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Lizard (とかげ) is a short story collection by Banana Yoshimoto, written in 1993 and translated into English in 1995 by Ann Sherif. It is a collection of six short stories on love and the healing power of time. In the American edition Banana dedicates her book to Kurt Cobain.
"Poovan Pazham" (Malayalam: പൂവൻപഴം; English: Poovan Banana) is a short story written by Vaikom Muhammad Basheer and published in 1948 in the collection Viddikalude Swargam (Fool's Paradise). It is one of the most popular of Basheer's stories. [1] [2] [3] It was adapted into a telefilm of the same name by P. Balachandran.
Cover of Cabbages and Kings (1904 edition). In the 20th century, American writer O. Henry (William Sydney Porter, 1862–1910) coined the term banana republic to describe the fictional Republic of Anchuria in the book Cabbages and Kings (1904), [1] a collection of thematically related short stories inspired by his experiences in Honduras, whose economy was heavily dependent on the export of ...
It is the first of his stories to feature a member of the fictional Glass family. When the 28-year-old Salinger submitted the manuscript to The New Yorker in January 1947, titled "The Bananafish", [ 2 ] its arresting dialogue and precise style [ 3 ] were read with interest by fiction editor William Maxwell and his staff, though the point of the ...
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"NP" is both the name of the novel and of a short story collection within the novel's plot, a collection written in English by the character Sarao Takase, who committed suicide before he could translate it into Japanese. Three more people attempting to translate the collection have also committed suicide.
1916 advertisement for the United Fruit Company steamship service Routes of United Fruit Company steamship service (1924) Dinner menu, T.E.S. Chiriqui, 1935 USS Taurus, which was built as San Benito in 1921, may have been the world's first turbo-electric merchant ship SS Abangarez, a United Fruit banana boat, c. 1945
To be honest, for a banana with such a back story, the taste is naturally different from an ordinary one. I could discern a hint of what Big Mike bananas from 100 years ago might have tasted like ...