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Anamika Paulo Coelho Hassan Blasim Taiye Selasi Isabel Neil Gainman Allende Milan Kundera Milos K. Ilic Juan Gelman

The document provides summaries of works by several authors: - The title story by Hassan Blasim sees two blond men transforming an impoverished district with their benign presence. - "The Nightmares of Carlos Fuentes" by Milan Kundera is about a model immigrant in Holland who can escape everything except his dreams. - "Afropolitan" describes a new generation of African emigrants who straddle multiple cultures and identities. - A story in the collection is about a father surprising his son with an introduction to manhood and weapons, though one of the father's surprises is death. - Dark Times Filled with Light traces the evolution of Juan Gelman's poetry from encount

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Anamika Paulo Coelho Hassan Blasim Taiye Selasi Isabel Neil Gainman Allende Milan Kundera Milos K. Ilic Juan Gelman

The document provides summaries of works by several authors: - The title story by Hassan Blasim sees two blond men transforming an impoverished district with their benign presence. - "The Nightmares of Carlos Fuentes" by Milan Kundera is about a model immigrant in Holland who can escape everything except his dreams. - "Afropolitan" describes a new generation of African emigrants who straddle multiple cultures and identities. - A story in the collection is about a father surprising his son with an introduction to manhood and weapons, though one of the father's surprises is death. - Dark Times Filled with Light traces the evolution of Juan Gelman's poetry from encount

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ANAMIKA PAULO COELHO

HASSAN BLASIM
TAIYE SELASI ISABEL
NEIL GAINMAN ALLENDE
MILAN KUNDERA
MILOS K. ILIC
JUAN GELMAN

The title story sees a poor district


transformed by the benign presence of two
blond young men. Are they angels? Only an
insane person would believe that, surely?
And someone might become crazed if they
thought they could lead a new life away
from the turmoil of Iraq. Settled in Holland,
Salim Abdul Husain in "The Nightmares of
Carlos Fuentes" is a model immigrant. He
can escape everything except his dreams.

“Bye-Bye Babar,” “Afropolitan” describes a new


generation of African; the creative, politically
aware, multicultural African emigrant with roots
firmly on the African continent and bodies and
minds in the world. Afropolitanism is more than a
description of a sub-set of Africans who find their
feet pounding pavements in Barcelona, Daegu,
New York City or even Michigan. Instead, it is a
state of mind that identifies Africans who
straddle two or more distinct cultures, identities,
continents, sets of friends, languages and levels
of awareness.

The story is about the surprise of a father to his son. His


father told himalready that he has a surprise for him and
that was enough for him to follow his father’s
footsteps. And that surprises meant an
introduction into new partof manhood, the first weapon,
first hunt, fist women you greedily devoured. And one of
his surprises is death.

As Juan Gelman's name begins appearing with


regularity on lists predicting Noble-Laureate-
deserving poets, his work has also begun to
appear in English. But only now are the most
stunning translations of Gelman's poetry being
published, and in one substantial volume. Dark
Times Filled with Light traces the evolution of a
gifted lyrical poet’s encounter with the political,
when the poet’s son and daughter-in-law
become 'disappeared' by the Argentinian
government, and the poet must write from both a
literal and metaphysical exile.

Allende’s passionate men and women in her


stories and whom she has spoken of are all
glimpses of the type of people we should
strive to be. Their success is greater because
A mother who doesn’t apologize or hold herself they put all they had into reaching their
accountable, but blames and assigns feelings and goals, and their failures along the way are
intents to make herself the victim. A son who just
wants to be loved by his mother – so much so, that he
forgotten and forgiven because they gave
is willing to have an enabling, codependent their all trying to succeed. As George
relationship with her ghost: “Isn’t it lovely, apologizing Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel said, “Nothing
to each other?” great in the world has been accomplished
without passion.”

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