The horror of the Junta rule in Argentina is the subject of this novel which combines reality and fiction. The author uses an imaginary character, Carlos Rueda who has a gift for storytelling and an ability to forsee future happenings with unerring precision. People come to Carlos's garden on the Calle Cordova where he tells the stories of the ...
The story alternates between the disembodied voices of 12 innocent victims massacred by Argentina's secret police and the narrative of a scared, traumatized girl, the only survivor of that massacre and an emblem of Argentina itself, as she searches for an identity and a home.
A deeply moving love story and a meditation on the nature of courage of three unforgettable characters: Jaoquin Wolf, an avante-garde political writer; Ursula Krieger, Joaquin's friend, agonizing over a secret past; and Frederico Garcia Lorca, the great symbolist poet of Spain whose spirit lives on in both Joaquin and Ursula.
Like Joseph Conrad's HEART OF DARKNESS, this novel begins on the deck of Conrad's own sailboat, the "Nellie." With Conrad himself as its hero, SAILORS ON THE INWARD SEA deals not only with very Conradian adventures on the ocean but with the relationship between the writer and the man he has put into the role of narrator.
Based on a chilling historical event, this novel is a tale of the arrogance of colonizers, rape, guilt, punishment and retribution. It is set on the Southern California coast during the early 19th century when Catholic missionaries rounded up all the local Indians.
A novel of politics and family life set in Argentina during the years of the "disappearances" in the 1970s. It describes the mysteries that surround Manfredo and Tomas, children of a left-wing couple who had "disappeared" during the time of the generals. Taken from their parents and given to another couple to raise, Tomas and Manfredo are sought ...
You want families in your church to know Jesus. To glorify God in their neighborhoods. To raise faithful children. So help them get the job done. . . by becoming a family-friendly church! Join veteran Christian educator Ben Freudenburg as he journeys across America to find family-friendly churches. Churches that truly care for their families. . . ...
The award-winning author of Imagining Argentina explores the violent conflicts of race, religion, and sex that result when an Indian woman is forced to live in a white frontier community. Like Louise Erdrich and Charles Johnson, Thornton addresses the deepest questions about our country and about the human heart.
In this unique book, today's top advertising copywriters and art directors share their insights into how to break into and succeed in the advertising business. With sometimes conflicting advice and diverse career paths, these award-winning creatives describe how raw talent, craftsmanship, high energy, and competitive spirit build the ground work ...
It is Wednesday, November 17, 1993. Okay, now we've heard the tape, the real 'confession' tape in which Dr. Oziel recorded part of an actual session with the boys, with their cooperation, on 12/11/89. This is supposedly the most damaging evidence against them but, in my own mind, the way things have been developed over the past four months, it ...
This book explores two froms of narcissism -- Apollonian and Dionysian -- in an attempt to illuminate the theology of the self and attendant questions of identity which have concerned a wide range of novelists. Works by Flaubert, Chopin, Conrad, Ford, Fitzgerald, Durrell, Gide, Mann, and Hawkes are examined.
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