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2) Secrets
Author
Series
Blood in the sun trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
1998, c1998
Physical Desc
298 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Set against the backdrop of the civil war in Somalia, Secrets is a stunning, revelatory novel by Somali writer Nuruddin Farah, the author of several acknowledged classics of modern African fiction. Teeming with myth and metaphor, Secrets goes deep into the culture and mind-set of a continent and reveals a world that is a stimulating mix of the exotic and the familiar.
Author
Series
Last picture show volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Last Picture Show is both a rambunctious coming-of-age story and an elegy to a forlorn Texas town trying to keep its one movie house alive. Adapted into the Oscar-winning film, this masterpiece immortalizes the lives of the hardscrabble residents who are threatened by the inexorable forces of the modern world. "McMurtry is an alchemist who converts the basest materials to gold."—New York Times Book Review
Author
Publisher
Delta
Pub. Date
1999, c1998
Physical Desc
366 p. : map ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
At dawn in Beijing, Alice Mannegan pedals a bicycle through the deserted streets. An American by birth, a translator by profession, she spends her nights in Beijing's smoke-filled bars, and the Chinese men she so desires never misunderstand her intentions. All around her rushes the air of China, the scent of history and change, of a world where she has come to escape her father's love and her own pain. It is a world in which, each night as she slips...
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