Annotation How do you decide how to live? Or do others make that decision for you? In this lyrical novel, award-wining author Beryl Fletcher explores the pardoxes of modern life. As a new academic, Julia finds her feminist beliefs challenged by her students, reinforced by her friend's mistreatment and dismissed by her family. Just as her mother sought freedom from her family's rural poverty, Julia searches for her own solace, finding it in different and disparate places. (Part of the Spinifex Feminist Classic series.).

A wonderful novel in two parts, which moves from the heart of a close-knit Indian household, with its restrictions and prejudices, its noisy warmth and sensual appreciation of food, to the cool centre of an American family, with its freedom and strangely self-denying attitude to eating. In both it is ultimately the women who suffer, whether, paradoxically, from a surfeit of feasting and family life in India, or from self-denial and starvation in the US. Or both. Uma, the plain, older daughter still lives at home, frustrated in her attempts to escape and make a life for herself. Through her eyes her Indian family is conjured up - the difficult, demanding but essentially good-hearted parents, her pretty, clever younger sister, and her brother, Arun, the apple of his parent's eye, as well as an extended family of mad uncles and sad cousins. Despite her disappointments it is Uma, who by staying at the cehntre of family life comes through as the survivor, avoiding an unfulfilling marriage, like her sister's, or a suicidal one, like that arranged for her pretty cousin. Across the world, in America, where young Arun goes as a student, life in the suburbs - where the man char hunks of bleeding meat while the women don't appear to cook or eat at all - seems bewildering and terrifying to the young Indian far from home. . .

Examines the way in which three generations of women in an African American family come together, centering around Ernestine, the blind grandmother, who weaves the cloths and patterns that fill their house

Een moeder en dochter worstelen beiden met een groot probleem.

In Redemption French feminist writer Chantal Chawaf explores the dark paths of madness and sadism, where sexuality evokes cannibalism and vampirism. The language of the body and the body of language are stripped naked in Chawaf's violently beautiful prose as she mounts this terrorist attack on the age-old theme of redemption through love. The novel was partly inspired by the author's visits to Canada and the United States over the past six years. It is on this vast American continent, whose wild and tameless beauty Chawaf brilliantly evokes, that Charles de Roquemont, the protagonist of the novel, savagely kills his lover, Esther, in a fit of impotent madness. A few years later, back in Paris, Charles's sexual instincts are reawakened by a screenwriter, Olga Vassilieff, whom he meets one sultry summer night in Monceau Park. The plot, however, is not Chawaf's only concern. As in her other novels, Chawaf manipulates, kneads, impales, and honey-combs her language to create a masterful allegory of her literary theories and linguistic concepts. The result is a novel that is both cerebral and sensual, both intellectual and visceral.

This collection brings together all of the short fiction published in Gordon's remarkable career, from the hunting and fishing tales of the Aleck Maury cycle to the elaborate theological conceit of A Walk With the Accuser .

The highly anticipated new novel from the bestselling author of "Bel Canto" is an engrossing story of a family on one fateful night in Boston during which their secrets are unlocked and new bonds are formed.

A love triangle set in France that explores the conflicting demands of passion and morality.

Schets van het leven van de vader van de schrijver, naar aanleiding van diens dood.

"The short stories in Reclaiming Medusa bring a much-needed perspective to the Latin American literary scene. Creating spaces in which the socially prescribed "woman's place" is questioned, problematized, and often subverted, these narratives reclaim women's lost power in ways that are subtle, complex, and sometimes startling."--BOOK JACKET.

"This valuable collection... should shift the ground of discourse on mid-19th-century American literature." —Publishers Weekly This unique collection has recovered for us the work of sixteen women who wrote during the years when American writers were developing their distinctive styles and voices.

Autobiografisch relaas van het leven van een sinds 1986 in Nederland woonachtige Roemeense schrijfster.

Amid the changing political and social environment of a Colorado college campus, three friends--Lily, Kate, and Turner, a young man drawn to both women--must confront such adult issues as loneliness, decision-making, and conscience and overcome problems including pregnancy and the disintegration of friendships.

Debut roman van de auteur.

The triumphs and tragedies of urban society are revealed in an unconventional, outrageous, and ironic journey through the Upper West Side of New York and the lives of the unforgettable characters inhabiting the community

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