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The Adventures Of China Iron

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Author by : Gabriela Cabezón Cámara
Languange Used : en
Release Date : 2019-11-14
Publisher by : Charco Press

ISBN : 9781999368425

Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2020 1872. The pampas of Argentina. China is a young woman eking out an existence in a remote gaucho encampment. After her no-good husband is conscripted into the army, China bolts for freedom, setting off on a wagon journey through the pampas in the company of her new-found friend Liz, a settler from Scotland. While Liz provides China with a sentimental education and schools her in the nefarious ways of the British Empire, their eyes are opened to the wonders of Argentina’s richly diverse flora and fauna, cultures and languages, as well as to the ruthless violence involved in nation-building. This subversive retelling of Argentina’s foundational gaucho epic Martín Fierro is a celebration of the colour and movement of the living world, the open road, love and sex, and the dream of lasting freedom. With humour and sophistication, Gabriela Cabezón Cámara has created a joyful, hallucinatory novel that is also an incisive critique of national myths....

Riding The Iron Rooster

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Author by : Paul Theroux
Languange Used : en
Release Date : 2006-12-08
Publisher by : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

ISBN : 9780547526997

The acclaimed travel writer chronicles a year of train travel across China in a revealing travelogue that “gives the reader much to relish and think about” (Publishers Weekly). The author of the train travel classics The Great Railway Bazaar and The Old Patagonian Express, takes to the rails once again in this account of his epic journey through China. The always irascible, infectiously curious author “is in top form as he describes the barren deserts of Mongolia and Xinjiang, the ice forests of Manchuria and the dry hills of Tibet. He captures their otherworldly, haunting appearances perfectly. He is also right on target when he talks about the ugliness of China's poorly planned, hastily built cities” (Mark Salzman, The New York Times). Theroux hops aboard a train as part of a tour group in London and sets out for China's border. He then spends a year traversing the country, where he pieces together a fascinating snapshot of a unique moment in history. From sweeping and desolate natural landscapes to the dense metropolises of Shanghai, Beijing, and Canton, Theroux offers an unforgettable portrait of a magnificent land and an extraordinary people....

Blood And Iron

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Author by : Dan MacGregor
Languange Used : en
Release Date : 2001
Publisher by : Timberwolf PressInc

ISBN : 1587520478

"Fresh from the wilds of Wyoming, young Marine Corporal Rankin is savagely tested in the Battle of Manila Bay and the Boxer Rebellion."--Page 4 of cover....

China S Wings

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Author by : Gregory Crouch
Languange Used : en
Release Date : 2012-02-28
Publisher by : Bantam

ISBN : 9780345532350

From the acclaimed author of Enduring Patagonia comes a dazzling tale of aerial adventure set against the roiling backdrop of war in Asia. The incredible real-life saga of the flying band of brothers who opened the skies over China in the years leading up to World War II—and boldly safeguarded them during that conflict—China’s Wings is one of the most exhilarating untold chapters in the annals of flight. At the center of the maelstrom is the book’s courtly, laconic protagonist, American aviation executive William Langhorne Bond. In search of adventure, he arrives in Nationalist China in 1931, charged with turning around the turbulent nation’s flagging airline business, the China National Aviation Corporation (CNAC). The mission will take him to the wild and lawless frontiers of commercial aviation: into cockpits with daredevil pilots flying—sometimes literally—on a wing and a prayer; into the dangerous maze of Chinese politics, where scheming warlords and volatile military officers jockey for advantage; and into the boardrooms, backrooms, and corridors of power inhabited by such outsized figures as Generalissimo and Madame Chiang Kai-shek; President Franklin Delano Roosevelt; foreign minister T. V. Soong; Generals Arnold, Stilwell, and Marshall; and legendary Pan American Airways founder Juan Trippe. With the outbreak of full-scale war in 1941, Bond and CNAC are transformed from uneasy spectators to active participants in the struggle against Axis imperialism. Drawing on meticulous research, primary sources, and extensive personal interviews with participants, Gregory Crouch offers harrowing accounts of brutal bombing runs and heroic evacuations, as the fight to keep one airline flying becomes part of the larger struggle for China’s survival. He plunges us into a world of perilous night flights, emergency water landings, and the constant threat of predatory Japanese warplanes. When Japanese forces capture Burma and blockade China’s only overland supply route, Bond and his pilots must battle shortages of airplanes, personnel, and spare parts to airlift supplies over an untried five-hundred-mile-long aerial gauntlet high above the Himalayas—the infamous “Hump”—pioneering one of the most celebrated endeavors in aviation history. A hero’s-eye view of history in the grand tradition of Lynne Olson’s Citizens of London, China’s Wings takes readers on a mesmerizing journey to a time and place that reshaped the modern world....

