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Master storyteller Naguib Mahfouz crowns his best-selling Cairo Trilogy with this final chronicle of the Abdal-Jawad clan, climaxing the story begun in Palace Walk and continued in Palace Of Desire.
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Genre |
: Fiction |
Author |
: Naguib Mahfouz |
Publisher |
: Anchor |
Release |
: 2016-06-15 |
File |
: 338 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781101974735 |
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'Part of the power of Sugar Street lies in its style . . . in the prose you can feel the adrenaline of [the protagonist's] initial flight wearing off , his life shrinking down to a couple of city blocks . It's brilliantly done' Guardian 'A deft punch of a novel from Jonathan Dee . . . [he] creates a true page-turner out of simple materials and the result is a troubling and stimulating look at real American life - at the fix that materialism plus the information state has got us into. It's also very funny' George Sanders In Jonathan Dee's elegant and explosive new novel, Sugar Street, an unnamed male narrator has hit the road with a large sum of cash stashed in an envelope under his car seat. Vigilantly avoiding security cameras, he drives until he meets a city where his past is unlikely to track him down. Renting a room from a less-than-stable landlady whose need for money outweighs her desire to ask questions, he seems to have escaped his former self. But can he? In a story that moves with swift dark humour and insight, Dee takes us through his narrator's attempt to disavow his former life of privilege and enter a blameless new existence. Having opted out of his material possessions and human connections, the pillars of his new self - simplicity, kindness, above all invisibility - grow shakier as he butts up against the daily lives of his neighbours in their politically divided working-class city. With the suspense of a crime thriller and the grace of our best literary fiction, Dee unspools the details of our unlikely hero's former life and his developing new one in a drumbeat roll up to a shocking final act. Sugar Street is a leaner, more personal, but still uncannily timely look at the volatile America of today. A risky, engrossing and surprisingly visceral story about a white man trying to escape his own troubling footprint and start his life over.
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Genre |
: Fiction |
Author |
: Jonathan Dee |
Publisher |
: Hachette UK |
Release |
: 2023-01-05 |
File |
: 141 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781472151988 |
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Genre |
: Fiction |
Author |
: Michael Sollars |
Publisher |
: Infobase Publishing |
Release |
: 2008 |
File |
: 957 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781438108360 |
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In the street names of Hong Kong, a rich history of the city can be found. The authors, in this illustrated book, explore that history as they explain the origins and meanings of those names. Through their exhaustive research, Signs from a Colonial Era provides the stories behind the well-known streets and those that are obscure and puzzling. But a few have resisted their efforts, so there is a chapter of mysteries to intrigue and challenge the reader. This is a book to be read in two ways. From the front you can find all the streets named after royalty, or governors, or other groups such as taipans, and see the naming of streets as a narrative of Hong Kong's development and society. In the other direction, starting from the index, it can be used as a reference book to find the answers to those names that have long puzzled you. The bilingual author team gives the Chinese street names, exploring those that were just chosen to sound like the English name and sometimes changed to avoid unfortunate Cantonese meanings, and those others for which the Chinese name has no connection with the English one. This is a book for everyone who has ever puzzled over a street name as they explore Hong Kong.
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Genre |
: History |
Author |
: |
Publisher |
: Hong Kong University Press |
Release |
: 2009-01-01 |
File |
: 207 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9789622099449 |
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: |
Author |
: United States. War Department |
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: |
Release |
: 1918 |
File |
: 2058 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: UIUC:30112099980697 |
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Genre |
: Engineering |
Author |
: United States. Army. Office of the Chief of Engineers |
Publisher |
: |
Release |
: 1918 |
File |
: 2058 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: CORNELL:31924064632767 |
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Genre |
: Engineering |
Author |
: United States. Army. Corps of Engineers |
Publisher |
: |
Release |
: 1919 |
File |
: 2162 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: UIUC:30112042400983 |
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Includes the Report of the Mississippi River Commission, 1881-19 .
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Genre |
: Engineering |
Author |
: United States. Army. Corps of Engineers |
Publisher |
: |
Release |
: 1918 |
File |
: 2062 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: UOM:39015067111271 |
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: |
Author |
: United States. War Department |
Publisher |
: |
Release |
: 1918 |
File |
: 2060 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: MINN:31951D00143559S |
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Genre |
: Lancashire (England) |
Author |
: Edward Baines |
Publisher |
: |
Release |
: 1825 |
File |
: 764 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: WISC:89092495365 |