The Books That Devoured My Father

Author : Afonso Cruz
Publisher : Young Dedalus
ISBN 13 : 9781912868049
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Books That Devoured My Father written by Afonso Cruz and published by Young Dedalus. This book was released on 2020-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vivaldo Bonfim was a bored book-keeper whose main escape from the tedium of his work was provided by novels. In the office, he tended to read rather than work, and, one day, became so immersed in a book that he got lost and disappeared completely. That, at least, is the version given to Vivaldo's son, Elias, by his grandmother. One day, Elias sets off, like a modern-day Telemachus, in search of the father he never knew. His journey takes him through the plots of many classic novels, replete with murders, all-consuming passions, wild beasts and other literary perils. The Book that Devoured my Father is, at once, a celebration of filial love, friendship and literature.

Author : Afonso Cruz
Publisher : SCB Distributors
ISBN 13 : 1912868326
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Books that Devoured my Father written by Afonso Cruz and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2021-06-01 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vivaldo Bonfim was a bored book-keeper whose main escape from the tedium of his work was provided by novels. In the office, he tended to read rather than work, and, one day, became so immersed in a book that he got lost and disappeared completely. That, at least, is the version given to Vivaldo’s son, Elias, by his grandmother. One day, Elias sets off, like a modern-day Telemachus, in search of the father he never knew. His journey takes him through the plots of many classic novels, replete with murders, all-consuming passions, wild beasts and other literary perils. *The Book that Devoured my Father is, at once, a celebration of filial love, friendship and literature. Translated by the UK finest translator of Portuguese, Margaret Jull Costa

Author : Myron Uhlberg
Publisher : Bantam
ISBN 13 : 0553906275
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hands of My Father written by Myron Uhlberg and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2009-02-03 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By turns heart-tugging and hilarious, Myron Uhlberg’s memoir tells the story of growing up as the hearing son of deaf parents—and his life in a world that he found unaccountably beautiful, even as he longed to escape it. “Does sound have rhythm?” my father asked. “Does it rise and fall like the ocean? Does it come and go like the wind?” Such were the kinds of questions that Myron Uhlberg’s deaf father asked him from earliest childhood, in his eternal quest to decipher, and to understand, the elusive nature of sound. Quite a challenge for a young boy, and one of many he would face. Uhlberg’s first language was American Sign Language, the first sign he learned: “I love you.” But his second language was spoken English—and no sooner did he learn it than he was called upon to act as his father’s ears and mouth in the stores and streets of the neighborhood beyond their silent apartment in Brooklyn. Resentful as he sometimes was of the heavy burdens heaped on his small shoulders, he nonetheless adored his parents, who passed on to him their own passionate engagement with life. These two remarkable people married and had children at the absolute bottom of the Great Depression—an expression of extraordinary optimism, and typical of the joy and resilience they were able to summon at even the darkest of times. From the beaches of Coney Island to Ebbets Field, where he watches his father’s hero Jackie Robinson play ball, from the branch library above the local Chinese restaurant where the odor of chow mein rose from the pages of the books he devoured to the hospital ward where he visits his polio-afflicted friend, this is a memoir filled with stories about growing up not just as the child of two deaf people but as a book-loving, mischief-making, tree-climbing kid during the remarkably eventful period that spanned the Depression, the War, and the early fifties. From the Hardcover edition.

Author : Amanda Marrone
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 9781416985402
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Devoured written by Amanda Marrone and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-09-22 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Megan has been haunted by the ghost of her twin sister, Remy, since the accident nine years ago. Megan doesn’t want anyone to think she’s crazy, so she keeps this little “talent” to herself. But when she meets Luke at her summer job and discovers he can see ghosts too, she’s thrilled. Finally, someone who can relate...and, even better, can possibly help Remy move on. Megan’s not even worried about the fact that Luke’s supercute and nice, because of course she’s totally into her boyfriend (even though he’s been spending way too much time with another girl). And she definitely didn’t mean to kiss Luke (especially since her friend has a thing for him). Messy much? But when the visions Remy haunts Megan with get crazy violent, Megan must turn to Luke to figure out what her twin is trying to say. Because someone’s definitely in danger...she’s just not sure who.

