Castaway Mountain - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Castaway Mountain write by Saumya Roy. This book was released on 2021-09-07. Castaway Mountain available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. *One of NPR's "Books We Love 2021"* "'I came to see the mountains as an outpouring of our modern lives,' Roy writes, 'of the endless chase for our desires to fill us.' Readers of Behind the Beautiful Forevers will be drawn to this harrowing portrait." —Publishers Weekly "Castaway Mountain deserves every accolade. A stunning achievement." —Kiran Desai, Booker Prize Winner, author of Inheritance of Loss. All of Mumbai’s possessions and memories come to die at the Deonar garbage mountains. Towering at the outskirts of the city, the mountains are covered in a faint smog from trash fires. Over time, as wealth brought Bollywood knock offs, fast food and plastics to Mumbaikars, a small, forgotten community of migrants and rag-pickers came to live at the mountains’ edge, making a living by re-using, recycling and re-selling. Among them is Farzana Ali Shaikh, a tall, adventurous girl who soon becomes one of the best pickers in her community. Over time, her family starts to fret about Farzana’s obsessive relationship to the garbage. Like so many in her community, Farzana, made increasingly sick by the trash mountains, is caught up in the thrill of discovery—because among the broken glass, crushed cans, or even the occasional dead baby, there’s a lingering chance that she will find a treasure to lift her family’s fortunes. As Farzana enters adulthood, her way of life becomes more precarious. Mumbai is pitched as a modern city, emblematic of the future of India, forcing officials to reckon with closing the dumping grounds, which would leave the waste pickers more vulnerable than ever. In a narrative instilled with superstition and magical realism, Saumya Roy crafts a modern parable exploring the consequences of urban overconsumption. A moving testament to the impact of fickle desires, Castaway Mountain reveals that when you own nothing, you know where true value lies: in family, community and love. Interior map illustration copyright (c) Jake Coolidge
Mountain Tales
Mountain Tales - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mountain Tales write by Saumya Roy. This book was released on 2022-06-02. Mountain Tales available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Castaway
Castaway - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Castaway write by Lucy Irvine. This book was released on 2011-04-30. Castaway available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. THE SHOCKING STORY OF A DESERT ISLAND DREAM THAT WENT SOUR 'Writer seeks "wife" for a year on tropical island.' The opportunity to escape from it all was irresistible. Lucy Irvine answered the advertisement - and found herself alone on a remote desert island with a 'husband' she hardly knew. Lucy Irvine fell in love with the seductive, if cruel, beauty of that untouched Eden, whose power to enslave and enchant her never slackened throughout the whole of her amazing adventure. Uncompromisingly candid and sometimes shocking, Castaway is her compulsively readable account of a desert island dream which threatened to turn into a nightmare of illness, thirst and personal antipathy. Now a film by Nicholas Roeg starring Amanda Donohoe and Oliver Reed,
Castaway Code
Castaway Code - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Castaway Code write by Felicia Law. This book was released on 2009-12-15. Castaway Code available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Having finally concluded that they are not alone on the island, the eight castaways try to piece together evidence that will help them identify the other inhabitants.
Escape to Witch Mountain
Escape to Witch Mountain - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Escape to Witch Mountain write by Alexander Key. This book was released on 2009-08-01. Escape to Witch Mountain available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A sci-fi classic returns to print in its true, best, and original form! With renewed interest in Alexander Key's extraordinary 1968 novel, fans can dive into Escape to Witch Mountain as it was meant to be read. The powerful, thrilling story of Tony and Tia—twins joined by their paranormal gifts, on the run from evil forces that seek to suppress their forgotten pasts—is more gripping and relevant than ever. Praise for Escape to Witch Mountain: "Action, mood, and characterization never falter in this superior science fiction novel..."—Library Journal "Fantasy, science fiction, mystery, adventure—the story is all of these, with enough suspense and thrills to keep young readers glued to its pages from first to last."—Book World "Fascinating science fiction."—Elementary School Library Collection, Bro-Dart Foundation
