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Author
Publisher
Nan A. Talese/Doubleday
Pub. Date
2007, c2005
Language
English
Description
Dissident singer/songwriter Teza, in the seventh of a twenty-year jail sentence for his participation in protests against the government of Burma, forms a forbidden friendship with Little Brother, a twelve-year-old orphan who has grown up inside the prison walls, and plots to help the boy escape to a monastery school.
6) Netherland
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Hans van den Broek finds himself alone in New York City after his wife and son return to London, and stumbles upon the subculture of cricket, builds a friendship with Chuck from Trinidad, and begins a new life in his adopted country.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2010, c2009
Language
English
Description
Olivier, the priggish son of French aristocrats, embarks on a tour of America in the early nineteenth century, accompanied by Parrot, a survivor of Australia's penal system who has been hired as both servant and secret spy by Olivier's mother, and while the two men, at polar ends of society, start out hating each other, they eventually become fast friends.
12) Pure colour
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
"A short epic novel about art, grief, and love by Sheila Heti, the author of Motherhood and How Should A Person Be"--
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
In 1857, Jaffy Brown, an eight-year-old street urchin in London's East End, is saved from a tiger attack by Mr. Jamrach, the tiger's owner, who takes Jaffy under his wing and puts him to work caring for the animals in his exotic menagerie, and as the years progress, Jaffy's friendship with the other handler, Tim, leads to a grand adventure that will change both their lives forever.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
About desire, disgust, motherhood, loneliness, art, pain, feminism, anger, envy, guilt. Composed almost exclusively of conversations between women--the stories they tell each other, and the stories they tell themselves, about shame and love, infidelity and self-sabotage. Careens through twenty years in the life of an unnamed narrator hungry for experience and bent on upending her life.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Divorced, alone, and unexpectedly unemployed, Sylvia Landsman flees to Italy, where she meets Henry, a wistful, married, middle-aged expatriate. Taking off on a grand tour of Europe bankrolled with his wife's money, Henry and Sylvia follow a circuitous route around the continent -- as Sylvia entertains Henry with stories of her peculiar family and her damaged friends, of dead ducks and Alma Mahler. Her narrative is a tapestry of remembrances and regrets...
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