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A novel about passions -- a passion for sex, a passion for America, and a...
Caminos tells the story of Mercedes González Conde and her daughter, granddaughter and great-grandson. Each...
Marking the passage from childhood and adolescence to the adult world, this work describes the...
In this classic love story featuring passion, jealousy and murder, and set in pre-World War...
Images overrun the world. Toons filled with rage and hate hunger for life. A war...
At twenty, Sheyda Porrouya's life is almost over. Born in Iran on the day staunchly...
A young, mixed-race composer, raised without meaningful connections to his Chinese heritage and struggling with identity issues, travels to China in search of his long-missing uncle, an uncle who vanished in the aftermath of Tiananmen Square. An Idea About My Dead Uncle--winner of the inaugural Guernica Prize for the best unpublished novel manuscript--is about the identities we choose and the ones that are imposed on us. It is about being on the outside looking in. It is about dealing with pain through the artistic process. It is about delusion and healing. It is about the power of narrative. According to...
"I have an idea. About my dead uncle. A chamber opera. Small ensemble, maybe some electronics. Four or five singers doing multiple roles."
