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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “betsy wing”
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  • Sisters

    by Brigitte Lozerec'h ...
    Translated by Betsy Wing ...
    Series series French Literature
    Mathilde Lewly—a female painter at the dawn of the twentieth century—has achieved notoriety among the Parisian avant-garde. She and her husband, also a talented young artist, pursue their separate visions side by side in a Clichy atelier, galvanized by the artistic ferment that surrounds them. But the couple are threatened by the shadow of Mathilde's little sister, Eugénie: since the two girls' ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Shadow of Memory

    by Bernard Comment ...
    Translated by Betsy Wing ...
    Series series Swiss Literature
    In this eerie, compelling, and playful novel, a young man tormented by his feeble memory meets an elderly man, Robert, endowed with the recall of an elephant. Soon, in exchange for becoming his live-in servant, Robert agrees to allow his young protégé to inherit his prodigious memory upon his death. While this might seem a fair if absurd exchange, Robert's demands become progressively more macabre ... Read more

    $10.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • So Vast the Prison

    A Novel

    by Assia Djebar ...
    Translated by Betsy Wing ...
    So Vast the Prison is the double-threaded story of a modern, educated Algerian woman existing in a man's society, and, not surprisingly, living a life of contradictions. Djebar, too, tackles cross-cultural issues just by writing in French of an Arab society (the actual act of writing contrasting with the strong oral traditions of the indigenous culture), as a woman who has seen revolution in a now ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Outwitting the Gestapo

    by Lucie Aubrac, Konrad Bieber, Betsy Wing ...
    Lucie Aubrac (1912-2007), born Bernard into a Catholic family of winegrowers, was teaching history in a Lyon high school and newly married to Raymond Samuel, a Jewish engineer, when World War II broke out and divided France. The couple, living in the Vichy zone, soon joined the Resistance movement in opposition to the Nazis and their collaborators. Outwitting the Gestapo is Lucie’s harrowing ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Mahagony

    A Novel

    by Édouard Glissant ...
    Translated by Betsy Wing ...
    A New York Times New and Noteworthy BookÉdouard Glissant’s novels, closely tied to the theories he developed in Poétique de la Relatio**n (Poetics of relation), are rich explorations of a deported and colonized people’s loss of their own history and the ever-evolving social and political effects this sense of groundlessness has caused in Martinique. In Mahagony Glissant identifies both the malaise ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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    by Herman Melville ...
    Series series The Art of the Novella
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  • The People in the Trees

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    by Hanya Yanagihara ...
    **A thrilling anthropological adventure story with a profound and tragic vision of what happens when cultures collide—from the bestselling author of National Book Award–nominated modern classic, A Little Life“Provokes discussions about science, morality and our obsession with youth.” —Chicago Tribune**It is 1950 when Norton Perina, a young doctor, embarks on an expedition to a remote Micronesian ... Read more

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  • Sharaf

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    Major-General Farhan Al-Balawi is a loyal soldier in the Saudi Arabian army who dotes on his beloved daughter, Maryam, his pride in her learning and independent spirit sharpened by the death of his elder son and his estrangement from the younger who has opted to pursue a hedonistic western lifestyle in the USA. Despite the love she shares with her family, her respect for her father, the pride she ... Read more

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  • The Garden of Evening Mists

    by Tan Twan Eng ...
    This “elegant and haunting novel of war, art and memory" (The Independent) award-winning novel from the acclaimed author of The Gift of Rain follows the only Malaysian survivor of a Japanese wartime camp as she begins working for an exiled former gardener of the Emporer.Malaya, 1951. Yun Ling Teoh, the scarred lone survivor of a brutal Japanese wartime camp, seeks solace among the jungle-fringed ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

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  • Mornings in Jenin

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    by Susan Abulhawa ...
    With more than a million copies sold worldwide, a modern classic of Palestinian literature from “a major writer of our time” (Alice Walker).“Timeless in its truth.”-Fattima Bhutto“Powerful and passionate.”-Michael Palin“A novel to savor.”-Maureen Corrigan“Relevant, powerful, emotional and vivid.”-Bidisha MamatMornings in Jenin is a heart-wrenching multi-generat... ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • A Week in Paris

    A gripping page-turner set in wartime Paris from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Hidden Years

    by Rachel Hore ...
    SECRETS FROM THE PAST, UNRAVELLING IN THE PRESENTFrom the million-copy Sunday Times bestseller comes a gripping and moving story spanning 25 years and World War II, secrets, family and enduring love.The streets of Paris hide a dark past…September, 1937. Kitty Travers enrols at the Conservatoire on the banks of the Seine to pursue her dream of becoming a concert pianist. But then war breaks out and ... Read more

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  • We Need New Names

    A Novel

    by NoViolet Bulawayo ...
    Series series NoViolet Bulawayo
    This unflinching and powerful novel tells the "deeply felt and fiercely written" story of a young girl's journey out of Zimbabwe to America (New York Times Book Review).Darling is only ten years old, and yet she must navigate a fragile and violent world. In Zimbabwe, Darling and her friends steal guavas, try to get the baby out of young Chipo's belly, and grasp at memories of Before. Before their ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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