Coping With Capital Surges: The Return of Finance to Latin America

Private capital flows to Latin America have increased dramatically since 1989, approximately doubling in volume each year. This book examines the possible causes of the new - and unforeseen - wave of investment, from both the borrower and and the lender perspective. Three countries are studied.

Business & Money

Ricardo Ffrench-Davis

Stephany Griffith-Jones

Economics

Lynne Rienner Pub

It is the 26th day of Ramadan in the year 610, and a handsome man named Muhammad is meditating in a cave on Mount Hira. Fear grips him as he tries to sort out the visions and voices washing over him; and terrified that he is possessed, he leaves the cave to return to Mecca. The day that will transform Muhammad's life - and change the world - has begun. That day becomes a fluid intermingling of the ordinary and a dreamlike conviction that something indescribable is about to happen. Finally, his disquiet increasing, invading his sleep and forcing him to leave his wife's side, Muhammad returns to Mount Hira to give birth to the momentous revelations within him. This finely crafted, poetic novel captures the mystery of religious revelation as it unfolds in all its intensity, providing a unique window on Islam's Prophet.

Muhammad

Literature & Fiction

Driss Chraïbi

Literary

Bab El-Oued

Naqvi, Tahira

Allouache, Merzak

Contemporary

The Golden Phoenix: Seven Contemporary Korean Short Stories

These seven stories, dramatic and thought-provoking, provide a compelling picture of Korean life in the 1940s-1990s.Family and community ties, respect for tradition, survival in the face of repeated national disasters and wrenching social upheaval - these are among the themes evoked in the collection. The narratives make palpable the lives and emotions of characters from differing backgrounds, all of whom must negotiate the same historical legacy and contradictory modern developments.

Short Stories & Anthologies

A Feast in the Mirror: Stories by Contemporary Iranian Women

The 21 short stories are presented in sections on Travel in the Line of Time, Impregnating the Barren Line of Time, and Aware of the Image. Among them are Tahereh Alavi's woman who sees a picture of herself in the Missing Persons column of the newspaper, Farkhondeh Aqai's thrice- divorced woman who by law must marry again, and Manusureh Sharifzadeh's fictional expose of workplace politics. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Presents a collection of fourteen stories that reflect the life of Palestinian Arab children.

Palestine's Children: Returning to Haifa & Other Stories

Kanafānī, Ghassān

World Literature

Ngoza, in KwaZulu-Natal - South Africa's most turbulent province - is transformed when clan leader Baba Joshua dies and his headstrong daughter tackles the age-old shibboleths held by traditionalists and gangsters alike.The reluctant heroine of this novel, Zodwa, finds support from unlikely quarters. A disenchanted ex-ANC guerrilla and a dyed-in-the-wool white supremacist join forces with Zodwa to rid Ngoza of the terror wreaked by warlord Johnny M. and his henchmen. But the biggest battle she faces, in the midst of intrigue and ritual and routine violence, is with herself as she grapples with love and betrayal.

The Memory of Stones

Langa, Mandla

United States

The Desert Shore offers a rich sampling of writings from the Sahel zone of West Africa, especially Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger.  Selections include translations of Tuareg poet Hawad ("Anarchy's Delirious Trek"), Fulani author Al Hajj Sekou Tall ("Origins of the Fulani"), Mossi poet Titinga Pacere ("Drum Poem for the Sahel"), and the slain Burkinabe writer Norbert Zongo ("The Mobutuization of Burkina Faso").  This text also includes contextualizing essays from scholars such as Joseph Pare, Salou Sanaka, Albert Ouedraogo, Paul Lovejoy, Michel Tinguiri, Lisa McNee, Georg Gugelberger, and Christopher Wise.

The Desert Shore: Literatures of the Sahel

This study offers a meticulous critique of Nobel laureate Derek Walcott's poetry. Another Life, Walcott's masterpiece of autobiography in verse, has of course been widely praised. D.J. McClatchy, for example, writing in The New Republic, called it one of the best long autobiographical poems in English, with the narrative sweep, the lavish layering of details, and the mythic resonance of a certain classic. It is also, though, an ideal point of entry into Walcott's work. edition draw to a great extent on unpublished sources to provide a useful resource for both teachers and students. Equally important, the book should enhance the accessibility of Walcott's history and poetry for all readers.

Another Life: Fully Annotated

Baugh, Edward

Nepaulsingh, Colbert I.

WALCOTT, Derek

Oranges in the Sun: Short Stories from the Arabian Gulf

The stories in Oranges in the Sun capture a distinctly unique vision of the world, embodying the range of emotional and material concerns of the peoples of the Arab Gulf region. Drawn from the increasingly rich literatures of Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Oman, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Qatar, and Kuwait , the stories also reflect the development of the short-story genre in the region. The introduction to the collection provides historical context, as well as a broad overview of the selections.

Deborah S. Akers

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