Showing results for "Pan" in World Literature

Dans les rues de Londres, où il est dangereux d’être un enfant, le jeune Peter s’invente une maman douce et aimante pour échapper à une réalité bien plus violente et alcoolisée. Son quotidien est dur et fait d'humiliations. Jusqu'au jour où le bon Monsieur Kundal lui parle de son père disparu... et du pouvoir de l'imaginaire.

France, 1943 As war casts its shadow over Europe, the tranquil life of Sister Angelica's convent is disrupted by the arrival of Nazi forces. Inside the convent, the nuns offer refuge to children in need of care and protection. Despite the ever-present risks, Angelica is determined to honour her...

Motherlands opens with a child drawn early to poetry. “In summer I write. Two lines at a time, two vying souls / running up the wall.” The collection follows this speaker-poet through a childhood in post-Maoist China and an eventual move to the United States, laying bare cultural and linguistic tensions in both historical and modern settings. He cites Chinese laborers toiling in American factories—an echo of the brutalities endured by those who constructed the Transatlantic Railroad—and speaks to anxieties around belonging, assimilation, and identity.

Translated for the first time into English, The Salmon Who Dared To Leap Higher by Ahn Do-hyun is a multi-million copy bestselling modern fable about finding freedom and a harmony with nature we have either forgotten or lost in the binding realities of life. The life of the salmon is a...