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Amerika, (German working title Der Verschollene, "The Missing") also known as Amerika (The Man Who Disappeared), [1] Amerika: The Missing Person [2] and Lost in America, [3] is the incomplete first novel by author Franz Kafka (1883–1924), written between 1911 and 1914 [4] and published posthumously in 1927.
The saola was the first large mammal to be discovered in the area for 50 years. [9] Observations of live saola have been few and far between, restricted to the Annamite Range. [10] The scientific name of the saola is Pseudoryx nghetinhensis. It is the sole member of the genus Pseudoryx and is classified under the family Bovidae.
In America is a 1999 novel by Susan Sontag. It won the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction . [ 1 ] It is based on the true story of Polish actress Helena Modjeska (called Maryna Zalewska in the book), her arrival in California in 1876, and her ascendancy to American stardom.
Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 1 grossed $29 million in the United States and Canada, and $9.7 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $38.7 million. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] In the United States and Canada, Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 1 was released alongside A Quiet Place: Day One , and was projected to gross $10–15 ...
Saul Bellow (born Solomon Bellows; June 10, 1915 – April 5, 2005) [1] was a Canadian American writer. For his literary work, Bellow was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, the 1976 Nobel Prize in Literature, and the National Medal of Arts. [2]
The Female American; or, The Adventures of Unca Eliza Winkfield, is a novel, originally published in 1767, under the pseudonym of the main character/narrator, Unca Eliza Winkfield and edited in recent editions by Michelle Burnham.
It covers three continents, spans decades, leaps gracefully, from chapter to chapter, to different cities and other lives...[Adichie] weaves them assuredly into a thoughtfully structured epic. The result is a timeless love story steeped in our times." [12] Tshilidzi Marwala links the Americanah to the rise of nationalism. In this regard, he ...
Blake; or The Huts of America: A Tale of the Mississippi Valley, the Southern United States, and Cuba is a novel by Martin Delany, initially published in two parts: The first in 1859 by The Anglo-African, and the second, during the earlier part of the American Civil War, in 1861-62 by the Weekly Anglo-African Magazine. [1]