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My Feudal Lord is an autobiography of Tehmina Durrani highlighting her marriage with the famous political figure of Pakistan Ghulam Mustafa Khar also known as the “Lion of Punjab”. She openly talks about the fourteen years of emotional and physical abuse she endured in this marriage on the hands of Mustafa Khar.  his is the story of Tehmina’s rebellion from an unhappy marriage. As a Muslim woman seeking a divorce, she paid a high price. She signed away all financial support, lost the custody of her children, and found herself alienated from her friends and disowned by her parents. The book,...

Author: Angeles Mastretta

In Of Woman Born, originally published in 1976, influential poet and feminist Adrienne Rich examines the patriarchic systems and political institutions that define motherhood. … Gilbert, Paris Review), Of Woman Born revolutionized how women thought about motherhood and their own liberation. Motherhood as Experience and Institution.“In order for all women to have real choices all along the line,” Adrienne Rich writes, “we need fully to understand the power and powerlessness embodied in motherhood in patriarchal culture.” Rich’s investigation, in this influential and landmark book, concerns both experience and institution. The experience is her own – as a woman, a poet, a feminist, and a mother – but...

Author: Marilyn French

This book is born of a contradiction: on the one hand, there has been a genuine advance in the awareness of violence against women and children and actions to oppose it. On the other, the violence persists and so does the counter-attack against those who seek to expose it.  Patrizia Romito’s extraordinary book describes the links between discrimination, violence against women and violence against children and, uniquely, uncovers the strategies and tactics used for concealing it. Her analysis, corroborated by a solid theoretical framework as well as up-to-date international research data, powerfully reveals the interconnectedness of what might appear as...

‘The first Italian feminist writer’ La Repubblica ‘To love, to sacrifice oneself, and to submit! Was this what all women were destined for?’When her carefree, aspirational childhood in a seaside town is brought brutally to an end, the nameless narrator of Sibilla Aleramo’s blazing autobiographical novel discovers the shocking reality of life for a woman in Italy at the dawn of the twentieth century. As she begins to recognize the similarities between her own predicament and the plight of her mother and the women around her, she becomes convinced that she must escape her fate. Unashamed and remarkably ahead of its time, A...

The novel begins in a quiet, dirty, cul-de-sac in a Paris suburb. Thirty-year-old Marie Cardinal finds herself here, looking to be born again. She has heard of a famous psychoanalyst who lives in this neighborhood and is desperately seeking his help—she has been struggling with mental illness and severe menstrual problems that, for years, no doctor has been able to diagnose. Having recently escaped from a sanatorium, she knows that this doctor is her last hope to find sanity and health. Marie has contemplated suicide, due in large part to her ailments, but she has three children—for the sake of...

Virginia Woolf, Jane Austen, Emily Dickinson, Caterina Percoto, Katherine Mansfield, Anaïs Nin. Writers who have always felt the need to learn from the niche of natural life, to affirm their natural individuality, as the essence of artistic creation is sophisticated. There are various modes for compressing laceration through the quotient and vocation of writing, to be done in solitude, to recover with audition the property “inner rooms”.

A young woman trapped in a provincial town dreams of being rescued by love. But the Marchesa Colombi puts a twist on that old plot in her story of Denza Dellara, a clumsy Cinderella too big for her hand-me-downs and saddled with a family that seems to go to great lengths to frustrate her hopes-and to make her see reality. To escape everyday boredom, Denza conceives a love for the most unlikely of Prince Charmings, the gargantuan Onorato, a rich local who quotes opera to her but cannot possibly marry a girl without a dowry. Denza carries on a romantic...

The Golden Cangue is a 1943 Chinese novella by Zhang (Eileen) Chang. The author’s own English translation appeared in the anthology Modern Chinese Stories and Novellas: 1919–1949 published by Columbia University Press. Fu Lei was an enthusiastic critic of the story, while C. T The Golden Cangue illustrates the decadence of the idle rich. Set in Shanghai, the novelette unfolds the degeneration of the heroine, Qi Qiao, and her family. The golden cangue symbolizes the destructiveness of the protagonist, who metaphorically bears the frame used to hold prisoners in old China; she is both imprisoned and imprisoning. She uses the golden...

When Valeria, a forty-year-old Roman woman, develops an obsessive interest in keeping a secret diary, she cannot imagine that her habit will ultimately challenge the entire structure on which her life and her family’s is based. For with writing comes the dangerous habit of questioning scrutiny. And from these questions, the docile, self-sacrificing woman sees herself and those about her in a disturbing new perspective: her husband, Michele, married too young to pursue his interests, in his fifties a failure, victimized by an embryonic dream; her daughter, defiant, emancipated, and strong, whom she loves, and hates in the manner of...

Ken Bugul, which in Wolof means : « one who is unwanted », is the pseudonym used by writer Mariètou Mbaye Biléoma who was born in 1947 in Ndoucoumane in Senegal. Following her primary school studies in her village, Mariètou Mbaye undertook her secondary schooling at the Lycée Malick Sy at Thiès, after which she spent a year at the University of Dakar from where she obtained a bursary that enabled her to continue her studies in Belgium.

