Resultados para "Running" en Ficción biográfica

In the late 1970s Ondaatje returned to his native island of Sri Lanka. As he records his journey through the drug-like heat and intoxicating fragrances of that "pendant off the ear of India", Ondaatje simultaneously retraces the baroque mythology of his Dutch-Ceylonese family. An inspired travel narrative and family memoir by an exceptional writer.

The epic story behind the Cherokee Trail of Tears, Red Clay, Running Waters follows the little-known lives of John Ridge, a Cherokee man dedicated to his people, and his White wife Sarah, a woman devoted to his search for justice, as the courageous mixed-race couple are swept into the center of the Indian Removal Crisis of the 1830s and the fate of the Cherokee Nation.

“A true artist. A brilliant writer. An original thinker.”—Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie A captivating, fictionalized retelling of African linguist and clergyman Samuel Ajayi Crowther's miraculous journey from slave to liberator. “Run, Àjàyí, run!” When Malian slave traders invaded the...