I gave you all I had : a novel by Zoé Valdés
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7
editions published
between
1999
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2014
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English
and held by
503
libraries
worldwide
"I Gave You All I Had introduces Cuca Martinez - a.k.a. Cuquita, Cuchita, the Girl - the youngest child in a brood of five, born in prerevolutionary Cuba to a flighty would-be actress and a Chinese enthusiast of New World riches upon whom fortune has consistently failed to smile. At sixteen, she heads for Havana in search of work." "There, a pair of strumpets named La Mechanga and La Puchanga introduce her to the sweet mischief of nighttime Havana, in which she meets Juan, the love of her life - only to see him disappear for eight years. When Juan resurfaces on the eve of the Revolution, Cuca believes her dreams are finally to be realized, but the political climate and Juan's shady dealings force him into hasty exile in America." "And so Cuca, like Cuba itself, waits. She waits for the promised dreams - of happiness, of plenty, of joy, of love - to arrive, and watches her country slide into a barren, repressive slumber. And while she waits, Cuca and her friends struggle, in the midst of those shattered dreams, to survive: they improvise, they scavenge, they make love, they remember, and above all, they talk."--BOOK JACKET
Frantz Fanon : a portrait by Alice Cherki
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5
editions published
in
2006
in
English
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365
libraries
worldwide
Muhammad : a novel by Driss Chraïbi
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2
editions published
between
1998
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2008
in
English
and held by
239
libraries
worldwide
"It is the 26th day of Ramadan in the year 610, and a handsome man named Muhammad is meditating in a cave on Mount Hira. Fear grips him as he tries to sort out the visions and voices washing over him; and terrified that he is possessed, he leaves the cave to return to Mecca. The day that will transform Muhammad's life - and change the world - has begun." "That day becomes a fluid intermingling of the ordinary and a dreamlike conviction that something indescribable is about to happen. Finally, his disquiet increasing, invading his sleep and forcing him to leave his wife's side, Muhammad returns to Mount Hira to give birth to the momentous revelations within him." "This finely crafted, poetic novel captures the mystery of religious revelation as it unfolds in all its intensity, providing a unique window on Islam's Prophet."--Jacket
The belt by Ahmed Abodehman
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5
editions published
between
2002
and
2003
in
English
and held by
145
libraries
worldwide
Fictionalized memoir of growing up in a small village in Saudi Arabia
The triumph of love by Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux
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Book
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3
editions published
between
1993
and
2000
in
English
and held by
89
libraries
worldwide
Créée en 1732, cette pièce eut à l'époque peu de succès. Elle allie la bouffonnerie, la fantaisie, l'émotion et la profondeur, et donne à réfléchir sur la sincérité en amour comme sur la moralité du pouvoir politique
History of shit by Dominique Laporte
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Book
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4
editions published
between
1993
and
2002
in
English
and held by
16
libraries
worldwide
Essay vanuit lacaniaans perspectief over de cultuurhistorisch beslissende rol van de manier waarop menselijke afvalproducten worden behandeld
Return to painting by Xingjian Gao
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3
editions published
in
2002
in
English
and held by
4
libraries
worldwide
A collection of more than a hundred paintings, Return to Painting was first published in France for a major exhibition of his work in Avignon. The paintings--India ink on rice paper--span the artist's career from the 1960s until the present day. This book also includes an important essay by Gao, who is considered an artistic innovator in his native China, both in the visual arts and in literature
Migraciones interiores by Mario Vélez
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Book
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1
edition published
in
2010
in
Multiple languages
and held by
2
libraries
worldwide
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