When Hélène is packing up her belongings in readiness for her imminent move and marriage, she unearths a faded old exercise book. As she reads she cannot anticipate the effect it will have upon her own future. It is the diary of Juletane, a young West Indian woman. Written over three weeks, it records her short life; her lonely childhood in France, her marriage to an African student, and her eager return, with him, to Africa -- the land of her ancestors.
The end of Ming Dynasty, Chongzhen Emperor is in charge, except Dong Lin Dang and Eunuch fight each other, and encounter natural disaster and people have no way to make living.
Under this circumstance, the leader of Dong Lin Dang, Chien Chien- I was fired from this fight. He was try to regain power, so he has a political deal with cabinet leader Chou Ting-Ju, and try to appended Eunuch on annual Tiger hill meeting.
This book is describe intelligentsia hierarchy and fight, include bigwigs and local people to show social contradictory in history.
This about a girl has genetic disorder <MISME, second type>, can not heard sound- Tzu Lin.
Hearing is natural as the air for general people, however it is difficult to Tzu Lin. She has rare disease neurofibroma, and have one of 2 center meters malignant tumor. She lost hearing gradually because of tumor is getting bigger to oppress nerval of spinal cord.
These selected poems were leftover as a literary testament to the 2015 movement “against the malicious amendments made to the basic labor law.” Poems of this nature represent a wave of resistance that has not been limited to the organized mobilization of traditional labor groups, instead igniting a broader social vitality that has expanded beyond the scope of worker’s organizations.
This book is shaped like a calendar. Each day brings with it a story: a journey, feast or tragedy that really happened on that date, from all possible years and all corners of the world.
In Turkish, the word ‘az’ made author think about the trouble that these two letters went through to be pronounced together. Every letter between them was an obstacle that they had to overcome. So if we take this concept and put it in the lives of two characters, they would have to start out very far apart from each other. They would have to be in really extreme situations, impossible situations. Author also used extreme situations to play on the notion of misunderstanding.
Mama in the rice paddy is a family story, from ancestors lived in Wujih, Taichung, to Japanese ruled period, then Republic of China relocated to Taiwan. Father was not willing to work in farm, he decided to start business.
A Sweet Scent Of Death is the second Fiction by Guillermo Arriaga, who is probably better known as the screenwriter of movies such as Amores perros, 21 Grams, The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, and Babel.
Since 2006, Pong Yi-Ping had carried out “Heroom” photo-shooting plan for 9 years. From Wu Erh -Fu to Pong Yi Ping's “Heroom”, it has been for a century. Is women allow to have her own room? This book interviewed about 200 women from Japan, San Francisco, Beijing, Paris, Cuba, Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Iran about 10 countries, and select the most contemporary typical 40 women and personal space to connect space and women, family, society, ethnicity, history, religion, culture, and women power.
"This is investigative journalism at its best. Fearless, rigorous, and compassionate, Invisible is a shocking exposé of Britain's shadow world of sex slaves."—James Brabazon, author of My Friend the Mercenary
"Pai has done it again; she went undercover, smelled the breath of violence and videotaped the underworld of pimps and madams. . . . Hsiao-Hung deflates the myth of sex work as a free choice for migrant women."—Lydia Cacho, author of Slavery Inc.
