Cultural Heritage category: 3433 books

This classic collection of Korean folk and fairy tales is of cultural enormous importance for Koreans and Westerners alike. First published in 1913 but regrettably long out of print, this fascinating little volume is now made available once again for the enjoyment of all who love an ancient...

“‘One step at a time, one breath, one life … one destiny.’ These were my mother’s famous words. She called them the steps of life.” Zohra grows up believing that her destiny is written in the stars, that Maktoub will guide her step by step towards her own true love. When she meets...

An entertaining debut novel reminiscent of Zadie Smith’s White Teeth that explores the lives of an extended Pakistani family of immigrants in London—all with a gently humorous touch and fond but wry eye Harris, the presumed patriarch of his large extended family in both England and Pakistan,...

Este libro, que fue un bestseller la primera vez que fue publicado hace 35 años, cuenta la historia de la familia Sandoval, una familia que huye a los Estados Unidos en busca de una mejor vida. Héctor, el patriarca de los Sandoval trabaja en el campo y lucha por alimentar a su familia mientras se...

Extrait : "Regardez l'enfant qu'une folle ronde emporte : ivre de plaisir, il tourne, il chante, il bondit !... et tout à coup, au milieu même de son transport, vous le voyez s'arrêter ; il abandonne les mains de ses compagnons de jeux, il s'éloigne ; il va au coin le plus reculé se reposer un instant...

The Balochi people and language is spread from the coast of Iran to the interior of Pakistan. There are few written sources of their tribal legends and folklore. M. Longworth Dames brings together his wealth of knowledge on tribal language and culture, as a member of the esteemed folklore society...

"My mother never writes. So when the mail arrived that day, I was not expecting to find a letter from her. There was no warning." Between generations of women, there are always secrets--relationships kept hidden, past events obscured, true feelings not spoken. But sometimes the truth...

“Daring, dazzling. . . A tough, funny, heart-breaking book” by the National Book Award–nominated author of An Unnecessary Woman (The Seattle Times). Detailing the impact of the AIDS epidemic in America and the Lebanese civil war in Beirut on a circle of friends and their families during...

The national bestseller by the award-winning Thai American author. “A brilliant collection . . . brimming with sharp-clawed survival lessons” (Los Angeles Times).   Set in contemporary Thailand, these are generous, radiant tales of family bonds, youthful romance, generational conflicts, and...

Tatsie era un grosero camuflero de piel gruesa, despreciado por el resto de la tribu, por su arrogancia y su total egoísmo. Su conducta era inaceptable en una pequeña comunidad de viviendas desérticas. Los niños lo odiaban más, por la forma en que los intimidaba.Averigüe lo que pasó cuando una mujer de edad decidió matar y finalmente deshacerse de él ...

4 women (2 handball goalkeepers: French MIT grad student & American recovering from concussions, a Harvard linguistics PhD candidate & a Cambridge public librarian) Handball does exist in America! The characters become entwined with the local team, having many entertaining adventures. The...

The prologue for the powerful novel Contradictions begins on November 9, 1938 in Berlin, Germany, on the afternoon before Kristallnacht, the Night of Broken Glass.----The story flashes forward to 1980, when Rachel, a young Jewish woman at the beginning of her academic career and the daughter of a Holocaust...

The object of this work is to familiarize young students with the legends which form the staple of mediaeval literature. While they may owe more than is apparent at first sight to the classical writings of the palmy days of Greece and Rome, these legends are very characteristic of the people who told...

The Valley of the Squinting Windows (1918), Brinsley MacNamara's first published novel, so enraged the Westmeath community in which he lived that the book was publicly burned, its author humiliated and his father, the local schoolteacher, boycotted and driven into exile. MacNamara (1890-1963) was...