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By Fire: Writings on the Arab Spring
Публицистика, Современная русская и зарубежная проза

By Fire: Writings on the Arab Spring

Автор: Джеллун Тахар Бен
Язык: английский
Год: 2016
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Tahar Ben Jelloun’s By Fire, the first fictional account published on the Arab Spring, reimagines the true-life self-immolation of Mohamed Bouazizi in Tunisia, an event that has been credited with setting off the Tunisian revolt. The novella...
Little Labors
Критика, Публицистика

Little Labors

Автор: Galchen Rivka
Язык: английский
Год: 2016
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Sei Shonagon’s Pillow Book—a key inspiration for Rivka Galchen’s new book — contains a list of “Things That Make One Nervous.” And wouldn’t the blessed event top almost anyone’s list? Little Labors is a slanted, enchanted...
The Fifth Impossibility: Essays on Exile and Language
Критика, Публицистика

The Fifth Impossibility: Essays on Exile and Language

Автор: Manea Norman
Серия: Margellos World Republic of Letters
Язык: английский
Год: 2012
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Deported to a concentration camp from 1941 until the end of the war, Norman Manea again left his native Romania in 1986 to escape the Ceausescu regime. He now lives in New York. In this selection of essays, he explores the language and psyche of the...
Sunbathing in Siberia: A Marriage of East and West in Post-Soviet Russia
Биографии и мемуары, Путешествия и география

Sunbathing in Siberia: A Marriage of East and West in Post-Soviet Russia

Автор: Oliver-Semenov Michael A.
Язык: английский
Год: 2014
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Without aiming to be a survival guide, romance or autobiography, Sunbathing in Siberia manages to be all of them and none. Told completely from the Trans-Siberian and a series of Russian jets, this is the story of a young British poet, who, after...
Men We Reaped
Биографии и мемуары

Men We Reaped

Автор: Ward Jesmyn
Язык: английский
Год: 2013
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“We saw the lightning and that was the guns; and then we heard the thunder and that was the big guns; and then we heard the rain falling and that was the blood falling; and when we came to get in the crops, it was dead men that we reaped.”...
Time at War
Биографии и мемуары

Time at War

Автор: Mosley Nicholas
Язык: английский
Год: 2013
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Although Nicholas Mosley has written two volumes of family biography and a volume of memoirs, he has, until now, avoided writing about his World War Two experiences. The son of Sir Oswald Mosley who, as the leader of the British Union of...
Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War
Военная документалистика и аналитика, Зарубежная образовательная литература, зарубежная прикладная

Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War

Автор: Роуч Мэри
Язык: английский
Год: 2016
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Best-selling author Mary Roach explores the science of keeping human beings intact, awake, sane, uninfected, and uninfested in the bizarre and extreme circumstances of war. Grunt tackles the science behind some of a soldier’s most challenging...