Showing results for "Bliss" in World Literature

In rural Turkey, Meryem is raped by her uncle. Outcast for shaming her family, she is expected to kill herself. Her commando cousin instead tells her he will take her to Istanbul. By chance, they meet Irfan, a celebrity professor who has left his wife, and the three embark on a journey that shows what unexpected things can happen in the space between wounded people.

This is a story from the Bliss & Other Stories collection.

An inspiring story of star-crossed love and female independence. London, 1936: At twenty-one, Kate Grifferty is a press photographer in a Fleet Street agency, an unusual job for a young woman. But Kate is both talented and daring, recklessly going wherever the story might be—including, one...

For months, I've tried to stop loving her. Begged myself in the darkness of the night as I lay awake, to let her go. So badly, I've wanted to move on from the hurt inside and the love I still cling to, but I can't. Telling myself not to love her is like telling myself to stop breathing. Impossible. Unfathomable. But watching her prepare to marry another man is like a searing knife to the heart that keeps twisting. Beginning a new life in California seemed like the only option, but seeing her while I lie in my hospital bed, I can sense something is amiss.

Intense and densely layered, Involuntary Bliss is the latest intriguing story from the award-winning young Canadian writer Devon Code. Situated in modern-day Montreal during a weekend in late August, two young men attempt to restore their friendship.

Kara is a sex columnist who believes lovemaking is a natural physical function and nothing more. When she meets a J.M. - a Tantra master who thinks sex is the way to reach a higher spiritual plane - she thinks he's whacked. But when he volunteers to tutor her in the ancient sensual arts and show her what Tantra is all about - one look at his smoking-hot body and wildly good looks, and it's an offer she can't refuse.

A road trip through a landscape of a consciousness, both reflective and outlandish, chronicling a seeker of experience, adventures, and justice; a thrill-seeking ride through memory, awareness, reminiscent of an odyssey, often heroic, on a journey to make sense of and experience in a profound way this world we live in.