... her family , and when she woke up , she had the lingering sensation that she was still trapped in that faraway place . Ahmad laughed and assured her that at this very moment she was with him in their bedroom . After praying in the ...
*Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Biography* *Winner of the 2020 National Book Critics Circle Award* *Winner of the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography* A “captivating” (The Washington Post) work of history that explores ...
. This is a smart, respectful and compelling book." —Jason DeParle, The New York Times Book Review When Donald Trump won the 2016 presidential election, a bewildered nation turned to Strangers in Their Own Land to understand what Trump ...
And what exactly was his relationship with the dead woman? Debut author Deborah Burrows has brought her skills as a historian to the fore with this meticulously researched and thoroughly entertaining novel of love and intrigue.
... a stranger in her own city , a nocturnal flaneuse who paces the streets once the walls of her apartment become constraining . The solitary hero of the classic film noir becomes in this exquisite short the female loner , whose selfhood ...
... stranger” was the very text of the narrative. In much the same way, the character of Delia in L'amore molesto, a stranger in her own city, is also an author-in-the-text. Like Katherine, she endlessly travels the city in a tour of the ...
It's as much a novel of feelings as ideas, and this is what makes it a compelling read' Jake Arnott, Guardian The wonderful Linda Grant weaves a tale around ideas of home; how London can be a place of exile or expulsion, how home can be a ...
... a stranger in her own city. In Paris the title of duke ranks all others, even that of prince; though, in heraldic theory, free of all sophism, titles signify nothing; there is absolute equality among gentlemen. This fine equality was ...
... stranger.1 Oedipus is a stranger in Colonus. The same is true of many other Greek tragedies: Orestes is a refu- gee, Electra is a stranger in her own city, Iphigenia is a stranger both in Aulis and Tauris, Prometheus is an outcast ...
... a stranger in her own city. Less than a decade ago, the Berlin she'd known and loved had been crackling with wit, colour, deviance and dissent. Painted boys with nipped-in waists had sauntered through the stylish crowds along ...