![]() In 1991 Zana was elected to the Grand National Assembly of Turkey on behalf of the Social Democratic People's Party (SHP). When she was 14 years old, she was married to Mehdi Zana, who was the mayor of Diyarbakır until the military coup d'état and a political prisoner after it. She was born in May 1961, in Silvan, Diyarbakır Province, in the southeast of Turkey. ![]() She was also awarded the Rafto Prize in 1994 after being recognized by the Rafto Foundation for being incarcerated for her peaceful struggle for the human rights of the Kurdish people in Turkey and the neighbouring countries. She was awarded the 1995 Sakharov Prize by the European Parliament, but was unable to collect it until her release in 2004. ![]() Leyla Zana Leyla Zana (born03-05-1961) is a Turkish politician of Kurdish origin who was imprisoned for ten years for her political activism, which was deemed by the Turkish courts to be against the unity of the country. ![]()
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![]() This story (like all of Chaim Potok's stories) is intensely concerned with what it means to be Jewish. But the writing captures every bit of emotion that goes with those moments. The things that happen here are not extraordinary in themselves: a woman grieves the death of her brother, a boy wishes his father was home more, a young man becomes the apprentice of an (in)famous artist. ![]() Asher is ready to stop the rumors and the gossip by telling the story of his life, his struggles with his parents, and the art that dwells in his soul and compels him to paint things that no good Jew should even think of.Ĭhaim Potok is wonderfully adept at writing a book that is full of everyday moments, but conveys volumes. He is determined that people should know the truth. ![]() Our protagonist, the Asher Lev of the title, confesses that he is the artist that everyone has been talking about. My Name is Asher Lev is a book that wastes no time getting started. ![]() ![]() A fantastic book! I totally enjoyed reading about this group of friends and really liked how they’ve been there for each other for many years, through good and bad times. As I was reading this story the descriptions of the beach and the water are so detailed that I swore I heard the waves crashing on shore and felt the sand between my toes. DeMaio and let me tell you I enjoyed it just as much as the last. This is the second book I have had the pleasure of reading by Ms. All of the individual stories are interesting, heart wrenching and had me in anticipation from chapter to chapter. I completely surrendered to the story and was lost in the sea of emotion and drama. ![]() They reach out and grab a hold of your heart very quickly.īLUE JEANS AND COFFEE BEANS will have you laughing out loud and snickering with the banter and sarcastic comments these people are involved in. ![]() ![]() Maris, Eva and Jason are three characters that have an overwhelming amount of emotional pain. The group of high school friends all of which still live in the same community except for Maris, who has returned to attend her father’s funeral & settle his estate. Joanne DeMaio easily captivates her readers’ attention with this beautifully written and emotional tale through a seamless and flowing storyline. They will do just about anything for a chance to strengthen the bonds of friendship. BLUE JEANS AND COFFEE BEANS is the story of a group of long time friends on the shores of Long Island Sound in the idyllic seashore town of Stony Point, Connecticut. ![]() ![]() ![]() "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. ![]() Is one of these things the answer to her prayer? Would exploring her parents' past mean losing a future with Noah? Is the exploration worth the risk? ![]() Devastated, Callie cries herself to sleep, only to be awakened a few hours later by her uncle with the startling news that Noah Koehn has asked permission to court her. The prayer has barely left her mouth when she finds a stack of letters with secrets about her parent's lives and their excommunication from the Mennonite church. On the eve of her twenty-third birthday, struggling with hopelessness as another year passes, Callie pleads with God to open a door for her. She longs to do more to alleviate the poverty and sickness that surrounds her, but tradition and her uncle forbid her. Raised by her aunt and uncle after the death of her parents, Callie works beside her aunt cooking, cleaning, and sewing each day as the men head off to serve the community. For a young Mennonite woman who wants to make a difference in the world, growing up on the mission field in Haiti should be the perfect fit. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() A longstanding culture of conformity and docility has been promoted through education and social conditioning. Dominating and controlling the population is an age old problem in this part of the world. Yet these societies have all, at least until quite recently, given their male populations extensive military training. For instance, in Singapore, a private citizen in possession of a firearm faces a death sentence. These tend to impose severe legal restrictions of personal freedom. This is particularly obvious in the case of islands with Chinese influenced cultures. ![]() Personal freedoms tend to be limited as much by culture as by actual government fiat. East Asia is full of urban jungles with seemingly submissive populations. But for a really severe situation to arise, a certain cultural predisposition to mindless group behavior has also to be factored in. ![]() The book describes tactics that could easily be applied to hostile urban environments with tight controls of personal freedom such as New York or San Francisco. Cities with large numbers of people living in a relatively small