The gate of the hundred sorrows

Opium dens, curses, ghostly tombs - these sinister tales of Imperial India made Kipling's name as a writer

Circles of hell

A terrifying depiction of sin and eternal damnation from Dante's Inferno, the medieval epic that revolutionize the Italian language

Of street piemen

The matchless chronicler of Victorian Londoners observes everything from surprise pie-fillings to a balloon-ride over the city.

The nightingales are drunk

Edition

Ed. 1

ISBN/ISSN

9780141980263

Collation

48 p. ; 14 cm

Series Title

-

Call Number

823 HAF t

Things that disappear

Jenny Erpenbeck meditates on the disappearance and impermanence of things. Whether recalling the demolition of familiar places, the loss of a friendship, or a change in social attitudes, Erpenbeck's sharp intelligence, eye for telling detail, and her nuanced perspective on her country's history and her own writing lifeimbue these short pieces with lasting power.

Mina's matchbox

In the spring of 1972, twelve-year-old Tomoko leaves her mother behind in Tokyo and boards a train alone for Ashiya, a coastal town in Japan, to stay with her aunt’s family. Tomoko’s aunt is an enigma and an outlier in her working-class family, and her magnificent home—and handsome, foreign husband, the president of a soft drink company—are symbols of that status. The seventeen rooms ar…

Salt house

On the eve of her daughter Alia’s wedding, Salma reads the girl’s future in a cup of coffee dregs. She sees an unsettled life for Alia and her children; she also sees travel and luck. While she chooses to keep her predictions to herself that day, they will all soon come to pass when the family is uprooted in the wake of the Six-Day War of 1967. Lyrical and heartbreaking, Salt Houses follo…

Spin-the-heel extreme deserts

Edition

-

ISBN/ISSN

9781445415451

Collation

47 p. : ill.

Series Title

Discovery

Call Number

577 JON s

Things in nature merely grow

Yiyun Li’s remarkable, defiant work of radical acceptance as she considers the loss of her son James.

The antidote

The Antidote opens on Black Sunday, as a historic dust storm ravages the fictional town of Uz, Nebraska. But Uz is already collapsing—not just under the weight of the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl drought, but beneath its own violent histories. The Antidote follows a "Prairie Witch," whose body serves as a bank vault for peoples’ memories and secrets; a Polish wheat farmer who learns h…