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Absent

2013-05-21 Young Adult Fiction
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Release : 2013-05-21
Genre : Young Adult Fiction
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Book Rating : 700/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Absent by : Katie Williams

Download or read book Absent written by Katie Williams. This book was released on 2013-05-21. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When seventeen-year-old Paige dies in a freak fall from the roof during Physics class, her spirit is bound to the grounds of her high school. At least she has company: her fellow ghosts Evan and Brooke, who also died there. But when Paige hears the rumor that her death wasn't an accident—that she supposedly jumped on purpose—she can't bear it. Then Paige discovers something amazing. She can possess living people when they think of her, and she can make them do almost anything. Maybe, just maybe, she can get to the most popular girl in school and stop the rumors once and for all.

The Book of Absent People

1986 Fiction
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Release : 1986
Genre : Fiction
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Book Synopsis The Book of Absent People by : Taghi Modarressi

Download or read book The Book of Absent People written by Taghi Modarressi. This book was released on 1986. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alive with all the flavor and ferment of contemporary Iran, The Book Of Absent People is an exquisitely crafted novel that at once creates an exotic feast for the mind and the senses. As it unravels the haunting tale of a young man's search for his missing brother, it takes the reader on an unpredictable voyage of discovery into the depths of one family's innermost passions. It is the last day of the month of Khordad and Khan Papa Doctor, physician and great patriarch of the Heshmat Nezamis, has examined his final patient. For reasons which become startlingly apparent, the reticent Khan Papa Doctor has become staunchly devoted to reuniting his family - a family split apart by scandal, secrets, and ultimately, by destiny. When youngest son Rokni, a dreamer and an artist, is called to his father's side, little does he know the strange journey that lies ahead. He is recruited to seek out his older brother Zia, the hotheaded revolutionary who long ago fled the house of the Heshmat Nezamis...and it will be a quest that brings Rokni face to face with the truths of his noble family. He will learn about Khan Papa Doctor's first wife who died mysteriously and in disgrace, and who is never discussed. He will understand, at long last, why his beautiful sister lives in her own private world, unable to reach those sharing a common reality. He will discover, too, the startling complexities of his father's past as well as the momentous contributions the Heshmat Nezamis made to the turbulent history of their proud homeland. Gracefully told with the magic of a writer who is part chronicler and part mystic, here is a story of people both physically and emotionally lost, of those in life whom we miss knowing through circumstances of fate and through their own design. But most of all, The Book Of Absent People is about knowing ourselves - a book that will linger in the heart for days to come.

The Absent One

2013-05-07 Fiction
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Release : 2013-05-07
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 835/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The Absent One by : Jussi Adler-Olsen

Download or read book The Absent One written by Jussi Adler-Olsen. This book was released on 2013-05-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Detective Carl Morck investigates the twenty-year-old murders of a brother and sister whose confessed killer may actually be innocent, a case with ties to a homeless woman and powerful adversaries.

The Absent One

2010-11-01 Literary Criticism
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Release : 2010-11-01
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Synopsis The Absent One by : Susan L. Cole

Download or read book The Absent One written by Susan L. Cole. This book was released on 2010-11-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is presented a new theory of the origins of tragedy, based on its perceived kinship with mourning ritual. Mourners and tragic protagonists alike journey through dangerous transitional states, confront the uncanny, express themselves in antithetical style, and, above all, enact their ambivalence toward their beloved dead. Elements common to both tragedy and mourning ritual are first identified in actual Chinese, African, and Greek funerary rites and then analyzed in tragedies by Aeschylus, Sophocles, Shakespeare, Racine, Ibsen, O'Neill, Miller, Beckett, and Ionesco. Included is a firsthand account of exploration of the tragedy-mourning link in the rehearsal process of the great experimental theater director, Joseph Chaikin. Opening her first chapter, Dr. Cole says, "The grave is the birthplace of tragic drama and ghosts are its procreators. For tragedy is the performance of ambivalence which ghosts emblematize: what we fear in particular--the revenant, the ghost returning to haunt us--is also what we desire--the extending of life beyond the moment of death."

The Absent Mother in the Cultural Imagination

2017-07-11 Social Science
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Release : 2017-07-11
Genre : Social Science
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Book Rating : 370/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The Absent Mother in the Cultural Imagination by : Berit Åström

Download or read book The Absent Mother in the Cultural Imagination written by Berit Åström. This book was released on 2017-07-11. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology explores the recurring trope of the dead or absent mother in Western cultural productions. Across historical periods and genres, this dialogue has been employed to articulate and debate questions of politics and religion, social and cultural change as well as issues of power and authority within the family. Åström seeks to investigate the many functions and meanings of the dialogue by covering extensive material from the 1200s to 2014 including hagiography, romances, folktales, plays, novels, children’s literature and graphic novels, as well as film and television. This is achieved by looking at the discourse both as products of the time and culture that produced the various narratives, and as part of an on-going cultural conversation that spans the centuries, resulting in an innovative text that will be of great interest to all scholars of gender, feminist and media studies.

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