The decadent tales in this collection span 45 years in the extraordinary career of Japan's master storyteller, Tanizaki Jun'ichiro (1886-1965), the author of Naomi, A Cat, a Man, and Two Women, and The Makioka Sisters.
The decadent tales in this collection span 45 years in the extraordinary career of Japan's master storyteller, Tanizaki Jun'ichiro (1886-1965), the author of Naomi, A Cat, a Man, and Two Women, and The Makioka Sisters.
Chi-Tzu daydreams of home-cooked meals surrounded by family and more while diligently navigating Sun-Tze's bachelor kitchen; a young ex-soldier attempts to escape his prescribed rural life by sitting the national college entrance exam; Qin Shan and his wife grapple with illness, love and loss amidst their precious potato plants; two estranged sisters reflect on memories of a long-lost bond; Liben and Shunshun's fortunes ebb and flow on the shores of Backflow River, where everyone crosses to make it big somewhere else.
Together in print for the first time - including two brand new stories - this collection is an intoxicating mix of suspense, history, romance, supernatural and mystery!
Armin und seine Mannschaft trinken ihr Feierabend Bier mit einem ungewohnlichen Gast, wahrend anderso eine Enterung bekampft wird und eine Invasionsstreitmacht aufgestobert wird.
Unser Nachbar und Buchmesse-Ehrengast Tschechien hat weitaus mehr zu bieten als Prag und die weltberuhmte Literatur, die die Metropole hervorgebracht hat.
Visit distant worlds, spend intimate moments with an elderly lesbian couple, venture into a future when death becomes a living nightmare, and experience a reality where dying is a way of life.
When twenty-two-year-old Robert McGravy returns home to Harmony Creek, he finds himself haunted by the unanswered questions surrounding his grandfather, Wade McGravy—a wanted man whose mysterious fortune built the family's comfortable life.
PODS AND OTHER SUPERNATURAL TALES will take you on a spine-tingling voyage, where you'll encounter deadly sea creatures, cursed objects, custom-made Hells, alien killers and other worlds – all in the blink of a gargoyle's eye!
Little Lights and Big Dreams is a heartwarming collection of short stories for children, each filled with gentle lessons, positive messages, and delightful imagination.
In this illuminating look at gender and Scouting in the United States, Benjamin Ren Jordan examines how in its founding and early rise, the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) integrated traditional Victorian manhood with modern, corporate-industrial values and skills.
CHOCK-A-BLOCK FULL OF CLASSIC AUSTRALIAN YARNS, JOKES AND NONSENSERyle Winn is the master of the cock and bull tale, and this is a collection of the funniest yarns he's ever heard.
Haunted by the brutal murder of a local couple, David heads to his weekend shack with his new lover, Lydia, and his children from his recently crumbled marriage.
In homage to that most civilised of activities, letter writing, Marieke Hardy and Michaela McGuire created the literary afternoons of Women of Letters.
In this illuminating look at gender and Scouting in the United States, Benjamin Ren Jordan examines how in its founding and early rise, the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) integrated traditional Victorian manhood with modern, corporate-industrial values and skills.
INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR:Many of these stories hark back more than fifty years, unwritten stories that lived in me the way stories do, as a bit of memory – a certain smell, the turn of a head, or the particular sound of a voice.
A short story collection by a Canadian author that provides glimpses of ordinary people in difficult situations that readers will certainly identify with, whether serious, silly or sad.
