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Há 3 dias · Ancestress: the burning witch, her mouth covered by leather to strangle words. A word after a word after a word is power . At the point where language falls away from the hot bones, at the point where the rock breaks open and darkness flows out of it like blood, at the melting point of granite when the bones know they are hollow ...
Há 2 dias · Margaret Eleanor Atwood CC OOnt CH FRSC FRSL (born November 18, 1939) is a Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, teacher, environmental activist, and inventor. Since 1961, she has published 18 books of poetry, 18 novels, 11 books of nonfiction , nine collections of short fiction, eight children's books, two graphic novels , and a number of small press editions of both poetry and ...
Há 3 dias · Dear Haider is a debut novel by Lili Zeng. It is told in the first person by Elizabeth or “Liz” as she prefers to be called, a 20-year-old Chinese-Canadian woman living in Montreal who is spending her summer doing a paid internship in Germany. An only child, and a musical prodigy, she was never quite ….
Há 5 dias · Fourteen Days.NY: HarperCollins, 2024. I’ve been a big fan of Margaret Atwood’s novels and short stories eve since I first read The Handmaid’s Tale in 1985 — and I personally think she’s due for a Nobel — but this volume is a different sort of project for her, and she’s not only one of its three dozen cooperative authors but its co-editor with Douglas Preston.
Há 3 dias · “She was, after all, nothing but a child–and a child set apart from her fellow creatures by her sad defect.“ 4. Love-at-first-sight. I think this is common in romance books, but the idea that one cannot go on living without a person they have only known for a few weeks goes a bit too far for me.
Há 5 dias · There have been three special awards celebrating the Booker's history. In 1993, the "Booker of Bookers" prize was awarded to Salman Rushdie for Midnight's Children (the 1981 winner) as the best novel to win the award in its first 25 years. Midnight's Children also won a public vote in 2008, on the prize's fortieth anniversary, for "The Best of ...
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