Books with title Little Man: A Novel

The great hurricane of 1953 swept away the dikes of Holland, drowned thousands of farmers, and left others homeless, but it also brought in a tidal wave of human kindness from all over the world. Among the flood survivors were ten-year-old Jan Brink, a war orphan, and the half-caste little Indonesian girl, Adinda, both of them foster children of Parson Grijpma. Stranded first in the houseboat and then in a hospital ship, the waifs learned that disaster makes all men brothers, and that adults treat children more kindly than usual.

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Excerpt from My Little Girl: A NovelFontainebleau was a very quiet place, and a lonely. To north and east lay the great silent forest. To south only, it open ed out; and, standing in the road, one could see ten miles of land - ten miles, rather, of waving canes -before the ocean seemed to rise up like a wall and bar the prospect. Looking over the sailless sea for no ships ever came that way the misanthrope might derive a sense of freedom from feel ing, that, far and wide, no land interposed between the headland beneath him and the barren peaks of the Antarctic shores, far to the south; but the broad fields looked hot, thirsty, and parched. It was better to turn northwards, and, climbing over the wall which kept out the deer, and was a nightly gymnasium for the monkeys, dive into the glades and recesses of the forest.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

“Little Man is a vivid and tangible piece of Canada itself. The story opens at the beginning of this century and continues to the present. An intensely human epic, colourful and exciting, it is stark and brutal at times, but at others reveals great tenderness and beauty. Little Man is a powerful and unforgettable chronicle of our own age—boom and depression, flood tide and ebb tide, war and peace and war again. It deserves an important place as a genuine social document, a true and biting commentary on our own times. Little Man is an honest and unflinching account of four amazing decades in the growth of a nation. The scenes move swiftly across Canada and back, to Britain and France and home again. The events are vivid and the characters splendidly alive, for the author describes what he has seen and known and felt...”

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MP3 CD Format Meng Jin is a writer whose sweep is as intimate as it is global. Little Gods is a novel about the heart-wracking ways in which we move through history and time. A fierce and intelligent debut from a writer with longitude and latitude embedded in her vision. Colum McCann, New York Times bestselling author of Let the Great World SpinCombining the emotional resonance of Home Fire with the ambition and innovation of Asymmetry, a lyrical and thought-provoking debut novel that explores the complex web of grief, memory, time, physics, history, and selfhood in the immigrant experience, and the complicated bond between daughters and mothers.On the night of June Fourth, a woman gives birth in a Beijing hospital alone. Thus begins the unraveling of Su Lan, a brilliant physicist who until this moment has successfully erased her past, fighting what she calls the mind s arrow of time. When Su Lan dies unexpectedly seventeen years later, it is her daughter Liya who inherits the silences and contradictions of her life. Liya, who grew up in America, takes her mother s ashes to China to her, an unknown country. In a territory inhabited by the ghosts of the living and the dead, Liya s memories are joined by those of two others: Zhu Wen, the woman last to know Su Lan before she left China, and Yongzong, the father Liya has never known. In this way a portrait of Su Lan emerges: an ambitious scientist, an ambivalent mother, and a woman whose relationship to her own past shapes and ultimately unmakes Liya s own sense of displacement.A story of migrations literal and emotional, spanning time, space and class, Little Gods is a sharp yet expansive exploration of the aftermath of unfulfilled dreams, an immigrant story in negative that grapples with our tenuous connections to memory, history, and self.

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