[PDF] A Borrowed Place eBook

Author : Frank Welsh
Publisher : Kodansha
Page : 668 pages
File Size : 32,1 MB
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN :

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About the history of Hong Kong from ancient times until 1993.

Author : Richard Hughes
Publisher : Deutsch
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 12,98 MB
Release : 1968
Category : History
ISBN :

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Rev. ed. published 1976 under title: Borrowed place, borrowed time. Bibliography: p. [173].

Author : Chan Ho-Kei
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 27,53 MB
Release : 2017-01-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0802189822

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A legendary detective uncovers Hong Kong’s darkest crimes: “An ambitious narrative brilliantly executed . . . What an achievement!” (John Burdett, author of Bangkok 8). From award-winning author Chan Ho-kei, The Borrowed tells the story of Kwan Chun-dok, a detective who’s worked in Hong Kong fifty years. Across six decades of Hong Kong’s volatile history, the narrative follows Kwan through the Leftist Riot of 1967, when a bombing plot threatens many lives; the conflict between the HK Police and ICAC (Independent Commission Against Corruption) in 1977; the Tiananmen Square Massacre in 1989; the Handover in 1997; and the present day of 2013, when Kwan is called on to solve his final case, the murder of a local billionaire, in a modern Hong Kong that increasingly resembles a police state. Along the way we meet Communist rioters, ultra-violent gangsters, pop singers enmeshed in the high-stakes machinery of star-making, and a people always caught in the shifting balance of political power, whether in London or Beijing. Tracing a broad historical arc, The Borrowed reveals just how closely everything is connected, how history repeats itself, and how we have come full circle to repeat the political upheaval and societal unrest of the past. It is a gripping, brilliantly constructed novel from a talented new voice.

Author : J. Estanislao Lopez
Publisher : Alice James Books
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 36,32 MB
Release : 2022-10-09
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1948579375

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We Borrowed Gentleness interrogates the innateness of pain and forms of destruction—through natural disaster, through God, through family, and through the power structures and patriarchal violence that embeds itself in language and cultural memory. Poems critique and challenge the patriarchal narratives that dominate American history. The poems leave the question open of whether man, men, a father and son, are redeemable after the surge of rising white nationalism in America. And yet, there are poems that find, still, bits of joy and perhaps a shred of hope. By juxtaposing poems of louder narrative imagination with quieter poems that explore intimate failings within a family, often portrayed with a realist aesthetic, the book attempts to work through the essential fault in man, in men—in the structures that they design and maintain.

Author : P. E. N. Hong Kong Kong
Publisher :
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 37,84 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9789887792765

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The handover in 1997 saw Hong Kong's transition from colonial to communist rule under the auspices of 'one country, two systems'. But twenty years on, the real impact of the sovereignty change is just starting to register, with a rapid erosion of freedoms. Believing that we are stronger together, PEN Hong Kong invited some of the city's most prominent writers to contribute to an anthology of essays, fiction and artwork that marks this historical milestone.

Author : Franklin Horton
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,52 MB
Release : 2015-05-12
Category : Appalachian Region
ISBN : 9781511974417

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Thousands of travelers become stuck after ISIS attacks the United States, leaving the nation's physical, electrical, and technological infrastructure in tatters. Jim Powell and his co-workers are stranded in a hotel in Richmond, Virginia, about five hundred miles from home. He and several others embark on a journey to try to get back home, by any means possible, in a world with scarce law enforcement where the rules of civilized society no longer apply.

Author : Emily Giffin
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 17,1 MB
Release : 2012-03-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781250011862

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Giffin's smash-hit debut novel--basis for the 2011 film--is for every woman who has ever had a complicated love-hate friendship.

Author : Robert Goddard
Publisher : Delta
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 15,45 MB
Release : 2006-01-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0440335817

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It is a golden evening of high summer in July 1990. Robin Timariot has set out that morning on what he has planned as a six-day tramp along part of Offa's Dyke. At the close of his first day's walk he encounters an elegant middle-aged woman who seems strangely out of place among the sheep and gorse of Hergest Ridge. They exchange only a few words of conversation, but their talk is enigmatic -- and unforgettable. A few days later, at the end of his walk, Timariot returns home to learn from the newspapers that, just a few hours after their meeting, the woman, whose name was Louise Paxton, was raped and then murdered, along with an artist, Oscar Bantock, who lived near by. A man is swiftly charged and convicted of the crime, but a string of inexplicable events begins to convince Timariot -- and others -- that all is not what it seems. Timariot, fascinated by Louise Paxton's memory, is drawn irresistibly into the complex motives and relationships of her family and friends, searching against his better judgement for the secret of what really happened on the day she died. The closer he gets to the truth, the more hideous and uncertain it seems to be. And far too late he realizes that it may threaten many powerful people. So much so that anybody who uncovers it is unlikely to be allowed to live.

Author : Jeannine Atkins
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 37,67 MB
Release : 2010-03-11
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 1429959401

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As a child, Laura Ingalls Wilder traveled across the prairie in a covered wagon. Her daughter, Rose, thought those stories might make a good book, and the two created the beloved Little House series. Sara Breedlove, the daughter of former slaves, wanted everything to be different for her own daughter, A'Lelia. Together they built a million-dollar beauty empire for women of color. Marie Curie became the first person in history to win two Nobel prizes in science. Inspired by her mother, Irène too became a scientist and Nobel prize winner. Borrowed Names is the story of these extraordinary mothers and daughters. Borrowed Names is a 2011 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.