The Murmuring Coast
The Murmuring Coast

Author: Lídia Jorge

Publisher: U of Minnesota Press

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 9780816621125

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This captivating tale is told in two parts. The first presents Lidia Jorge's version of a traditional story about a series of supposed incidents set in Beira, Mozambique. The events take place in the final years of Portugal's colonial African wars as an undisclosed narrator describes the military wedding of a young Portuguese ensign and an equally young bride. The wedding is followed by the mass poisoning of hundreds of native Africans and the arrival of a rain of locusts. The story ends grimly with the groom's suicide. Evita Lopo, the unnamed bride from the first part, narrates the remainder of the story. Twenty years have gone by and she reviews the past and questions the unidentified narrator's rendering of events in the first section. Evita's reminiscences destroy the credibility of the earlier story, and she supplies the reader with a great deal of information that the author of the previous account had suppressed or to which he or she merely alluded. It becomes apparent that betrayal and guilt have motivated all of the characters' actions.

Murmurings from Hinterland
Murmurings from Hinterland

Author: Bhaswati Khasnabis

Publisher: Blue Rose Publishers

Published: 2021-08-23

Total Pages: 57

ISBN-13:

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Reflecting womanhood in its many shades my poetry paints different pictures of the eternal female. Sometimes she is the mother nurturing her child, sometimes she is the protector defending her ideals. The rest of the poems are a commentary on our environment and political setup. As citizens, we cannot hope to lead insulated lives. We must tolerate and sometimes surrender ourselves to the mainstream cacophony. This is a sincere attempt to voice a few concerns as a part of the teeming multitude, not as a dreamer but as a firm believer.

Heartland Calamitous
Heartland Calamitous

Author: Michael Credico

Publisher:

Published: 2020

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781938769535

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Emerging from deep in America's hinterland, Michael Credico's flash fiction portrays an absurdist, exaggerated, and bizarre vision of the Midwest known as the heartland. The stories are clipped views into a land filled with slippery confusion and chaos, mythical creatures, zombies, comic violence, shapeshifters, and startling quantities of fish. The characters of Heartland Calamitous are trying to sort out where, who, and what they are and how to fit into their communities and families. Environmental destruction, aging, ailing parents, apathy, and depression weigh on the residents of the heartland, and they can't help but fall under the delusion that if they could just be somewhere or someone or something else, everything would be better. This is a leftover land, dazed and dizzy, where bodies melt into Ziplock bags and making do becomes a lifestyle. The stories of Heartland Calamitous, often only two or three pages long, reveal a dismal state in which longing slips into passive acceptance, speaking to the particular Midwestern feeling of being stuck. They slip from humor to grief to the grotesque, forming a picture of an all-to-close dystopian quagmire. With this collection, Credico spins a new American fable, a modern-day mythology of the absurd and deformed born of a non-place between destinations.

The Beating of His Wings
The Beating of His Wings

Author: Paul Hoffman

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2014-12-02

Total Pages: 510

ISBN-13: 0698168984

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Following the bestselling novels The Left Hand of God and The Last Four Things comes the final installment of Paul Hoffman’s stark, epic trilogy. Thomas Cale has been running from the truth…. Since discovering that his brutal military training has been for one purpose—to destroy God’s greatest mistake, mankind itself—Cale has been hunted by the very man who made him into the Angel of Death: Pope Redeemer Bosco. Cale is a paradox: arrogant and innocent, generous and pitiless. Feared and revered by those who created him, he has already used his breathtaking talent for violence and destruction to bring down the most powerful civilization in the world. But Thomas Cale’s soul is dying. As his body is racked with convulsions, he knows that the final judgment will not wait. As the day of reckoning draws close, Cale’s sense of vengeance leads him back to the heart of darkness—the Sanctuary—and to confront the person he hates most in the world….

Fresh Air Fiend
Fresh Air Fiend

Author: Paul Theroux

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 486

ISBN-13: 9780618126934

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Whether it is trekking through the icy Maine woods, or journeying to a remote island in the South Pacific where the first atomic bombs were detonated, Theroux serves as both camera and the eye. This collection of essays and articles is the ultimate good read for anyone fascinated by travel.

Sheepshagger
Sheepshagger

Author: Niall Griffiths

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2002-06-06

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 9780312300739

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Ianto is a sheepshagger, a Welsh redneck, and he is out to take revenge on the English yuppies who own his grandmother's cottage and everyone else who has violated his land.