In the tense atmosphere of an imminent coup in Chile, Pablo Neruda anxiously awaiting news that may give the detective Cayetano Brule. When they met in the hills of Valparaiso think the Cuban exile was the only one who could help clear a doubt which haunts him young. At the request of the poet, Brule then undertakes the search for a woman as mysterious and elusive to take him to Mexico, Cuba, East Germany and Bolivia, in an investigation that will change your life. In this Fiction full of poetry and love will follow the trail of a truth that seemed buried forever.
As Father of Modern ink painting, Liu Guo－Song shares readers with his technique generously in order to pass on the experience to the next generation. By depiction and
Works of his famous pieces, he try to explain the technique in simple but useful way.
This collection contains both book and DVD to observe the master’s act while he painting.
Being a writer with free spirit in China, Ye Fu was condemned to prison for years in 1990s. After being released from jail, he has been separated from his mother for life since she passed away during that time. Owing to the solitude and uncertainty for future, he then comes up with many stories of elegy to his hometown and family. With his solid words but delicate arrangement, he soon conquers the readers and become one of famous writers in China,
National Book Award finalist Cristina García delivers a powerful and gorgeous Fiction about the intertwining lives of the denizens of a luxurious hotel in an unnamed Central American capital in the midst of political turmoil. The lives of six men and women converge over the course of one week.
If there have anything to resist hopelessness, that is beautiful imagination.
China writer, Yeh Fu spend 20 years to wrote a prisoner love poem and he did the best demonstrate. To use poem, literature and love to resist lonely and hopelessness. Try to pour his love to unfamiliar women, makes soul to clarify. To be a poet, Yeh Fu has published many works, include prose, play and son on, however this was his first published poetry and has significant meaning.
The development of environmental art in Taiwan is quite recent.
Author was invited to take part in the 'Art as Environment: A Cultural Action on Tropic of Cancer' by Wu Ma-li in 2007. Initially the focus was on the investigation and the preservation of historical buildings as well as the empowerment of an agricultural village where young people had gone to work in the cities rather than preserve and revitalize the village. However, engagement with the community's issues meant engagement with environmental issues, and those of industry. All are related in a very complex way.
This is a reverse history of women. Eduardo this time talks about the stories around women: the witch with miraculous healing power, the man-eater women tribe, the famous dancer Isadora Duncan, The First Lady of Argentina—Evita, and many female celebrities of our time or in history.
Through Galeano’s poetic words and purified symbols, the imaginations flow through pages and revealed from history with all female characters embracing their time and confront all the possibilities.
When it mentions to the studies about Latin American, this is definitely the most important and classic one.
Eduardo Galeano is a world-renowned Uruguayan Jurnalist and the author of the highly acclaimed trilogy Memory of Fire, and the 1978 Casa de las Americas Prize-winning Days and Nights of Love and War.
As the heir of Atayal tribe of local land, the author collects many stories of aboriginal tribe’s and show readers about their loss and confusion when confronting the civilization. They do eager for the material life style but also facing the loss of their traditional culture. It’s easy to discover the struggle through many short stories between the tribe’s life and city life.
It started very small and full of hope. But its daring campaigns have placed Fairtrade goods at the heart of supermarket shelves. From bananas and coffee beans to cotton and chocolate, fair-trade has grown to become an important global movement that has revolutionized the way we shop.
As Harriet Lamb, Director of the Fairtrade Foundation, explains in this fascinating story, Fairtrade is about a better deal for workers and farmer in the developing world.
