The Afterlives of Monuments

The Afterlives

✍ Pierce, Thomas 📂 Fiction 📅 2018 🏛 Penguin Publishing Group 🌐 en-US ⚖ 1 MB

****"Ridiculously good" (_The New York Times_) author **Thomas Pierce's debut novel is a funny, poignant love story that answers the question: What happens after we die? (Lots of stuff, it turns out).** Jim Byrd died. Technically. For a few minutes. The diagnosis: heart attack at age thirty. Reviv

The Afterlives

✍ Pierce, Thomas 📂 Fiction 📅 2018 🏛 Penguin Publishing Group 🌐 en-US ⚖ 1 MB

****"Ridiculously good" (_The New York Times_) author **Thomas Pierce's debut novel is a funny, poignant love story that answers the question: What happens after we die? (Lots of stuff, it turns out).** Jim Byrd died. Technically. For a few minutes. The diagnosis: heart attack at age thirty. Reviv

Afterlives

✍ Abdulrazak Gurnah 📂 Fiction 📅 2020 🏛 Bloomsbury 🌐 English ⚖ 198 KB 👁 2 views

'One of Africa's greatest living writers' Giles Foden Restless, ambitious Ilyas was stolen from his parents by the Schutzruppe askari, the German colonial troops; after years away, he returns to his village to find his parents gone, and his sister Afiya given away. Hamza was not stolen, bu

Afterlives

✍ Abdulrazak Gurnah 📂 Fiction 📅 2020 🏛 Bloomsbury 🌐 English ⚖ 198 KB 👁 2 views

'One of Africa's greatest living writers' Giles Foden Restless, ambitious Ilyas was stolen from his parents by the Schutzruppe askari, the German colonial troops; after years away, he returns to his village to find his parents gone, and his sister Afiya given away. Hamza was not stolen, bu

Afterlives

✍ Abdulrazak Gurnah 📂 Fiction 🌐 English ⚖ 2 MB

Afterlives is a 2020 work of historical fiction by the Nobel Prize-winning Zanjibar-born British author Abdulrazak Gurnah. It was first published by Bloomsbury Publishing on 17 September 2020.

Afterlives of the Saints

✍ Dickey, Colin 📂 Fiction 📅 2012 🏛 Unbridled Books 🌐 English ⚖ 415 KB

_Afterlives of the Saints_ is a woven gathering of groundbreaking essays that move through Renaissance anatomy and the Sistine Chapel, Borges' "Library of Babel," the history of spontaneous human combustion, the dangers of masturbation, the pleasures of castration, "and so forth" -- each essay focus