When a young doctor is found with another man, he is sent to the dreaded ‘Institution’, a place from which no man has ever returned. Mongrels they are called, the men who are sent to the Institution, and gripped with fear as he passes through the gates, the doctor silently curses the woman who caught him with another man.
The writings of Jacqueline Shohet Kahanoff (1917–1979) offer a refreshing reassessment of Arab-Jewish relations in the Middle East. A member of the bourgeois Jewish community in Cairo, Kahanoff grew up in a time of coexistence.
Brilliantly reasoned, highly thought provoking, and as historically sound as it is anecdotally rich, Mongrels, Bastards, Orphans, and Vagabonds is a major contribution to the discussion of the cultural and political future of the United ...
The front door of Shuna's family home acted as a gateway to Bangladesh.
Mongrel Nation surveys the history of the United Kingdom’s African, Asian, and Caribbean populations from 1948 to the present, working at the juncture of cultural studies, literary criticism, and postcolonial theory.
This is the incredible story of how a sickly, scruffy pawper, saved from a miserable caged life, found the strength and courage to bounce back through selfless love, kindness and compassion to become the toast of the town.
When med student Hale is called home by his ailing mother on Halloween night, he and a group of friends are trapped in an inescapable cycle of violence.
Louis DeSipio , Counting on the Latino Vote : Latinos as a New Electorate ( Charlottesville : University Press of Virginia , 1998 ) , 179 . 170. Robert A. Levine , " Assimilation , Past and Present Waves of Immigration , " Public ...
Outriders? Scouts?” “Not that I can tell.” “Are they on our side of the border?” “I can't tell that. They're close to the border, as well as I can sense.” “We'll keep moving. Can you let me know if those riders move north?” “Yes, ser.
A quirky and riveting anthology of 101 alternative essential lives.
On the outskirts of Dublin City, a young couple’s relationship hangs by a thread.