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A chance encounter on Portobello Road incites an unsettling, magnetic attraction between Mary, a seventy-five-year-old white British spinster, and Cub, a thirteen-year-old Jamaican boy from Brixton. As dementia overtakes her reality, Mary clings to phantoms, latching on to Cub and channeling her remaining energy into their relationship. But their macabre romance comes to a horrific climax as white supremacy, desperation, and class conflict explode...
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Numa vila pobre da Índia fica O Beco, onde trabalha Veena, prostituta e mãe da pequena Chinti. Abandonada pela mãe, Chinti recebe proteção e afeto de Sadhana, uma hijra, casta de mulheres rejeitadas por terem nascido com corpos de homens. Quando um swami corrupto rapta a pequena Chinti e a leva para Benares, as mulheres do Beco se juntam para salvar a menina.
Um romance fascinante para enfrentar as questões urgentes do nosso tempo o lugar das...
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"Intimacy with the Infinite" is the candid spiritual autobiography of contemporary spiritual teacher Ananda Devi. Its 320 pages read like a novel, yet it offers unique powerful life-changing insights. Unlike most authors writing on non-duality or enlightenment, Ananda focuses on the truth about life after a genuine deep spiritual awakening.The events that followed soon after her awakening changed her life beyond recognition. The telling of these dramatic...
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A poetic, autobiographical collection from famed Mauritian writer Ananda Devi, engaging with loneliness, desire, violence, and aging.
"I'm sick of biting off and chewing this dust, of scratching with my thin claws, searching for some chunk of literary gold to hell with all the disarrayed images of our homelands reflections of our particular misery."
From eminent Mauritian writer Ananda Devi, a collection that transgresses genre lines with poetic,...
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With brutal honesty and poetic urgency, Ananda Devi relates the tale of four young Mauritians trapped in their country's endless cycle of fear and violence. Eve out of Her Ruins is a heartbreaking look at the Mauritius tourists don't see, and an exploration of the construction of personhood at the margins of society.
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Esta novela narra la vida de cuatro adolescentes en un barrio marginal de la periferia de Port Louis, en la isla de Mauricio, que toman la palabra de
manera alterna para mostrar diferentes tipos de violencia, especialmente contra el cuerpo femenino. Ève es una adolescente que se prostituye sin
una razón clara, en torno a la cual giran Savita, amiga íntima y pilar de su vida, Sadiq, poeta aficionado enamorado de ella, y Clélio, amigo de
este, un...
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Augen auf und Nase zu - hier kommt der kleine Ritter Kackebart!
Der kleine Bauernjunge Kackebart träumt davon, ein echter Ritter zu sein. Als er erfährt, dass König Pipifax ein großes Ritterturnier ausrichtet, macht er sich mit seinem getreuen Einhorn Windelpups auf den Weg, um seinen Traum zu verwirklichen. Dort aber lachen ihn die anderen Ritter wegen seines Kackebarts bloß aus. Doch der kleine Ritter gibt nicht auf. Als der fürchterliche...