Author : Harrison Candelaria Fletcher
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0803240163
Total Pages : 165 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Descanso for My Father written by Harrison Candelaria Fletcher and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When his father died, Harrison Candelaria Fletcher wasn’t quite two. His mother packed up his father’s belongings, put the boxes in a hall closet, and closed the door. The “man in a box” remained a mystery, hardly mentioned, and making only rare appearances in stories when Fletcher or his siblings inquired. Meanwhile, his young Hispanic mother transformed herself into an artist, scouting the back roads and secondhand shops of New Mexico for relics and unlikely treasures to add to her “little shrines,” or descansos. “Look closely,” she’d say to her son. “Everything tells a story.” This book is Fletcher’s literary descanso, a piecing together—from moments and objects and words—of a father’s life, of the life lived without that father, and of his own mixed-race identity. Fletcher’s reflections unfold like a collage, offering a rich array of images and stories of life with his single mother, organizing weekend family car trips to explore graveyards and adobe ruins; of growing up on the fault lines of class and culture; of being a father who never had one of his own to learn from. From incidents and observations, Fletcher assembles a beautifully crafted portrait of his family’s unspoken affliction with loss over the decades, a portrait that finally evokes the father at its heart.

Author : Peter Slonek
Publisher : Virtualbookworm.com Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781621371687
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Who Stole My Father? written by Peter Slonek and published by Virtualbookworm.com Publishing. This book was released on 2013-02 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the memoir of an Austrian boy growing up during World War II. He is a gentle soul surrounded by a loving family. From early on he reads voraciously creating a world for himself that shelters him from reality. His dream is to move to Africa and raise sheep or grow coffee. When his father gets drafted and bombs start falling on Austria, his family takes refuge in the country. There the boy witnesses never-ending treks of refugees, soldiers moving in all directions, and finally American troops fighting their way in ahead of the Russians. He scavenges for edibles in the woods, stands in line for bread and tries out his school English on the GI's now occupying this part of Austria. After months in exile the family finally moves back into their own house. The boy plays dangerous games with surplus munitions and helps stave off hunger by collecting harvest leftovers. When word arrives that his father was killed in action, his family falls apart. His mother trains to become a midwife, his siblings are put into the care of an aunt, and he - sponsored by an uncle - finds normalcy in boarding school.

Author : Peter Richmond
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book My Father's War written by Peter Richmond and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The other two, Guadalcanal and Peleliu, are legendary.

Author : Bo Caldwell
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780156027137
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Distant Land of My Father written by Bo Caldwell and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2002 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anna had a charmed childhood in 1930s Shanghai with her smuggler father. Anna and her mother fled the Japanese occupation and settled in California, but her father stayed behind. Fifteen years later, Anna is grown with a family of her own in Los Angeles when her father reappears.

Author : Antonia Fraser
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1632862298
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Pleasure of Reading written by Antonia Fraser and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2015-10-20 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this delightful collection, forty acclaimed writers explain what first made them interested in literature, what inspired them to read, and what makes them continue to do so. First published in 1992 in hardback only, original contributors include Margaret Atwood, J. G. Ballard, Melvyn Bragg, A. S. Byatt, Catherine Cookson, Carol Ann Duffy, Germaine Greer, Alan Hollinghurst, Doris Lessing, Candia McWilliam, Edna O'Brien, Ruth Rendell, Tom Stoppard, Sue Townsend, and Jeanette Winterson. The new edition will include essays from ten new writers.

Author : Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen
Publisher : SCB Distributors
ISBN 13 : 1912868334
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Girl from the Sea and Other Stories written by Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2020-04-29 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The stories included in this collection are classics of children's literature and have been cherished by generations of Portuguese children. This is the first time these stories have been translated into English. The author is one of Portugal's greatest poets and, like her poetry, these stories are filled with her delight and pleasure in nature, gardens and the sea, as well as her keen sense of the magical. Among other things, we encounter dwarves, diminutive little girls who live on the sea bed, plants that come alive at night, a tree that lives on long after it has been felled, and a pilgrim who discovers much more than the Holy Land. Her themes are, above all, loyalty and friendship.