Jasmine (novel) - Jasmine (novel) Jasmine (1989) is a novel by Bharati Mukherjee set in the present about a young Indian woman in the United States who, trying to adapt to the American way of life in order to be able to survive, changes identities several times. Warning: Spoilers immediately to follow Jasmine's arranged marriage to a young Indian back in their home town ends abruptly when he is killed in a bombing. Still in her teens but already a widow, Jasmine flees India and, after an odyssey, arrives in Florida on a small boat and enters the United States as an illegal immigrant. During her first night in America, which she spends huddled together with some other illegal aliens in a disused motel, she kills the captain of.
Jasmine - Jasmine Jasmine is a climbing shrub of the genus Jasminum , with about 300 species, (Family: Oleaceae.), native to tropical and subtropical regions of the Old World, and widely cultivated. Jasmine flowers are well regarded for their sweet fragrance. Many types yield an oil, which is used in the production of perfumes. Jasmine flowers are also used to make tea, which typically has a green tea base. Jasmine is also the title of a 1989 novel by Bharati Mukherjee. See Jasmine (novel)..
List of novelists from the United States - notable in some way, and ideally have a Wikipedia article. A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z A Kathy Acker, (died 1997) Henry Adams, (1838-1918), Democracy: An American Novel George Ade, author of The Slim Princess Louisa May Alcott, (1832-1888), author of Little Women, Little Men, Jo's Boys Thomas Bailey Aldrich Nelson Algren, (1909-1981), author of The Man With the Golden Arm. Sherwood Anderson Gertrude Atherton, author of The Conqueror Paul Auster, (born 1947), postmodernist mystery writer extrordinaire, author of the City of Glass trilogy, Leviathan, Timbuktu B Richard Bach, (born 1936) James Baldwin, (1924-1987), writer known for exploring race and sexuality, author of Another Country Irving Bacheller, author of A Man.
Just Like That - That Lily Brett's Just Like That (1994) is a novel about Holocaust survivors in the United States. Up to a point, it is autobiographical: The author was born in Germany in 1946 and came to Melbourne, Australia with her parents in 1948. She is married to painter David Rankin; they have three children and currently live in New York. Very similar things can be said about the heroine of Brett´s book, Esther Zepler. The novel chronicles the lives of a group of Jews - or rather, a Jewish family - in the U.S.A., in particular New York City, over a period of roughly seven months during 1991 and 1992. There is little action. Rather, the novel describes in greater detail the feelings of the protagonist and what goes on in her.
I Am Mary Dunne - Mary Dunne I Am Mary Dunne (1968) is a novel by Brian Moore about one day in the life of a beautiful and well-to-do 31 year-old Canadian woman living in New York City with her third husband, a successful playwright. Triggered by seemingly unimportant occurrences, the protagonist / first person narrator remembers her past in a series of flashbacks, which reveal her insecurities, her bad conscience concerning her first two husbands, and her fear that she is on the brink of insanity. Of all of Moore's books, I Am Mary Dunne has been described as "perhaps his best novel" in The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English (ed. Ian Ousby, 1988). Read on One of the classic stream of consciousness novels set during only one day is Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway.
Heroines in literature - the name of the female protagonist only: Henry Adams (writing as Frances Snow Compton): Esther: A Novel Bess Streeter Aldrich: Miss Bishop Isabel Allende: Eva Luna Jean Anouilh: Antigone Aristophanes: Lysistrata Michael Arlen: Lily Christine Jane Austen: Emma Vicki Baum: Stud. chem. Helene Willfüer Max Beerbohm: Zuleika Dobson Arnold Bennett: Anna of the Five Towns E.F. Benson: Mapp and Lucia Maxim Biller: Esra R.D. Blackmore: Lorna Doone Elizabeth Bowen: Eva Trout André Breton: Nadja Anne Bronte: Agnes Grey Charlotte Bronte: Jane Eyre and Shirley Gwendolyn Brooks: Maud Martha Kitt Brown: Alyssa Deane Larry Brown: Fay Fanny Burney: Evelina and Camilla James M. Cain: Mildred Pierce Erskine Caldwell: Claudelle Vera Caspary: Laura Willa Cather: My Antonia John Cleland: Fanny Hill or, Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure J. M. Coetzee: Elizabeth Costello.
