The Sun on My Head - 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 Sun on My Head write by Geovani Martins. This book was released on 2019-06-11. The Sun on My Head available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A bestselling literary sensation in Brazil, a powerful debut short-story collection about favela life in Rio de Janeiro In The Sun on My Head, Geovani Martins recounts the experiences of boys growing up in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro in the early years of the twenty-first century. Drawing on his childhood and adolescence, Martins uses the rhythms and slang of his neighborhood dialect to capture the texture of life in the slums, where every day is shadowed by a ubiquitous drug culture, the constant threat of the police, and the confines of poverty, violence, and racial oppression. And yet these are also stories of friendship, romance, and momentary relief, as in “Rolézim,” where a group of teenagers head to the beach. Other stories, all uncompromising in their realism and yet diverse in narrative form, explore the changes that occur when militarized police occupy the favelas in the lead-up to the World Cup, the cycles of violence in the narcotics trade, and the feelings of invisibility that define the realities of so many in Rio’s underclass. The Sun on My Head is a work of great talent and sensitivity, a daring evocation of life in the favelas by a rising star rooted in the community he portrays.
The Sun Does Shine
The Sun Does Shine - 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 Sun Does Shine write by Anthony Ray Hinton. This book was released on 2018-03-27. The Sun Does Shine available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "A powerful, revealing story of hope, love, justice, and the power of reading by a man who spent thirty years on death row for a crime he didn't commit"--
Stubborn Archivist
Stubborn Archivist - 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 Stubborn Archivist write by Yara Rodrigues Fowler. This book was released on 2019. Stubborn Archivist available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A young British -Brazilian woman from South London navigates growing up between two cultures and into a fuller understanding of her body, relying on signposts such as history, family conversation, and the eyes of the women who have shaped her: mother, grandmother, and aunt. During her trips to Brazil, sometimes alone, often with family, our narrator accesses a different side of herself that is as much of who she is as anything else. -- adapted from back cover
Exodus From The Long Sun
Exodus From The Long Sun - 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 Exodus From The Long Sun write by Gene Wolfe. This book was released on 1997-08-15. Exodus From The Long Sun available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The long-awaited conclusion to "The Book of the Long Sun". "Wolfe may already have established himself as the definitive voice in science fantasy. If he has not, "Long Sun" is likely to do the job".--"Chicago Sun-Times". A "New York Times" Notable Book of the Year.
Just Above My Head
Just Above My Head - 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 Just Above My Head write by James Baldwin. This book was released on 2000-06-13. Just Above My Head available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. James Baldwin’s final novel is “the work of a born storyteller at the height of his powers” (The New York Times Book Review). “Not everything is lost. Responsibility cannot be lost, it can only be abdicated. If one refuses abdication, one begins again.” The stark grief of a brother mourning a brother opens this stunning, unforgettable novel. Here, in a monumental saga of love and rage, James Baldwin goes back to Harlem, to the church of his groundbreaking novel Go Tell It on the Mountain, to the forbidden passion of Giovanni’s Room, and to the political fire that enflames his nonfiction work. Here, too, the story of gospel singer Arthur Hall and his family becomes both a journey into another country of the soul and senses—and a living contemporary history of black struggle in this land.
