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The book tells two separate but related tales: first, the romance between Nacib Saad, a respectable bar owner of Syrian origin, and his new cook Gabriela, an innocent and captivating migrant worker from the impoverished interior. The gap between the worlds of Nacib Saad and Gabriela make their romance a challenge to the unwritten rules of ...
The story is set in the 1920s in Cinnamon Gardens, a wealthy suburb of Colombo, Sri Lanka.It depicts the political unrest at the end of Britain’s colonial rule. The novel illustrates the socio-political climate of 1920s Sri Lanka, which helps to elucidate many of the issues that continue to plague modern-day Sri Lanka.
The Street of Crocodiles, also known as The Cinnamon Shops (Polish: Sklepy cynamonowe, lit. ' Cinnamon Shops ' ), is a 1934 collection of short stories written by Bruno Schulz . First published in Polish, the collection was translated into English by Celina Wieniewska [ pl ] in 1963.
Author Tracey J Morgan pens a book about the capybara's great escape from her zoo enclosure.
Cinnamon Skin (1982) is the twentieth novel in the Travis McGee series by John D. MacDonald. Like a few other books in the series, McGee ends up traveling to Mexico to solve a crime. His friend Meyer's niece is killed by a bomb on the John Maynard Keynes, Meyer's houseboat, with two other people. As Meyer and McGee investigate the explosion ...
Lambda Literary Award for Best Gay Male Novel, and Smithbooks/Books in Canada First Novel Award for 1994; Cinnamon Gardens. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1998. ISBN 0-7868-6473-7; Swimming in the Monsoon Sea. Toronto: Tundra, 2005. ISBN 0-88776-735-4. Lambda Literary Award in the Children's and Youth Literature category in 2006
Stephen W. Meader (May 2, 1892 – July 18, 1977) was the writer of over forty novels for young readers. His optimistic stories generally tended to either concern young men developing independent businesses in the face of adversity, or else young men caught up in adventures during different periods in American history.
Chai Time in Cinnamon Gardens is an enticing, if not entirely realised, opportunity for a wider conversation about Australia, the diversity of its people and the gaps in our collective cultural knowledge. This is a book that requires concentration and full immersion – but it will reward the reader for that investment." [3]