Bharati Mukherjee - learns that his grown-up but still single daughter has had artificial insemination because she wants a baby but rejects men. In "The Lady from Lucknow" (in the same volume), the bored wife of an Indian academic adapts to the American way of life by committing adultery with an unexciting middle-aged WASP. Mukherjee's most successful and popular work of fiction so far is her novel Jasmine (1989), in which a young Indian woman becomes an illegal immigrant to the United States, acculturates by taking on a series of different identities, and ends up as the mother in a patchwork family. Blaise and Mukherjee have also co-authored a travel memoir, Days and Nights in Calcutta. See also Indian writing in English.
The Tortilla Curtain - The Tortilla Curtain The Tortilla Curtain (1995) is a novel by U.S. author T.C. Boyle about middle-class values, illegal immigration, xenophobia, poverty, and environmental destruction. Of the nine novels Boyle has written so far, The Tortilla Curtain has turned out to be his most successful. Boyle himself says that when it first came out it was my most controversial novel. Because it dealt with a hot-button socio-political issue -- illegal immigration in Southern California -- many of the reviewers came into the book with strong prejudices. I took a good deal of abuse, including (my favorite instance) being called "human garbage" on a call-in radio show in San Francisco. As people have had a chance to think about the book more deeply over the course of the past few years, the.
Katar (novel) - Katar (novel) Katar is a novel by Stanislaw Lem, published in 1975. It brings up topics like the international terrorism and chemical warfare. Warning: Wikipedia contains spoilers! A former astronaut is hired by a detective agency to help in an investigation of a case of mysterious deaths. Several victims became mad and committed suicide during their vacation in Napoli, apparently without reason. During the investigation, it becomes apparent that certain innocent factors can be combined into a strong depressor, a kind of chemical weapon. The hero experiences its effects, however his training helps him to survive and solve the case..
Jasmine Estates, Florida - Jasmine Estates, Florida Jasmine Estates is a town located in Pasco County, Florida. As of the 2000 census, the town had a total population of 18,213. Geography \nJasmine Estates is located at 28°17'37" North, 82°41'30" West (28.293672, -82.691744)1. According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 9.4 km² (3.6 mi²). 9.2 km² (3.6 mi²) of it is land and 0.2 km² (0.1 mi²) of it is water. The total area is 1.65% water. Demographics \nAs of the census of 2000, there are 18,213 people, 8,361 households, and 5,275 families residing in the town. The population density is 1,969.8/km² (5,096.5/mi²). There are 9,289 housing units at an average density of 1,004.6/km² (2,599.3/mi²). The racial makeup of the town is 94.46% White,.
Vernor Vinge - fiction author who is best known for his Hugo award-winning novel A Fire Upon the Deep, and for his 1993 essay "The Technological Singularity", in which he argues that exponential growth in technology will reach a point beyond which we cannot even speculate about the consequences. Vinge published his first short story, "Bookworm, Run!", in 1965 in Analog Science Fiction, then edited by John W. Campbell. He was then a moderately prolific contributor to SF magazines in the 1960s and early 1970s, including adapting two of his stories into a short novel, Grimm's World (1969), and publishing a second novel, The Witling (1975). Vinge came to prominence in 1981 with his novella "True Names", which is one of the earliest stories to present a fully fleshed-out concept of cyberspace, which would.
Kalimantaan - Kalimantaan Kalimantaan is the title of a novel by C. S. Godshalk offering a fictionalized account of the exploits of James Brooke in Sarawak. Warning: Wikipedia_contains_spoilers Ms. Godshalk does a wonderful job of evoking the mysterious and sometimes oppressive atmosphere of tropical river jungless and the dreamlike, almost feverish quality that life can take on in the tropics. Sometimes it is difficult to distinguish what "really" happens in the story from dreams and fantasies of the characters. She makes use of a variety of writing forms, including diary entries, letters, and straight narrative to tell a fascinating story. In 1839, an English adventurer arrived on the northwest coast of Borneo, commissioned to deliver a letter of gratitude to the Sultan of Brunei for having safely returned the crew of.
Kalimantan - the Madurese immigrants, who were moved here in a government "transmigration" programme that operated, in various forms, from 1905 until 2001. The Dayak fighters are known for their ferocious tactics, such as the beheading and mutilation of their victims. See also Kalimantaan, a novel by C. S. Godshalk, which is set in Borneo..
