The Colonel's Wife - 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 Colonel's Wife write by Rosa Liksom. This book was released on 2019-11-05. The Colonel's Wife available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A bold, dark-hued novel by a writer who “conjures beauty from the ugliest of things” (The Wall Street Journal) In the final twilit moments of her life, an elderly woman looks back on her years in the thrall of fascism and Nazism. Both her authoritarian tendencies and her ecstatic engagement with the natural world are vividly and terrifyingly evoked in The Colonel’s Wife, an astonishing and brave novel that resonates painfully with our own strained political moment. At once complex and hideous, sexually liberated and sympathetic to the darkest of political movements, the narrator describes her childhood as the daughter of a member of the right-wing Finnish Whites before World War II, and the way she became involved with and eventually married the Colonel, who was thirty years her senior. During the war, he came and went as they fraternized with the Nazi elite and retreated together into the deepest northern wilds. As both the marriage and the war turn increasingly dark and destructive, Rosa Liksom renders a complex and unsavory character in a prose style that is striking in its paradoxical beauty. Based on a true story, The Colonel’s Wife is both a brilliant portrayal of an individual psychology and a stark warning about the perils of nationalism.
Judy O'Grady and the Colonel's Lady
Judy O'Grady and the Colonel's Lady - 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 Judy O'Grady and the Colonel's Lady write by Noel T. St. John Williams. This book was released on 1988. Judy O'Grady and the Colonel's Lady available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A history of the lives of women connected to the military--an overlooked segment of British Army life. This fresh perspective belongs in women's studies. Good reading. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
The Colonel
The Colonel - 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 Colonel write by Mahmoud Dowlatabadi. This book was released on 2015-08-15. The Colonel available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A pitch black, rainy night in a small Iranian town. Inside his house the Colonel is immersed in thought. Memories are storming in. Memories of his wife. Memories of the great patriots of the past, all of them assassinated or executed. Memories of his children, who had joined the different factions of the 1979 revolution. There is a knock on the door. Two young policemen have come to summon the Colonel to collect the tortured body of his youngest daughter and bury her before sunrise. The Islamic Revolution, like every other revolution in history, is devouring its own children. And whose fault is that? This shocking diatribe against the failures of the Iranian left over the last fifty years does not leave one taboo unbroken.
The Colonel's Lady on the Western Frontier
The Colonel's Lady on the Western Frontier - 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 Colonel's Lady on the Western Frontier write by Alice Kirk Grierson. This book was released on 1989-01-01. The Colonel's Lady on the Western Frontier available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Collects the letters of the wife of Civil War major general Benjamin H. Grierson, describing daily life and hardships at frontier posts like Fort Riley, Fort Concho, Fort Davis, and Fort Grant
The Colonel's Wife
The Colonel's Wife - 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 Colonel's Wife write by Andre Dubus. This book was released on 2015-05-25. The Colonel's Wife available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A Vintage Shorts “Short Story Month” Selection The colonel had served in two wars with the Marines, without being injured. Then, at home, he breaks both legs falling off a horse, and learns that his knees will never fully recover. Together with his wife, he will have to relearn everything, all over again. “The Colonel’s Wife” is the moving story of a man and his wife, the woman for whom, when he met her for the first time, he felt “that he was looking at the sun without burning his eyes.” A story of peace after war and the continued drama of real life. From Andre Dubus’s masterful and compassionate collection Dancing After Hours, a New York Times Notable Book. An eBook short.
