The Ingenious Hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha
ISBN : 9780140449099
Don Quixote has become so entranced by reading romance of chivalry that he determines a knight errant and pursue bold adventures, accompanied by his squire, the cunning Sancho Panza. As they roam the world together, the ageing Quixote's fancy leads them widly astray. As the same time the relationship between the two men grows with fascinating subtlely. Often considered to be the first modern novel, Don Quixote is a wonderful burlesque of the popular literature its discovered protagonist is obsessed with.
There Are Rivers in the Sky
ISBN : 9780241435021
This is the story of one lost poem, two great rivers and three remarkable lives - all connected by a single drop of water. In the ruins of Nineveh, an ancient city of Mesopotamia, there lies, hidden in the sand, fragments of a long-forgotten poem, the Epic of Gilgamesh. In Victorian London, an extraordinary child is born at the edge of the dirt-black River Thames. Arthur's only chance of escaping poverty is his brilliant memory. When his gift earns him a spot as an apprentice at a printing press, Arthur's world opens up far beyond the slums, with one book sending him across the seas : "Nineveh and Its Remains". In Turkey in 2014, Narin, a Yazidi girl living by the River Tigris, waits to be baptized with water brought from the holy Lalish in Iraq. The ceremony is cruelly interrupted, and soon Narin and her grandmother must journey across war-torn lands in the hope of reaching the sacred valley of their people. In London in 2018, broken-hearted Zaleekhah, a hydrologist, moves to a houseboat on the Thames to escape the wreckage of her marriage. Zaleekhah foresees a life drained of all love and meaning, until an unexpected connection to her homeland changes everything.
WHAT YOU ARE LOOKING FOR IS IN THE LIBRA
ISBN : 9781804994139
WHAT YOU ARE LOOKING FOR IS IN THE LIBRA