Karel Reisz - Boys was a naturalistic depiction of the members of a South London boys' club, which was unusual in showing the life of working-class teenagers as it was, with skiffle music and cigarettes intact. His first feature film Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960) was based on a social realist novel by Alan Sillitoe, and used many of the same techniques as his earlier documentaries. In particular, scenes filmed at the Raleigh factory in Nottingham have the now familiar look of a documentary, and give the story a vivid sense of verisimillitude. He produced This Sporting Life (1963), and directed Morgan: A Suitable Case For Treatment (1966), Isadora (1968), The Gambler (1974), Who'll Stop the Rain (1978), The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981), Sweet Dreams (1985), and Everybody Wins (1990) among others, and.
Kalevi Sorsa - of Finnish politics Kalevi Sorsa worked as publishing editor, with his greatest "claim to fame" being to turn down the first novel of Kalle Päätalo, which turned out to be one of the greatest Finnish bestsellers of all time. Sorsa was brought in from this relative obscurity by Rafael Paasio to assume the influential post of party secretary without much previous experience of politics. One of the most strongwilled but also thinskinned public figures, Sorsa had numerous bitter relations with other politicians and the whole of the media, which he lambasted by coining a pejorative epithet "infokratia". The fact that he never attained the Finnish presidency, nor even candidacy for the post, was a cause of lasting bitterness, and his memoirs were not lacking in barbs towards his predecessors, contemporaries and.
Kathryn Hulme - 1981). Author of The Nun's Story (1956) the best selling novel later made into an award winning movie starring Audrey Hepburn (1959) and The Undiscovered Country: A Spiritual Adventure (Little, Brown & Co. Boston USA/Toronto CA, 1967) reprinted (Natural Bridge Editions: Lexington MA, 1997) (ISBN 1891218034) a description of her years as a student of G. I. Gurdjieff. External Link The Kathryn Hulme Papers at Yale University.
Kathleen Winsor - 2003) was an American author, best known for the romance novel Forever Amber. Winsor herself is quoted as saying, "I wrote only two sexy passages, and my publishers took both of them out. They put ellipses instead. In those days, you could solve everything with an ellipse." She was widely condemned for writing pornography, but the work made her famous, and she eventually sold it to be made into a motion picture. None of her work was nearly as successful, although she is also known for such works as Star Money, The Lovers, Calais, Robert and ARabella, Jacintha, and Wanderers Eastward, Wanderes West..
Kalle Päätalo - by being wounded. After the wars, he moved to Tampere where he studied at technical school, becoming a building contractor, and wrote short stories that were published in various magazines. He was married twice and had two daughters by the second marriage. Päätalo debuted as a novelist in 1958 with a novel set at a building site in Tampere. In his second novel Our Daily Bread, the first book in the five-volume Koillismaa series, he turned to his native region. By this time, Päätalo was able to turn a freelance writer, and from 1962 until his death he published one book each year. In 1971 he published what was to be the first volume in the 26-volume series Juuret Iijoen törmässä ('Roots in the Bank of River Ii'), probably the longest.
Katherine Paterson - graduate school in Virginia. She received a Master's degree and worked as a missionary in Japan. She married her husband, John, in 1962. They have four children. Her first novel was written while taking an adult education course in creative writing. Her awards include the National Book Award (Master Puppeteer, 1977 and The Great Gilly Hopkins, 1979), the Newbery Medal (Bridge to Terabithia 1978 and Jacob Have I Loved, 1981), the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction (Jip, His Story), and the Hans Christian Anderson Medal (body of work, 1998). Katherine Paterson believes children’s books should deal with contemporary, realistic themes. Some of her books feature difficult themes such as death of a loved one, the stresses of foster care, exploitation of workers, and slavery. Katherine Paterson lives in Vermont. Juvenile.
Kawabata Yasunari - a neo-Impressionist journal. Kawabata committed suicide in 1972. Kawabata debuted with Izu no Odoriko ("The Dancer of Izu") in 1927. In 1937 appeared his novel Yukiguni ("Snow Country"), a stark tale of a love affair between a Tokyo playboy and a provincial geisha in a remote hot springs town. Yukiguni established Kawabata as one of Japan's foremost authors and became an instant classic. Senbazuru ("Thousand Cranes") continued some of the themes of Yukiguni. List of Works Snow Country (雪国, Yukiguni, 1937) Senbazuru ("Thousand Cranes", 1949-52) The Sound of the Mountain (山の韵, Yama no oto, 1949-54) The Old Capital (Koto, 1962) Beauty and Sadness (美しさと悲しみと, Utsukushisa to kanashimi to, 1965) The Master of Go (名人, Meijin, 1972).
