Showing results for "Touch" in World Literature

The Seeker has grown up in a world where deliberate physical contact is a crime, and for most of her life it hasn't bothered her. But when some of her classmates are arrested for touching, she decides to try the most forbidden of things and touch another person. When she discovers the power of touching and how it changes her and those around her, will the Seeker be content to return to a life without it?

Verano de 1998. Marta, una celadora en el Museo Sorolla, lleva meses intercambiándose mensajes secretos con un desconocido y sus días transcurren entre hipótesis sobre quién estará detrás de ese juego y paseos por las calles de Madrid. Mientras, en Londres, Adela afronta como puede la crisis de su matrimonio y se siente protagonista de una extraña realidad que ella, pese a dedicarse a la escritura, no consigue definir.

""A delicious culinary romance."" —Booklist From the author of A Taste of Sage comes another charming and engrossing novel in which a young woman must navigate her family’s expectations, the demands of her job, a new love, and a secret about her magical identity. Larimar Cintrón works hard...

This extraordinary collection of correspondence by Paul Bowles spans eight decades and provides an evolving portrait of an artist renowned for his privacy. From his earliest extant letter, written at the age of four, to his precocious effusions to Aaron Copeland and to Gertrude Stein; from his...

Part lyric essay, part prose poetry, Where Things Touch grapples with the manifold meanings and possibilities of beauty. Drawing on her experiences as a physician-in-training, Orang considers clinical encounters and how they relate to the concept and very idea of beauty. Such considerations lead her to questions about intimacy, queerness, home, memory, love, and other aspects of human existence. Throughout, beauty is ultimately imagined as something inextricably tied to care: the care of lovers, of patients, of art and literature, and the various non-human worlds that surround us.

The Don't Touch Garden explores what it is to be adopted, both for the child and the adoptive parents, through a wide range of poetic styles and complex emotions. An absorbing account of the legacy of being an adopted child. Forthright and tender, this moving sequence reflects Foley's unflinching gaze into the mirror in a sometimes excoriating attempt to discern traces of her belonging, and to make peace with the past. Joy Howard, Poet, publisher and former Fostering Services Manager.

The acclaimed author of haunting crime novels of the Pacific Northwest reaches new heights of suspense. Four times in his 10-year search for the perfect woman, Gordon Murphy has been wrong. Now, he's set his sights on Cassandra Mitchell--despite the fact that she's living happily with Staff...

Inside this debut collection, girlhood’s dangers echo, transmuted, in the poet’s fears for her son. A body just discovering the vastness of “want’s new acreage” is humbled by chronic illness. Epithalamion turns elegy. But this world that so often seems capricious in its cruelty also shelters apple orchards, glass museums, schoolchildren, century-old sharks; “there’s no accounting for / all we want to save, no names.” Oliver’s polyphonic gathering of speakers includes lovers and saints, painters and dead poets, a hawk and a mother.

Literatura brasileira: da tinta ao touch é uma viagem pela história da literatura brasileira, desde os primórdios coloniais até os dias atuais. Com uma linguagem leve e descontraída, vamos explorar como a nossa rica tradição literária se reinventou ao longo do tempo até chegar às inovações dos autores contemporâneos nas plataformas digitais. Ideal para quem quer entender e se apaixonar pela literatura brasileira de uma forma envolvente e acessível, este é um guia para agradar todos os leitores.

“Entra a casa y cierra la reja. Deja al mundo tras de sí. Dentro, una televisión encendida, los trastes sucios, el alpiste servido”. Al estilo de las fábulas de Esopo, los nueve cuentos que integran el libro "Donde el río se toca" de la escritora mexicana Rose Mary Salum, nos llevan a lugares que es difícil visitar.

Rays: Wherever They Touch reach Jim Ross's short poetry and streams into our lives as it did in Scattered Reflections, A Plea to a Wine Cork, and Daydreams Alongside Surf. Evocative, the nature of Rays is fluid, expanding and contracting as it draws us along. As with Daydreams, even a brief listen inspires the magic of this wonderful book - wherever you listen.

"God is love; therefore, I believe that love must be divine. That’s my love and reason for what I do,” Nina states to the interviewer. A divine love affair starts on a royal detail and ends with a Latin flava! For love and reason...

A unique collection of diverse poems written over a lifetime by the author.