Verhalen over de verrukkingen, kwellingen en teleurstellingen van de liefde.

A series of short stories features such offbeat characters as a doctor-detective-warrior who sleeps like a hippo in a cistern and a homicidal maniac housewife whose husband ends up in the hospital with a stomach full of needles.

At the beginning of the 20th century, Virginia Woolf reacted against literary tradition, sought a new definition of fiction, applied her modern, post-Freudian outlook and radically feminist ideas to the problem of writing novels and, in so doing, helped re-define our concept of this literary form.

Een jongetje raakt geleidelijk aan steeds meer bezeten door kwaadaardige geesten.

In these beautifully written essays, Gloria Wade-Gayles is at times painfully candid as she confronts such controversial subjects as rape, homophobia, interracial relationships, and even "looking and acting too young" for her age. Yet what emerges from each piece is a powerful connection to her community, which serves as her well-spring of strength, sheltering her faith.

Presents poems written throughout her lifetime by a writer now in her eighties, including works about her grandmothers and her husband, the cities of Dublin and Hiroshima, and the ways in which everyday experience defies simple explanations

They call them women of love, but the lyrical beauty of the term has a hidden dark side: a workforce of very young girls tasked with feeding their families by offering up their bodies for sale. The girls belong to the Nat which includes some of Indias very poorest. For centuries, the Nat men have sent their daughters, sisters, and wives into sex trafficking. Baby girls are welcome arrivals in these towns of love -- everyone knows that one day, they will be the breadwinners. As a Nat, you are untouchable, despised by Indian society. How would anyone dare break free of this legacy of prostitution, when it also would mean being shunned by your entire family? Tamanna dares. As a nineteen-year-old, she breaks free and runs away. But it costs her dearly -- she is forced to leave her five-year-old daughter Rupa behind with Jabbar, in the house with the big gleaming knife. Eight years later, Tamanna knows that time is running out for Rupa. She demands help, both from the police and from the underfunded aid organisation Pukaar. And who could look a mother in the face and argue that saving her daughter isnt worth risking everything? With insight and brutal honesty, Anne Ch. Ostby paints a vivid picture of some of the worlds most vulnerable women and children. And the women of love do exist in India today, in the northern state of Bihar, where the author has travelled extensively and come to know them. Town of Love is a raw and gripping story that is guaranteed to leave you breathless. With a Preface by Ruchira Gupta, founder of the Indian NGO Apne Aap on which Pukaar is based.

Reprint van kinderboek met full page tekeningen, oorspronkelijk verschenen in 1941