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The Turkish Lover

2009-03-17 Biography & Autobiography
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Release : 2009-03-17
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 332/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The Turkish Lover by : Esmeralda Santiago

Download or read book The Turkish Lover written by Esmeralda Santiago. This book was released on 2009-03-17. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enthralled admirers of Esmeralda Santiago's memoirs of her childhood have yearned to read more. Now, in The Turkish Lover, Esmeralda finally breaks out of the monumental struggle with her powerful mother, only to elope into the spell of an exotic love affair. At the heart of the story is Esmeralda's relationship with "the Turk," a passion that gradually becomes a prison out of which she must emerge to become herself. The expansive humanity, earthy humor, and psychological courage that made Esmeralda's first two books so successful are on full display again in The Turkish Lover.

When I Was Puerto Rican

2006-02-28 Biography & Autobiography
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Release : 2006-02-28
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 860/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis When I Was Puerto Rican by : Esmeralda Santiago

Download or read book When I Was Puerto Rican written by Esmeralda Santiago. This book was released on 2006-02-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of "The Best Memoirs of a Generation" (Oprah's Book Club): a young woman's journey from the mango groves and barrios of Puerto Rico to Brooklyn, and eventually on to Harvard In a childhood full of tropical beauty and domestic strife, poverty and tenderness, Esmeralda Santiago learned the proper way to eat a guava, the sound of tree frogs, the taste of morcilla, and the formula for ushering a dead baby's soul to heaven. But when her mother, Mami, a force of nature, takes off to New York with her seven, soon to be eleven children, Esmeralda, the oldest, must learn new rules, a new language, and eventually a new identity. In the first of her three acclaimed memoirs, Esmeralda brilliantly recreates her tremendous journey from the idyllic landscape and tumultuous family life of her earliest years, to translating for her mother at the welfare office, and to high honors at Harvard.

The Republic of Love

2010-10 Biography & Autobiography
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Release : 2010-10
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 062/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The Republic of Love by : Martin Stokes

Download or read book The Republic of Love written by Martin Stokes. This book was released on 2010-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on three entertainers who have become national icons Martin Stokes offers a portrait of Turkish identity that is very different from the official version of anthems and flags. In particular, he discusses how a Turkish concept of love has been developed through the work of the singers and the public reaction to them.

Turkish Delight

2017-03-07 Fiction
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Release : 2017-03-07
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 489/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Turkish Delight by : Jan Wolkers

Download or read book Turkish Delight written by Jan Wolkers. This book was released on 2017-03-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of a tempestuous love affair—and the basis for Paul Verhoeven's Oscar-nominated film—Wolkers's controversial masterpiece comes alive in a new translation. Upon its original publication in 1969, Turkish Delight was a sensation and a scandal. Its graphic language and explicit sex scenes had an explosive effect, but just as revolutionary was its frank, colloquial style. The more straightlaced critics condemned the book, but readers saw a novel that reflected the way that they spoke, thought, and felt. Turkish Delight opens with a screed: a sculptor in his studio, raging against the love he lost and describing, in gory detail, the state of his life since she left him. Our narrator alternates between the story of his relationship with Olga—its passion and affection, but also its obsessiveness and abuse—and the dark days that followed, as he attempts to recapture what they had when they lived together, “happy as beasts.” The two only reunite during Olga’s inexorable and tragic decline into cancer—the chemo having taken her hair and rotted her teeth, she will only eat the soft, sweet Turkish Delight that her ex-lover brings to her bedside. In a new translation by Sam Garrett (Herman Koch’s The Dinner), readers get a sense of Wolkers’s revolutionary style and musical prose, Turkish Delight’s particular balance of naked impulse and profound longing. Tin House Books gratefully acknowledges the support of the Dutch Foundation for Literature, whose generous subsidy made this new translation possible.

Conquistadora

2012-07-10 Fiction
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Release : 2012-07-10
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 59X/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Conquistadora by : Esmeralda Santiago

Download or read book Conquistadora written by Esmeralda Santiago. This book was released on 2012-07-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a young girl growing up in Spain, Ana Larragoity Cubillas is powerfully drawn to Puerto Rico by the diaries of an ancestor who traveled there with Ponce de Leon. And in handsome twin brothers Ramon and Inocente—both in love with Ana—she finds a way to get there. Marrying Ramon at the age of eighteen, she travels across the ocean to Hacienda los Gemelos, a remote sugar plantation the brothers have inherited. But soon the Civil War erupts in the United States, and Ana finds her livelihood, and perhaps even her life, threatened by the very people on whose backs her wealth has been built: the hacienda’s slaves, whose richly drawn stories unfold alongside her own in this epic novel of love, discovery and adventure.

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