Jose Donoso was born in Chile in 1924 and educated there and at Princeton. They begin, as do all stories but unlike some stories, they also end firmly with the reader carried along from first word to last. But for all the subtleties of these tales, Donoso is first and foremost a storyteller. In Ana Maria' a charming but somehow terrifying child undermines the lives of an elderly couple in A Walk' the disintegration of a formal bourgeois household is observed through the eyes of a boy. Children play large parts in them, either as participants or as perceivers with their peculiar sensitivity they are aware of what their elders recognize only dimly, if at all. Many of these stories are explorations of perception. In these crisp, impeccably written stories, the great Chilean writer follows with precision and compassion the emergence of such impulses: an otherwise nondescript office worker becomes crazed by a bizarre obsession that at first seems innocent enough an American boy living in a remote Mexican village is destroyed by forces beyond his control a man is overpowered by his passion for sleeping. Behind the bland rituals of everyday life lurk impulses that can disturb and even destroy. FROM THE PUBLISHER - In the world of Jose Donoso, all is not what it seems. Translated from the Spanish by Andree Conrad.
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Packaged in a chunky, square-shaped volume, this unique collection of Native American folklore invites readers to sample and savor each colorful, wily tale. Each tale is illustrated by a different artist in strikingly different styles, some comic and some realistic but all surprisingly suited to their stories, while the graphic sequencing provides action and emotional detail only suggested by the storyteller. Relying on cunning and craft to survive, outwit and amuse, the tricksters include coyote, raven, rabbit, raccoon, wolf, beaver and dog as well as human tricksters like Moshup, Ishjinki and Waynaboozhoo. Told in the words of Native American storytellers from many nations, these tales use the trickster to teach moral lessons and explain such natural events as how the rabbit got its puffy tail, why the buzzard has no feathers on its head, why the owl guards burial sites or why geese fly in a V formation. Vigorously rendered in striking graphic format, this robust anthology of 21 Native American folktales features a bevy of wily rascals in a veritable smorgasbord of trickster tales. Up-to-date Bibliography and detailed explanatory notes.These have drawn on archival research in the British Library and the Harry Ransom Center in Austin, Texas. There are extensive and clearly presented textual variants which are not found in other editions.The 'note on the text' offers a clearer and more accurate account of the novel's publication history than can be found in other editions.It considers, in particular, the themes of memory and parenthood, the combination of realism and fable, the novel's preoccupation with mystery and interpretation, its focus on habits, and Eliot's extraordinarily complex use of the imagery of threads and weaving. A fresh introduction that places the novel in its biographical, intellectual, and critical context, while also paying close attention to the nuances and patterns of the work.
Van Wyk died in Johannesburg on 3 October 2014. One of Van Wyk’s most notable achievements was his abridgement of Nelson Mandela’s Long Walk to Freedom for children. He was also editor of Staffrider from 1981 to 1986 and in 1980 started the short-lived Wietie magazine with Fhazel Johennesse. Van Wyk worked as a clerk for the independent South African Committee for Higher Education (SACHED) as an educational writer of accessible literature for new readers. The follow-up novel, Eggs to Lay, Chickens to Hatch, continues this theme. His autobiographical novel Shirley, Goodness & Mercy details his childhood growing up in Riverlea. He was educated at Riverlea High School in Riverlea, Johannesburg, where he lived until 2005. When he was a little older, his family moved to Riverlea, a suburb outside of Johannesburg. Van Wyk was born in Baragwanath Hospital in Soweto. Van Wyk is famous for his poem "In Detention" on the suspicious deaths that befell South African political prisoners during Apartheid. Shirley, Goodness and Mercy, In Detention (poem)Ĭhristopher van Wyk (19 July 1957 – 3 October 2014) was a South African children’s book author, novelist and poet. After all, his employer, the twenty fourth century Company, sends immortal cyborgs like Joseph all over the world and all over time. He’s sailed with the Phoenicians, and he’s been an Egyptian priest, an Athenian politician, and secretary to a Roman senator. And he has to save an ancient people from encroachment by the coming white men even if it means convincing the entire pre Columbian village to step into the future. But now Joseph finds himself in 1699, in the Mayan jungle’s Lost City actually a spa for the Company’s operatives with his protegee, the Botanist Mendoza, who still hasn’t forgiven him for that unfortunate incident in Elizabethan England. 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