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The character Quash is an enslaved African, who was brought forcefully to New Amsterdam and is held by Thomas Master; his descendants become part of the New York cultural mix. As the novel progresses, more families are introduced: the Irish O'Donnels, German Kellers, Italian Carusos, German-Jewish Adlers, and Puerto Rican Campos.
O Pioneers! tells the story of the Bergsons, a family of Swedish-American immigrants in the farm country near the fictional [1] town of Hanover, Nebraska, at the turn of the 20th century. The main character, Alexandra Bergson, inherits the family farmland when her father dies, and she devotes her life to making the farm a viable enterprise at a ...
Barkskins is a 2016 novel by American writer Annie Proulx.It tells the story of two immigrants to New France, René Sel and Charles Duquet, and of their descendants. [1] It spans over 300 years and witnesses the deforestation of the New World from the arrival of Europeans into the contemporary era of global warming.
Many immigrant novels fit this Bildungsroman pattern of tracing the moral, psychological, and intellectual development of a youthful main character: The émigré group's inexperience in the new country and the young protagonist's viewpoint often dovetail neatly. Marshall's vivid, earthy prose thrillingly depicts the speech and singular folkways ...
Bulgarian Americans are Americans of full or partial Bulgarian descent. [3]For the 2000 United States Census, 55,489 Americans indicated Bulgarian as their first ancestry, [4] while 92,841 persons declared to have Bulgarian ancestry. [5]
Behold the Dreamers is a 2016 debut novel by Imbolo Mbue. [1] The novel details the experiences of two New York City families during the 2008 financial crisis: an immigrant family from Cameroon, the Jonga family, and their wealthy employers, the Edwards family.
The Bulgarian diaspora includes Bulgarians living outside Bulgaria and its surrounding countries, as well as immigrants from Bulgaria abroad. The number of Bulgarians outside Bulgaria has sharply increased since 1989, following the Revolutions of 1989 in Central and Eastern Europe. Over one million Bulgarians have left the country, either ...
His frequent book reviews in the literary journal West Branch transitioned into a yearly column called "To a Green Thought: Garth Greenwell on Poetry." [ 11 ] [ 12 ] [ 13 ] Greenwell's first novella, Mitko , won the Miami University Press Novella Prize [ 14 ] and was a finalist for the Edmund White Award as well as the Lambda Literary Award for ...