In this collection of essays, black South African school children discuss the political strife in their country and its effect on their daily lives.

Two Dogs and Freedom: Black Children of South Africa Speak Out

Children's Books

Open School in Soweto

History

Foxrock Books

Now, in Pia Pera's controversial new book, Lolita speaks for herself in her own naked voice. Listening to her tale, readers enter a universe in which events, apparently the same as in Nabokov's novel, are radically different. Truths clash, collide, and ultimately diverge. Nabokov's Lolita is not Lolita's story, but her seducer's. The Lolita of that novel is a projection of Humbert's erotic imagination. Lo's Diary tells her story in her own voice, bringing into question the version told by her seducer in his account. Lo's Diary is an investigation into the myth that is Lolita. In Pia Pera's novel, Lolita uncovers her true self and tells us everything Humbert never told, never saw, and never imagined.

Lo's Diary

Literature & Fiction

Pia Pera

Contemporary

When it appeared in hardcover, Lo’s Diary was an instant literary sensation. An answer to Vladimir Nabokov’s legendary Lolita, the novel is told not from the point of view of the seducer, Humbert Humbert, but of the young girl herself. Events imagined by Nabokov and told by Humbert are seen in an entirely new light by Pia Pera and recounted by Lo, making Lo’s Diary one of the most intriguing reads in recent memory.

Pera, Pia

Literary

The first novel of Elliot Feldman’s Detroit Trilogy, with illustrations by the author, is a genre-bending tale about a son coming to terms with the death of his father, a small-time Detroit gangster. Charlie Fish’s father is found dead in a cheap motel room. Was he murdered by gamblers or by his psycho mistress and her family? Or did he kill himself? For the seven traditional days of Jewish mourning, or shiva, Charlie doesn’t stay at his invalid mother’s home and grieve with friends and family. Instead, he searches the city for answers, and in his quest relives moments from his past and reunites with shadowy figures that once terrorized him, finding out as much about himself as his black-sheep father. Detective yarn, coming-of-age story, confessional, and black comedy, this savagely funny and deeply tragic novel pits Charlie’s youth in the 1950s against the gritty backdrop of the Motor City.

Sitting Shiva

Jew Boy tells the story of a young boy growing up in the complex shadow of his mother’s survival of the Holocaust. He struggles to comprehend what it means to be Jewish as he deals with the demons haunting his mother and attempts to escape his wretched home life by devoting himself to high school football. He eventually hitchhikes across the country, coming face-to-face with the very phantoms he has fled.

Jew Boy

Biographies & Memoirs

Kaufman, Alan.

Arts & Literature

Born in 1864 in Ireland, Roger Casement achieved early fame when he exposed Belgium's brutal colonial practices in the Congo. The international outcry and widespread reforms that followed spurred him on to other causes, most notably Irish independence. But Casement had another side. When he was arrested by British authorities after a failed rebellion, his Black Diaries were discovered and publicized. Featuring detailed accounts of cruising, gay customs, and sex with male prostitutes, soldiers, and natives, these writings, along with his radical politics, sealed Casement's fate at age 52.William Bryant's extensive biography captures its subject's dramatic life with novelistic flair. The book creates an ultimately moving portrait of a man who would become a legend of Irish martyrdom and a key chronicler of early gay life.

Roger Casement

William Bryant

Historical

The Olympia Reader (Selections from the Traveller's Companion Series)

Reference

By one of the world¹s most acclaimed writers and author of The Lover One of France¹s leading literary figures, Marguerite Duras casts a brooding, elegant spell over her readers with her acute portrayals of love: its aphrodisiacal powers and its sweet, inevitable pain. This novella is haunting, erotic, and tragic, with the distinctive evocation that is Duras¹ own. ³Ms. Duras¹ 1980 novella, The Man Sitting in the Corridor, whose superb translation by Barbara Bray is only now appearing, was Š an exercise in the author¹s progressive distillation of her prose. Thus unencumbered, the rare bits of writing gain resonance, like a lone voice echoing through a tunnel. Moreover, by writing less‹and thereby suggesting more‹Ms. Duras invests her information with a power unavailable to more copious, if still evocative, forms of literary expression.² - from The New York Times Book Review

The Man Sitting in the Corridor

DURAS, Marguerite

A dense interior monologue, Stirrings Still was written by Beckett in 1987 and 1988, when he had become increasingly reflective about his life. It portrays, in Beckett's spare style, a "consciousness" exploring a "self," faced with uncertainties about its own existence. Stirrings Still is a spellbinding work, full of a sense of farewell. Originally published in collaboration with John Calder in a limited edition of 226 copies numbered one to two hundred and lettered A to Z, the colume was dedicated to Beckett's longtime friend and publisher Barney Rosset.

Stirrings Still

BECKETT,SAMUEL

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Two Dogs and Freedom: Black Children of South Africa Speak Out

Lo's Diary

Lo's Diary

Sitting Shiva

Jew Boy

Lo's Diary

Roger Casement

The Olympia Reader (Selections from the Traveller's Companion Series)

The Man Sitting in the Corridor

Stirrings Still