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An empowering memoir of resilience and redemption, and the rage
that helped a girl escape the darkness of a harrowing childhood.
Born to a violently dysfunctional home in working-class Denmark,
Lisbeth Zornig Andersen and her three older brothers were bounced
between foster care and state-run institutions, then back again to
their chemically dependent mother and sadistic stepfather. For
Lisbeth, it was a childhood without perimeters. It was blighted by
poverty, sexual abuse, neglect, betrayal, and further victimization
by the broken Danish social services system that forced Lisbeth to
live where and how it saw fit. Coming of age with a myriad of fears
and emotional disorders, Lisbeth had three things that would become
driving forces in her life: she was extraordinarily bright,
extremely willful, and exceptionally angry. From hell to
liberation, this is Lisbeth’s emotional and galvanizing memoir
told in two voices: that of a young girl who was unwanted,
challenged, and defiant, and that of a woman who channeled her rage
into a positive force as a passionate advocate for children’s
rights. Whatever darkness defines the past, it can be used to
change the future. Lisbeth’s heart-wrenching and ultimately
uplifting journey is proof.
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The First Stone (Paperback)
Carsten Jensen; Translated by Mark Mussari
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R306
R243
Discovery Miles 2 430
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From the award-winning author of We, the Drowned comes a brutal,
unflinching, and bestselling epic novel of a platoon of soldiers
descending into the insanity of the war in Afghanistan. Dispatched
to fight the Taliban as part of the NATO forces, the soldiers of
the Third Platoon arrive in a desert hell intent on testing their
courage and endurance. Among them are the charismatic platoon
leader Schroder, a former games designer fascinated by the
imaginative potential of war; Colonel Steffensen, whose negotiating
tactics will have deadly consequences; Sidekick, the LifeLogger
whose online "war memorial" will blur into horror; and the hardened
but vulnerable Hannah, who must bury her womanhood-or sacrifice her
soul. Confronted by a betrayal that no military training could
prepare them for, the soldiers must embark on a desperate mission
to track down an enemy whose methods are as murderous as they are
unfathomable. As the hunters become the hunted, the mission turns
into a depraved, hallucinatory voyage into an Afghanistan they
never knew existed. With the Third Platoon's most fundamental
notions of good and evil called into question, survival becomes
their only mission. An explicitly brutal portrait of battle told
with the propulsion of a harrowing psychological thriller, The
First Stone is a stunning and epic depiction of comradeship,
humanity, and the bestial realities of a conflict without end.
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Murder in the Dark (Paperback)
Dan Turell; Translated by Mark Mussari; Afterword by Barry Forshaw
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R415
R375
Discovery Miles 3 750
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Murder in the Dark sports a winning combination of engaging crime
narrative and cool, unsentimental appraisal of Scandinavian society
(as seen through the eyes of its shabby, unconventional anti-hero).
There are elements of the book which now seem quite as relevant as
when they were written, and like all the most accomplished writing
in the Nordic Noir field, there is an acute and well-observed sense
of place throughout the novel. The descriptions of Copenhagen
channel the poetic sensibility which is the author's own:
'Copenhagen is at its most beautiful when seen out of a taxi at
midnight, right at that magical moment when one day dies and
another is born, and the printing presses are buzzing with the
morning newspapers.'
Danish Modern explores the development of mid-century modernist
design in Denmark from historical, analytical and theoretical
perspectives. Mark Mussari explores the relationship between Danish
design aesthetics and the theoretical and cultural impact of
Modernism, particularly between 1930 and 1960. He considers how
Danish designers responded to early Modernist currents: the
Stockholm Exhibition of 1930, their rejection of Bauhaus aesthetic
demands, their early fealty to wood and materials, and the tension
between cabinetmaker craft and industrial production as it
challenged and altered their aesthetic approach. Tracing the
theoretical foundations for these developments, Mussari discusses
the writings and works of such figures as Poul Henningsen, Arne
Jacobsen, Hans Wegner, Nanna Ditzel, and Finn Juhl.
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