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As a short story cycle, the book presents forty mutually exclusive stories staged in a wide variety of possible afterlives.The author has stated that none of the stories is meant to be taken as serious theological proposals but, instead, that the message of the book is the importance of exploring new ideas beyond the ones that have been traditionally passed down.
Earthly Powers is a panoramic saga novel of the 20th century by Anthony Burgess first published on October 13th 1980. It begins with the "outrageously provocative" [1] first sentence: "It was the afternoon of my eighty-first birthday, and I was in bed with my catamite when Ali announced that the archbishop had come to see me."
Your laughter fills my heart with joy, and your love fills my life with meaning. 3. Happy birthday to the most amazing person I know! May your birthday be the start of a new chapter filled with ...
Stories of Your Life and Others is a collection of short stories by American writer Ted Chiang [1] published in 2002 by Tor Books. It collects Chiang's first eight stories. All of the stories except "Liking What You See: A Documentary" were previously published individually elsewhere.
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"Birthday Girl" (バースデイ・ガール, Bāsudei gāru = Birthday girl) is a short story written by Japanese writer Haruki Murakami, and first published in 2002. After reading "Timothy's Birthday" by William Trevor and "The Moor" by Russell Banks , Murakami felt haunted and decided to collect more birthday-themed stories for an anthology ...
The book has sold to eighteen countries. [3] Kirkus Reviews called it a "goofball comedy with heart," [4] and The Guardian referred to it as a "caper of a debut." [5] The Times said it was "very funny". [6] Booklist noted that the book's main character, "Freddie, ends up with expanded definitions of both family and miracles, and readers will ...
Birthday Deathday and Other Stories is a 1985 collection of twelve short stories by Padma Perera, written and published from 1974 onwards. Eight provide vignettes of upper-class family life in India , while four others deal with cultural displacement and exile in North America .