The girl in the house with the cigarette pack

The girl in the house with the cigarette pack

Author: Julio Zenon Flores Salgado

Publisher: Ramsés Ancira

Published:

Total Pages: 91

ISBN-13:

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I had not read a novel with such passion since I met Freedom Tonight, by Dominique la Pierre and Larry Collins. Like that one, “The Raleigh Girl”. original title of the work that we now present with the title The girl in the house with the cigarette pack is a story based on true events, but with a generous dose of magical realism. Julio Zenón Flores Salgado is, like García Márquez, a journalist who writes fiction. Its Macondo is called Tlapa, Acapulco and Chilpancingo, it is located in the cities and towns of the mountain of Guerrero, its protagonist is not candid like Eréndira; but in defense of her life she can become heartless, because she moves in a context of sad whores, who are also indigenous girls, victims of pedophilia because uses and customs have allowed them to engender girls to sell like cattle, after an incestuous debut . The story, exciting in itself, is dressed with magical characters and other tremendously realistic ones, such as the politicians of Guerrero who have become immensely rich with the business of keeping indigenous peoples perfectly poor.


Cigarette Girl

Cigarette Girl

Author: Ratih Kumala

Publisher: Monsoon Books

Published: 2017-01-30

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 9814625485

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Savour the familiar scent of clove and tobacco … for this is the aroma of Indonesia’s history. Soeraja is dying. On his deathbed he calls for Jeng Yah, a woman who is not his wife. His three sons, Lebas, Karim and Tegar – heirs to Kretek Djagad Raja, Indonesia’s largest clove cigarette empire – are shocked, and their mother is consumed by jealousy. So begins the brothers’ search into the deepest recesses of Java for Jeng Yah, to fulfil their father’s dying wish and to learn the truth about the family business and its secrets. Cigarette Girl is more than just a love story and the soul-searching journey of three brothers. Set on the island of Java the story follows the evolution of a family’s kretek, or clove cigarette, business from its birth in the Dutch East Indies of the early 1940s, and it takes readers through three generations of Indonesian history, from the Dutch colonial era to the Japanese occupation, the struggle for independence and the bloody coup of 1965 in which half a million Indonesians were hunted down and killed. Rich in detail, with characters who struggle to right the wrongs of past generations, their relationships torn apart by the viciousness of revolution and politics, Cigarette Girl introduces readers to the history of Indonesia through clove cigarettes and unrequited love.


The Girl I Wanted to Be

The Girl I Wanted to Be

Author: Sarah Grace McCandless

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2006-06-02

Total Pages: 193

ISBN-13: 0743285182

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Presley Moran stugggles with the pressures of High School.


The Case and the Girl

The Case and the Girl

Author: Randall Parrish

Publisher: eBookIt.com

Published: 2013-03

Total Pages: 210

ISBN-13: 1456615564

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West, still attired in khaki uniform, but wearing the red chevron of honourable discharge on his left sleeve, sat in the Club writing room, his feet comfortably elevated, endeavouring to extract some entertainment from the evening paper. The news was not particularly interesting, however, and finally, obsessed with the feeling that it would soon be time for him to seriously contemplate the procuring of suitable employment, the young man turned the sheet about rather idly, and ran his eyes down the columns devoted to classified advertising. Half way down the first column, under the head of "miscellaneous," he paused and read a paragraph with some interest; then read it over again, emitting a soft whistle between his teeth. "Well, by Jove!" he said to himself slowly, "That doesn't sound so bad either; out of the ordinary, at least. Say, Thompson," and he turned to a tall young fellow busily writing at the adjoining desk, and shoved the paper under his eyes, ...


Regret

Regret

Author: Ikramullah

Publisher: Penguin UK

Published: 2015-01-01

Total Pages: 254

ISBN-13: 935118918X

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Regret brilliantly recreates a childhood shattered by the Partition of India in 1947. Two lifelong friends, Ehsan and Saeed, reminisce about idyllic summer days spent bunking school, swimming in the canal and relishing the thrills of first love—before the division of the subcontinent changed things forever. Out of Sight recounts the story of Ismail, who narrowly escaped the carnage of 1947 in his youth. Now, looking back on his life and despairing of the sudden resurgence of sectarian violence in Pakistan, Ismail resolves to protect those closest to him. Deeply moving, Ikramullah’s two novellas skilfully evoke the long shadow cast by the violence of Partition.


The House of Dust

The House of Dust

Author: Leo Marcorin

Publisher: Da Dusty Door

Published: 2023-02-12

Total Pages: 415

ISBN-13: 3982499917

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Imagine you’re isolated in the desert, the least inhabited place on earth, and your guilty past keeps hunting you, following you endlessly like a Shadow. Now, imagine that you wake up from this never-ending nightmare, only to realize it was never a dream and that the idle desert was very much alive! Sort of... The dying wish from his mother forces Mark Rodriguez, a man who struggles with vices and guilt, to reunite with his egocentric brother, John, on a long trip across the desert. When trapped in the ghost town of Esperanza, the Rodriguez brothers will revive their worst traumas, wondering how much their memories influence their reality. The House of Dust is a Supernatural Thriller about grief, challenging what is real and what is an echo from the past, immersing the reader in an endless prison of death.


The Apple House

The Apple House

Author: Gillian Campbell

Publisher: Brindle and Glass

Published: 2012-09-04

Total Pages: 162

ISBN-13: 1926972880

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Anglophone Imogene Jackson grew up in an English suburb on the uneasy edge of a francophone world. At the age of nineteen she quit college to marry a shoemaker from the close-knit French village of Saint-Ange-du-Lac. For ten years she has lived with her husband, Thomas, above his family's historic shoe shop, immersed in village life. When Thomas dies in a car accident, she is shattered and her hard-won mastery of the French language deserts her. Isolated and grief-stricken, she retreats to her childhood home. There she discovers that a petty drug dealer she knows from the village has rented a ramshackle farmhouse, nicknamed the "Apple House," at the corner of her parents' street and befriended her easily influenced brother Petey. Her childhood obsession with the old house resurfaces and she finds herself confronting events from both her recent and more distant past as her two worlds collide. Set in 1970s Quebec and written with a gentle humour, The Apple House is an intimate portrait of life during a time of great change.


Mr. White's Confession

Mr. White's Confession

Author: Robert Clark

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2008-09-02

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 9780312428129

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A psychological mystery centered on the murder of two showgirls in 1930s St. Paul, Minnesota. A man is arrested and everything points to his guilt, but Lieutenant Horner is convinced the man is innocent. By the author of In the Deep Midwinter.