In the Country of Deceit
In the Country of Deceit

Author: Shashi Deshpande

Publisher: Penguin UK

Published: 2009-06-18

Total Pages: 254

ISBN-13: 9352140885

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Why did I do it? Why did I enter the country of deceit? What took me into it? I hesitate to use the word love, but what other word is there?' Devayani chooses to live alone in the small town of Rajnur after her parents' death, ignoring the gently voiced disapproval of her family and friends. Teaching English, creating a garden and making friends with Rani, a former actress who settles in the town with her husband and three children, Devayani's life is tranquil, imbued with a hard-won independence. Then she meets Ashok Chinappa, Rajnur's new District Superintendent of Police, and they fall in love despite the fact that Ashok is much older, married, and-as both painfully acknowledge from the very beginning-it is a relationship without a future. Deshpande's unflinching gaze tracks the suffering, evasions and lies that overtake those caught in the web of subterfuge. There are no hostages taken in the country of deceit; no victors; only scarred lives. This understated yet compassionate examination of the nature of love, loyalty and deception establishes yet again Deshpande's position as one of India's most formidable writers of fiction

Deceit and Other Possibilities
Deceit and Other Possibilities

Author: Vanessa Hua

Publisher: Catapult

Published: 2020-03-10

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 1640093494

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"[A] searing debut." —i>O, The Oprah Magazine In her powerful collection, first published in 2016 and now featuring new stories, Vanessa Hua gives voice to immigrant families navigating a shifting America. Tied to their ancestral and adopted homelands in ways unimaginable in generations past, these memorable characters span both worlds but belong to none, illustrating the conflict between self and society, tradition and change. This all–new edition of Deceit and Other Possibilities marks the emergence of a remarkable writer.

Cage of Deceit
Cage of Deceit

Author: Jennifer Anne Davis

Publisher:

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 294

ISBN-13: 9780998151625

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The fate of a kingdom lies with one girl.

A Dreadful Deceit
A Dreadful Deceit

Author: Jacqueline Jones

Publisher: Basic Books

Published: 2013-12-10

Total Pages: 400

ISBN-13: 0465069800

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In 1656, a planter in colonial Maryland tortured and killed one of his slaves, an Angolan man named Antonio who refused to work the fields. Over three centuries later, a Detroit labor organizer named Simon Owens watched as strikebreakers wielding bats and lead pipes beat his fellow autoworkers for protesting their inhumane working conditions. Antonio and Owens had nothing in common but the color of their skin and the economic injustices they battled—yet the former is what defines them in America’s consciousness. In A Dreadful Deceit, award-winning historian Jacqueline Jones traces the lives of these two men and four other African Americans to reveal how the concept of race has obscured the factors that truly divide and unite us. Expansive, visionary, and provocative, A Dreadful Deceit explodes the pernicious fiction that has shaped American history.

Anatomy of Deceit
Anatomy of Deceit

Author: Marcy Wheeler

Publisher:

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13:

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What happens when Washington, D.C. pundits and journalists run in the same social circles as the powerful people they cover? When the President and his administration trade press access for loyalty? You get a complicit, uncritical press greasing the skids to a brutal war, conspiring to out a CIA agent, and muddying the waters of a grand jury investigation. In the fearful aftermath of 9/11, much of America’s pride -- its free press -- became an unquestioning propaganda arm. Marcy Wheeler’s Anatomy of Deceit documents how the media promoted the Bush administration’s justification for war -- that Iraq was on the verge of acquiring weapons of mass destruction -- even though much of it was debunked. And it provides a play-by-play account of how Vice President Dick Cheney’s office first used the media to target a critic, former Ambassador Joe Wilson, and then to avoid criminal charges in the CIA leak case. While the media was beating the drums of war and cozying up to the administration, citizen journalists were digging for the truth. Wheeler's compelling account tells the story, as it needs to be told -- from outside the Beltway's cocktail circuit.

Shadows of Deceit
Shadows of Deceit

Author: Zeteri M. Hodges

Publisher: Dorrance Publishing

Published: 2018-10-25

Total Pages: 455

ISBN-13: 1480951439

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Shadows of Deceit By: Zeteri M. Hodges Tera Hexen is asked to transfer to a school in a country she has never heard of: The Farganon Institute in Roress, Savoria. Traveling with her best friend Amethyst, they arrive with hope of a smooth school year. However, Tera’s hopes are quickly dashed by a mysterious and brooding Instructor, Seven Stone. Events from the school’s dark and tragic history start to brutally repeat themselves. However, the more Tera and Seven work together, the more they realize there is more to the other than meets the eye. Petty differences must be put aside and relationships built to win a battle they never wanted to repeat. Fall in love with the characters, humor, and thrills in this crazy supernatural romance.

There Was a Country
There Was a Country

Author: Chinua Achebe

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2012-10-11

Total Pages: 354

ISBN-13: 1101595981

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From the legendary author of Things Fall Apart—a long-awaited memoir of coming of age in a fragile new nation, and its destruction in a tragic civil war For more than forty years, Chinua Achebe maintained a considered silence on the events of the Nigerian civil war, also known as the Biafran War, of 1967–1970, addressing them only obliquely through his poetry. Decades in the making, There Was a Country is a towering account of one of modern Africa’s most disastrous events, from a writer whose words and courage left an enduring stamp on world literature. A marriage of history and memoir, vivid firsthand observation and decades of research and reflection, There Was a Country is a work whose wisdom and compassion remind us of Chinua Achebe’s place as one of the great literary and moral voices of our age.

Day Of Deceit
Day Of Deceit

Author: Robert Stinnett

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2001-05-08

Total Pages: 438

ISBN-13: 9780743201292

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Using previously unreleased documents, the author reveals new evidence that FDR knew the attack on Pearl Harbor was coming and did nothing to prevent it.