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The Corpse Washer
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The Corpse Washer

Автор: Antoon Sinan
Язык: английский
Год: 2013
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Young Jawad, born to a traditional Shi'ite family of corpse washers and shrouders in Baghdad, decides to abandon the family tradition, choosing instead to become a sculptor, to celebrate life rather than tend to death. He enters Baghdad’s Academy...
The Cost of Living: Early and Uncollected Stories
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The Cost of Living: Early and Uncollected Stories

Автор: Gallant Mavis
Язык: английский
Год: 2009
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A New York Review Books Original Mavis Gallant is renowned as one of the great short-story writers of our day. This new gathering of long-unavailable or previously uncollected work presents stories from 1951 to 1971 and shows Gallant's...
The Cotton-Pickers
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The Cotton-Pickers

Язык: английский
Год: 1969
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Set in Mexico in the 1920s, this picaresque tale of a laconic American drifter overlays a powerful study of social injustice. Great storytellers often arise like Judaic just men to exemplify and rehearse the truth for their generation. The...
The Country Road
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The Country Road

Автор: Ullman Regina
Язык: английский
Год: 2015
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Never before in English, Regina Ullmann's work is distinctive and otherworldly, resonant of nineteenth-century village tales and of authors such as Adalbert Stifter and her contemporary Robert Walser. In the stories of The Country Road, largely set...