[PDF] The Fifth Son eBook

Author : Elie Wiesel
Publisher : Schocken
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 36,46 MB
Release : 2011-09-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0307806391

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Reuven Tamiroff, a Holocaust survivor, has never been able to speak about his past to his son, a young man who yearns to understand his father’s silence. As campuses burn amidst the unrest of the Sixties and his own generation rebels, the son is drawn to his father’s circle of wartime friends in search of clues to the past. Finally discovering that his brooding father has been haunted for years by his role in the murder of a brutal SS officer just after the war, young Tamiroff learns that the Nazi is still alive. Haunting, poetic, and very contemporary, The Fifth Son builds to an unforgettable climax as the son sets out to complete his father’s act of revenge.

Author : Doris Lessing
Publisher :
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 46,98 MB
Release : 2003-03-20
Category : Young adult fiction
ISBN : 9780007154395

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Classic horror of a family torn apart by the arrival of Ben, their feral fifth child. 'Listening to the laughter, the sounds of children playing, Harriet and David would reach for each other's hand, and smile, and breathe happiness.' Four children, a beautiful old house, the love of relatives and friends, Harriet and David Lovatt's life is a hymn to domestic bliss and old-fashioned family values. But when their fifth child is born, a sickly and implacable shadow is cast over this tender idyll. Large and ugly, violent and uncontrollable, the infant Ben, 'full of cold dislike, ' tears at Harriet's breast. Struggling to care for her new-born child, faced with a darkness and a strange defiance she has never known before, Harriet is deeply afraid of what, exactly, she has brought into the world..

Author : Barbara Fradkin
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 11,60 MB
Release : 2004-09-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1459707850

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Winner of the Crime Writers of Canada Award for Best Crime Novel Inspector Green probes for family secrets that someone wants to keep buried...no matter the cost. Accident or suicide? That’s the simple question put to Inspector Michael Green when a derelict stranger falls to his death from an abandoned church tower in a quiet river village at the edge of his jurisdiction. But when the victim turns out be a long lost son of a local farm family cursed in recent years by tragedy, madness and death, Green begins to suspect something far more sinister is at work. Probing the family’s past, he uncovers a toxic mix of rigid fundamentalism, teenage rebellion and a family secret so horrific that twenty years later, someone is still desperate to prevent the truth from coming to light.

Author : Camilla Townsend
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 31,19 MB
Release : 2019
Category : History
ISBN : 0190673060

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Fifth Sun offers a comprehensive history of the Aztecs, spanning the period before conquest to a century after the conquest, based on rarely-used Nahuatl-language sources written by the indigenous people.

Author : David Farland
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 29,20 MB
Release : 2007-08-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780765341082

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The death of the supernatural Earth King, Gaborn, sets off a revolution by powerful immortal beings who are targeting Gaborn's son Fallion.

Author : Doris Lessing
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 32,23 MB
Release : 2009-10-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0061967874

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Far from resting on her laurels, Lessing goes from strength to strength. Ben's half-human ignorance, paranoia, and rage are magnificently imagined and vividly present on every page. The condition of the outsider has hardly ever before in fiction been portrayed with such raw power and righteous anger. Few, if any, living writers can have explored so many forbidding fictional worlds with such passion and conviction. — Kirkus Reviews The poignant and tragic sequel to Doris Lessing's bestselling novel, THE FIFTH CHILD. At eighteen, Ben is in the world, but not of it. He is too large, too awkward, too inhumanly made. Now estranged from his family, he must find his own path in life. From London and the south of France to Brazil and the mountains of the Andes. Ben is tossed about in a tumultuous search for his people, a reason for his being. How the world receives him, and, he fares in it will horrify and captivate until the novel's dramatic finale.

Author : Earl Shorris
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 644 pages
File Size : 40,71 MB
Release : 2012-01-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0393343723

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This is a work of great scope, a powerful illumination of an enigmatic figure. Told from the point of view of an ancient shaman, this is the dark and mystical story of Mexico's greatest revolutionary general, Pancho Villa. Shedding the Hollywood mantle of the drunken, womanizing bandit-turned-hero, the Villa who comes to life in this extraordinary novel is part man and part myth, part visionary hoodlum and part brilliant general. A troubled childhood--marked by his father's early death in the fields and his sister's rape by a local landowner--and a prophetic dream propel young Villa through a period of lawlessness and drifting and into life as a military leader. The story moves convincingly through the events of Villa's life, showing him to be a man of fierce passions and moral conviction, a natural leader for the rebellion.

Author : Helen Heightsman Gordon
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 674 pages
File Size : 44,40 MB
Release : 2011-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1462064930

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The words of her father echo in a young girl's head: Never want what you can never have. Born on the day of the Mexican Goddess of Grass, Malinalli, she takes that name until 1519 when she begins her new Christian life as Marina, one of twenty slaves given to Conquistador Hernán Cortés after he defeats the natives of Tabasco. Having been sold into slavery by a wicked stepfather, Malinalli has learned Mayan as well as her native tongue Nahuatl. When Cortés discovers she can speak two languages, he makes her his interpreter and keeps her constantly at his side. His soldiers admire her and give her the respectful title of Don?a Marina (Lady Marina). Later, as she learns Spanish and becomes trilingual, she helps Cortés form alliances among Nahuatl speakers who hate Moctezuma II, a tyrant who has waged wars on neighboring tribes to obtain captives for human sacrifice. Cortés and his coalition of Spanish conquistadors and Tlaxcalan warriors lead a fierce attack upon the Aztec empire, conquer Moctezuma II, and thus change the fate of Mexico and Spain forever. Although Cortés comes to love Marina, and she brings out his best qualities, he allows her to marry a hidalgo lover for her future protection. Yet Cortés and Malinalli (also called La Malinche) become a team that rebuilds a devastated nation, shapes its Christian destiny, and leaves a proud legacy for two nations that enriched each other even as they tried to destroy each other.

Author : Blaine D. Arden
Publisher :
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 48,82 MB
Release : 2015-02-01
Category :
ISBN : 9789082296600

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A prince without power In a land where magic is commonplace, Prince Llyskel has none. He can't command spells, he has never been taught to fight, and as the fifth son of the King, he will never rule. Everyone believes he's a weakling, most of all himself. Powerlessness is Llyskel's problem-and his pleasure. In his secret fantasies, the prince dreams of nothing more than finding himself helpless at another man's hands... particularly the hands of Captain Ariv of the Guards. Then Ariv makes Llyskel's dream a reality, and as the powerless prince surrenders to the soldier's desire, he finds his own true strength at last. But a web of royal politics is closing around Llyskel, threatening to tear him from his lover, and it will take all his newfound courage to escape... ___________________________ contains five shaded black-and-white illustrations by Yana Goya NOTE: This is the second revised/re-edited edition of The Fifth Son. It was previously published by Storm Moon Press.

Author : Maxine Hong Kingston
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 29,97 MB
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0307428575

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A long time ago in China, there existed three Books of Peace that proved so threatening to the reigning powers that they had them burned. Many years later Maxine Hong Kingston wrote a Fourth Book of Peace, but it too was burned--in the catastrophic Berkeley-Oakland Hills fire of 1991, a fire that coincided with the death of her father. Now in this visionary and redemptive work, Kingston completes her interrupted labor, weaving fiction and memoir into a luminous meditation on war and peace, devastation and renewal.