The Two Hearts Of Kwasi Boachi

Author : Arthur Japin
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307429490
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Two Hearts of Kwasi Boachi written by Arthur Japin and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The first ten years of my life I was not black.” Thus begins this startlingly eloquent and beautiful tale based on the true story of Kwasi Boachi, a 19th- century African prince who was sent with his cousin, Kwame, to be raised in Holland as a guest of the royal family. Narrated by Kwasi himself, the story movingly portrays the perplexing dichotomy of the cousins' situation: black men of royal ancestry, they are subject to insidious bigotry even as they enjoy status among Europe’s highest echelons. As their lives wind down different paths–Kwame back to Africa where he enlists in the Dutch army, Kwasi to an Indonesian coffee plantation where success remains mysteriously elusive–they become aware of a terrible truth that lies at the heart of their experiences. Vivid, subtle, poignant and profound, The Two Hearts of Kwasi Boachi is an exquisite masterpiece of story and craft, a heartrending work that places Arthur Japin on a shelf that includes Joseph Conrad, J.M. Coetzee, Kazuo Ishiguro and Nadine Gordimer.

Author : Arthur Japin
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 140009612X
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In Lucia's Eyes written by Arthur Japin and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2007-02-13 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lucia works as a servant girl in Italy and is engaged to be married. But after the pox disfigures her face, she flees in shame without telling her lover. Years later, as a reknowned Amsterdam courtesan who never goes out without her veil, Lucia is at the theater when she recognizes her long-lost fiancé, Giacomo Casanova; and she cannot resist the opportunity to encounter him again. Based on a woman who appeared briefly in Casanova’s legendary diaries, Lucia emerges as a brilliant woman who becomes every bit his match. In Lucia’s Eyes is an elegant and moving story of love denied and transformed.

Author : Arthur Japin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781407065878
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Two Hearts of Kwasi Boac written by Arthur Japin and published by . This book was released on 2010-04-27 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Andy Rooney
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0307822214
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Not That You Asked... written by Andy Rooney and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-07-04 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Andy Rooney's syndicated newspaper columns and cantankerous "60 Minutes" essays have made him one of the best known curmudgeons in America. Rooney writes about almost everything, boasting in the introduction to Not That You Asked . . . : "There's something in this book that will irritate almost everyone." Andy Rooney once again proves why he is one of America’s favorite curmudgeons. Writing at the top of his form, Rooney covers a plethora of subjects, from getting rid of leftovers to the worst job in the world, from travel tips for the travel industry to the best hotel room he ever had. Andy Rooney has an opinion on everything, and in his inimitably irreverent and crotchety style he voices here those things we’ve always wanted to say but never thought we could get away with. You’ll find yourself smiling and frowning and involuntarily bobbing your head in agreement. Praise for Not That You Asked . . . “As television watchers know, Andrew A. Rooney is a very funny fellow. He can be even funnier in print, as Not That You Asked . . . amply demonstrates.”—The Associated Press “The greatest thing about Andy is that he makes everyone uncomfortable—especially me.”—Don Hewitt, Executive Producer, 60 Minutes “The best of Rooney’s collections of columns so far . . . irreverent and warmhearted, thoughtful and provocative.”—The Orlando Sentinel

Author : Arthur Japin
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0307593118
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Director's Cut written by Arthur Japin and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2010-02-09 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on a true story, Arthur Japin’s new novel is a tale of consuming love and artistic creation that reimagines the last romance of the legendary filmmaker Federico Fellini. In Director’s Cut we enter the mind of Snaporaz, the lion of Italian cinema, as he slips into a coma in his final days. Having always drawn inspiration from the world of his dreams, he welcomes the chance to take account of his life and, in particular, his most recent love affair, with a beautiful but tempestuous young actress called Gala. Here is the story as Snaporaz tells it. Lured by the glamour of Rome, Gala and her boyfriend, Maxim, an actor as well, are hoping to be discovered when they manage the impossible: entrée to the studio of the great master. Despite an age difference of four decades, Gala soon becomes Snaporaz’s mistress, leaving Maxim, guardian of her secrets and her fragile health, to be an anxious and helpless observer of her physical and spiritual decline. As Gala becomes increasingly dependent on Snaporaz’s attentions, her desperation never to disappoint him leads her down a reckless path to anorexia and prostitution before the one true bond in her life is restored. Snaporaz’s intoxicatingly baroque—Felliniesque—account of the affair slyly challenges us again and again to ask what is dream and what is reality, and to conclude that the difference is irrelevant when such a genius immerses himself in his most natural element: the imagination. A dazzling tale from one of Europe’s most celebrated writers.