The Gift Of Rain

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Author by : Tan Twan Eng
Languange Used : en
Release Date : 2009-05-05
Publisher by : Hachette Books

ISBN : 9781602860599

In the tradition of celebrated wartime storytellers Somerset Maugham and Graham Greene, Tan Twan Eng's debut novel casts a powerful spell. The recipient of extraordinary acclaim from critics and the bookselling community, Tan Twan Eng's debut novel casts a powerful spell and has garnered comparisons to celebrated wartime storytellers Somerset Maugham and Graham Greene. Set during the tumult of World War II, on the lush Malayan island of Penang, The Gift of Rain tells a riveting and poignant tale about a young man caught in the tangle of wartime loyalties and deceits. In 1939, sixteen-year-old Philip Hutton-the half-Chinese, half-English youngest child of the head of one of Penang's great trading families-feels alienated from both the Chinese and British communities. He at last discovers a sense of belonging in his unexpected friendship with Hayato Endo, a Japanese diplomat. Philip proudly shows his new friend around his adored island, and in return Endo teaches him about Japanese language and culture and trains him in the art and discipline of aikido. But such knowledge comes at a terrible price. When the Japanese savagely invade Malaya, Philip realizes that his mentor and sensei-to whom he owes absolute loyalty-is a Japanese spy. Young Philip has been an unwitting traitor, and must now work in secret to save as many lives as possible, even as his own family is brought to its knees....

Slum Virgin

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Author by : Gabriela Cabezón Cámara
Languange Used : en
Release Date : 2017
Publisher by :

ISBN : 1999722701

A wild, baroque adventure into the margins of Buenos Aires, where poverty, corruption, and gender identity meet a vision of the Virgin Mary....

The Adventures Of An Introvert

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Author by : David Chapman
Languange Used : en
Release Date : 2019-11-28
Publisher by :

ISBN : 1712356097

In 2009, a young man who could not decide whether he was a recluse or an introvert, took the brave step of venturing outside of the United Kingdom for the first time in a decade. This is the true story of how an individual with very few social skills faced the almost insurmountable challenges of surviving fierce interrogation by airport security staff, speaking to hotel employees, and worst of all, ordering food in foreign restaurants. Every hero needs a reliable sidekick; David Chapman was fortunate to have a couple of them who fearlessly followed him on his brave expeditions across the globe. Going by the name of Mum and Dad, they joined him on his misadventures, which include his participation in a half-naked photo shoot in the Arabian Desert, his confrontation with a Koala and a Kangaroo, and multiple assassination attempts by maniacal drivers. The first installment of his mission to visit as many countries as his anxiety and shyness will allow, sees him tackle his fears whilst exploring ten countries in four continents. This is certainly not the definitive guide to travelling. Rather, it is a detailed account of the agonising dilemmas that a socially awkward individual is faced with after he has, for some unimaginable reason, decided to immerse himself in a variety of cultures throughout the world....

Las Aventuras De China Iron The Adventures Of China Iron

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Author by : Gabriela Cabezon Camara
Languange Used : es
Release Date : 2019-12-17
Publisher by : National Geographic Books

ISBN : 9788439736264

FINALISTA DEL PREMIO MAN BOOKER INTERNACIONAL 2020 Uno de los mejores libros de ficción iberoamericana de 2017 según The New York Times. Elegido por el diario El País entre los 20 mejores libros latinoamericanos publicados en 2017 en México, Argentina y Colombia. Seleccionado por Página 12 entre lo mejor del año en materia de letras que irradian empoderamiento y pasión, lucha y súper poderes femeninos, sororidad y familia queer. Entre los 9 highlights del año 2017 por la revista Les InRockuptibles. La refundación más radical del clásico argentino Martín Fierro, una novela reivindicativa sobre la liberación de una mujer que abraza los paisajes desbordantes de La Pampa. Radiante y luminoso. El desierto es un prisma de perros, cardos, polvo y cielo. La China Iron, la mujer que ganó martín Fierro en una partida de cartas, acompaña a Liz, una inglesa que va tras la pista de su marido. La China, ahora liberada de las cuerdas del gaucho, emprende un viaje de exploración por las texturas, los sabores y los placeres que le ofrecen la tierra y su nueva compañera. Después de un largo camino, llegarán al Paraíso, donde encontrarán un mundo libre, en el que las criaturas se abrazan por deseo y los ríos, los pájaros y los árboles gozan del mismo amor. Gabriela Cabezón Cámara conforma un fascinante ejercicio literario donde reimagina el universo del gran relato argentino en clave de género, a través de una apasionada aventura queer. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2020 MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE The most dynamic reworking of the Argentinean classic Martín Fierro, this is a radical novel about the liberation of a woman who embraces the boundless landscapes of La Pampa. Radiant and luminous. The desert is a prism of dogs, thistles, dust, and sky. The China Iron, the woman who beat Martín Fierro at a game of cards, accompanies Liz, an Englishwoman who is searching for her husband. China, now free of the gaucho’s lasso, embarks on a journey of exploration through the textures, flavors, and pleasures that the land and her new companion offer. After a long journey, they arrive in Paraíso, where they find a free world in which the creatures embrace each other in desire and the rivers, birds, and trees enjoy the same sort of love. Gabriela Cabezón Cámara composes a fascinating literary exercise in which she reimagines the universe of the great Argentinean tale in the key of gender, through a passionate queer adventure....

