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Buddenbrooks (Wisehouse Classics Edition)
Thomas Mann - -
Buddenbrooks is a 1901 novel by Thomas Mann, chronicling the decline of a wealthy north German merchant family over the course of four generations, incidentally portraying the manner of life and mores of the Hanseatic bourgeoisie in the years from 1835 to 1877. Mann drew deeply from the history of his own family, the Mann family ...
VIS + I
Farideh Razi - -
Vis + I is an interior monologue during a harrowing cab ride through the streets of Tehran as Pardis rushes to the airport to stop her lover from leaving. Multiple narrative threads and flashbacks, real and imaginary voices—primarily that of Vis, the heroine of the Persian epic romance, Vis + Ramin—interweave in this gritty, postmodern love story. Vis + I poses ...
A Biopsy of Literature’s Dangerous Nature
Sam Vaseghi - -
MUSINGS OF A TRANSLATOR -- The translator is a curious beast. Exploration is the nature of his existence. Through answers he uncovers his purpose. His purpose is to examine the knowledge he’s just discovered and then come to the root of its reason. Curiosity is biopsy. . . an exploration, invasion, a microscopic theft that is ...
Altogether in the Shifting World
Mauro Mevlud Martino - -
It has taken me a lifetime to know who I was, who I am, and who I am becoming. Today, I see a sprawling panorama of images full of vibrant characters that helped to orchestrate this life of mine. And today, I can clearly see that the fuel for such a life was an audacious love for the quest that would lead to the ONE TRUE HUMAN ...
