angels won't save you... ...they're too busy trying to save themselves. These angels are flawed, just like the humans they're supposed to protect. They search for justice, forgiveness, and even love... ...but they try to be good. They really try-just like you and me. Immerse yourself in a world where supernatural beings walk among us. Vampires, fae, shifters / werewolves, psychics, and angels all struggle with the same sins we struggle with, only their desires are far stronger. These are not a holier-than-thou stories. They're simply tales that will restore your faith in humankind. And bring you a little warmth from the power of loyalty, acceptance, and love. Books in this boxed set: Fangs & Fairy Dust Broken & Burnt Flame & Fortune Bitten (bonus short story)