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Literary movement. Latin American literature. Héctor Abad Faciolince (born 1958) is a Colombian novelist, essayist, journalist, and editor. Abad is considered one of the most talented post- Latin American Boom writers in Latin American literature. Abad is best known for his bestselling novel Angosta and, more recently, El Olvido que Seremos (t.
The Alchemist (Portuguese: O Alquimista) is a novel by Brazilian author Paulo Coelho which was first published in 1988. Originally written in Portuguese, it became a widely translated international bestseller.The story follows the shepherd boy Santiago in his journey across North Africa to the Egyptian pyramids after he dreams of finding a treasure there.
978-198-480-149-4. Preceded by. Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow. 21 Lessons for the 21st Century is a book written by Israeli author Yuval Noah Harari and published in August 2018 by Spiegel & Grau [1] in the US and by Jonathan Cape [2] in the UK. It is dedicated to the author's husband, Itzik. The book consists of five parts, each ...
Mercedes Rivera-Abad. Parent (s) Antonio Abad, (Father) Awards. Order of National Artists of the Philippines. Gémino Henson Abad (born February 5, 1939) is an educator, writer, and literary critic from Cebu, Philippines. [1] He is a National Artist for Literature of the Philippines. [2]
Jin Ping Mei is an erotic novel written under the pen-name Lanling Xiaoxiao Sheng (蘭陵笑笑生) ("The Scoffing Scholar of Lanling") in the late Ming dynasty. The novel is based on the story of Wu Song avenging his brother in Water Margin, but the focus is on Ximen Qing's sexual relations with other women, including Pan Jinlian.
Angosta. Angosta is a novel written by the Colombian author Héctor Abad Faciolince, published in 2003 by Seix Barral (Spain). [1] Angosta has been translated into Chinese as 深谷幽城 in 2005. The four Chinese characters mean, respectively: deep, valley, faint or dim, and castle, so an attempt to a translation would be "The deep valley and ...
The Heart in Winter, Irish author Kevin Barry’s first novel set in America, is a rollicking romance that is as wild as the Old West where it takes place.In 1891 Butte, Mont., a reckless young ...
Socialism portal ( WikiProject) Communism portal. Organized Labour. v. t. e. The Age of Enlightenment (also the Age of Reason and the Enlightenment) was the intellectual and philosophical movement that occurred in Europe in the 17th and the 18th centuries. [1] [2] The Enlightenment featured a range of social ideas centered on the value of ...