Showing results for "One and All" in World Literature

SHORTLISTED FOR THE AGE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024 'A tender story about family, love, intergenerational grief, living up to family expectations and making your own way'. Nicole Abadee, Sydney Morning Herald Sorrow and Bliss meets Normal People in this utterly compelling, darkly humorous millennial...

For All of Us, One Today is a fluid, poetic story anchored by Richard Blanco’s experiences as the inaugural poet in 2013, and beyond. In this brief and evocative narrative, he shares for the first time his journey as a Latino immigrant and openly gay man discovering a new, emotional...

Bangkok, 1974. Den 22-årige Alexa Wu arbejder som gogodanser, mens hun drømmer om at blive topmodel og rejse verden rundt. Hun har trodset sine konservative forældre i New York og lever et selvstændigt liv med skiftende elskere og løsslupne fester i den lyserøde villa. The Hamptons, 1995. Eks-model Alexa Wu har inviteret sine ungdomsvenner på besøg. De skal spise middag og genoplive gamle minder fra diskotidens Bangkok. Tror de. For hvad skete der egentlig dengang i halvfjerdserne, hvor kærligheden var fri? Alle er nysgerrige efter at høre sandheden om Alexa Wu og hendes elskere...

Brzeziny, Poland, 1939. Zofia's comfortable lifestyle overturns when her husband, Jabez, who monitors Nazi activity, has gone missing. Rather than fleeing the country with her young son, as she had promised Jabez who is fearing retaliation, she decides to stay. She cannot possibly leave her friend, Aanya. Since their childhood they have amazed fellow Brzeziners that it does not matter that Aanya is Jewish and deaf, and that Zofia is Catholic and hearing. Now, more than ever with war looming, Zofia will do whatever is necessary to protect her family and Aanya.