Las Aventuras De La China Iron

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Author by : Gabriela Cabezón Cámara
Languange Used : es
Release Date : 2017-10-01
Publisher by : RANDOM HOUSE

ISBN : 9789873987830

La refundación más radical del clásico Martín Fierro: aquí, la protagonista es su "China", que a los 14 años aprovecha que a él se lo lleva la leva para salir al mundo. Libro finalista del 2020 International Booker Prize. Uno de los mejores libros de ficción iberoamericana de 2017 según The New York Times. Elegido por el diario El País entre los 20 mejores libros latinoamericanos publicados en 2017 en México, Argentina y Colombia. Seleccionado por Página 12 entre lo mejor del año en materia de letras que irradian empoderamiento y pasión, lucha y súper poderes femeninos, sororidad y familia queer. Entre los 9 highlights del año 2017 por la revista Los InRockuptibles. Radiante, luminoso. El desierto es un prisma de perros, cardos, polvo y cielo. La China Iron acompaña a Liz, una inglesa que va tras su marido llevado por la leva. Ella, en cambio, no busca a Martín Fierro, ese gaucho que se la ganó en un partido de truco. La China escapa. Y es su viaje exploración: de la textura de la seda, del sabor del té, del sofoco en que estalla el sexo. Descubre palabras. Sonidos nuevos para cosas que antes no existían. Pasan del desierto al fortín, un experimento social que intenta transformar a una masa de criollos brutos en los ciudadanos industriosos que pide la Nación. Pero será en las tolderías que la China y su feliz comitiva encontrarán el Paraíso. También allí, Gabriela Cabezón Cámara reanima su pertinaz aventura literaria: la de fundar un mundo libre, en el que las criaturas se abracen por deseo y gocen el mismo amor de ríos, pájaros y árboles. Y no se sientan solas jamás. «El estilo de Cabezón Cámara es inconfundible, y eso se puede decir de pocos escritores en la literatura argentina. Sólo queda esperar que su ritmo gozoso y sus frases cultísimas y, al mismo tiempo, reventadas se repitan hasta olvidar el nombre de la autora, como se dice un verso de tango o del mismo Martín Fierro.» María Moreno, Ñ «Una inteligente ficción sobre la utopía que revoluciona todos los géneros, a partir de un personaje muy secundario del Martín Fierro (al modo de Coetzee en Foe).» Jorge Carrión, The New York Times «Cabezón Cámara inventa toda una política de la felicidad que, de haberse impuesto en el mundo real, otra sería la Historia. La Ley Cabezón Cámara no elimina al gozador: lo organiza y lo hace viajar.» María Moreno, Revista Anfibia «Otro proyecto de país y de mundo, la novela de Cabezón Cámara es luminosa y casi todo el tiempo, feliz. Y a medida que avanza al desierto encuentra una forma de civilización más diversa y más humana.» Patricia Kolesnicov, Clarín «Las aventuras de la China Iron, una novela transgénero inteligente, delirante e inolvidable.» Hinde Pomeraniec, Infobae «Una utopía queer donde el deseo tiene poder de aglutinar voluntades. La China (ya no como sinónimo de hembra sino con mayúsculas) nace de nuevo en el punto que había quedado en la obra de Hernández: la nada.» Liliana Viola, Suplemento Soy (Página 12)...

As Aventuras Da China Iron

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Author by : Gabriela Cabezón Cámara
Languange Used : pt-BR
Release Date : 2021-08-15
Publisher by : Editora Moinhos

ISBN : 9786556810799

"Foi o brilho", assim começa As aventuras da China Iron. A história conta o renascer de Iron, mulher mestiça que escapa do marido acompanhada da cadela Estreya. Elas encontram Liz, uma inglesa com quem cruzarão a pampa argentina rumo ao delta do rio Paraná. Tudo nesta narrativa é intensificado sob a luz pampeana: cores, saberes-sabores, o amor lésbio, a linguagem prismática e a comunicação interespécies. A paródia do Martín Fierro, livro fundador da literatura argentina, alcança aqui seu princípio modernizador: uma relação dialética faz do modelo um antimodelo ao criar sentidos textuais novos e muito além da imitação. É algo único o estilo de Gabriela Cabezón Cámara. Mas acaba por filiá-la a uma particularíssima família de refundadores do espanhol rio-platense: Una excursión a los indios Ranqueles, de Mansilla; Zama, de Antonio di Benedetto; Gualeguay, de Juan L. Ortiz; Eisejuaz, de Sara Gallardo; El entenado, de Saer. Poucas vezes um livro inadiável recebeu de seus contemporâneos o reconhecimento imediato por parte de críticos e público. As aventuras da China Iron é um desses casos excepcionais. Causou furor na Argentina entre 2017, 2018 e 2019. Em 2020 esteve entre os finalistas do International Booker Prize. Por sorte, podemos recebê-lo agora no Brasil, não muito distante do ano de seu lançamento original. E se no princípio "foi o brilho" caberá dizer que o primeiro do resplendor nem sempre é a cegueira. As aventuras da China Iron é um livro luminoso nas mãos de quem o percorre. Uma aventura inesquecível, escrita em ritmo cinematográfico que nos leva a reter imagens na memória. Davis Diniz São Paulo, maio de 2021...