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Published: 2002-02-21
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ISBN-13: 9780340853030
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Requiem for the East
Author: Andreï Makine
Publisher:
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 263
ISBN-13: 9780340794357
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An extraordinary, profoundly moving and thought-provoking novel tracing the rise and fall of communism through its impact on three generations of one family: the narrator's grandfather, who deserted from the Red Army in the chaotic aftermath of the 1917 revolution; his father, who survived the Eastern front in WWII only to be killed with his wife in one of Stalin's purges; and the narrator himself - Soviet army doctor turned spy who, after the fall of communism, discovers his missing girlfriend was betrayed by a double-agent and flies to Florida bent on revenge. A searing portrait of the suffering caused in the name of politics, yet also a celebration of ordinary people's decency, compassion and courage.
Requiem for a Lost Empire
Author: Andrei Makine
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2003-04-22
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 074345362X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Makine's most ambitious and uncompromising work, "Requiem for a Lost Empire" is a three-generation epic unfolding across 80 years of Russian history, from Czarist times to the fall of Communism. Sweeping readers into a Graham Greene-style thriller that opens up like a sinister Russian doll, this novel rivals the depth and ingenuity of Nabokov and the sweep of Tolstoy.
Requiem for an Army
Author: Dale Roy Herspring
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 274
ISBN-13: 9780847687190
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Most Western models suggest that in the face of open threats to the military's core interests, the army would have fought to keep the status quo. Yet the military actually facilitated the introduction of a new democratic polity and in the process dug its own grave. Trained under a Russian-inspired system that minimized the role of the individual, this group was suddenly exposed to the radically different 'Innere Fuehrung' concept that lies at the heart of the Bundeswehr's ethos.
Dreams Of My Russian Summers
Author: Andrei Makine
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 1998-08-27
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 0684852683
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This international bestseller has been translated into 26 languages and is the first work to win both of France's top literary honors. "A masterpiece. . . . Makine belongs on the shelf of world literature--between Lermontov and Nabokov, a few volumes down from Proust".--"The Atlanta Journal".
Requiem for the Sun
Author: Elizabeth Haydon
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2003-05-18
Total Pages: 620
ISBN-13: 9780812565416
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Fortune's Bones
Author: Marilyn Nelson
Publisher: Boyds Mills Press
Published: 2016-08-01
Total Pages: 35
ISBN-13: 1629795887
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Winner of the Coretta Scott King Book Award For young readers comes a poetic commemoration of the life of an 18th-century slave, from a past poet laureate and three-time National Book Award finalist For over 200 years, the Mattatuck Museum in Connecticut has housed a mysterious skeleton. In 1996, community members decided to find out what they could about it. Historians discovered that the bones were those of an enslaved man named Fortune, who was owned by a local doctor. After Fortune’s death, the doctor rendered the bones. Further research revealed that Fortune had married, had fathered four children, and had been baptized later in life. His bones suggest that after a life of arduous labor, he died in 1798 at about the age of 60. The Manumission Requiem is Marilyn Nelson’s poetic commemoration of Fortune’s life. Detailed notes and archival photographs enhance the reader’s appreciation of the poem.
Requiem for a Nun
Author: William Faulkner
Publisher: DigiCat
Published: 2022-08-01
Total Pages: 174
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Requiem for a Nun" by William Faulkner. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Requiem for a Dream
Author: Hubert Selby
Publisher: Open Road Media
Published: 2011-12-13
Total Pages: 326
ISBN-13: 1453239693
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A tale of four people trapped by their addictions, the basis for the acclaimed Darren Aronofsky film, by the author of Last Exit to Brooklyn. Sara Goldfarb is devastated by the death of her husband. She spends her days watching game shows and obsessing over appearing on television as a contestant—and her prescription diet pills only accelerate her mania. Her son, Harry, is living in the streets with his friend Tyrone and girlfriend Marion, where they spend their days selling drugs and dreaming of escape. When their heroin supply dries up, all three descend into an abyss of dependence and despair, their lives, like Sara’s, doomed by the destructive power of drugs. Tragic and captivating, Requiem for a Dream is one of Selby’s most powerful works, and an indelible portrait of the ravages of addiction. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Hubert Selby Jr. including rare photos from the author’s estate.
Requiem
Author: Graham Joyce
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2006-06-27
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9780765355416
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