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Literature & Literary StudiesJune 2021Sara Paretsky
Detective fiction as trauma literature
by Cynthia Hamilton
Sara Paretsky is known for her influential V.I. Warshawski series, which transformed the masculine hard-boiled detective formula into a vehicle for feminist values. But Paretsky does more than this. Her novels also illustrate the extent to which detective fiction acts as a literature of trauma, allowing Paretsky to address the politics of agency in ways that go beyond the personal, for trauma always has a social and a political dimension. Paretsky's work also exploits the way detective fiction mirrors the writing of history. Here, Paretsky uses the form to expose the partiality of historical accounts - whether they be personal, institutional, or national - that authorise 'forgetting' of a particularly insidious kind. Significantly, all these issues are explored within the framework of the traditional hard-boiled detective novel. As a result, Paretsky's achievement forces us to acknowledge the deeply subversive potential of detective fiction.
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2020La rosa en el viento
by Sara Gallardo
"The rose that is destroyed in the wind lets its petals fly in a burned light," says this hallucinatory novel by Sara Gallardo, her latest publication, an extraordinary culmination for a dazzling, always precise, always unique, always captivating body of work. In La rosa en el viento, all the characters move, embarking on journeys that are sometimes physical and sometimes emotional, but in every case, they take them far from whom they were at the beginning. Olaf, a Swedish immigrant who has escaped a terrible episode in Italy, becomes a sheep breeder in Patagonia alongside Andrei, a Russian journalist who, in turn, seeks to win over an unconquerable woman, whose story reaches us in flashes, much like that of Oo, the Indian woman bought by Andrei, or Lina, who follows Andrei south, and Olga, who two generations earlier followed Alexis the revolutionary to an America that, for these characters, is both a land of promises and forgotten dreams that never truly materialize. Kaleidoscopic, polyphonic, synthetic, and modern, La rosa en el viento brings together all of Sara Gallardo's talent for storytelling and emotional impact, and it demands that we read it again.
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September 2015Deine Briefe lege ich unter die Matratze
Ein Briefwechsel 1971 - 2002
by Astrid Lindgren, Sara Schwardt, Lena Törnqvist, Birgitta Kicherer, Steffi Pelzl
"Deine Briefe lege ich unter die Matratze" ist ein tief berührendes Werk, das aus einer einzigartigen Brieffreundschaft zwischen der legendären Kinderbuchautorin Astrid Lindgren und der jungen Sara Schwardt hervorgeht. Beginnend mit einem Brief von der damals zwölfjährigen Sara an Lindgren im Jahr 1971, entwickelt sich über die Jahre ein außergewöhnlicher Austausch, der nicht nur Einblicke in persönliche Gedanken und Erlebnisse beider bietet, sondern auch eine Generationen übergreifende Verbundenheit offenbart. Trotz eines Altersunterschieds von 50 Jahren teilen sie ihre Sichtweisen auf das Leben, die Liebe und menschliche Beziehungen, was diesen Briefwechsel zu einem Zeugnis tiefer Menschlichkeit und Verständnis macht. Bereichert wird das Buch durch zahlreiche Fotos und Faksimiles der Originalbriefe, die einen authentischen und sehr persönlichen Blick in das Leben und den Charakter von Astrid Lindgren gewähren. Einzigartiger Einblick in das Leben von Astrid Lindgren: Dieses Buch bietet eine seltene Gelegenheit, die persönlichen Gedanken und Ansichten einer der beliebtesten Kinderbuchautorinnen aller Zeiten zu entdecken. Tiefe, generationenübergreifende Freundschaft: Eine berührende Geschichte einer ungewöhnlichen Freundschaft, die zeigt, wie zwei Menschen unterschiedlichen Alters einander verstehen und bereichern können. Umfangreiches Material: Angereichert mit Fotos und Faksimiles der Originalbriefe, bietet das Buch einen authentischen und visuell ansprechenden Einblick in den Briefwechsel. Inspirierend und bewegend: Die Offenheit und Ehrlichkeit, mit der Sara Schwardt und Astrid Lindgren ihre Gedanken und Gefühle teilen, macht dieses Buch zu einem inspirierenden Leseerlebnis. Hoher literarischer Wert: Die Kritiken heben die literarische Qualität und die menschliche Tiefe des Buches hervor, was es zu einem wertvollen Bestandteil jeder Bibliothek macht. Empfohlen für alle Altersgruppen: Obwohl es die Korrespondenz zwischen einer Erwachsenen und einem Kind darstellt, ist das Buch sowohl für Jugendliche als auch für Erwachsene eine bereichernde Lektüre. Pädagogisch wertvoll: Das Buch wird empfohlen für alle, die mit Kindern, Jugendlichen oder Familien arbeiten, da es wertvolle Einblicke in die Gedankenwelt junger Menschen und die Bedeutung einer Mentorfigur bietet.
