Showing results for "Frontières" in World Literature

Frontier opens with the story of Liujin, a young woman heading out on her own to create her own life in Pebble Town, a somewhat surreal place at the base of Snow Mountain where wolves roam the streets and certain enlightened individuals can see and enter a paradisaical garden. Exploring life in this city (or in the frontier) through the viewpoint of a dozen different characters, some simple, some profound, Can Xue's latest novel attempts to unify the grand opposites of life

Weaving a vibrant tapestry of fact and fiction, Into the Wilderness sweeps us into another time and place . . . and into the heart of a forbidden, incandescent affair between a spinster Englishwoman and an American frontiersman. Here is an epic of romance and history that will captivate readers...

WINNER OF THE ORANGE PRIZE FOR FICTION 'Not since Zadie Smith has a young writer arrived with such power and grace' Time 'A marvel of beauty and imagination' Ann Patchett A tiger escapes from the local zoo, padding through the ruined streets and onwards, to a ridge above the Balkan village of...

Step into the untamed American frontier of the nineteenth century with this classic adventure tale by prolific British author W. H. G. Kingston. Narrated by young Loraine, the son of an Irish-born settler who has carved out a farm on the banks of the Ohio River in Illinois, With Axe and Rifle...

In America Latina è scomparsa una frontiera che portava nei territori della felicità. Benché non comparisse su alcuna cartina, una volta chiunque sapeva come trovarla. Poi sono giunti tempi terribili, e la strada è diventata un labirinto senza uscita. Ma c'è un giovane che non è ancora stanco di cercare quella frontiera scomparsa, e con essa le proprie radici, che affondano lontano, nel villaggio andaluso da cui il nonno anarchico è fuggito agli inizi del secolo per difendere il suo amore per la libertà. Il giovane ha uno zaino in spalla e tutto il tempo del mondo a disposizione.

Elizabeth and Nathaniel Bonner have settled into their life together at the edge of the New York wilderness in the winter of 1794. Soon word reaches them that Nathaniel's father has been arrested by crown officials in British Canada. Nathaniel sets out, determined to see his father freed...

A thousand miles beyond the nearest outpost, deep in the far north, an isolated prospector gets an unexpected visitor: a stranger named Thomas Stevens, looking for tobacco and a place by the fire. Before the night is out, Stevens has told him why he is really there, recounting how his dog and...

Weaving a vibrant tapestry of fact and fiction, Into the Wilderness sweeps us into another time and place . . . and into the heart of a forbidden, incandescent affair between a spinster Englishwoman and an American frontiersman. Here is an epic of romance and history that will captivate readers...