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17 produkter
Stories from Blue Latitudes
Caribbean Women Writers at Home and Abroad
Av Jennifer Sparrow, Elizabeth Nunez m. fl.
Häftad, 2005
244 kr
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Stories from Blue Latitudes gathers the major and emerging women fiction writers from the Caribbean, including Dionne Brand, Michelle Cliff, Merle Collins, Edwidge Danticat, Jamaica Kincaid, Paule Marshall, and Pauline Melville. Similar themes grace their stories of life at home and abroad. In …
Boundaries
E-bok, 2011
165 kr
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"Boundaries is told in spare and transcendent prose. [...] As always, Nunez delivers a unique and riveting perspective on Caribbean life as well as immigrant life in general."--The New York Amsterdam News"Many moments of elegant, overarching insight bind the personal to the collective past."--New …
Not for Everyday Use
A Memoir
E-bok, 2014
220 kr
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The author explores her mother''s marriage—and fourteen pregnancies—in this "powerful memoir" (Ebony). One of Oprah.com''s Best Memoirs of the YearWinner of the 2015 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award in Nonfiction Tracing the four days between the moment she gets the dreaded call and the burial of her …
Even in Paradise
E-bok, 2016
17 kr
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A novel of family, privilege, and poverty, described as "King Lear in the Caribbean" (O, The Oprah Magazine). A New York Post Must-Read Book Peter Ducksworth, a Trinidadian widower of English ancestry, retires to Barbados, believing he will find an earthly paradise there. He decides to divide his …
Prospero's Daughter
A Novel
E-bok, 2016
246 kr
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The very title of Elizabeth Nunez’s gripping and richly imagined sixth novel, Prospero’s Daughter, distances her work from both the original Tempest (in which the daughter, Miranda, is perhaps the least developed of all Shakespearean heroines) and from the many postcolonial reactions to the play . …
Grace
A Novel
E-bok, 2016
207 kr
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"A perceptive and moving tale of an African-American middle-class marriage struggling to right itself." —Publishers Weekly Justin and Sally Peters are both passionate educators—Justin a hardened, Harvard-educated professor of literature at a small public college, and Sally a gentle elementary …
Discretion
A Novel
E-bok, 2016
213 kr
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"A captivating tale of Oufoula Sindede, an African diplomat in a passionless marriage who falls madly in love with Marguerite, a New York City artist." —Essence Dutifully married to lovely Nerida, Oufoula goes through the motions, formally keeping his distance from the woman with whom he shares his …
Now Lila Knows
Inbunden, 2022
292 kr
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Lila Bonnard has left her island Home in the Caribbean to join the faculty as a visiting professor at Mayfield College in a small Vermont town. On her way from the airport to Mayfield, Lila witnesses the fatal shooting of a Black man by the police. It turns out that the victim was a professor at …
Now Lila Knows
A Novel
E-bok, 2022
166 kr
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There is nothing like racial injustice in America to teach an outsider the differences between perception and reality."Powerful in message . . . An engaging, warm-hearted, page-turner of a novel." —New West Indian GuideFor Lila Bonnard, the opportunity to take a position as a visiting professor in …
Anna In-Between
E-bok, 2009
246 kr
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"A psychologically and emotionally astute family portrait, with dark themes like racism, cancer and the bittersweet longing of the immigrant."--New York Times Book Review (Editors Choice)"Nunez has created a moving and insightful character study while delving into the complexities of identity …