Author: Suad Amiry

If Eve-Marie left Africa for Paris-Belleville, it was while thinking of the values of the French Republic: “Liberty, equality, fraternity”. But to be free, you still have to have a job and a husband. Work, Eve-Marie found it. It consists of selling her sublime buttocks at a low price, hence her pretty nickname “Mademoiselle Bonne-Surprise”! For the husband, it is another matter. Because, when she left her country, Eve-Marie did not lose her color, black as ebony. So, to the three pillars of democracy, she added a motto: diversity. Her husband, she wants him local color, white as snow! Between...

Virginia Woolf’s essay Three Guineas is a comprehensive attempt to theorize the significance of gender for fascism. Woolf’s analysis of fascism focuses on the patriarchal relationship between men and women, and she argues that the unequal distribution of power between the genders is a key element for producing fascism.

In this volume, the distinguished East German writer Christa Wolf retells the story of the fall of Troy, but from the point of view of the woman whose visionary powers earned her contempt and scorn. Written as a result of the author’s Greek travels and studies, Cassandra speaks to us in a pressing monologue whose inner focal points are patriarchy and war. In the four accompanying pieces, which take the form of travel reports, journal entries, and a letter, Wolf describes the novel’s genesis. Incisive and intelligent, the entire volume represents an urgent call to examine the past in order to insure...

Medea is among the most notorious women in Greek tragedy – a woman who sacrifices her own children to her jealous rage. In this novel, Wolf explodes the myth, offering modern readers a portrayal of a fiercely independent woman ensnared in a political battle.

Artemisia Gentileschi, born in 1598, the daughter of an esteemed painter, taught art in Naples and painted the great women of Roman and biblical history. She could neither read nor write, and she was the reviled victim in a public rape trial, rejected by her father, and later abandoned by her husband. Nevertheless, she was one of the first women in modern times to uphold through her work and deeds the right of women to pursue careers compatible with their talents and on an equal footing with men. This edition features a new introduction by the celebrated critic and writer...

Emile and Juliette Hazel have just purchased what will be their final home, set in a little clearing an hour’s drive from the nearest town. Here, they think, is the place for an idyllic retirement, isolated from the rest of the world save for one neighbor, a doctor, on the far side of the clearing. One day, after they have spent a week in the house, the Hazels’ new neighbor comes knocking at their door. Narrated by Emile, this simple story of social obligation yields with impending menace to a deeper exploration of the dangerous cost of restraint. With the...

A woman and her husband rent a summer house, but what should be a restful getaway turns into a suffocating psychological battle. This chilling account of postpartum depression and a husband’s controlling behavior in the guise of treatment will leave you breathless. 

A “beautifully written, richly textured, and haunting story” (Chaim Potok), BAUMGARTNER’S BOMBAY is Anita Desai’s classic novel of the Holocaust era, a story of profound emotional wounds of war and its exiles. The novel follows Hugo Baumgartner as he flees Nazi Germany — and his Jewish heritage — for India, only to be imprisoned as a hostile alien and then released to Bombay at war’s end. In this tale of a man who, “like a figure in a Greek tragedy . . . seems to elude his destiny” (NEW LEADER), Desai’s “capacious intelligence, her unsentimental compassion” (NEW REPUBLIC) reach their...

Author: Nadine Gordimer

Author: Banana Yoshimoto

Deer on the sidewalks is the most famous novel by Diana Çuli, which has been republished for over twenty years. The tragic story of Fredi and Vera, the story of the ’70s generation, comes just as vivid and vital, but now under the optics of reflection on a bygone era. It is the story of a once-new generation that went through many historical tunnels: from the regime’s fiercest pressure, from key moments of political change to the long period of transition that this generation carried on its shoulders. In this novel we find particles of life in the 70s such...

For more than 12 years, world-renowned psychic and spiritual healer Mary T. Browne has drawn on her visions of the other side and her communications with spirit teachers there to help clients all over the world. Now she shares her unique insight in an inspiring message that is not just an understanding of death but an empowering philosophy of life.

Novels, short stories, reports and skyscrapers written by Diana Çuli in the period 1995-2004

The award-winning Italian author Melania G. Mazzucco weaves her own family history into a great American novel of the immigrant experience. A sweeping tale of discovery, love, and loss, Vita is a passionate blend of biography and autobiography, of fantasy and fiction. Translated from Italian by Virginia Jewiss.

lora, Eliza, Kathy, Tamara, 4 inseparable friends, but that the communist system separates and confronts them with the most severe sufferings. Human feelings run parallel to anti-human ones, a paradox ubiquitous in the real world: love and hate, nobility and immorality, loyalty and infidelity. The typification of the characters after reading the novel will find in the reader human archetypes. A psychological novel, of deep analysis, of exploring the most hidden depths of human consciousness.

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