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Lieferung aus: Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, Usually ships in 24 hours, zzgl. Versandkosten (wenn der Anbieter in Ihr Land liefert).
Von Händler/Antiquariat, Amazon.com.
Coal Island is a place of secrets, gossip and murder. Peopled with characters that simultaneously laugh at life and are broken by it, it is a Petri dish for experiments with the darkness that sometimes enters ordinary days and the surprising clarity that comes after suffering. Wildlife on Coal Island is a collection of eleven stories, all set on a fictional island located in present day Malaysia. Characters tell their own stories but occasionally appear in the stories of others. The collection is in the vein of V.S. Naipaul's Miguel Street and Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio where place and character define the trajectory of the stories. Coal Island is peopled with such characters: An aging Chinese opera singer and her pet monkey. A self-proclaimed psychic who sees kingfishers in the sky and is convinced that a tsunami is coming. A murderer who finds worldly wisdom in a wandering Malayan tapir. An ex-colonial plantation overseer, battling with the literal and lateral python of his past. An obese supermarket matriarch who talks to bats. Paperback, Label: UPM Press, UPM Press, Produktgruppe: Book, Publiziert: 2011-08-01, Studio: UPM Press, Verkaufsrang: 12586854.

Lieferung aus: Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, Lagernd.
The eleven stories in Wildlife on Coal Island are set on a fictional island located in present-day Malaysia. Coal Island is a place of secrets, gossip and murder. Peopled with characters that simultaneously laugh at life and are broken by it, it is a petri dish for experiments with the darkness that sometimes enters ordinary days and the surprising clarity that comes after suffering. The humans and animals here will linger in your head as you go about your daily chores: an ageing Chinese opera singer and her pet monkey; a self-proclaimed psychic who is convinced that a tsunami is coming; a murderer who finds worldly wisdom in a wandering Malayan tapir; an ex-colonial plantation overseer, battling with the literal and lateral python of his past; an obese supermarket matriarch who talks to bats.

Lieferung aus: Kanada, Usually ships within 1 - 2 business days.
Von Händler/Antiquariat, thebookcommunity_ca.
Paperback, Label: UPM Press, UPM Press, Produktgruppe: Book, Publiziert: 2011-08-01, Studio: UPM Press.

Lieferung aus: Kanada, Usually ships within 1 - 2 business days.
Von Händler/Antiquariat, calibris.
Paperback, Label: UPM Press, UPM Press, Produktgruppe: Book, Publiziert: 2011-08-01, Studio: UPM Press.