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Nicholas Hogg (born 26 June 1974) [1] [2] is an English novelist, short story writer and poet from Leicester, His first novel, Show Me the Sky, was published in 2008 and was followed by The Hummingbird and the Bear in 2011 and Tokyo in 2015. Hogg also writes poetry and short stories that have been published in various anthologies and journals.
The Hummingbird (Italian: Il colibrì) is a 2019 novel by Sandro Veronesi. The novel is presented in fragments with a nonlinear narrative structure and follows the tumultuous life of ophthalmologist Marco Carrera. [1] The novel won the prestigious Strega Prize (2020).
The "Lawrenceville Stories" (The Prodigious Hickey, The Tennessee Shad, The Varmint, Skippy Bedelle, The Hummingbird), set in the well-known prep school, invite comparison with Kipling's Stalky & Co. A 1950 film, The Happy Years , and a 1987 PBS mini-series, The Lawrenceville Stories , were based on them.
A number of the stories have a decidedly H. P. Lovecraftian flavor and the influence of Charles Fort, as does much of Kiernan's fiction published since Tales of Pain and Wonder. The stories are also united by a theme of cultural decay and loss of meaning in 20th-century society, as expressed by the collection's epilogue, Kiernan's only ...
House of Hummingbird tells the moving story of Eunhee, a lonely eighth grader who's trying to find herself and true love while navigating the highs and lows of girlhood. The movie earned dozens of ...
The author provided afterwords for each story, discussing their inspiration. According to an interview conducted by Jessa Crispin, the title is a reference to the suicide of Kiernan's close friend, Elizabeth Tillman Aldridge, in 1995. [2] Kiernan's Alabaster, written in 2006, is dedicated to Aldridge as well. [3]
She describes herself as “enchanted by the hummingbird and. Liliane Santos, a Brazilian woman, has captured hearts worldwide with her special bond with an unexpected companion—a tiny ...
The Rani of Cooch Naheen a wealthy Muslim woman who sponsors the political campaign of the Hummingbird. She is the intellectual friend of Aadam Aziz. Her name is a play-on-words, literally meaning "The Queen of Nothing" in English. Nadir Khan is Mumtaz's first husband. He is "the Hummingbird's" personal secretary, and is known for his rhymeless ...