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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 ...
Sweet, Sweet, Stories, Some Sweeter than Others
Daniel Curzon - -
Sweet, Sweet Stories, Some Sweeter Than Others by Daniel Curzon is a product of a lifetime of living with a super-thin skin and a lot of scar tissue from the vicissitudes of the world. Whether it is possessed of a “monumental originality,” as expressed by Phi Beta Kappa Reviews, it is at the very least a readable, ...
VIS + I
Farideh Razi - -
Vis + I is an interior monologue during a harrowing cab ride through the streets of Tehran as Pardis rushes to the airport to stop her lover from leaving. Multiple narrative threads and flashbacks, real and imaginary voices—primarily that of Vis, the heroine of the Persian epic romance, Vis + Ramin—interweave in this gritty, postmodern love story. Vis + I poses ...
Buddenbrooks (Wisehouse Classics Edition)
Thomas Mann - -
Buddenbrooks is a 1901 novel by Thomas Mann, chronicling the decline of a wealthy north German merchant family over the course of four generations, incidentally portraying the manner of life and mores of the Hanseatic bourgeoisie in the years from 1835 to 1877. Mann drew deeply from the history of his own family, the Mann family ...
