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Explorers are menaced on a planet where men are "animals" and the apes rule. A satire.

This is an expanded and updated new edition of an established text which provides original analyses of the main Modernist movements, including Futurism, Expressionism, Cubism, Dadaism and Surrealism.

In "Pilgrim at Sea," Tobias boards a sinister pirate ship to continue his voyage to the Holy Land. A hypnotic character named Giovanni, an unfrocked priest, occupies most of the slender plot‐line, as he tells Tobias his life story, the ancient gambit of a once holy man's downfall, after he has fallen in love with a woman whose confession he has been hearing. The significance of the tale hinges on a locket in which the woman claimed to have the picture...

"From an award winning author comes a deeply personal and powerful account of Hanna Malter, a young girl growing up in a small town in Germany in the 1950s. Hanna conjours up unforgettably the events of her youth: her magical bond to her unconventional mother; her friendship with an illegitmate son of an American GI; and the lessons in local lore that are served with tea and innuendo by the town's dwarf librarian." From the bookjacket.

After a recent civil war, a country in the interior of Africa is under a new President, whose insane energy and crudity have made his power felt everywhere including an isolated village at a bend in the river.

The life of Mexican fruit pickers in California. The protagonists are a youth who is sprayed with pesticide by a plane and the girl who saves him. The novel describes the harsh conditions under which migrant workers live, the heat, the cramped quarters, the hand-to-mouth existence.

"The Islands follows the lives of Jamaican women--immigrants or the descendants of immigrants--who have relocated all over the world to escape the ghosts of colonialism. Set in the United States, Jamaica, and Europe, these international stories examine the lives of an uncertain and unsettled cast of characters. In one story, a woman and her husband impulsively leave San Francisco and move to Florida with wild dreams of American reinvention only to...

"A cat-and-mouse game of surveillance and psychological torment between mother and daughter"-- A recently widowed artists, returned to Norway after a long absence, Johanna is preparing for a retrospective of her career. The subject of her work is motherhood, and her paintings have opened a rift between Johanna and her own mother. Soon the older woman is stalking Johanna's thoughts, and she in turn stakes out her mother's home. -- adapted from jacket...

"Changez is living an immigrant's dream of America. At the top of his class at Princeton, he is snapped up by the elite valuation firm of Underwood Samson. He thrives on the energy of New York, and his budding romance with elegant, beautiful Erica promises entry into Manhattan society at the same exalted level once occupied by his own family back in Lahore. But in the wake of September 11, Changez finds his position in his adopted city suddenly overturned...