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Author: Richard C. Morais
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2013-07-09
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 1451669232
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe elderly Buddhist priest Seido Oda considers the life that brought him from an idyllic mountainside village in Japan to the bustling streets of Brooklyn, New York
Author: Richard C. Morais
Publisher:
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9781743317426
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom the author of The Hundred-Foot Journey comes a fish-out-of-water story of a Japanese monk who unexpectedly finds his community in bustling Brooklyn. Growing up in a quaint mountainside village in Japan, eleven-year-old Oda leaves his family to study with the monks at a nearby Buddhist temple. From that time, this quiet and peaceful refuge is the only home the monk has ever known until his fortieth birthday draws near and he is ordered by his superior to cross the ocean and open a temple in Brooklyn. Torn from the serene life of his homeland temple, New York proves a severe shock to Oda's system. More than that, he has to work with a motley crew of American Buddhists whose misguided practices lead to a host of hilarious cultural misunderstandings. It is only when the curmudgeonly Oda comes to appreciate this new and surprising flock, flaws and all, that he sees his own shortcomings and finally finds that sense of belonging he has always sought. Funny, rich and entertaining, this is a charming story about the meaning and rewards of true acceptance in the unlikeliest of places. '... a complex, beautiful book that lingers in the imagination long after the last line is read.' Robin Black, author of If I Loved You, I Would Tell You This
Author: Colm Toibin
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
Published: 2010-04-06
Total Pages: 274
ISBN-13: 0771085400
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWinner of the Costa Novel Award and longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, Colm Tóibín's internationally bestselling novel is a story of devastating emotional power. At the centre of Colm Tóibín's internationally celebrated novel is Eilis Lacey, one among many of her generation who has come of age in 1950s Ireland but cannot find work at home. When she receives a job offer in America, it is clear to everyone that she must go. Leaving her family and country behind, Eilis heads for unfamiliar Brooklyn, and to a crowded boarding house where the landlady's intense scrutiny and the small jealousies of her fellow residents only deepen her isolation. Slowly, however, the pain of parting and a longing for home are buried beneath the rhythms of her new life—until she begins to realize that she has found a sort of happiness. But just as Eilis begins to fall in love, tragic news summons her back to Ireland, where she unexpectedly finds herself facing an impossible decision.
Author: Richard C. Morais
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
Published: 2011-03-04
Total Pages: 374
ISBN-13: 1459612930
DOWNLOAD EBOOKI have never experienced that most subtle of senses - smell - captured so well in print. The aroma of fine cooking just floats off the pages. Don't read this book if you're hungry. You might eat it.' - Simon Beaufoy, Oscar-Award-winning screenwriter, Slumdog Millionaire Abbas Haji is the proud owner of a modest family restaurant in Mumbai. But when tragedy strikes, Abbas propels his boisterous family into a picaresque journey across Europe, finally settling in the remote French village of Lumiere, where he establishes an Indian restaurant, Maison Mumbai. Much to the horror of their neighbour, a famous chef named Madame Mallory, the Indian establishment opposite her own begins to garner a following. Little does she know that the young Hassan, son of Abbas, has discovered French cuisine and has vowed to become a great French chef. Hassan is a natural whose talents far outweigh Mme. Mallory, but the tough old Frenchwoman will not brook defeat. Thus ensues an entertaining culinary war pitting Hassan's Mumbai-toughened father against the imperious Mme. Mallory, leading the young Hassan to greatness and his true destiny. This vivid, hilarious and charming novel - about how just a small distance of a hundred feet can represent the gulf between different cultures, different people, their tastes and their destinies - is simply bursting with eccentric characters, delicious flavours and high emotion. 'Outstanding! I wished it went on for another three hundred pages.' - Anthony Bourdain
Author: Richard C. Morais
Publisher:
Published: 2015-01
Total Pages: 348
ISBN-13: 9783492305952
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Richard C. Morais
Publisher: Platinum Spotlight Series
Published: 2020-03
Total Pages: 500
ISBN-13: 9781643585222
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIt is a time of reckoning for José María Álvarez, an aristocratic Spanish banker living in a Swiss village with his American wife. Nearing the end of a long and tumultuous life, he's overcome by hallucinatory memories of the past. Among his most cherished memories are those of his boyhood in 1950s Franco-era Spain and the bucolic afternoons he spent salmon fishing on the Sella River with his father, uncle, and much-loved younger brother. But these fond reveries are soon eclipsed by something greater. José's regrets and dark family secrets are flooding back, as is the devastating tragedy that drove José into exile and makes him bear the burden of a soul-deep guilt.
Author: Martha Sherrill
Publisher: Random House Digital, Inc.
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 428
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe story of Catharine Burroughs, a Jewish-Iatlian woman from Brooklyn, who was recognized as a tulka, a reborn lama, and founded the largest Tibetan Buddhist center in America.
Author: Robert A. F. Thurman
Publisher:
Published: 1999-02-04
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13: 9780712670562
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Inner Revolution addresses both the history and the practical contemporary uses of Buddhism. With originality and enormous scholarship, Robert Thurman reveals the principles of the movement to celebrate individual happiness, which the Buddha initiated some 2,500 years ago, and shows how to continue it. He spreads the Buddha's message that everyone has the opportunity to become fully, completely happy and he finds hope and fascinating lessons in Tibetan Buddhism, as well as a viable way to change the world."
Author: Seth I. Kamil
Publisher: NYU Press
Published: 2005-05
Total Pages: 311
ISBN-13: 081474785X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Big Onion Guide to Brooklyn is an entertaining and informative walking guide to the historic people and places of Brooklyn.
Author: Jeff Arch
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2021-05-11
Total Pages: 368
ISBN-13: 1684630827
DOWNLOAD EBOOK2022 16th Annual National Indie Excellence Awards Winner in Regional Fiction: Northeast 2022 16th Annual National Indie Excellence Awards Finalist in New Fiction 2022 International Book Awards Finalist in Best New Fiction and Fiction: General A 2021 Kirkus Reviews' Best Indie Book of the Year “[A] really clever plot….and Arch works it like a maestro. Fine writing, memorable characters, depth of feeling, and gripping drama—a real keeper.” —Kirkus Reviews, STARRED At a boarding school in Pennsylvania, a deathbed request from the school’s dean brings three former students back to campus, where secrets and betrayals from the past are brought out into the open—secrets that could have a catastrophic effect on the dean’s eighteen-year-old son. Told in alternating points of view and time frames, Attachments is the story of best friends Stewart (“Goody”) Goodman, Sandy (“Pick”) Piccolo, and Laura Appleby, the girl they both love. The friends meet in 1972 at a boarding school in coal-country Pennsylvania where they encounter Henry Griffin, the school dean, whose genuine fatherly interest and deep human bond with them is so strong that when he has a severe stroke almost twenty years later, he uses what could be his last words ever to call out their names. Attachments is a puzzle—and the only one who knows how all the pieces fit is in a coma. In the process, longtime secrets are unearthed, revelations come out into the open, and Young Chip Griffin is about to learn something he may or may not be able to handle.
