[PDF] Shangri La And Other Stories eBook

Author : Dani Darius
Publisher : Partridge Publishing
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 23,66 MB
Release : 2013-10-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1482812967

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In these impressionistic and mystical stories and sketches, identities flow into one another in the drag of timeoften unknowingly maintaining adversarial relations to each other in the general symbiotic culture. Here you find an aging escort sipping on gin-n-juice in a hotel in McLeod Ganj; a quaint brass-deity come haunting an Indo-Tibetan youth; a poacher, called Bucephalia, hunting down a musk deer in a dale in Kashmir; a Daoist shrine-keeper casting a Vedic horoscope. Whether it is the Buddha emerging from a veil of mist or the surge of humanity converging in the Kumbha-Mela, it takes you to the seductive realm of intertwined patterns of destiny which nevertheless transcends space and time, cultural and religious boundaries.

Author : Jonathan Chapman
Publisher : Earthscan
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 39,51 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1849770964

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Designers, Visionaries and Other Stories unpacks the complex and crucial debates surrounding sustainable design to deliver a compelling manifesto for change, at a time of looming ecological crisis, mounting environmental legislation and limited progress. This is a book about sustainable design, by the leading sustainable design thinkers, for creative practitioners, professionals, students and academics. This challenging work provides the reader with a rich resource of future visions, critical propositions, creative ideas and design strategies for working towards a sustainable tomorrow, today.The authors boldly present alternative understandings of sustainable design, to curate a challenging, sometimes uncomfortable and always provocative, collection of essays by some of the worlds leading sustainable design thinkers. The result is an impacting and polemical anthology that reinvigorates the culture of critique that, in previous years, has empowered design with the qualities of social, environmental and economic revolution.

Author : Ian Watson
Publisher : Gateway
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 46,49 MB
Release : 2011-09-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0575114800

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Ian Watson is one of the most prolific short story writers in contemporary science fiction, with a range and invention that others might envy. In this collection we move from a ghostly occurrence in Catalonia to a memorably hallucinatory and atmospheric tale of eggs and ectoplasm in pre-glasnost Russia. The Times said of Watson that his 'stories are springloaded with effect, compressed with a drama that, in others, might take a novel to eke out', a judgement confirmed by he dozen stories collected here.

Author : Ayse Papatya Bucak
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 35,15 MB
Release : 2019-08-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1324002980

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A debut story collection of spectacular imaginative range and lyricism from a Pushcart Prize–winning author. In Ayse Papatya Bucak’s dreamlike narratives, dead girls recount the effects of an earthquake and a chess-playing automaton falls in love. A student stops eating and no one knows whether her act is personal or political. A Turkish wrestler, a hero in the East, is seen as a brute in the West. The anguish of an Armenian refugee is “performed” at an American fund-raiser. An Ottoman ambassador in Paris amasses a tantalizing collection of erotic art. And in the masterful title story, the Greek god Apollo confronts his personal history and bewails his Homeric reputation as he tries to memorialize, and make sense of, generations of war. A joy and a provocation, Bucak’s stories confront the nature of historical memory with humor and humanity. Surreal and poignant, they examine the tension between myth and history, cultural categories and personal identity, performance and authenticity.

Author : Bob Stockton
Publisher : Gatekeeper Press
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 18,50 MB
Release : 2020-10-04
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1662902905

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A shipwreck’s tragic toll in human life. The changing face of a quiet turn-of-the century neighborhood. A man who lost his wife unexpectedly. An obnoxious drunk who gets more than he bargained for. A horse who develops an affinity for a Hawaiian saloon. A submarine’s up close and personal encounter with a snoozing whale. Each of these stories and much more are found in “The Blue Collar Blues,” author Bob Stockton’s personal anthology of forty-six short stories that have been published over the past decade. The book’s first section contains stories of a young boy’s coming of age in an ever-changing northeast working-class neighborhood. The second section highlights standalone stories that run from autobiographical to allegorical. The third section focuses on the adventures-and misadventures- of young sailors serving in the U.S. Navy of a half-century past. The fourth section relates actual tales of the U.S. Navy and her sailors deployed along the Pacific Rim. Grab a cup of coffee and escape into the mind of an author with a flair for describing what is really important in life.

Author : Rudolfo A. Anaya
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 10,78 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780806137384

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Spanning a period of thirty years, a collection of eighteen short stories includes "Silence of the Llano,' "In search of Epifano," and "Children of the Desert."

Author : Shel Weissman
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 42,66 MB
Release : 2017-12-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1546219811

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The Reunion at Heavens Gate and Other Stories continues in the examination of the collision and complexities of survival, redemption, and change. The author reveals the dark corners of characters and their immense desire to rise above what appears to be insurmountable odds. Their burdens are deep, yet their courage to triumph brings hope and revitalization. Weissman is an optimist and is revealed through the veil of his characters, which often appear in danger of losing it all. Their need to move forward becomes greater than the twisted circumstances they have difficulty relinquishing. The stories overflow with excitement, compassion, and truthfulness.

Author : Kim Newman
Publisher : Titan Books (US, CA)
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 36,76 MB
Release : 2017-01-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1781165718

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A brand new collection of chilling stories by master of horror Kim Newman, in which Jack the Ripper still stalks the streets, Frankenstein’s monster rises from the Arctic ice, and the terrifying legacy of Dr Jeyll and Mr Hyde haunts fog-shrouded London. This volume also includes a brand-new, exclusive Anno Dracula story, ‘Yokai Town: Anno Dracula 1899’, which sets the scene for the forthcoming novel Anno Dracula 1999: Daikaiju.

Author : Shouhua Qi
Publisher : Muse International Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 45,86 MB
Release : 2009-07-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1448655137

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"The short stories collected here, all inspired by real-life events, are about people caught in the unsettling drama of a fast-changing China ... . All of the stories were written in English first, and then translated (rewritten?) into Chinese ... . The stories in this book have already been published in a collection in the United States with a different title: Red Guard Fantasies and Other Stories (Long River Press, 2006)."--Page vi.