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.
Stephen King teams up with long-time friend and award-winning author Richard Chizmar for the first time in this original, chilling Fictionla that revisits the mysterious town of Castle Rock.
There are three ways up to Castle View from the town of Castle Rock: Route 117, Pleasant Road, and the Suicide Stairs. Every day in the summer of 1974, twelve-year-old Gwendy Peterson has taken the stairs, which are held by strong—if time-rusted—iron bolts and zig-zag up the precarious cliffside.
With a succinct narrative of local experiences and his family life, the poet Lin-Sen Tsai explores the deeper meaning of life and diversifies his diction in his new poetry anthology. The anthology consists of six sections: “Ox of Soil,” “The Four-Colour Theorem,” “The Land of Weeds,” “The MacGuffin,” “A Research of the Origin,” and “The After,” with 47 poems in total, in which he writes about his family, life, land, and the kaleidoscopic world he grows up, where he loves and loathes at the same time.
Geek Love is the story of the Binewskis, a carny family whose mater- and paterfamilias set out-with the help of amphetamine, arsenic, and radioisotopes-to breed their own exhibit of human oddities. There's Arturo the Aquaboy, who has flippers for limbs and a megalomaniac ambition worthy of Genghis Khan . . . Iphy and Elly, the lissome Siamese twins . . . albino hunchback Oly, and the outwardly normal Chick, whose mysterious gifts make him the family's most precious-and dangerous-asset.
Geek Love is the story of the Binewskis, a carny family whose mater- and paterfamilias set out-with the help of amphetamine, arsenic, and radioisotopes-to breed their own exhibit of human oddities. There's Arturo the Aquaboy, who has flippers for limbs and a megalomaniac ambition worthy of Genghis Khan . . . Iphy and Elly, the lissome Siamese twins . . . albino hunchback Oly, and the outwardly normal Chick, whose mysterious gifts make him the family's most precious-and dangerous-asset.
Chien's second collection of plays, includes the most acclaimed play: Dress in Code, a story about the struggle of a policeman who was secretly a cross-dresser in White Terror era of Taiwan, and the pressure of gender identity and state violence he was facing in life.
지안리잉 두 번째 극본집. 그 중에 최근 몇년 가장 흥행된 "크로스드레서보감"이 포함되었다. 백색 테러 시대에 여성 복장을 입고 싶은 한 경찰을 통해 프랜스베스타이트, 성별도착과 국가 복력 등 이슈를 담고 있는 작품이다.
Chien is the most eye-catching dramatist at both the box office and the public praise recently in Taiwan. She continues to challenge herself in terms of subject and form, and also leads the theater of Taiwan to a new group of young audience. For the first time, her scripts are collected and published. The book also includes the talks of the dramatist with well-known theater observers and in-depth interviews of the dramatist herself.
