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Guernica world editions volume 60
Publisher
Guernica
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
""Once Our Lives" is the true story of four generations of Chinese women and how their lives were threatened by powerful and cruel ancient traditions, historic upheavals, and a man whose fate-cursed by an ancient superstition--dramatically altered their destinies. The book takes the reader on an exotic journey filled with luxurious banquets, lost jewels, babies sold in opium dens, kidnappings by pirates, and a desperate flight from death in the desert--seen...
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Guernica world editions volume 36
Publisher
Guernica Editions Inc
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"The Archeology of a Good Ragù has a thematic arrangement, with three long chapters: first on finding romance, then on forging integrity, and finally on confronting mortality. An epilogue follows, naturally, brief like the opening section. But the three principal concerns--thoroughly defined in the text--provide solid and coherent building blocks. Each raises an issue closely associated with Naples. As for romance, this is the city of Sophia Loren,...
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Guernica world editions volume 40
Publisher
Guernica World Editions
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Two men, no longer young, and friends from childhood, fly to NYC--each with a secret purpose unknown to the other. They arrive just as COVID-19 explodes across the city's 5 boroughs. One of the men (white) has come to Manhattan to confront a theater producer who has made a coercive offer to his wife. The other man (black, former All-American football star) plans to confront and take revenge on his white girlfriend from college days--who left him...
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Series
Guernica world editions volume 35
Publisher
Guernica
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Making coal patties. Selling liquid soap. Shopping at a glittering shoe mecca. She's done them all living half her life in deprived-post-war-communist-Vietnam-turned-free-market. Coming to America at 29 and experiencing life here as an adult is a push towards her transcending journey to transform herself from an international student to a naturalized American, to a new self free of the dead past and her ancestors' sins. Why Do You Look at Me and...
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