6/30/2023 0 Comments Zlateh the goat and other stories![]() ![]() His books for children include A Day of Pleasure, winner of the National Book Award, and three Newbery Honor Books: Zlateh the Goat, The Fearsome Inn, and When Shlemiel Went to Warsaw Maurice Sendak was awarded the 1964 Caldecott Medal for Where the Wild Things Are. Beginning with his novel The Family Moskat (1950) and his first collection of stories, Gimpel the Fool (1957), Singer published a steady stream of books - all of them written in Yiddish and translated into many languages - for which he was awarded the 1978 Nobel Prize for Literature. In 1935 he came to New York, where he worked as a journalist and translated Hebrew, German, and Polish books into Yiddish. ![]() Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904-1991) was born in Radzymin, Poland, and grew up in Warsaw. ![]()
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![]() ![]() And I’m conflicted about how to judge it. It is, ultimately, a very different book than its great predecessor, and one that deserves to be judged on its own merits. Here – it’s a computer game based on the same assumption, that’s a great idea for our times :)! In the classic book, a novel depicting alternative history within alternative history – a world where Axis won the war (differently than in our world, but still) is central to the plot. (from Acknowledgements)Īnother bow to Dick – similar plot device. Even though we’re very different writers, he’s had a huge influence on me and helped me to view the world in a completely unique light. Obviously, the first person I want to thank is Philip K Dick who inspired me a great deal growing up, especially through The Man in the High Castle. United States of Japan wouldn’t exist without some wonderful people. It’s more than that, surely, but that’s the first thing that comes to a reader’s mind and the author doesn’t hide his inspirations: It is, of course, The Man in the High Castlewith mecha, the cover (I love it!) tells us as much. Thanks, Angry Robot! Book will be published in the beginning of March, and I got to read it already, so it’s only fair that I’ll write a few words about it □ My first ARC □ Yay! Thanks to Angry Robot’s Robot Army programme, we got early access (through NetGalley) to the ebook of United States of Japan by Peter Tieryas. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() For most people, the two events seemed unconnected. History repeated itself 500 years later in July 1995 in Europe's worst massacre since World War Two. In the year of his death, 1476, the Prince of Wallachia Vlad Dracula committed a bloody massacre under the cloak of medieval Bosnia's forested mountains in the town of Srebrenica. "Kiss of the Butterfly" is a literary thriller rooted in actual events. Meticulously researched and set against the background of collapsing Yugoslavia, "Kiss of the Butterfly" weaves together intricate threads from age-old Balkan folklore and modern events, to create a tapestry of passion and betrayal, obsession and desire, the thirst for life and the hunger for death. Singled out for the task by an enigmatic professor, Steven overcomes his doubts and plunges into the maelstrom to uncover long-lost clues to an ancient Emperor's deeply buried secret, a long-forgotten evil that slumbered for centuries only to reawaken. People thirst for it the entire country is mad with desire for it." A dying man's cryptic letter catapults California college student Steven Roberts on a mystery-shrouded quest into the labyrinth of the war-torn Balkans. ![]() 6/30/2023 0 Comments Castle by David Macaulay![]() If inclement weather kept him indoors, he joined his family in the kitchen, where projects were always underway. ![]() There, he uncovered a wealth of small treasures like animal skeletons and unusual rocks, which he collected and catalogued. At the bottom of the street were woods where young Macaulay spent much of his time playing and exploring-lost in his own imagination. He and his family lived at the end of a row of identical brick houses typical of those found in industrial Northern England. ![]() It was not long before he began constructing elevators out of shoe boxes, tape, and string, and devising intricate systems of moving cable cars with empty spools and thread. When David Macaulay (b.1946) was a young boy living in Bolton, England, he was fascinated by simple technology. ![]() Home > Artists > David Macaulay David Macaulay Born: DecemBiography ![]() |