Hakutulokset: Kirjoja kirjailijalta Stephen Alter
yhteensä 11 hakutulosta
The Song of Songs
A lyrical translation of the Old Testament "Song of Songs" brings together outstanding Hebrew scholarship, historical and religious background information, and poetic sensibilities …
Fantasies of a Bollywood Love Thief: Inside the World of Indian Moviemaking
Bollywood movies are glorious, colorful spectacles of romance, action, drama, song, and dance. The biggest film industry in the world, Bollywood puts out some nine hundred movies a …
Amritsar to Lahore
"During the course of my journey, many of the people I met in Pakistan and India expressed a curious combination of affection, indifference, and animosity toward their neighbors …
Darwinism and the Linguistic Image
In the nineteenth century, philology-especially comparative philology-made impressive gains as a discipline, thus laying the foundation for the modern field of linguistics. In …
In the Jungles of the Night
Penguin Book of Modern Indian Short Stories
Twenty classic short stories from master writers across the country This superb collection contains some of the best Indian short stories written in the last fifty years, both in …
Phantom Isles
When three sixth-graders break into the town library to read aloud from a book of sorcery, little do they know they are about to raise the dead. The spirits they conjure are …
The Selected Poetry of Dan Pagis
Dan Pagis (1930-1986) spent three of his adolescent years in a Nazi camp before arriving in Palestine in 1946. He became one of the most vibrant voices in modern Israeli poetry and …
Ghost Letters
When two modern-day kids discover a grotesque secret in an abandoned mailbox, they have no idea they are about to be drawn into a mystery that began on the other side of the world. …