Russian Dreambook of Colour and Flight

The Russian dreambook of colour and flight

Gina-ochsner

Portobello Books Ltd

Literature & Fiction

Ochsner, Gina

Contemporary

Stuffed and Starved: Markets, Power and the Hidden Battle for the World Food System

Business & Money

RAJ PATEL

Economics

This is a compelling portrait of one man's loneliness and longing, and a mesmerising study of the desires that bring people together and the fears that keep them apart. It is suitable for readers of other literary re-inventions such as Jean Rhys' "Wide Sargasso Sea", and John Updike's "Gertrude and Claudius", and of lost classics like "Embers", of Victorian/Edwardian literature, devotees of Ibsen and Strindberg, of Hammershoi and Munch, as well as Flaubert and Zola, Chekhov and Meredith. Aging and unattractive, the widowed Pastor Gregorius seems to have been granted a second chance at happiness when Helga, the young girl he has been fascinated by since her childhood, accepts his offer of marriage. Yet before long, the relationship turns sour and brutal and Gregorius suspects that his wife's distaste for him has driven her into infidelity. To Gregorius, fretful about his failing health and brooding upon mortality, the emptiness of his marriage is the final, bitter proof that he is unlovable, except in the eyes of God. And then an unexpected encounter with a woman who is able to return his affection makes it seem as though another kind of life might be possible.

Gregorius

Bengt Ohlsson

<p>Today America's role as the dominant power in international relations is anchored in the Middle East as never before, but there has never yet been a single broadly accessible narrative of how American administrations since Eisenhower's have approached the region following the creating of the Israeli state. This book tells that story for the first time. Drawing on three decades of first-hand experience both close to the circle of power in Washington and on the ground in the Middle East, Patrick Tyler will show how the region has emerged as the focus of American national interests, a battleground and morgue for thousands of American troops, and a fount of global terrorism. "A World of Trouble" begins with the rise of the new secular nationalism among the Arabs and Eisenhower's orchestration of the Suez fiasco, and takes in the Six Day War, the Yom Kippur War, the antics of OPEC, relations with the Saudi Royal Family, the Islamic Revolution that overthrew the Shah of Iran, the Iran - Iraq war, Israel's invasion of Lebanon, the spread of Islamic fervour through the region and the waves of violence that have followed. At each point, Tyler examines the motivation behind US policy decisions, from attempts to limit Soviet expansion to the slippery compromises made in pursuit of oil security.</p>

World of Trouble: America in the Middle East

History

Tyler, Patrick

Americas

wintering

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Biographies & Memoirs

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Levy.J.

Reference

Fast

Travel

Kevin Jackson

Food, Lodging & Transportation

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