The Returnees
Author: Elizabeth Okoh
Publisher:
Published: 2021-02-04
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9781529380569
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Author: Elizabeth Okoh
Publisher:
Published: 2021-02-04
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9781529380569
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Dulce Maria Cardoso
Publisher: MacLehose Press
Published: 2016-07-07
Total Pages: 233
ISBN-13: 085705435X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEveryone has gone away... We too should no longer be here. Luanda, 1975. The Angolan War of Independence has been raging for at least a decade, but with the collapse of the Salazar dictatorship, defeat for the Portuguese is now in sight. Thousands of settlers are fleeing back to Portugal to escape the brutality of the Angolan rebels. Rui is fifteen years old. He has lived in Luanda all his life and has never even visited the far-away homeland - although he has heard many stories. But now his family are finally accepting that they too must return, and Rui is filled with a mixture of excitement and dread at the prospect. But just as they are leaving for the airport, his father is taken away by the rebels, and the family must leave without him. Not knowing if the father is alive or dead - or if they will ever find out what has become of him, Rui, his mother and sister try to rebuild their lives in their new home. This turns out to be a five star hotel in a quiet, seaside suburb of Lisbon, where returnee families are crammed into luxurious rooms by the dozen. These palatial surroundings are a cruel contrast with the reality of returnee life. The hotel becomes a curious form of purgatory as the families wait to discover what will become of them - ever conscious of the fact that they are hardly welcome back in their homeland. Rui has his own personal struggle with his new life: growing up, dropping out of school, facing discrimination, and the ever-present worry over his mother's deteriorating health and his father's fate. And then one night Rui's father returns from the dead. Translated from the Portuguese by Ángel Gurría-Quintana
Author: Elisabeth de Waal
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2014-01-07
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 1250045789
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Author: Walter Semkiw
Publisher: Hampton Roads Publishing
Published: 2003-04-01
Total Pages: 434
ISBN-13: 1612832857
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTwo hundred and twenty-five years ago a political revolution took place in this country which swept power from the English monarchy and gave it to the people of the New World. Today, a spiritual revolution is underway in which spiritual power and responsibility are passing from institution to individuals. You'll be shocked to learn that the same people are at the heart of both world-changing movements. John Adams, Thomas Paine, Samuel Adams, the justices of the first Supreme Court and numerous other American Revolutionaries have been reincarnated as the political and spiritual leaders of today, including George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, Al Gore, Marianne Williamson, Shirley MacLaine, and others. Semkiw presents ample evidence that physical appearance, character traits, modes of thinking and expression, as well as family and karmic groups, often stay the same from lifetime to lifetime. He's also included photographs demonstrating the startling physical similarities the individuals of the American Revolution share with today's revolutionaries. As further support of the basic premise and reality of reincarnation, Semkiw has included Dr. Ian Stevenson's groundbreaking findings of children who report past lives, as well as other case studies of individuals who have researched and written on their own past lives. Discusses new research into using DNA to prove reincarnationFind out how physical appearance, character traits, synchronistic events, karmic groups, and spiritual guidance can be used to detect one's past livesIncludes numerous black & white photographs, dramatically illustrating the similar physical appearance of revolutionaries, past and present
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations. Subcommittee on Near Eastern and South and Central Asian Affairs
Publisher:
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 56
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Lynne Hansen
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13: 0195123042
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume introduces the study of language attrition--the forgetting of language. In this first collection devoted to second language attrition, the contributors focus on contexts of loss where Japanese is either the attriting language, or the replacing language. Bringing together research to substantiate previous hypotheses in the field, this book offers new theoretical and practical insights for those interested in language change.
Author: Ryoko Tsuneyoshi
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2010-09-13
Total Pages: 285
ISBN-13: 1136953655
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book examines the interplay between multicultural groups, including the majority Japanese, in the Japanese school system and will help us to understand changes occurring in contemporary Japanese society as a whole.
Author: King, Russell
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Published: 2022-01-18
Total Pages: 384
ISBN-13: 1839100052
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis authoritative Handbook provides an interdisciplinary appraisal of the field of return migration, advancing concepts and theories and setting an agenda for new debates.