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2024Los galgos, los galgos
by Sara Gallardo
There are beginnings in literature that encapsulate in a few words the entire conflict and grandeur of a work. Thus begins Los galgos, los galgos: “From my father, I inherited a house, half a field, and some money. I cried a lot over his death, but I can’t say that the inheritance took me by surprise. Sitting in the morning light, toward the end of the wake, I suggested to my brother that I would exchange my house for his part of the field, and as he immediately agreed and I had to sign a lot of papers, I realized I had made a bad deal.” These are the words of Julián, the protagonist and narrator of this novel, which can certainly be read as a story of love and heartbreak, but is so much more: an essay on the erosion of our convictions by time, a subtle commentary on the customs and practices of a class, and the impact of those customs and practices on certain fantasies and dissatisfaction, as well as a representation of the countryside, animals and plants like no other in Argentine literature. First published in 1968, Los galgos, los galgos won the Municipal Literature Prize and is considered a major work within Sara Gallardo’s extraordinary oeuvre. Written in a state of grace, infused with a melancholic sense of fatality but imbued with intelligent and refined humor, this is a novel that leaves an indelible mark, profound admiration, and eternal sorrow.
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Fiction2015Pantalones azules
by Sara Gallardo
Pantalones azules is a novel with a deceptively simple appearance. As Leopoldo Brizuela has noted, fifty years after its first publication, it "reveals itself as the recounting of a process infinitely more subtle" than an impossible love affair, which was the key interpretation by its contemporaries. On the contrary, Pantalones azules is a story of multiple disillusionments: those of Alejandro, the young protagonist from a well-to-do family, Catholic and anti-Semitic, who encounters the limits of his convictions upon meeting Irma, an immigrant with a Jewish mother who lost her parents in the European war; those of Irma, who receives not compassion but the inhuman brutality of Alejandro’s convictions; and those of Elisa, Alejandro’s virgin fiancée, who must decide her position within the patriarchal family structure and whether to accept her role as a future wife subjected to the tacit violence of her fiancé. But more than a story of love and disillusionment, Pantalones azules is a prodigious representation, for its freshness and vitality, of the distances that separate social groups, cultures, generations, and genders within the same time and place. A prime example of Sara Gallardo’s extraordinary ability to bring her characters to life with wisdom, humor, a touch of malice, and a surprising economy of resources, this second novel by the author also broadens her perspective on the landscape: the countryside, the city, and the river are depicted here with unusual accuracy, possible only for someone who has experienced landscape and language as a unique amalgam, a defining characteristic of her works. First published in 1963, Pantalones azules has circulated only minimally since then. Fiordo is proud to bring this superb novel by one of Argentina’s greatest writers back to readers.
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Literature & Literary StudiesJune 2015Sara Paretsky
by Cynthia Hamilton, Sharon Monteith, Nahem Yousaf, Rebecca Mortimer
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Literature & Literary StudiesJune 2015
Sara Paretsky
by Cynthia Hamilton, Sharon Monteith, Nahem Yousaf
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September 2019Conga Line on the Amazon
by David Myles Robinson
David Myles Robinson was eight years old when he first got hooked on travel. Since then, he’s seen most of the world—all its continents plus, he laments, “far too many places where travel is now off-limits.”After a lifetime of visiting near and far, in heat and in cold, in comfort and in danger, Robinson has put it all together now in this unique collection of the varied travel adventures he’s found—and the lessons he’s learned from them. A Fellini-esque view of the Amazon, a Mercedes caravan to Istanbul, Jane Goodall's amazing chimps—just part of a travel trunk full of experiences guaranteed to keep you seesawing from “Boy, I'd love to do that" to “Sure glad it was him, not me.”In Conga Line on the Amazon, Robinson brings to his first travel book the same gift for intriguing narrative and sharp characterization that has won praise for his six highly successful novels. Some of his tales may be for the strong of heart, but they’re all for the reader with a yen to be entertained by one intrepid man’s adventures and misadventures exploring the strange and wonderful world we live in.
