House of the Fortunate Buddhas - 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 House of the Fortunate Buddhas write by João Ubaldo Ribeiro. This book was released on 2011. House of the Fortunate Buddhas available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A searingly funny and passionate fictional monologue of woman who refuses to accept the constraints of life in 1950s Brazil.
Death of Lysanda
Death of Lysanda - 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 Death of Lysanda write by Yitzhak Orpaz. This book was released on 2013-04-02. Death of Lysanda available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Death of Lysanda collects two macabre novellas by one of Israel's greatest poets. In the title piece, we meet Naphtali Noi, a recently divorced proofreader, critic, and "creative" taxidermist, given to hallucinations and soon perhaps to add murder to his hobbies. Ants tells the story of a married couple, Jacob and Rachel, who discover that an army of the titular insects is threatening to destroy their rooftop apartment—but Rachel seems to be on their side rather than her husband's. In fragmented prose halfway between the Old Testament and the playful experiments of Julio Cortázar, these tales take to pieces the psyches of two men—and a nation—at war with themselves.
The Acid Test
The Acid Test - 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 The Acid Test write by Elmer Mendoza. This book was released on 2017-01-31. The Acid Test available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. When the mutilated body of Mayra Cabral de Melo, a well-known stripper, is found by the side of a dusty road, detective Edgar "Lefty" Mendieta has personal reasons for bringing the culprit to justice. Mayra had no shortage of ardent, deluded, and downright dangerous admirers, and Lefty himself is haunted by one steamy night he spent in her generous company. So begins an investigation that will bring him ever closer to the murderous world of the narcos, who are waging a war of bloody attrition against the Mexican state. The country is a powder keg, waiting for a spark, and Mendieta is about to enter the darkest days of his life. Corrupt politicians, failed boxers, and unscrupulous arms dealers all lie in wait along the path to justice. But none of this can prepare him for his run-in with the FBI, when the father of the president of the United States is attacked while on vacation in Mexico. For all these perils it is the weight of his own murky past that Lefty finds hardest to bear. And as he scratches around for clues, faced with a gallery of suspects who all have a motive and none of whom is a stranger to the dark arts of murder, the reappearance of Samantha Valdés, now the boss of the Cartel del Pacífico, adds one more jagged piece to an already unsolvable puzzle.
Teethmarks on My Tongue
Teethmarks on My Tongue - 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 Teethmarks on My Tongue write by Eileen Battersby. This book was released on 2016-11-09. Teethmarks on My Tongue available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The gunning down of her mother in a Richmond street sets young Helen Stockton Defoe on a journey of self-discovery. A physical feature she had first noticed when she was nine years old has made her feel apart and she has quietly capitalized on the privilege, never mind the aura, which surrounds her. She lives in her head and fills her thoughts – and days – with science, horses and art. The more intently she begins to observe her remote, detached father, the more she learns about her place within the rarefied world she inhabits. Just when it appears she is at last becoming closer to him, it all falls apart as he coldly undermines her abiding passions, which causes her to question the identity she has created. Her rebellion leads her to Europe on a disturbing path dominated by chance and an evolving self-realization. As a result of these experiences she gains an ability to feel deeply, something from which she had always felt somehow excluded. This most unusual coming-of-age novel with its impressive characterization, humor and vivid sense of place takes its clever, if barely street-wise and increasingly obsessive, teenaged narrator on a physical as well as psychological journey towards an astute, hard fought, and deserved, maturity.
The Disappearance of Jim Sullivan
The Disappearance of Jim Sullivan - 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 The Disappearance of Jim Sullivan write by Tanguy Viel. This book was released on 2021-05-11. The Disappearance of Jim Sullivan available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Tanguy Viel's parody/pastiche of the American novel is subtle and experimental; it tells a story at the same time as it implicitly poses questions about the narrative structure it is deploying." —The French Review In The Disappearance of Jim Sullivan, disappearance is both a theme and a stylistic device. Indeed, this publication narrates the disappearance of Dwayne Koster, who, fascinated by the story of Jim Sullivan, commits suicide in the New Mexico desert which was the setting of the rocker’s disappearance in 1975. But this novel is for the most part set in the metanarrative tale of its own genesis, and, as a result, is partially eclipsed: its -fictitious- author doesn’t relate it in its entirety and keeps adding bits and pieces of first drafts and preliminary sketches to his text, thus blurring its boundaries. Tanguy Viel’s work can therefore be perceived as a double response, existential and aesthetic, to the question of the end.
