Insomniac: in exile poems 2006-2016
Sam Vaseghi - -
INSOMNIAC, by the Iranian-German author and poet Sam Vaseghi, is a collection of exile poems, gathered in the period of 2006 to 2016, during the poet’s stay in Germany and Sweden. The poems have social and political relevance and reflect a bipolar vecu of the poet split between Europe and Iran. Some of these poems have been published ...
Hudson River Bracketed
Edith Wharton - -
Hudson River Bracketed tells a fascinating tale set in the 1920s. It features two intelligent, sensitive protagonists, Vance Weston and Halo Spear, both of whom love literature and, despite unhappy marriages to others, eventually come together. This is no sentimental novel, however, with the lovers overcoming all odds to marry and have ...
Burmese Days
George Orwell - -
Burmese Days is the first novel by English writer George Orwell, published in 1934. Set in British Burma during the waning days of Empire, when Burma was ruled from Delhi as part of British India, it is ”a portrait of the dark side of the British Raj.” At the centre of the novel is John Flory, ”the lone and lacking individual trapped within a bigger ...