The wall

A woman takes a holiday in the Austrian mountains, spending a few days with her cousin and his wife in their hunting lodge. When the couple fails to return from a walk, the woman sets off to look for them. But her journey reaches a sinister and inexplicable dead end. She discovers only a transparent wall behind which there seems to be no life. Trapped alone behind the mysterious wall she begins…

Breasts and eggs

Challenging every preconception about storytelling and prose style, mixing wry humor and riveting emotional depth, Kawakami is today one of Japan’s most important and best-selling writers. She exploded onto the cultural scene first as a musician, then as a poet and popular blogger, and is now an award-winning novelist. Breasts and Eggs paints a portrait of contemporary womanhood in Japan a…

Women's right to vote

In 1920, Susan B. Anthony passed a law that gave voting rights to women in the United States. RIGHT? WRONG! Susan B. Anthony wasn't even alive when the Nineteeth Amendment was ratified. Plus, it takes a lot more than one person to amend the constitution. Did you know that when women's rights activists picketed President Wilson to get his support for voting rights, some men beat them up, t…

Perempuan di Titik Nol

Dari balik sel penjara, Firdaus -- yang divonis gantung karena telah membunuh seorang germo -- mengisahkan liku-liku kehidupannya. Dari sejak masa kecilnya di desa, hingga ia menjadi pelacur kelas atas di Kota Kairo. Ia menyambut gembira hukuman gantung itu. Bahkan dengan tegas ia menolak grasi kepada presiden yang diusulkan oleh dokter penjara. Menurut Firdaus, vonis itu justru merupakan satu-…

A room of one's own

Edition

Ed. 1

ISBN/ISSN

9780241436288

Collation

93 p. ; 20 cm

Series Title

-

Call Number

823 WOO a

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