A War of Eyes and Other Stories
Author: Wanda Coleman
Publisher:
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13:
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Phoenix Eyes and Other Stories
Author: Russell Charles Leong
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Published: 2012-02-01
Total Pages: 181
ISBN-13: 0295802723
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRussell Charles Leong shows an astonishing range in this new collection of stories. From struggling war refugees to monks, intellectuals to sex workers, his characters are both linked and separated by their experiences as modern Asians and Asian Americans. In styles ranging from naturalism to high-camp parody, Leong goes beneath stereotypes of immigrant and American-born Chinese, hustlers and academics, Buddhist priests and street people. Displacement and marginalization — and the search for love and liberation — are persistent themes. Leong’s people are set apart, by sexuality, by war, by AIDS, by family dislocations. From this vantage point on the outskirts of conventional life, they often see clearly the accommodations we make with identity and with desire. A young teen-ager, sold into prostitution to finance her brothers’ education, saves her hair trimmings to burn once a year in a temple ritual, the one part of her body that is under her own control. A documentary film producer, raised in a noisy Hong Kong family, marvels at the popular image of Asian Americans as a silenced minority. Traditional Chinese families struggle to come to terms with gay children and AIDS.
A Separate War and Other Stories
Author: Joe Haldeman
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2006-08-01
Total Pages: 429
ISBN-13: 1101157895
DOWNLOAD EBOOK6 years of stories from the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author. Here are fifteen stories-never before collected-that tread upon familiar Haldeman territory, as well as explore the outer reaches of his phenomenal imagination.
Girls at War
Author: Chinua Achebe
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2012-02-22
Total Pages: 118
ISBN-13: 0307816478
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTwelve stories by the internationally renowned novelist which recreate with energy and authenticity the major social and political issues that confront contemporary Africans on a daily basis.
Goggle-Eyes
Author: Anne Fine
Publisher: Penguin UK
Published: 2001-07-05
Total Pages: 125
ISBN-13: 0141944277
DOWNLOAD EBOOKKitty Killin is not only a good storyteller, but also the World's Greatest Expert when it comes to mothers having new and unwanted boyfriends. Particularly when there's a danger they might turn into new and unwanted stepfathers...
The Pacific and Other Stories
Author: Mark Helprin
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2005-06-28
Total Pages: 385
ISBN-13: 1101644338
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA dazzling collection of short stories by Mark Helprin, bestselling author of Winter's Tale, which is now a major motion picture starring Colin Farrell, Jessica Brown Findlay, Russell Crowe, William Hurt, and Jennifer Connelly The Pacific and Other Stories is a collection of sixteen stories that display the remarkable scope, incomparable wit, and deft prose that have come to be Mark Helprin's signature. A British paratrooper jumps into occupied territory; the 1958 New York Yankees gain an unexpected teammate in a puny, teenaged Hasidic Jew; a September 11th widow receives an astonishing gift from the contractor working on her new apartment—these and other stories exhibit the constantly changing variety of the ocean itself, the peaks and troughs of life. Lighthearted, glittering fables are met with starker tales that sound the depths of sacrifice and duty. The Pacific and Other Stories is a resplendent, powerful collection of lasting substance and emotional import.
Civil War Women
Author: Frank D. McSherry
Publisher: Pocket Books
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780671702489
DOWNLOAD EBOOKContains ten fiction stories, each of which focuses on the actions of one or more women during the Civil War, written by a variety of women authors including Louisa May Alcott, Kate Chopin, and Eudora Welty.
Interrupt
Author: Jeff Carlson
Publisher: 47North
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781612183640
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the distant past, the leader of a Neanderthal tribe confronts the end of his kind. Today, a computational biologist, a Navy pilot, and an autistic boy are drawn together by the ancient mystery that gave rise to Homo sapiens. Planes are falling from the sky. Global communications have ceased. America stands on the brink of war with China--but war is the least of humankind's concerns. As solar storms destroy Earth's electronics and plunge the world into another Ice Age, our civilization finds itself overrun by a powerful new species of man... This brilliant thriller takes readers to an all-too-plausible tomorrow that's as scientifically rigorous as it is wildly imaginative. Jeff Carlson is the internationally bestselling author of Plague Year and The Frozen Sky. With Interrupt, he brings his forward-thinking fiction to a contemporary setting with this edge-of-your-seat thriller.
The Preview and Other Stories
Author: Sŏn-jak Cho
Publisher: Jain Publishing Company
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 0895818280
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCho Sun Jak is a prolific South Korean writer of many novels and short stories. Many of his works have been adapted successfully as TV dramas and films, but very few of his works have been available in English till now. He presents an honest and frank view of the reality behind the successful development of modern Korea, with humor and sensitivity. The well-known novella, "The Preview," depicts the Korean War through the eyes of a young boy, and the other stories in this collection reflect the aftermath of the war, the desperate lives of the poor, the corruption of moral values, and the pathos of the lives of good-hearted prostitutes. The translations capture well the atmosphere and values of the period in which the stories were written. Detailed notes clarify linguistic points and the social and cultural context.
Eyes of the Mind and Other Stories
Author: Chopra Vinita
Publisher: BecomeShakespeare.com
Published: 2019-01-24
Total Pages: 119
ISBN-13: 9388573498
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe author, on the one hand, has written simple yet thoughtprovoking stories about minor turbulences in the work-life balance of working women, and on the other, has given a heartrending account of those who had to sacrifice their personal needs and aspirations for the sake of others. An empathetic connection with those, who are physically challenged, has been established in two of the stories. Some stories, written in the backdrop of the lives of civil servants, make an interesting and informative reading. ************* Poor girl was swinging in the pendulum of hope and expectations on one end to disappointments and rejections on the other. It seemed nobody cared for her feelings. She was unable to gauge her own mother’s intentions. I, as an outsider, felt that there were some selfish and ulterior motives behind the seemingly genuine failures of the sincere attempts to get her married. ************* They do not know how zebra is different from a giraffe. They have not seen the hues of nature. How green is the green of the leaves and what it is like when the leaves turn yellow in autumn! They have not seen the radiance of the rising sun or the glow of the full moon. They have not experienced the pleasure of seeing the gigantic mountains or the vast oceans or the meandering clouds.
