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Once she was a princess who smelled of roses and pure delight. Her
parents named their new treasure Maysam, in order to reflect all of
life's beautiful virtues. With her rich brown eyes, she came to
know the world as shapes and sounds. In her mother's sweet voice,
she heard only love-and the secret of bliss: "Smile, sweetheart.
Smile always and bring happiness to nice people's hearts." Her
young life is one without trouble or fear-until things turn upside
down as her country is rattled by financial crisis, forcing young
Maysam and her family to move in with her grandmother. In that
angry household, the young girl learns some of life's more
unpleasant lessons. Years pass, and poor Maysam grows into a young,
unsociable, and forgotten lady. She struggles to reconnect with the
joyful and optimistic child she once was, as the burden of finding
her own way in a culture that cannot see the beauty within her
wears her down. Lonely, sad, and depressed, she is lost in her own
troubles. To protect herself, she builds internal walls around her
pain, resigning herself to a fate in which she merely exists,
instead of lives. But the joyful child inside refuses to accept
this new self-imposed destiny. She vows to find a way to harness
the happiness she sees around her. Can Maysam recapture the dreams
of her innocent childhood in time to save her life and self-esteem?
Are you prepared to enter acclaimed author Hal Duncan's world of
scruffians and scamps and sodomites? Beware, for it is filled with
the gay pirate gods of Love and Death, immortal scoundrels, and
young men who find themselves forced to become villains. But who
amongst us does not adore a gamin antihero? These fantastical tales
from the fringes of an imaginative realm of supernatural fairies
and human fey will captivate the reader. Light a smoke, raise a cup
of whiskey, and seek a careful spot to cruise the Scruffians This
deluxe edition of Scruffians contains one never-before-published
short story and over forty full-color photographs that compliment
the fantastical and homoerotic elements of Duncan's imaginative
tales.
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Gilded Glass
(Hardcover)
Kevin J. Anderson, Allyson Longueira; Sherrilyn Kenyon
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R650
Discovery Miles 6 500
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SELECTED FOR STYLIST'S BOOKS YOU CAN'T MISS IN 2022 - 'A MUST READ'
'An exhilarating debut' GUARDIAN 'A fresh new voice in fiction, wry
and sharp and raw' EMMA CLINE 'I still remember where I was when I
first encountered a Saba Sams story' NICOLE FLATTERY 'I fell for
this stunning collection with a rare, consuming passion' MEGAN
NOLAN ____________________________________________________________
In ten dazzling stories, Saba Sams dives into the world of girlhood
and immerses us in its contradictions and complexities: growing up
too quickly, yet not quickly enough; taking possession of what one
can, while being taken possession of; succumbing to societal
pressure but also orchestrating that pressure. These young women
are feral yet attentive, fierce yet vulnerable, exploited yet
exploitative. Threading between clubs at closing time, pub toilets,
drenched music festivals and beach holidays, these unforgettable
short stories deftly chart the treacherous terrain of growing up -
of intense friendships, of ambivalent mothers, of uneasily blended
families, and of learning to truly live in your own body. With
striking wit, originality and tenderness, Send Nudes celebrates the
small victories in a world that tries to claim each young woman as
its own.
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'A roiling, raw, gut-punch of a debut collection, best read in one
sitting ... I sat motionless for about half an hour after reading
them; I can't wait to see what she writes next' PANDORA SYKES 'A
seriously impressive debut. Saba Sams digs into the chaos, euphoria
and menace of sexual attraction, friendship and family with bravery
and wit' CHRIS POWER CHOSEN AS A BOOK OF THE 2022 BY THE GUARDIAN,
STYLIST, VOGUE, GLAMOUR, COSMOPOLITAN, EVENING STANDARD, IRISH
INDEPENDENT, AnOTHER, FOYLES, BOOKSHOP.ORG
The stories in this book began as individuals. Some, 'Diocletian's
Cabbages', had been in my mind as an intriguing idea for years
while others, 'A Head Start', came complete, quite suddenly, often
waking me in the early hours of the morning. Only after several had
been written down did I realize that they all spoke of change. I
arranged them, not in the order in which they had been written, but
geographically. They started in Europe and moved through England to
the west coast of Canada and the United States. Only when this was
settled did I see that they began and ended in the same place.
Twenty-six new short stories representing the state of the art in
international science fiction, selected by Lavie Tidhar. The Best
of World SF draws together stories from across the spectrum of
science fiction - expect robots, spaceships and time travel, as
well as some really weird stuff - representing twenty-one countries
and five continents. Lavie Tidhar has selected stories that range
from never-before-seen originals to award winners; from authors at
every stage of their career; and a number of translations,
including a story translated from Hebrew by Tidhar himself.
Stories: 'Immersion' by Aliette de Bodard; 'Debtless' by Chen
Qiufan (trans. from Chinese by Blake Stone-Banks); 'Fandom for
Robots' by Vina Jie-Min Prasad; 'Virtual Snapshots' by Tlotlo
Tsamaase; 'What The Dead Man Said' by Chinelo Onwualu; 'Delhi' by
Vandana Singh; 'The Wheel of Samsara' by Han Song (trans. from
Chinese by the author); 'Xingzhou' by Yi-Sheng Ng; 'Prayer' by
Taiyo Fujii (trans. from Japanese by Kamil Spychalski); 'The Green
Ship' by Francesco Verso (trans. from Italian by Michael Colbert);
'Eyes of the Crocodile' by Malena Salazar Macia (trans. from
Spanish by Toshiya Kamei); 'Bootblack' by Tade Thompson; 'The
Emptiness in the Heart of all Things' by Fabio Fernandes; 'The Sun
From Both Sides' by R.S.A. Garcia; 'Dump' by Cristina Jurado
(trans. from Spanish by Steve Redwood); 'Rue Chair' by Gerardo
Horacio Porcayo (trans. from Spanish by the author); 'His Master's
Voice' by Hannu Rajaniemi; 'Benjamin Schneider's Little Greys' by
Nir Yaniv (trans. from Hebrew by Lavie Tidhar); 'The Cryptid' by
Emil H. Petersen (trans. from Icelandic by the author); 'The Bank
of Burkina Faso' by Ekaterina Sedia; 'An Incomplete Guide...' by
Kuzhali Manickavel; 'The Old Man with The Third Hand' by Kofi
Nyameye; 'The Green' by Lauren Beukes; 'The Last Voyage of
Skidbladnir' by Karin Tidbeck; 'Prime Meridian' by Silvia
Moreno-Garcia; 'If At First You Don't Succeed' by Zen Cho.
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Baja Bad
(Hardcover)
S C Watson
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R525
R484
Discovery Miles 4 840
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