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English Passengers

2011-02-11 Fiction
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Release : 2011-02-11
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 698/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis English Passengers by : Matthew Kneale

Download or read book English Passengers written by Matthew Kneale. This book was released on 2011-02-11. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Narrated by over twenty distinct voices and full of dangerous humour, English Passengers combines wit, adventure and historical detail in a mesmerizing display of storytelling. When Captain Illiam Quillian Kewley and his band of smugglers have their contraband confiscated they are forced to put their ship, Sincerity, up for charter. The only takers are two Englishmen, the Reverend Geoffrey Wilson, who believes that the Garden of Eden was on the island of Tasmania, and Dr. Thomas Potter who is developing his sinister thesis concerning the races of man. Meanwhile an aboriginal in Tasmania, Peevay, recounts his people's struggles against the invading British. As the English passengers haplessly approach his land, their bizarre notions ever more painfully at odds with reality, we know a mighty collision is looming.

English Passengers

2012-06-28 Fiction
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Release : 2012-06-28
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 229/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis English Passengers by : Matthew Kneale

Download or read book English Passengers written by Matthew Kneale. This book was released on 2012-06-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A big, ambitious novel with a rich historical sweep and a host of narrative voices. Its subject is a vicar's ludicrous expedition in 1857 to the Garden of Eden in Tasmania, [as] meanwhile, in Tasmania itself, the British settlers are alternately trying to civilise and eliminate the Aboriginal population ... The sort of novel that few contemporary writers have either the imagination or the stamina to sustain' - Daily Telegraph

The Passenger

2021-04-13 Fiction
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Release : 2021-04-13
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 150/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The Passenger by : Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz

Download or read book The Passenger written by Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz. This book was released on 2021-04-13. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A BEST BOOK OF 2021 FOR THE GUARDIAN * FINANCIAL TIMES * TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT * MINNEAPOLIS STAR TRIBUNE * THE TIMES Hailed as a remarkable literary discovery, a lost novel of heart-stopping intensity and harrowing absurdity about flight and persecution in 1930s Germany Berlin, November 1938. Jewish shops have been ransacked and looted, synagogues destroyed. As storm troopers pound on his door, Otto Silbermann, a respected businessman who fought for Germany in the Great War, is forced to sneak out the back of his own home. Turned away from establishments he had long patronized, and fearful of being exposed as a Jew despite his Aryan looks, he boards a train. And then another. And another . . . until his flight becomes a frantic odyssey across Germany, as he searches first for information, then for help, and finally for escape. His travels bring him face-to-face with waiters and conductors, officials and fellow outcasts, seductive women and vicious thieves, a few of whom disapprove of the regime while the rest embrace it wholeheartedly. Clinging to his existence as it was just days before, Silbermann refuses to believe what is happening even as he is beset by opportunists, betrayed by associates, and bereft of family, friends, and fortune. As his world collapses around him, he is forced to concede that his nightmare is all too real. Twenty-three-year-old Ulrich Boschwitz wrote The Passenger at breakneck speed in 1938, fresh in the wake of the Kristallnacht pogroms, and his prose flies at the same pace. Taut, immediate, infused with acerbic Kafkaesque humor, The Passenger is an indelible portrait of a man and a society careening out of control.

Ask the Passengers

2012-10-23 Young Adult Fiction
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Release : 2012-10-23
Genre : Young Adult Fiction
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Book Rating : 531/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Ask the Passengers by : A.S. King

Download or read book Ask the Passengers written by A.S. King. This book was released on 2012-10-23. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Astrid Jones desperately wants to confide in someone, but her mother's pushiness and her father's lack of interest tell her they're the last people she can trust. Instead, Astrid spends hours lying on the backyard picnic table watching airplanes fly overhead. She doesn't know the passengers inside, but they're the only people who won't judge her when she asks them her most personal questions . . . like what it means that she's falling in love with a girl. As her secret relationship becomes more intense and her friends demand answers, Astrid has nowhere left to turn. She can't share the truth with anyone except the people at thirty thousand feet, and they don't even know she's there. But little does Astrid know just how much even the tiniest connection will affect these strangers' lives--and her own--for the better. In this truly original portrayal of a girl struggling to break free of society's definitions, Printz Honor author A.S. King asks readers to question everything--and offers hope to those who will never stop seeking real love.

No Passengers Beyond This Point

2013-07-19 Juvenile Fiction
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Release : 2013-07-19
Genre : Juvenile Fiction
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Book Rating : 419/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis No Passengers Beyond This Point by : Gennifer Choldenko

Download or read book No Passengers Beyond This Point written by Gennifer Choldenko. This book was released on 2013-07-19. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After losing their house to foreclosure, three siblings - India, Finn and Mouse - have less than twenty-four hours to pack their belongings and fly, without their mother, to stay with an uncle in Colorado. But when they land, a mysterious driver meets them at the airport in a pink car adorned with feathers. He has never heard of their Uncle Red. Like Dorothy in Oz, they find themselves in an unknown place, with no idea of how to get home. Time is running out . . .

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