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the stranger - albert camus
since it was first published in english, in 1946, albert camus's first novel, the stranger (l'etranger) has had a profound impact on millions of american readers. through this story of an ordinary man who unwittingly gets drawn into a senseless murder on a sun-drenched algerian beach, camus explored what he termed "the nakedness of man faced with the absurd."
now, in an illuminating new american translation, estraofdinary for its exactitude and clarity, the original intent of the stranger is made more immediate. this haunting novel has been given new life for generations to come.
slaughterhouse five - kurt vonnegut
one of the world's great anti-war books. centering on the infamous firebombing of dresden, billy pilgrim's odyssey through time reflects the mythic journey of our own fractured lives as we search for meaning in what we are afraid to know.
american taboo - philip weiss
taboo (n) [tongan tabu]
1: a prohibition against touching, saying or doing something for fear of immediate harm from a supernatural force
in 1975, thirty-three peace corps volunteers landed in the island nation of tonga. it was an exotic place - men wearing grass skirts, coconut-thatched huts, pigs wandering the crushed-coral streets - governed by strange and exacting rules of conduct. the idealistic young americans called it never-never land, as if it existed in a world apart from the one they knew and the things that happened there would be undone when they went home.
among them was a beautiful twenty-three-year-old woman who, like so many volunteers before her, was in search of adventure. sensuous and free-spirited, deborah gardner would become an object of desire, even obsession, in the small expatriate communityu. one the night of october 14, 1976, she was found dying inside her hut, stabbed twenty-two times.
hours later, another volunteer turned himself in to the tongan police, and many of the other americans were sure he had committed the crime. but with the aid of the state department, he returned to new york a free man, flown home at the peace corps's expense. deb gardenr's death and the outlandish aftermath took on legendary proportions in tonga; in the united states, government officals made sure the story was suppressed.
now philip weiss unravels the truth about what happened in tonga more than a quarter century ago. with bravura reporting and vivid, novelistis prose, weiss transforms a polynesian legend into a singular artifact of american history and a profoundly moving human story.
anyway, yes. i am excited about all three of these books. american taboo is long and only out in hardback, but i am enjoying it so far. granted, i am not very far into it, but it is quite intriguing. check it out.
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since it was first published in english, in 1946, albert camus's first novel, the stranger (l'etranger) has had a profound impact on millions of american readers. through this story of an ordinary man who unwittingly gets drawn into a senseless murder on a sun-drenched algerian beach, camus explored what he termed "the nakedness of man faced with the absurd."
now, in an illuminating new american translation, estraofdinary for its exactitude and clarity, the original intent of the stranger is made more immediate. this haunting novel has been given new life for generations to come.
slaughterhouse five - kurt vonnegut
one of the world's great anti-war books. centering on the infamous firebombing of dresden, billy pilgrim's odyssey through time reflects the mythic journey of our own fractured lives as we search for meaning in what we are afraid to know.
american taboo - philip weiss
taboo (n) [tongan tabu]
1: a prohibition against touching, saying or doing something for fear of immediate harm from a supernatural force
in 1975, thirty-three peace corps volunteers landed in the island nation of tonga. it was an exotic place - men wearing grass skirts, coconut-thatched huts, pigs wandering the crushed-coral streets - governed by strange and exacting rules of conduct. the idealistic young americans called it never-never land, as if it existed in a world apart from the one they knew and the things that happened there would be undone when they went home.
among them was a beautiful twenty-three-year-old woman who, like so many volunteers before her, was in search of adventure. sensuous and free-spirited, deborah gardner would become an object of desire, even obsession, in the small expatriate communityu. one the night of october 14, 1976, she was found dying inside her hut, stabbed twenty-two times.
hours later, another volunteer turned himself in to the tongan police, and many of the other americans were sure he had committed the crime. but with the aid of the state department, he returned to new york a free man, flown home at the peace corps's expense. deb gardenr's death and the outlandish aftermath took on legendary proportions in tonga; in the united states, government officals made sure the story was suppressed.
now philip weiss unravels the truth about what happened in tonga more than a quarter century ago. with bravura reporting and vivid, novelistis prose, weiss transforms a polynesian legend into a singular artifact of american history and a profoundly moving human story.
anyway, yes. i am excited about all three of these books. american taboo is long and only out in hardback, but i am enjoying it so far. granted, i am not very far into it, but it is quite intriguing. check it out.
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