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When Rain Clouds Gather / Bessie Head
Titre : When Rain Clouds Gather Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Bessie Head, Auteur Editeur : Macmillan Readers Année de publication : 2013 Importance : 79 p. Format : 20 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-230-02440-3 Prix : £ 10 Langues : Anglais Tags : poverty Africa Botswana village tradition Résumé : The poverty-stricken village of Golema Mmidi, in the heart of rural Botswana, offers a haven to the exiles gathered there. Makhaya, a political refugee from South Africa, becomes involved with an English agricultural expert and the villagers as they struggle to upgrade their traditional farming methods with modern techniques. The pressures of tradition, the opposition of the local chief, and, above all, the harsh climate threaten to bring tragedy to the community, but strangely, there remains a hope for the future. Niveau : Level 5 Réservation
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Code-barres Cote Support Localisation Section Disponibilité 101930 EE HEA Livre Studium Lectures Faciles / Kolay kitaplar Disponible The Grass is Singing / Doris Lessing
Titre : The Grass is Singing Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Doris Lessing, Auteur Editeur : London [Angleterre] : Fourth Estate Année de publication : 2011 Importance : 206 p. Format : 20 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-00-790365-8 Prix : 2.60 EUR Langues : Anglais Tags : realism Africa farmer colonialism novel rhodesia poverty Résumé : Set in South Africa under white rule, Doris Lessing's first novel is both a riveting chronicle of human disintegration and a beautifully understated social critique.
Mary Turner is a self-confident, independent young woman who becomes the depressed, frustrated wife of an ineffectual, unsuccessful farmer. Little by little the ennui of years on the farm work their slow poison, and Mary's despair progresses until the fateful arrival of an enigmatic and virile black servant, Moses. Locked in anguish, Mary and Moses -- master and slave -- are trapped in a web of mounting attraction and repulsion. Their psychic tension explodes in an electrifying scene that ends this disturbing tale of racial strife in colonial South Africa.
The Grass Is Singing blends Lessing's imaginative vision with her own vividly remembered early childhood to recreate the quiet horror of a woman's struggle against a ruthless fate.Réservation
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Code-barres Cote Support Localisation Section Disponibilité 107450 EN LES Livre Forum Romans / Romanlar Disponible Shantaram / Gregory David Roberts
Titre : Shantaram Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Gregory David Roberts, Auteur Editeur : Abacus Paperback Année de publication : 2003 Importance : 933 p. Format : 20 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-349-11754-6 Langues : Anglais Tags : autobiography India mafia poverty Résumé : In 1978, gifted student and writer Greg Roberts turned to heroin when his marriage collapsed, feeding his addiction with a string of robberies. Caught and convicted, he was given a nineteen-year sentence. After two years, he escaped from a maximum- security prison, spending the next ten years on the run as Australia's most wanted man. Hiding in Bombay, he established a medical clinic for slum- dwellers, worked in the Bollywood film industry and served time in the notorious Arthur Road prison. He was recruited by one of the most charismatic branches of the Bombay mafia for whom he worked as a forger, counterfeiter, and smuggler, and fought alongside a unit of mujaheddin guerrilla fighters in Afghanistan. His debut novel, SHANTARAM, is based on this ten-year period of his life in Bombay. The result is an epic tale of slums and five-star hotels, romantic love and prison torture, mafia gang wars and Bollywood films. Réservation
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Code-barres Cote Support Localisation Section Disponibilité 105901 EN ROB Livre Studium Livres en anglais / English books Disponible South Africa's Dividing Line in Time, 18 (May 13, 2019)
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Titre : South Africa's Dividing Line Type de document : texte imprimé Année de publication : 2019 Langues : Anglais Tags : South Africa Mandela racism poverty
in Time > 18 (May 13, 2019)[article]States of vulnerability in Time, 04 (February 5, 2018)
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Titre : States of vulnerability Type de document : texte imprimé Année de publication : 2018 Langues : Anglais Tags : United States poverty economy
in Time > 04 (February 5, 2018)[article]Untouchable / Mulk Raj Anand
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