The Book of Disappearance

The Book of Disappearance PDF Author: Ibtisam Azem
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
ISBN: 0815654839
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 253

Book Description
What if all the Palestinians in Israel simply disappeared one day? What would happen next? How would Israelis react? These unsettling questions are posed in Azem’s powerfully imaginative novel. Set in contemporary Tel Aviv forty eight hours after Israelis discover all their Palestinian neighbors have vanished, the story unfolds through alternating narrators, Alaa, a young Palestinian man who converses with his dead grandmother in the journal he left behind when he disappeared, and his Jewish neighbor, Ariel, a journalist struggling to understand the traumatic event. Through these perspectives, the novel stages a confrontation between two memories. Ariel is a liberal Zionist who is critical of the military occupation of the West Bank and Gaza, but nevertheless believes in Israel’s project and its national myth. Alaa is haunted by his grandmother’s memories of being displaced from Jaffa and becoming a refugee in her homeland. Ariel’s search for clues to the secret of the collective disappearance and his reaction to it intimately reveal the fissures at the heart of the Palestinian question. The Book of Disappearance grapples with both the memory of loss and the loss of memory for the Palestinians. Presenting a narrative that is often marginalized, Antoon’s translation of the critically acclaimed Arabic novel invites English readers into the complex lives of Palestinians living in Israel.

Disappearance Diary

Disappearance Diary PDF Author: Hideo Azuma
Publisher: Ponent Mom S L
ISBN: 9788496427426
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 194

Book Description
In 1989 Hideo Azuma left his family and work and tried (unsuccessfully) to hang himself using the slope of a mountain. This autobiographical account of his slide into alcoholism and eventual recovery takes painful experiences from the darkest reaches of his mind and treats them with an overriding sense of a cartoonists humour.

The Devil’s Diary: Alfred Rosenberg and the Stolen Secrets of the Third Reich

The Devil’s Diary: Alfred Rosenberg and the Stolen Secrets of the Third Reich PDF Author: Robert K Wittman
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0007575610
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 504

Book Description
An unprecedented, page-turning narrative of the Nazi rise to power, the Holocaust, and Hitler’s post-invasion plans for Russia told through the recently discovered lost diary of Alfred Rosenberg – Hitler’s ‘philosopher’ and architect of Nazi ideology.

The Disappearance

The Disappearance PDF Author: Genevieve Jurgensen
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393320602
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 180

Book Description
What do you do, how do you live, when both of your daughters are killed on the same afternoon? Jurgensen found herself facing that question when she lost her daughters, ages four and seven, to a drunk driver. "A lyrical and haunting memoir".--"Kirkus Reviews".

The Swamp

The Swamp PDF Author: Yoshiharu Tsuge
Publisher: Drawn & Quarterly
ISBN: 1770467661
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 256

Book Description
Yoshiharu Tsuge is one of the most influential and acclaimed practitioners of literary comics in Japan. The Swamp collects work from his early years, showing a major talent coming into his own. Bucking the tradition of mystery and adventure stories, Tsuge’s fiction focused on the lives of the citizens of Japan. These mesmerizing comics, like those of his contemporary Yoshihiro Tatsumi, reveal a gritty, at times desperate postwar Japan, while displaying Tsuge’s unique sense of humor and point of view. “Chirpy” is a simple domestic drama about expectations, fidelity, and escape. A couple purchase a beautiful white bird with a red beak. It is said that the bird will grow attached to its owners and never fly away. While the girlfriend is working as a hostess, flirting with men for money, the boyfriend decides to draw a portrait of the new family member, and disaster strikes. In “The Swamp,” a simple rural encounter is charged with sexual tension that is alluring but also fraught with danger. When a young woman happens upon a wing-shot goose, she tries to calm it then suddenly snaps its neck. Later, she befriends a young hunter and offers him shelter, but her motivations remain unclear, especially when the hunter notices a snake in the room where they’ll both be sleeping. The Swamp is a landmark in English manga-publishing history and the first in a series of Tsuge books Drawn & Quarterly will be publishing.

The Disappearance of Emily H.

The Disappearance of Emily H. PDF Author: Barrie Summy
Publisher: Yearling
ISBN: 0385739443
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 255

Book Description
A girl who can see the past tries to save the future in this compelling tween mystery. A girl is missing. Three girls are lying. One girl can get to the truth. Emily Huvar vanished without a trace. And the clues are right beneath Raine’s fingertips. Literally. Raine isn’t like other eighth graders. One touch of a glittering sparkle that only Raine can see, and she’s swept into a memory from the past. If she touches enough sparkles, she can piece together what happened to Emily. When Raine realizes that the cliquey group of girls making her life miserable know more than they’re letting on about Emily’s disappearance, she has to do something. She’ll use her supernatural gift for good . . . to fight evil. But is it too late to save Emily? Sparkling praise for THE DISAPPEARANCE OF EMILY H.: “The Disappearance of Emily H has everything—a quirky, believable heroine, a complex mystery that keeps you guessing, and even a touch of the paranormal. Readers won’t put this one down until the final sparkle.” — Gordon Korman, #1 New York Times bestselling author “An extra-special extrasensory suspense story with unexpected twists and turns.” —Eric Walters, author of The Rule of Three "Realistically captures the quiet horror of bullying . . . the mystery of Emily’s whereabouts unfolds with gripping tension and a dramatic conclusion."--PW

Amina's Diary

Amina's Diary PDF Author: Hana Ali Bonis
Publisher: Notion Press
ISBN: 1636695736
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 77

Book Description
Amina’s life has been different for the last two years because of the sudden disappearance of her best friend, Aysha. Just as she recovers from the shock, her parents pass away, leaving Amina and her sister, Maryam alone. Their aunt, Mary, takes them to the United States. There, they have to face new challenges. How will they survive this new life?

The Disappearance

The Disappearance PDF Author: Lisa Hodorovych
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780998153469
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 240

Book Description
Ashlynn Amuso is a thirty-year-old woman having the time of her life. She works for a great company in New York with her brother, Glen, and has two amazing friends in Kaden and Roman. Every year they get a two-month vacation from work where they go wherever they want. One year they went to Mexico. Another year was Florida. Last year was the Caribbean. But this year, Ashlynn takes them to her family's cabin in Lake Minnetaha, Washington.It is the perfect place. Peaceful and quiet. No one around to bother them, a large forest in the backyard to walk around, and a small town not too far away for shopping and drinking. They couldn't have asked for a better vacation spot.But one day, Roman, Kaden, and Glen start leaving Ashlynn alone in the cabin with no word of where they're going or what they're doing. They continue to do so until they leave the cabin for good. Ashlynn is distraught. She doesn't understand why they left, so she decides to stay until they return. However, while waiting and searching for them, something else finds her. With the help from her friend - and admirer - Jack, she learns that she is not going insane. That whatever she saw was not a figment of her imagination. But what is it? Who is it?

The Diary of Miss Idilia

The Diary of Miss Idilia PDF Author: Idilia Dubb
Publisher: Short Books
ISBN: 9781906021818
Category : Missing persons
Languages : en
Pages : 239

Book Description
A tragic tale of young love lost .
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