He had crashed through the old, wooden wall, propelled like one of Van Helsing’s arrows by the collision with another motorcycle taxi. But some fifty metres farther, he found himself lying motionless in a stranger’s living room, having entered not through the door or window. Barely fifty metres in, he turned to acrobatics to dodge a motorcycle taxi. Champion had already vanished into Obili’s ghetto. ‘Sir, your money! Sir …’ The driver yelled in vain after looking left and right. Taking off like Usain Bolt, Champion set off on the tortuous two-hundred-metre path that separates the pavement from his home in the swamp at the bottom of the hill. Of Passion and Ink, which is the debut publication from Bakwa Books, will be published in May 2019.īam! The back door of the taxi slammed shut. The excerpt is taken from a short story by A Bouna Guazong, translated from the French by Hannah Jakobsen. Of Passion and Ink: New Voices from Cameroon The JRB presents an excerpt from Of Passion and Ink: New Voices from Cameroon, a collection of short stories forthcoming from Bakwa Books.
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My girl, you haven't been just a soldier in a very long time. Together, the two women must overcome their enemies, their history, and their heartbreak in order to secure Luca's power and Touraine's freedom. And, even more importantly, if Luca won't keep her promises, the Qazali could end up right back where they started. However, she soon realizes that leading a country and leading a revolution are two very different tasks. Touraine has found a home in the newly free country of Qazal. When he calls for a "Trial of Competence" and Luca's allies start disappearing from her side, she will have to prove her might. Luca needs to oust her uncle from the Balladairan throne once and for all and take her rightful place as Queen. But undoing the tangled web that binds the two nations won't be easy, and Touraine and Luca will face their greatest challenge yet. The rebels have won, and the empire is withdrawing from Qazal. Clark's Magic of the Lost trilogy, soldier Touraine and princess Luca must return to Balladaire to reclaim Luca's throne and to face the consequences of dismantling an empire. There are computers and contraceptives, tanks and antibiotics, but this is a world governed by human customs, not by technological "progress." The two societies LeGuin describes are both tribal, though she prevents us from thinking of either as "primitive." As in Shevek's role as mediator between the planets Urres and Anarres in The Dispossessed, the two cultures in conflict here are observed by a narrator not wholly part of either world. The novel is set in northern California in some far distant future that has been shaped by earthquakes and social upheaval. It lacks, however, the flawless integration of storyline and interspersed folk-material that characterized 1969's The Left Hand of Darkness. Far less preachy than 1974's The Dispossessed, this is equally intelligent and ambitious. 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She's been written off as a Hollywood casualty by almost everyone, including her own mother. USA Today bestselling author Liz Talley's emotional and heart-lifting novel about facing the past, unconditional love, and a woman on the verge of a breakthrough.After another all-night bender, one more failed stint at rehab, and a parole violation, self-destructive actress Chase London has to deal with her demons. Although old and ailing, he threw himself into war work in 1914, and in 1915, a few months before his death, he became a British subject. In 1905 he revisited the United States and wrote The American Scene (1907).ĭuring his career he also wrote many works of criticism and travel. Other famous works include Washington Square (1880), The Portrait of a Lady (1881), The Princess Casamassima (1886), The Aspern Papers (1888), The Turn of the Screw (1898), and three large novels of the new century, The Wings of the Dove (1902), The Ambassadors (1903) and The Golden Bowl (1904). In December 1876 he moved to London, where two years later he achieved international fame with Daisy Miller. Late in 1875 he settled in Paris, where he met Turgenev, Flaubert, and Zola, and wrote The American (1877). In 1869, and then in 1872≧4, he paid visits to Europe and began his first novel, Roderick Hudson. He lived in Newport, went briefly to Harvard Law School, and in 1864 began to contribute both criticism and tales to magazines. He spent his early life in America and studied in Geneva, London and Paris during his adolescence to gain the worldly experience so prized by his father. HENRY JAMES (1843≡916), born in New York City, was the son of noted religious philosopher Henry James, Sr., and brother of eminent psychologist and philosopher William James. |