Author : New York Times Staff
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9781579580582
Total Pages : 1284 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The New York Times Book Reviews 2000 written by New York Times Staff and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2001 with total page 1284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology examines Love's Labours Lost from a variety of perspectives and through a wide range of materials. Selections discuss the play in terms of historical context, dating, and sources; character analysis; comic elements and verbal conceits; evidence of authorship; performance analysis; and feminist interpretations. Alongside theater reviews, production photographs, and critical commentary, the volume also includes essays written by practicing theater artists who have worked on the play. An index by name, literary work, and concept rounds out this valuable resource.

Author : Martha Grimes
Publisher : Viking Adult
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Old Wine Shades written by Martha Grimes and published by Viking Adult. This book was released on 2006 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Over three successive nights, Harry spins out this story of a good friend of his whose wife and son (and dog) disappeared one day when they were in Surrey. No trace, no clue, no lead as to what happened."--Jacket.

Author : Gerbrand Bakker
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1459608275
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Twin written by Gerbrand Bakker and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010-11-26 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When his twin brother dies in a car accident, Helmer is obliged to return to the small family farm. He resigns himself to taking over his brother's role and spending the rest of his days 'with his head under a cow'. After his old, worn-out father has been transferred upstairs, Helmer sets about furnishing the rest of the house according to his own minimal preferences. 'A double bed and a duvet', advises Ada, who lives next door, with a sly look. Then Riet appears, the woman once engaged to marry his twin. Could Riet and her son live with him for a while, on the farm?'The Twin' is an ode to the platteland, the flat and bleak Dutch countryside with its ditches and its cows and its endless grey skies. Ostensibly a novel about the countryside, as seen through the eyes of a farmer, 'the Twin' is, in the end, about the possibility or impossibility of taking life into one's own hands. It chronicles a way of life which has resisted modernity, is culturally apart, and yet riven with a kind of romantic longing. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Author : Arthur Japin
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 140009612X
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In Lucia's Eyes written by Arthur Japin and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2007-02-13 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lucia works as a servant girl in Italy and is engaged to be married. But after the pox disfigures her face, she flees in shame without telling her lover. Years later, as a reknowned Amsterdam courtesan who never goes out without her veil, Lucia is at the theater when she recognizes her long-lost fiancé, Giacomo Casanova; and she cannot resist the opportunity to encounter him again. Based on a woman who appeared briefly in Casanova’s legendary diaries, Lucia emerges as a brilliant woman who becomes every bit his match. In Lucia’s Eyes is an elegant and moving story of love denied and transformed.

Author : Hanan Al-Shaykh
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408810883
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women of Sand and Myrrh written by Hanan Al-Shaykh and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2010-04-19 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an unnamed Middle Eastern city, four women from different social and cultural backgrounds tell their story. There is Suha, an educated Lebanese woman brought to the desert by her husband; Tamr, who must fight against male rule to educate herself; Suzanne, captivated by the men and the mystery of the Arabian desert; and Nur, in fierce pursuit of lovers (male and female) and foreign adventures - but her husband has her passport. All four women struggle in a society where women cannot drive a car, walk in the streets unveiled, or travel without male permission. It is a society where sex, due to its constraints, becomes an obsession. These women are treated to every luxury except that which they truly desire - freedom.