Our Lady of the Artichokes and Other Portuguese-American Stories - 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 Our Lady of the Artichokes and Other Portuguese-American Stories write by Katherine Vaz. This book was released on 2008-10-01. Our Lady of the Artichokes and Other Portuguese-American Stories available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The stories in this prize-winning collection evoke a complete world, one so richly imagined and finely realized that the stories themselves are not so much read as experienced. The world of these stories is Portuguese-American, redolent of incense and spices, resonant with ritual and prayer, immersed in the California culture of freeway and commerce. Packed with lyrical prose and vivid detail, acclaimed writer Katherine Vaz conjures a captivating blend of Old World heritage and New World culture to explore the links between families, friends, strangers, and their world. ø From the threat of a serial killer as the background for a young girl?s first brush with death to the fallout of a modern-day visitation from the Virgin Mary; from an AIDS-stricken squatter refusing to vacate an empty Lisbon home to a mother?s yearlong struggle with the death of her synesthetic daughter, these deft stories make their world ours.
Fado and Other Stories
Fado and Other Stories - 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 Fado and Other Stories write by Katherine Vaz. This book was released on 2013-11-27. Fado and Other Stories available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. • Winner of the 1997 Drue Heinz Literature Prize This collection is filled with narrative and character grounded in the meaning and value the earth gives to human existence. In one story, a woman sleeps with the village priest, trying to gain back the land the church took from her family; in another, relatives in the Azores fight over a plot of land owned by their expatriate American cousin. Even apparently small images are cast in terms of the earth: Milton, one narrator explains, has made apples the object of a misunderstanding by naming them as Eden's fruit: "In the Bible, no fruit is named in the Garden of Eden - and to this day apples are misunderstood. They were trying to tempt people not into sin but into listening to the earth more closely. . . . their white meal runs wet with the knowledge of the language of the land, but people do not listen."Vaz's beautiful, intensely conscious language often delicately slips her stories into the realm of the fado, the Portuguese song about fate and longing. "Listen for the nightingale that presses its breast against the thorns of the rose," on character sings, "that the song might be more beautiful." Such a verse might describe Vaz's own motive behind her willingness to confront her subject's ambiguities and her characters' conflicts - the simultaneous joy and sorrow of some of life's discoveries, the pain sometimes hidden within passion and pleasure.
Mariana
Mariana - 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 Mariana write by Katherine Vaz. This book was released on 2004. Mariana available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Interpreter of Maladies
Interpreter of Maladies - 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 Interpreter of Maladies write by Jhumpa Lahiri. This book was released on 1999. Interpreter of Maladies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In nine stories imbued with the sensual details of Indian culture, Lahiri charts the emotional journeys of characters seeking love beyond the barriers of nations and generations.
Saudade
Saudade - 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 Saudade write by Katherine Vaz. This book was released on 1996-06-01. Saudade available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The exotic Clara, born deaf on a Portuguese island steeped in legend and mystery, relocates to northern California, where her profound sense of longing drives her to create her own language to express her sensual vitality. Reprint.
