A house party is in full swing at Lady Hunstanton's stately country home. One of the guests is Gerard Arbuthnot, an earnest, upright young man whose prospects are limited, so he is overjoyed when the suave Lord Illingworth offers him employment as his secreatry. His mother, however, implores him to refuse this brilliant entree into sophistcated society. Should she reveal the shameful secret …
This powerful, passionate and highly acclaimed novel tells, through the eyes of a child, the moving story of Japanese Canadians during the Second World War. Naomi is a sheltered and beloved 5 year old when Pearl Harbor changes her life. Separated from her mother, she watches bewildered as she and her family become enemy aliens, presecuted and despised in their own land. Surrounded by hardshi…
Michael Rogan was an intelligence officer behind enemy lines in World War II Europe. But he made the mistake of falling in love, which gave him something to lose. Or to be taken from him. Captured by the Nazis, Michael was not treated as a prisoner of war. He was treated as an experiment. A piece of meat. A subject upon which his captors commited atrocity after atrocity. But not before they …
mengisahkan pergumulan karir, ambisi dan cinta dalam bahasa sederhana dan mengesankan. Kaya muatan filsafat dan menarik untuk diikuti. Tuntutan kesetaraan jender yang dikemas dalam pertentangan batin seorang perempuan, menjadikan novel ini bukan sekedar bacaan yang memberikan inspirasi tetapi juga contoh bagi perjuangan perempuan melawan dominasi di sekelilingnya.
Aku melarikan diri dari kenyataan hidup, dengan terus menerus mencari kesenangan palsu. Yang kujalani semuanya adalah kebohongan dan kepura-puraan. Dan semuanya itu dibayar oleh oenderitaan orang lain. Yang kutebar adalah kebencian, kemunafikan, kebohongan dan kejahatan. Di hadapanku tidak ada dunia lain, kecuali bayangan dan fatamorgana kebahagiaan, tipuan yang sepenuhnya aku sadari sendiri.
Tujuh Kumpulan cerita pendek asal Samoa yang sangat menyentuh hati nurani. Dituturkan secara halus dari sudut pandang orang Samoa yang kontemporer. Kisah-kisahnya menyajikan suatu studi brilian tentang masyarakat pulau tradisional dalam mengejar perubahan-perubahan yang cepat dari Abad ke-20
... This dark, unforgettable story of Catherine Earnshaw and the swarthy Heathcliff 'is moorish, and wild, and knotty as a root of heath', and Emily Bronte records the progress of their love with such truth, imagination, and emotional intensity that a plain tale of the York-shire moors acquires the depth and simplicity of ancient tragedy.