space are not unique to Asia. Most Zombie novels pay limited attention to what would really happen in an authoritarian state with highly limited freedoms if the “proverbial” really did hit the fan. ![]() ![]() When soldiers arrived at her mountain monastery, destroying everything in their path, Kunsang and her family fled across the Himalayas only to spend years in Indian refugee camps. ![]() ![]() There was a saying in Tibet: "When the iron bird flies and horses run on wheels, the Tibetan people will be scattered like ants across the face of the earth." The Chinese invasion of Tibet in 1950 changed everything. She married a monk, had two children, and lived in peace and prayer. Though simple, Kunsang's life gave her all she needed: a oneness with nature and a sense of the spiritual in all things. One of the country's youngest Buddhist nuns, she grew up in a remote mountain village where, as a teenager, she entered the local nunnery. Kunsang thought she would never leave Tibet. ![]() A memoir and portrait of three generations of Tibetan women whose lives are forever changed when Chairman Mao's Red Army crushes Tibetan independence, sending a young mother and her six-year-old daughter on a treacherous journey across the snowy Himalayas toward freedom. ![]() ![]() Inspired by Jane Austen’s persuasion, For Darkness Shows the Stars is a breathtaking romance about opening your mind to the future and your heart to the one person you know can break it. And again, she’s faced with a choice: cling to what she’s been raised to believe, or cast her lot with the only boy she’s ever loved, even if she’s lost him forever. And while Elliot wonders if this could be their second chance, Kai seems determined to show Elliot exactly what she gave up when she let him go.īut Elliot soon discovers her old friend carries a secret-one that could change their society. Since then the world has changed: a new class of Post-Reductionists is jumpstarting the wheel of progress, and Elliot’s estate is foundering, forcing her to rent land to the mysterious Cloud Fleet, a group of shipbuilders that includes renowned explorer Captain Malakai Wentforth-an almost unrecognizable Kai. Four years ago Elliot refused to run away with her childhood sweetheart, the servant Kai, choosing duty to her family’s estate over love. It’s been several generations since a genetic experiment gone wrong caused the Reduction, decimating humanity and giving rise to a Luddite nobility who outlawed most technology.Įlliot North has always known her place in this world. ![]() ISBN-13: 9780062006141 Formats available: paperback, ebook, hardcover. ![]() Partly because of the cover, and partly because of the dystopian-ness of the plot! ![]() ![]() ![]() It's a great, fast-paced introduction to a new series that will leave you wanting more. Which again, ends on a cliffhanger! This feeling I'm left with, must be what it's like to have an addiction. How am I suppose to wait patiently for Half-Blood after reading this? It ends on a cliffhanger and then I thought, luckily there is a sneak peak of Half-Blood. Prequel are usually a hint of whats to come, but this was pure torture. What happens in Daimon proves that the world isn't any safer. She suppose to be training at the Covenant to become a Sentinel - somebody who hunts and kills Daimons (DEE-muns), but her mother took away one night ans still refuses to explain why, just that it's not safe there for them. Alex is a Half-Blood, a child of a Hematoi and mortal. Hematois descend from the unions of gods and mortals. We're introduced to the main character Alex (Alexandria) and her mom, a Hematoi (HEM-a-toy). ![]() ![]() ![]() He wrote, he says, always out of a desire to make something better of his life, in the hope of “a cool hand on a warm forehead”.Īs an interviewer, the curiosity of first meeting Knausgaard is doubly unnerving. ![]() My Struggle proceeds as if the clues to Knausgaard’s fractured formative years, the breakdown of his first marriage, his dislocating move from his native Norway to Sweden and a new wife, Linda, and the brief joys and long frustrations of looking after three small children, might make some more sense in their reliving. Written over two and a bit years, around the time the author turned 40, their 3,600 published pages seem to offer a direct line into the Norwegian’s troubled and attentive mind as it tries to understand itself through the reconstructed detail of everyday life. ![]() The books – he likes to call them “the project”, as if they were a sort of demonic exercise – set a new standard of literary self-disclosure. F or anyone who has read all or part of the six volumes of Karl Ove Knausgaard’s autobiographical novel My Struggle, I guess it would be a profoundly curious thing to meet him in person. ![]() ![]() ![]() And I most definitely did not see the ending coming. I thoroughly enjoyed unveiling the story of Joe’s past and what was to come. The balance between the present and the past offered a great deal of suspense and mystery. It was the perfect setting though for this book. Arnhill (the hometown) is a dreary place. She most definitely knows how to create a dark atmosphere. The story flowed and the characters vivid.Ĭ. The writing was brilliant and because it was so easy to read, it made me read it really quick. In fact, much of what Joe went through back then seems to be happening again. Joe, a witty yet troubled man, returns to his hometown. TOP READ: The Taking of Annie Thorne by C. Three books and a five star rating below. However, three books were consumed and I’m most of the way through a fourth novel (a classic apparently) by Dean Koontz! I wanted to read more, but I was busy snorkelling and exploring the island of Kuredu. I’m now back from my honeymoon in The Maldives, which was amazing! ![]() |