Astarte et Towa sont deux jeunes filles travaillant en tant que " messagers funéraires ", personnes chargées de transmettre les derniers mots des mourants à leurs proches. Tout en donnant le meilleur d'elle même dans son travail, Towa doit également apprendre à vivre avec ses sentiments grandissants pour Astarte et tenter d'éclaircir leur mystérieux passé commun...
A lyrical, sensuous and thoroughly engrossing memoir of one critical year in the life of an organic peach farmer, Epitaph for a Peach is "a delightful narrative . . ....
In the tradition of Laurence Sterne and Jonathan Swift -- and as a clear forerunner of the works of Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Jorge Luis Borges -- Epitaph of a Small Winner, first published in 1880, is one of the wittiest self-portraits in ...
... epitaph first before I could ever ask anyone else to write theirs, it seemed only reasonable that I should lead the way, 'put my money where my mouth is' so to speak. But what kind of epitaph would be so powerful, so simple, as to have ...
Green documents the descent into radicalism of these unions and concludes that as currently constituted and led, they no longer serve the public or national interest. The existence of this book testifies to a reversal of my own thinking.
Epitaph and Icon: A Field Guide to the Old Burying Grounds of Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard, and Nantucket
This book examines a number of facets of Western epitaph culture since antiquity, with particular emphasis on post-medieval developments in the major European countries as well as in North America....
An examination of how the dead were memorialised in late medieval French literature.