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Ishtar (Paperback)
Sieglinde P. Young
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R466
Discovery Miles 4 660
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Inge Boag and her family embark on a life filled with cultural and
tribal mysteries when they intially make their home in West Africa
in the mid 1960s. Monrovia, Liberia, the land of black faces, freed
slaves, of gold and blood diamonds. Rituals, dance, masks and
laughter, spirits, blood and witchcraft are the ingredients of
daily existence. The revolution in 1980 triggers a series of events
whose momentum catches Inge in its grip and forces her to make a
tragic choice.
Amporn, a naive Thai university student's life is forever shattered
when she falls hopelessly in love with a handsome opportunist. When
police accuse and arrest her for smuggling drugs into Thailand she
is totally confused and disconcerted. After her situation
normalizes, she swears vengeance against the man who caused her
predicament although she doesn't know his real name. Not until her
daughter's eighteenth birthday does Amporn discover that the man
wooing her daughter is the same man who fathered her child and
abandoned her to her fate.
In 1942 World War II is in full swing. German cities are bombarded
on a daily basis and many civilians die. To keep her daughter safe,
Mrs. Lyndt takes six year old Inge to her mother's estate in
Prussia. There Inge befriends Paul-Emile Diderot, a sixteen year
old French prisoner of war. As the Red Army advances on Prussia,
Paul-Emile decides to escape with Inge his ticket to freedom. They
leave the estate at the end of January 1945, during the coldest
winter in a decade. In a chaise drawn by two horses they join the
exodus of hundreds of thousands of Germans to the west. Inge
expects adventure, instead finds herself mired in a cataclysm.
After months of hardship and struggling against nature and enemy
forces they reach Paris. Traumatized by his experiences, Paul-Emile
distances himself from the girl who loves him. At fourteen a
rebellious Inge is reunited with her parents who are at a loss how
to handle her willful independence. Inge blames all her problems,
mostly self inflicted, on the war and Paul-Emile. Thirty-five years
later their paths cross again at an archaeological dig in Egypt.
Rejection is the obsessed person's worst nightmare. A man is
consumed with love for a ballerina. A family ripped asunder because
of that love. A new beginning for the ballerina. The man, still
consumed with love and jealousy, resorts to violence. From Alabama
to Malaysia, to Thailand and the islands of the Andaman Sea, the
man's unrequited desires bring terror to the object of his
affection. Only his death can set her free.
The Rebellion of Nilofleur is an intimate tale of human
relationships; an unforgettable historical love story of deep
passion, self discovery and a woman's subservient position in the
mid-eighteen hundreds in Egypt. It shows Nilofleur's struggles with
the polarizing differences between the East and West. Philippe
Morelet, a Parisian aristocrat, becomes enthralled with the young
woman, trapped in an arranged, loveless marriage and follows her to
Egypt where he is befriended by her husband Abdullah. Fate seems
intent on keeping them separated, but they take risks even thought
it could cost them their lives. Their tribulations culminate during
the celebrations of the grand opening of the Suez Canal.
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