![]() ![]() The Wald is chock full of heroism, brotherhood, adventure, wit, and even history. In fact, we still feel them today in the global order. The outcome of these wars, in forthcoming works, will prove to have lasting repercussions. Though short, this encounter will set in motion a conflict lasting more than two decades with the tribes struggling under the might of the professional legions. ![]() While on their foraging rampage meant simply to gather supplies for the coming winter, they cross paths with the Roman Fifth Legion. when the belligerent Sugambrian tribe leaves their beloved forest to cross the Rhenus River into Gaul. Two worlds on vastly different tracks collide in the first book of Jason Born's new series called The Wald Chronicles. Though short, this encounter will set in motion a conflict lasting more than two decades with the tribes struggling. ![]()
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The story is told by a prisoner of war from a totalitarian society based on Maoist China, which has gone past Orwell’s Newspeak to speak only in quotations from propaganda texts. “Loyal to the Group of Seventeen’s Story-The Just Man” is a philosophical short story told in Chapter 11 of Gene Wolfe’s The Book of the New Sun, volume 4, The Citadel of the Autarch, on the topic of the Ascian language & political control of language for brainwashing. ![]() ![]() ![]() Through vivid and character-rich stories, Cheung braids a dual narrative of her own coming of age alongside that of her generation. Not quite at ease within the middle-class, cosmopolitan identity available to her at her English-speaking international school, she also resisted the conservative values of her deeply traditional, often dysfunctional family. ![]() Drawing from her own experience reporting on the politics and culture of her hometown, as well as interviews with musicians, protesters, and writers who have watched their home transform, Karen Cheung gives us a rare insider’s view of this remarkable city at a pivotal moment-for Hong Kong and, ultimately, for herself.īorn just before the handover to China in 1997, Cheung grew up questioning what version of Hong Kong she belonged to. ![]() But it is also misunderstood, and often romanticized. Hong Kong is known as a place of extremes: a former colony of the United Kingdom that now exists at the margins of an ascendant China a city rocked by mass protests, where residents rally-often in vain-against threats to their fundamental freedoms. “Hums with the thrill of being lost in this massive, haunted, mythologized, neon city, yet finding oneself in the end.”-Hua Hsu, author of A Floating Chinaman A boldly rendered-and deeply intimate-account of Hong Kong today, from a resilient young woman whose stories explore what it means to survive in a city teeming with broken promises. ![]() ![]() Nick Hornby, Julia Pierport, Jay McEirney, Whit Stillman and Jeffrey Eugenides are just a few of the Prix winners. ![]() One balmy evening in the first days of June, guests and international literati crowd Bar Fitzgerald, guzzling down gin and tonics as they await the winner of the Prix Fitzgerald C reated in 2011, the Fitzgerald Prize is annual literary award given to an author who evokes the spirit of Great Gatsby author in his or her own prose and published in French during that literary year. in April 2013, and has been updated for the March 2014 edition. Scott Fitzgerald at a country club dance in 1918, she is seventeen years old and he is a young army lieutenant stationed in Alabama. When beautiful, reckless Southern belle Zelda Sayre meets F. ![]() The Estène-Chauvins removated the space with more lighter colours, more natural light and a reorientation of the bar to its throne in front of wall-to ceiling fresco mapping out the Cote d’Azur. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, the glamorous power couple that captured the publics imagination in the Jazz Age, occupies center stage in Therese Ann Fowlers new book, simply called. A dazzling novel that captures all of the romance, glamour, and tragedy of the first flapper, Zelda Fitzgerald. A member of the Cafés Historiques et Patrimoniaux d’Europe, Bar Fitzgerald has had a charmed life and its 2023 incarnation even more so. When afternoon light begins to soften, the sunbathers migrate from the dock to the terrace and Bar Fitzgerald, the author’s favourite nook. 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