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May 1997Alec und Sara
Über Freundschaft, Liebe und Zärtlichkeit - Sexulaerziehung konkret
by Fiederle, Xaver
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January 2005Miß Sara Sampson
Ein bürgerliches Trauerspiel in fünf Aufzügen
by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Axel Schmitt
Text und Kommentar in einem Band. In der Suhrkamp BasisBibliothek erscheinen literarische Hauptwerke aller Epochen und Gattungen als Arbeitstexte für Schule und Studium. Der vollständige Text wird ergänzt durch anschaulich geschriebene Kommentare.
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October 2008Sara will es wissen
Eine Geschichte über die 5 Weltreligionen
by Krabbe, Victoria / Illustriert von Guhr, Constanze
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Business, Economics & LawApril 2017Rural Tourism and Enterprise
Management, Marketing and Sustainability
by Ade Oriade, Peter Robinson
Marketing and management processes across industries can be very similar, but contexts vary where political intervention, public interest and local sustainability are involved. The rural business setting is especially intricate due to the assortment of different business opportunities, ranging from traditional agriculture, to tourism enterprise and even high-tech business. This important new textbook on the subject: - Examines key issues affecting rural enterprise and tourism - Explores the breadth of rural enterprise management and marketing across both developed and developing economies - Discusses strategies for business growth within a rural setting, such as knowledge development, proper planning and innovation - Uses a mix of case studies and theoretical content specifically selected to appeal to both student and practitioner readers Including pedagogical features and full colour throughout, this new textbook provides an engaging and thought-provoking resource for students and practitioners of tourism, rural business and related industries. ; Marketing and management processes are especially intricate for the rural business setting due to the assortment of different business opportunities. This important new textbook examines key issues, discusses strategies for growth and uses a mix of case studies and theoretical content across developed and developing countries. ; Introduction: (Ade Oriade and Peter Robinson) Part 1: Management and marketing rural tourism and enterprise in developed economies 1: Rural enterprise business development: the developed world context (Peter Robinson & Alison Murray) 2: Selling to consumers (Sammy Li, Roya Rahimi & Nikolaos Stylos) 3: Sustainability, CSR and Ethics: Developed economies perspective (Caroline Wiscombe) 4: Community engagement and rural tourism enterprise (Peter Wiltshier) 5: Social enterprise and the rural landscape (Caroline Wiscombe, Liz Heyworth, Sandy Ryder, Lucy Maynard & Charles Dobson) Part 2: Management and marketing rural tourism and enterprise: developing world context 6: The rural business environment in developing economies (Solomon Olorunfemi Olubiyo & Ade Oriade) 7: Marketing and Communications and Rural Business in developing countries (Abiodun Elijah Obayelu & Nikolaos Stylos) 8: Consumers and Rural Tourism in developing Economies (Vivienne Saverimuttu and Maria Estela Varua) 9: Sustainability and Ethics in rural business and tourism in the Developing World (Weng Marc Lim and Sine Heitman) 10: Community engagement, rural institutions and rural tourism business in developing countries (Anahita Malek, Fabio Carbone & Asia Alder) Part 3: Strategies for rural business management and growth 11: Challenges and Strategies for rural business operations in developed and developing Economies (Ade Oriade and Peter Robinson) 12: Developing and Growing Knowledge within rural tourism enterprises (Tony Greenwood and Jo Tate) 13: Collaborate to Innovate: Challenges and Strategies for rural business to innovate (Ainurul Rosli, Jane Chang and Maria L. Granados) 14: Strategies for rural business growth (Crispin Dale, Neil Robinson and Mike Evans) 15: Opportunities for growth: The rural tourism policy and planning perspective (Caroline Wiscombe and Steve Gelder) Conclusion: (Ade Oriade and Peter Robinson)
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Children's & YA2020A dream of birds
by Shenaz Patel, Emmanuelle Tchoukriel
On the way to school, Sara comes across a funny little house with a red roof. It is an aviary, full of colourful parakeets. She thinks about her grandfather, who loved watching birds fly free in his garden every day. Sara finds herself dreaming of an aviary with no fences and no roof… A story as free as a bird!
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