A daring, kaleidoscopic Fiction about the clash of empires and ideas, told through a tennis match in the sixteenth century between the radical Italian artist Caravaggio and the Spanish poet Francisco de Quevedo, played with a ball made from the hair of the beheaded Anne Boleyn.
A book is an adventure that starts with an author’s creating during this new era of reading. And each part of publishing is a battle. Crosswalk is a partner, who fights on the side of the authors in each war.
The three officers in rangers uniform and the CIA agent thoroughly checked the backpack. In the end they could only extract a meager booty: 12 rolls of film, a score of maps corrected with colored pencils, a portable radio that had not worked for a long time, a couple of diaries and a green notebook.
Adonis? influence on Arabic literature has been likened to that of T. S. Eliot in the English-speaking world. Yet alongside this spearheading of a modernist literary revolution, the secular Syrian-born poet is also renowned for his persistent and staunch attacks on despotism across the Arab world.
You meet someone, and a tiny bit of yourself turns into that person. In the end, you are the sum of people you have encountered – Loving is but a prolonged process of montage.
By telling stories of ordinary people to evoke a long forgotten past and featuring images well preserved for a hundred years, Yang breaks free from the politics and ideologies inherent in a chronological timeline. Memory fragments of Taiwan emerge as the author gently sifts through the history spanning a thousand years.
In the midst of Mozambique's devastating civil war, Muidinga, an orphaned refugee, wanders the countryside in search of his mother. His only companion is an elderly storyteller, and the only guide to finding his mother is a dead man's diary. Together, the storyteller and diary lead him on a magical, and sometimes macabre, journey across war-torn landscapes to find the family he lost.
