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Kitchen in the Corner of the House

By: Ambai

Price: $6.00

Seller ID: 411473

ISBN: 1939810442

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - LikeNew

A Kitchen in the Corner of the House collects twenty-five gem-like stories on motherhood, sexuality, and the body from the innovative and perceptive Tamil writer Ambai.

In A Kitchen in the Corner of the House, Ambai's narrators are daring and courageous, stretching and reinventing their homes, marriages, and worlds. With each story, her expansive voice confronts the construction of gender in Tamil literature. Piecing together letters, journal entries, and notes, Ambai weaves themes of both self-liberation and confinement into her writing. Her transfixing stories often ...
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Distant Light

By: Antonio Moresco

Price: $7.50

Publisher: Archipelago: Mar-16

Seller ID: 419505

ISBN: 914671421

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Twin

By: Bakker, Gerbrand

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Nov-15

Seller ID: 428441

ISBN: 1935744046

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

When his twin brother is killed in a car accident, Helmer is obliged to give up university to take over his brother's role on the small family farm, resigning himself to spending the rest of his days "with his head under a cow." The novel begins thirty years later with Helmer moving his invalid father upstairs out of the way, so that he can redecorate the downstairs, finally making it his own. Then Riet, the woman who had once been engaged to marry Helmer's twin, appears and asks if her troubled eighteen-year-old son could come live on the farm for a while. Ostensibly a novel about the country...
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Vernacular Architecture in Southern Illinois: The Ethnic Heritage (Shawnee Books)

By: Coggeshall, Professor John M.,Nast, Jo Anne

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press: October 1988

Seller ID: 455299

ISBN: 0809314630

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Featuring 157 photographs by Randy Tindall with explanatory text, this book preserves both the architectural and cultural heritage of the French, Anglo-Americans, Germans, Poles, Italians, and Slovakians in 16 counties of southern Illinois.

Drawing on interviews as well as empirical research, the authors examine the various ethnic influences on vernacular architecture (everyday structures built without the aid of an architect). To that end they illustrate and discuss domestic, commercial, and ecclesiastical building styles, the cultural use of space, place-names, epigraphs and related ins...
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A General Theory of Oblivion

By: Jose Eduardo Agualusa

Price: $7.50

Publisher: Archipelago: Dec-15

Seller ID: 428862

ISBN: 914671316

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - LikeNew

Autonauts of the Cosmoroute: A Timeless Voyage from Paris to Marseilles

By: Julio Cortazar,Carol Dunlop

Price: $7.50

Publisher: Archipelago: Nov-07

Seller ID: 428866

ISBN: 979333008

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - LikeNew

Newcomers: Book Two

By: Lojze Kovacic

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Archipelago: Jan-20

Seller ID: 428171

ISBN: 193981040X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The first volume of this three-part autobiographical series begins in 1938 with the expulsion of the Kovacic family from their home of Switzerland, eventually leading to their settlement in the father's home country of Slovenia. Narrated by Kovacic as a ten-year-old boy, he describes his family's journey with uncanny naivet . Before leaving their home, he imagines his father's home country as something beautiful out of a fairytale, but as they make their way toward exile, he and his family realize that any attempt to make a home in Slovenia will be in vain. Confronted by misery, hunger, and ho...
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Our Lady of the Nile

By: Mukasonga, Scholastique

Price: $7.50

Publisher: Aug-14

Seller ID: 428864

ISBN: 914671030

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - LikeNew

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