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In his collection of short stories, author Yugel Losorata permits us to own his stories after we’ve read them using our own prism to understand, to appreciate, to be beguiled by his imagineered literary creations. He wrote this collection of 18 stories while finishing a novel, taking care of a family amidst an egregious pandemic, and perhaps missing performing with his band songs about love, loss, heartbreak, dreams and foibles. Rhythm and Bruise opens with ‘Open 25 Years,’ a gripping story based on a fire that burned a nightclub where over a hundred people perished — because the door was closed. ‘Two Letters’ is about a father, a son, and a president of a country. ‘True or Fal...
No one escapes from life alive. - Michael Chrichton
At a high school reunion, Tess and Hugh quickly felt the sexual tension between them which may have birthed a relatively common, you’ve-heard-it-once, or twice, forbidden romance. But Tess plays a pivotal role in the incumbent regime of Androva anchored on the popular authoritarian Chairman Laude. The immense power in her hands appeared to be too much for her supposedly happily married lover who had risen in the art scene painting portraits of sex goddesses and ravishing rulers. Hugh’s unsuspecting young wife Rachel, who thought she found a soulmate despite their age gap, would find herself in the middle of a maelstrom unsure of how she could save her marriage. To what extent will this torrid affair attract the imminent threat of sociopolitical truth hidden from public view? Will the last vestiges of righteousness be enough to untangle the cobwebs of power abuse and heart-shattering effects of obsession?
No one escapes from life alive. - Michael Chrichton This book is an anthology written by Danny Campbell, Julie Baron, Farzana Habib, Namita Das, Shoujoeye, Yugel Losorata, E.S. Gleason, Alaric Cabiling, D.S. Pais, Monica D. Tenerife, Adanu Michaels
Chronological history of Bulacan province.
The fiction chosen for this collection have been in active circulation in Vietnam since 1986, 'The Reform Year', when Vietnamese artists and writers were politically and culturally 'liberated' and engaged with great commitment in criticizing, among other things, the government's environmental policies and ways in which these were enmeshed in economic strategies and schemes for so-called national progress. Thus, modernization and industrialization that were the chosen paths of the postcolonial Vietnamese government, become the major targets of contemporary Vietnamese ecofiction. All these stories, extremely contemporary, emphasise a counter-narrative that challenges socialist goals of development and modernisation. They articulate and affirm a more holistic vision, where man is no longer a predator but a participant of nature. These stories therefore are politically charged and pave the path for a more visionary future.
It is 1951, and Jean-Luc Guéry has arrived in Indochina to investigate the murder of his brother, Olivier, whose body was found floating in a tributary of the Saigon River. As an avid reader of detective fiction, Guéry is well aware of how such investigations should proceed, but it is not immediately clear that he is capable of putting this knowledge into practice. In addition to being a reporter for an obscure provincial newspaper, he is also a failed writer, an incorrigible alcoholic, and a compulsive gambler who has already squandered a fortune in the casinos of the Côte d'Azur. Despite his dissolute tendencies, however, and his aversion to physical danger, Guéry does eventually manage to solve the case. In order to do so, he is obliged to enter a world of elaborate conspiracies, clandestine intelligence operations, and organized crime - only to discover, in the novel's final pages, that the truth behind his brother's murder is far stranger than he could have imagined.