[PDF] In The House Of The Interpreter eBook

Author : Ngugi Wa Thiong'o
Publisher : Pantheon
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 13,55 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0307907694

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The second volume of memoirs from the renowned Kenyan novelist, poet and playwright covers his high school years at the end of British colonial rule in Africa, during the Mau Mau Uprising. 15,000 first printing.

Author : Jhumpa Lahiri
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 17,56 MB
Release : 1999
Category : East Indian Americans
ISBN : 039592720X

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In nine stories imbued with the sensual details of Indian culture, Lahiri charts the emotional journeys of characters seeking love beyond the barriers of nations and generations.

Author : Harry Obst
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 47,77 MB
Release : 2010-04-14
Category : History
ISBN : 1452006164

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What is going on behind closed doors when the President of the United States meets privately with another world leader whose language he does not speak. The only other American in the room is his interpreter who may also have to write the historical record of that meeting for posterity. In his introduction, the author leads us into this mysterious world through the meetings between President Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev and their highly skilled interpreters. The author intimately knows this world, having interpreted for seven presidents from Lyndon Johnson through Bill Clinton. Five chapters are dedicated to the presidents he worked for most often: Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, and Reagan. We get to know these presidents as seen with the eyes of the interpreter in a lively and entertaining book, full of inside stories and anecdotes. The second purpose of the book is to introduce the reader to the profession of interpretation, a profession most Americans know precious little about. This is done with a minimum of theory and a wealth of practical examples, many of which are highly entertaining episodes, keeping the reader wanting to read on with a minimum of interruptions.

Author : David Lyle Jeffrey
Publisher : Baylor University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 37,95 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0918954894

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In Houses of the Interpreter, David Lyle Jeffrey explores the terrain of the cultural history of biblical interpretation. But Jeffrey does not merely rest content to chart biblical scholarship and how it has both influenced and been influenced by culture. Instead, he chooses to focus upon the "art" of Biblical interpretation --how sculptors, musicians, poets, novelists, and painters have "read" the Bible. By so doing, Jeffrey clearly demonstrates that such cultural interpretation has deepened the church's understanding of the Bible as Scripture and that, remarkably, this cultural reading has contributed to theology and the practice of faith. Jeffrey's chapters effectively root the theological issues central to any hermeneutical enterprise (e.g., Scriptural authority, narrative, the Old Testament as Christian Scripture, the role of the reader, gender, and postmodernism) in specific authors and artists (e.g., Chaucer, Bosch, Sir Orfeo, C. S. Lewis) --and he does this in constant conversation with literature, both eastern and western.

Author : Nell Pattison
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 30,36 MB
Release : 2020-03-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0008390916

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Don’t miss the USA Today bestseller If someone was in your house, you’d know ... Wouldn’t you?

Author : Wole Soyinka
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 48,87 MB
Release : 2021-09-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0593467213

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From the first Black winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature—his debut novel about a group of young Nigerian intellectuals trying to come to grips with themselves and their changing country. First published in 1965. Friends since high school, the five young men at the heart of The Interpreters have returned to Lagos after studying abroad to embark on careers as a physician, a journalist, an engineer, a teacher, and an artist. As they navigate wild parties, affairs of the heart, philosophical debates, and professional dilemmas, they struggle to reconcile the cultural traditions and Western influences that have shaped them—and that still divide their country. Soyinka deftly weaves memories of the past through scenes of the present as the five friends move toward an uncertain future. The result is a vividly realized fictional world rendered in prose that pivots easily from satire to tragedy and manages to be both wildly funny and soaringly poetic.

Author : Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo
Publisher : Random House
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 26,63 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1846556287

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"From the world-renowned Kenyan novelist, poet, playwright, and literary critic, the second volume of his memoirs, spanning 1955-1959, the author's high school years during the tumultuous Mau Mau Uprising. In the House of the Interpreter evokes a haunting childhood at the end of British colonial rule in Africa, and the formative experiences of a political dissident"--

Author : W. Dale Nelson
Publisher : University of North Texas Press
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 48,98 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1574411659

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A frank portrayal of Toussaint Charbonneau, a French-Canadian fur trader, who, with his Shoshone Indian wife Sacagawea, joined the Lewis and Clark expedition in 1803. While Sacagawea assumed legendary status as a "token of peace", Toussaint has been maligned in fiction and nonfiction alike.

Author : Virgil Stokes
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 24,11 MB
Release : 2007-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1847284159

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Church is design so that we, the body of Christ, come and worship our King, rejoice in His salvation, and hear from Him through His Spirit. But often we go to church with expectation and faith, and as a result an environment of faith is created. Yet when it's time to hear from the Spirit, no one seems to know what to do. Pastor Virgil wrote this book out of his 25 years of pastoral experience in nurturing the move of the Spirit in our congregations. After reading this book you will be challenged and inspired to seek and contend for the manifestation of the Holy Spirit in your midst!