The Mountain And The Wall
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Author | : Peter Matthiessen |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 1987-01-06 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0140252703 |
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A remarkable firsthand view of a lost culture in all its simplicity and violence by renowned writer Peter Matthiessen (1927 to 2014), author of the National Book Award–winning The Snow Leopard and the novel In Paradise. In the Baliem Valley in central New Guinea live the Kurelu, a Stone Age tribe that survived into the twentieth century. Peter Matthiessen visited the Kurelu with the Harvard-Peabody Expedition in 1961 and wrote Under the Mountain Wall as an account not of the expedition, but of the great warrior Weaklekek, the swineherd Tukum, U-mue and his family, and the boy Weake, killed in a surprise raid. Matthiessen observes these people in their timeless rhythm of work and play and war, of gardening and wood gathering, feasts and funerals, pig stealing and ambushes. Drawing on his great skills as a naturalist and novelist, Matthiessen offers an exceptional account of an ancient culture on the brink of incalculable change.
Author | : Alisa Ganieva |
Publisher | : Deep Vellum Publishing |
Total Pages | : 265 |
Release | : 2015-06-08 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1941920144 |
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"Ganieva's writing has a kind of magic." —Lauren Smart, Dallas Observer "Never before has Russian literature produced such an honest and complete picture of today's Caucasus. —Kommersant Weekend (Russia) One of the Dallas Observer's 10 Best Books To Read This Fall World Literature Today Editor's Pick This remarkable debut novel by a unique young Russian voice portrays the influence of political intolerance and religious violence in the lives of people forced to choose between evils. The Mountain and the Wall focuses on Shamil, a young local reporter in Makhachkala, and his reactions, or lack thereof, to rumors that the Russian government is building a wall to cut off the Muslim provinces of the Caucasus from the rest of Russia. As unrest spreads and the tension builds, Shamil's life is turned upside down, and he can no longer afford to ignore the violence surrounding him. With a fine sense for mounting catastrophe, Alisa Ganieva tells the story of the decline of a society torn apart by its inherent extremes.
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Total Pages | : 207 |
Release | : 1991 |
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